Player Features and Ideas Discussion

CCP is awarding Concord ships to attendees of 2017 Iceland and Vegas Fanfests.

Word is these will be made available through other means at a later time, likely through Concord LP. Stats of these ships have also not been announced.

The suggestion here is:
1. Operation of ship requires high player security status and is purchased with ISK and Concord LP. Concord ship is a T2 ship variant with high resists and high DPS, albeit not as strong as NPC concord ships. Aggression on non-suspect timer or non-criminal timer flagged ships does triple damage to player security status. Players with an outlaw security rating can be aggressed normally.

2. Set skill requirements to Spaceship Command lvl 1. Alpha clones can earn ISK and Concord LP to purchase frigate, cruiser, and battleship class ships that serve as an auxiliary defense force in high and low security space.

3. Concord ships do not have cargo space, instead they have an impound bay. Looting ship wreck places items into [player wreck's name] plastic wrap container. Impounded plastic wrap containers from criminal ships may only be transferred at Concord stations for tiered rate Concord LP pay. If player concord ship is destroyed impound bay assets are auto transferred to nearest Concord station (however no Concord LP is awarded to player is this case). Criminal players may retrieve impounded goods for high ISK fee.

4. Concord ships do not require ammo with the use of specialized pre-equipped hardpoints (think rookie ship weapon).

5. Piloting of Concord ship allows warp-to feature on criminal timer flagged players in high and low sec space. This warp-to feature does not apply to players with outlaw sec status or suspect timer flags. If player auxiliary concord is giving you a difficult time in low security space, consider grouping up to kill them (NPC Concord does not come to their rescue in low sec space; player concord ships are progressively larger ISK and LP sinks at each hull size) or see point 6.

6. Defenders and attackers under wardec cannot pilot a Concord ship. Ship will commence self-destruct sequence if outside station during a wardec period. Players in NPC corporations may not fly Concord ships, however Concord corporation partnerships are not required for person in player owned corporation to fly Concord ships. Corporation leaders may enter their corp into partnership with Concord. Concord partnership requires monthly payment from corporation (high ISK sink or donation of Concord LP by corp members). This Concord partnership increases the payment amount to initiate and continue war declaration upon Concord partnered corporation.

7. Player Concord ships can activate gates when under weapons engagement timers. Concord ships are still prevented from docking at stations under active weapons engagement timers.

8. Per articles of Yulai convention; concord ships cannot activate null sec gates nor enter wormholes. If a Concord ship somehow ends up there, they cannot give retaliation fire in null security or w-space )

9. Player Concord ships cannot attack NPCs and do not draw NPC aggro. This is here to help prevent mission runners from gaming deadspace sites by sending in a high resist Concord ship to draw fire first.

Only if this also removes NPC concord entirely.

And doesn't allow them into lowsec, because that's how you outright delete lowsec pvp.

People and there silly ideas

1. Okay, ship resists and DPS is debatable, but ideally I don't want to see Concord ships to have the ability to be aggressors on non-flagged ships. Maybe non sanctioned aggression does double damage to player security status and flying Concord ships requires a higher sec status as you suggest.
2. Sure, sec status restrictions make sense from a lore perspective, but what does it matter if the ship only allows you to open fire on suspect and criminal players.
3. It's there to help prevent mission runners from gaming deadspace sites by sending in a high resist Concord ship to draw fire first.
4. They can only warp to criminal players, not suspects. This is a feature designed to mimic the ability of NPC Concord to hunt down criminals almost instantly. If you have an issue with Concord auxiliary players consider grouping up to hunt them down (NPC Concord does not come the rescue of the players in low sec) or wardecing their corporation. A player under wardec cannot use Concord resources.
5. These ships are limited to police engagements. There is still plenty of reason to fly other ships. If you are wardec'd you cannot fly a Concord ship.
6. Seized cargo can go into a bay that a player cannot transfer to their personal hangar. Seized asset bay can be unloaded at Concord station impound lots for Concord LP. Criminal players can buy back their impounded items at a very high fee. As for weapons and ammo, I would suggest using high DPS ammo-less hardpoints similar to the turrets on rookie ships.

@Tiberius NoVegas

I've updated the OP. I want to hear more of your thoughts on working out a system of a Concord powered player police force.

I am focused on this because I want to see a police playstyle expanded. While I see where you're coming from with the pirate ship example, the police activity gameplay I am seeking here relies on the counter-play of being able to recognize who is participating in being a representative of Concord. Connecting a lot of those aspects to the ship itself strongly helps here.

For example, something like loot to impound bay may not be possible in the code to roll out to all ships. It could be easier for the devs to designate a single ship type with this feature.

Serving up justice with the long arm of the law and impounding criminal assets sounds interesting to me.

What I mean with this is active timers, not outlaw sec status. Players in Concord ships can freely warp to someone with an active criminal engagement timer.

Bring a beefier ship or squad. Player Concord ships are tanky and hit hard but not on the level of NPC concord. You can also wardec the player's corp who is running these Concord ships.

Sure.

Come join the fun in null sec and spooky space.

...I'm not sure if you missed the 'goonswarm federation' tag under my name, but I live in Delve, and I've been living in null for most of the last six years.

I still don't think it's a good idea to delete lowsec pvp, and I'd like you to explain why you think that's a sensible thing to do.