Player Features and Ideas Discussion

o/ Hey there

First of all, please don't decapitate me because of my suggestions. They are just some random ideas that came to my mind while playing eve.

Temporary environmental events in K - Space:
I would like to get some random temporary system-events. I thought of something like sun-eruptions which have effect to your shield-efficiency and the accuracy of the local (just how many people are in there, but no names for example), increase the damage from weapons, or something similar to that. It would be (mostly) physically correct and very exciting i think. (duration of this events should not be too long) It is important that they do not get annoying, they should also give you a benefit for the struggles. (similar to the WH - Environmental effects but not that strong)

Rework of asteroid belts
The next suggestion is about the current asteroid-belts. At the moment they are not really belts. It would be great if they get longer and wider. Some could even go around the whole planet, like the rings of saturn. The space currently is a bit too empty...
(The current ore deposit-anomalies should be relocated near planets or moons, because it's a bit unrealistic that there is a deposit with a 100km diameter constantly floating in the middle of nowhere.)

Drone animations
Now, lets talk about drones. It would be great if they had animations. They should not fire out of a single gun in an 360° angle around themselves. They should strafe, do maneuvers and their weapons should get a real fire animation (recoil). Also there should be undocking and docking animations, so the drones do not simply pop up in space anymore. You could use the existing dronebays at some of the ships, or make some locks.

Drone fitting
Another cool feature for drones would be to fit them. Jepp, new micro sized modules for drones. So you could make a hornet drone with rockets, or give them an afterburner instead of a MWD... So you could modify the drones for the purpose you need them. ---> special E-War drones are no longer necessary because you can build everything out of the same hull (same goes for maintenance bots)

Dynamic sites
Well, this one is rather old, but i thought of that too. There should be more different types of sites, or random sites. So no more "Spawn-Layouts". PvE needs to get a bit more challenging, risky and interesting.

NPC fleetbattles
My last suggestion would be S - L scale NPC vs NPC fleetfights in which you can help one of the two fighting groups. For your assistance you will get LP or special points for every kill / retrieved item, which can be excanged into faction modules from the... uhm jeah faction you helped. I think this could be very interesting and another fun PvE thing to do. You could also combine it with PvP in the Low-, or 0.0 - Sec (I really don't know if the current factionwars-mechanic already has some sort of NPC vs NPC fights). The new AI seems just right for something like that, because they also interact with the player (Remote Rep)

I think thats it. So, please tell me what you think. My suggestions aren't that important for the game to be fun, but I'd love to see them, or something similar to them in eve :-)

See ya in space!
Fly safe o7

-Obiwan

I can see your point. I would like to have at least some new interesting things to see and explore in the systems of eve, because there is nothing very special you could find in the very most of the systems currently.

PS:
#offtopic
"Some could even go around the whole planet, like the rings of saturn."
With that sentence i ment that the asteroids could go completely around a planet in a circle, just like the rings from saturn do. I didn't meant those rings to be asteroids ^^

1. Not sure it's possible to just impact a single system. The only other environmental effects like this are incursions and w-space effects, which impact constellations. Also, how long do you see these temporary effects lasting?

2. If belts were used and mined out more, or there were even large quantities of miners in the belts, I'd agree that the physical dimensions of the belts should be tweaked. As it stands, however, this would pretty much be a waste of dev time.

3. Why spend dev time on something people are going to look at once, then show to a friend maybe twice, then ignore for the entirety of the rest of their time in EvE?

4. Drones are in a good place right now, balance wise. Let's not **** this up by adding more variables to them.

5. I read that part as "I'm too scared to explore dangerous space, so CCPlz bring all that other content that isn't where I am to me." Simply stop farming the same system and there's more diversity in PvE.

6. Sure, why not? FW could always use new farming grounds for me to hunt in. Though you need to make sure the FW people need to use blingy pirate battleships to run these sites.

In what way? Animations happen in the client, not the server.