Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I know that posting multiple ideas in one thread is frowned on by some people, as well as posting an idea already posted, but I'm just going to throw my ideas on to this page, instead of three or four new threads.

1. Sovereignty in Wormholes. Tons of people have talked about this. I won't be the first and won't be the last. there are arguments for this, and against it. In my opinion however, I believe that wormhole sovereignty should work just like Nulsec sovereignty, and here's why:

A good portion of nulsec is already owned by mega alliances. And honestly, it will probably stay that way. Sure, there are incursions, but so what? obviously the Megacorp is going to win, because it they had the ability to take that much over, you can be sure as hell that they have the means to defend it. Wormholes are much more open right now. there would be plenty of space for new alliances to begin their path to greatness. Plus, Wormholes offer twists to the battlefield, as phenomena would make incursions more interesting. However, it has a chance to backfire, because capital ships would not be able to jump in, so if the sovereign alliance has a bunch of capital ships, taking over that system could be difficult. To combat this, I propose that the only way a wormhole can be claimed is if it has a few conditions attached. for example: the wormhole has to be a certain class, such as C4 or higher. Another thing is that there should be a requirement of a wormhole stabilizing unit. I don't think a wormhole GENERATOR is a good idea, but If we say, had a stabilizer unit on both sides of the wormhole keeping the wormhole open for ANY size ship to get through, that might be a better idea. The stabilizer, to make it a little more fair, should have a fuel requirement, such as fuel blocks or something similar, and there should have to be one on each end of the wormhole. Also, you should only be able to stabilize a wormhole that's connected to known space. This would make it so you would have to have great timing on when you are going to stabilize your wormhole, since if you were in a C4, known space wormholes are quite rare. Now we would have a wormhole that someone is able to take over, that it isn't just so easy to do that it would "break the game", and would still allow for incursions. yes, you would still have to be a rich alliance to create one, but if you had to keep the wormhole connected to known space to keep sovereignty of it, it would allow for a fair chance at incursions. Plus, often times, structures in wormholes get lost or deserted, much faster than in known space. So the fact is that there would be more openings for even new alliances to gain their own system. I could go on forever on this topic, but i feel like player input is important so I'd like to hear ideas.

2 . Custom paint jobs. A cool idea for Eve would be the idea to Custom paint your ship. This one would be more difficult to implement, but it would add an element of personalization to your ships, so that your megathrom didn't look like every other megathron out there. maybe yours is pink and purple, looking cheerful and happy... only to deceive your enemies and bring a swift death. Or maybe you want your Cyclone to be painted so it looks like an Asian dragon... because lets face it... its already half way there with those weird looking panel thingies on the front of it. Simple paint jobs could be free, with more designs being on the in game market, and even in the noble exchange.

3. A "Units Sold" tab in the market. as an industrialist, I would love to have a rough estimate of how well something has sold in a region recently. All you can currently see only sell orders put up, and honestly that doesn't help much. okay, sure, you COULD use that to find out what sold where, but the task would be long and annoying, and still not definite, as someone could have withdrawn their orders instead of selling them. I don't think it should be that hard to track what sells, since they can track price changes, and orders put up.



aaannnddd those are my three basic ideas. well, the first one isn't that basic, but whatever :P I'm free to suggestions, and while i know this isn't going to help in the slightest, please try to make your comments CONSTRUCTIVE instead of just saying... you know what, i wont finish that sentence, because someone would say it to be sarcastic. I know i would lol.

hmm. my fault for not monitoring CSM minutes :P I apologize if i sounded stupid. However, no, the market doesnt show what's sold, it shows how many sell orders have been placed. Theoretically you could line that up with how many orders are left, but doing that would be a little difficult, and just overall inconvenient. given, this IS eve we are talking about, a lot of things are inconvenient lol.

Yes it does.

okay, i obviously misunderstood the quantity tab on the graph, i thought it meant sell orders placed. not orders sold. and as i previously mentioned, I didnt read CSM so part TWO also done. we dont need more posts saying the same things. HOWEVER


Knew that already, i do a lot of WH exploration myself


knew that too, i meant for lower class wormholes


that was just a suggestion. I would be in total support of even a c1 sovereignty. I was just saying that for the sake of making it sound practical


last time i checked i was still sane, but that was some time ago. however the reason for that is just like said russians and bots, and whatnot can take over lowsec, they could do it in WH space too. if one of them takes SOV of a wormhole, or twenty, and someone cant bring in capital ships, you'll be left with the EXACT same thing you have with nulsec: a system FULL of people who can just feild 100 capital ships, and all you could feild is smaller ships. I suppose you could impose some sort of limit, but making it so people cant bring in their own capital ships is helping those mega corps and bots just as much as anything. truth is, you're always going to be helping them, no matter what you do, so you have to think of a way to be able to bring them down, not to defend against them. you say but at the same time, if you make it so you cant bring in cap ships, then they can make cap ship blobs inside their WH that without cap ships, you couldn't topple. realistically speaking, mega corps and mega alliances will always have the upper hand. thats just life. I would say though that there can still be a mass limit of how large a ship can be, as well as how many ships per day can jump through of a certain size.

as for reason why anyone would invade a superpower, i wasnt saying to invade them. i was just saying I dislike how the superpowers own most everything worth owning, and how once a superpower is established, theres no way to take it down. I would kind of like a chance to carve out a section for the alliance im in, too, you know?

i wont lie, 90% of the time that's true

and there could just be an option to turn off custom paint jobs, like our current graphics options.

wormhole stabilizers should only work in wh-wh connections. hi-wh is too advantageous for wh-alliances, null-wh would be too advantageous for null alliances. hi/null, null/null and low/null are all logistical gamebreakers. Stabilized low/wh connections could be interesting as a wormhole/lowsec pirate interaction.