Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Having suffered through a recent case of identity theft most likely the result of a bad decision to patronize a suspect ATM in the pursuit of cash to further woo the inebriated blond i was with who was discussing certain acts which i found enticing, I pondered how Identity theft could be applied to EVE.......

There should be a slight chance (i would hazard a guess at between 1/100 and 1/1000) that when a player's ship is destroyed and then the player gets podded that some sort of data chip or "identity tag" which could then be injected into another player to have them show up in local as the deceased.

This opens up all sorts of fascinating possibilities, especially if it is taken one step further and allows access to all of that characters "stuff" such as items, ISK etc etc.

The espionage aspects would be astronomical. How much would the big corps and alliances pay to retrieve the identity of one of their folks?

All items and transactions would need to be password protected somehow or, as in real life, if your identity is stolen, all your stuff could be gone.

You obviously wouldn't get the skills of the victim, just their outward appearance, name in local and would appear to be them and if taken a step further, have access to their stuff or at the very least, ability to enter their (or their corps/alliance etc) stations, force fields etc etc.

imagine the confusion when 2 "Eddie Metallica's" show up at the same place for a roam or fleet etc, which is the impostor.

Would give scouting and intel gathering a whole new aspect in the game. I also think it would be a good way to counter some of the AFK aspects of the game (mining) that people complain about. AFK bot miner gets podded, loses his identity, all stuff is appropriated by the identity thief.



Anyway, a lot to ponder..........

Another colonist who didn't read the EULA which he agreed on.

No, you cannot steal everything I own with absolutely no way for me to prevent it.

IOW, you have a 0.1-1% chance of losing everything you have every time your pod is destroyed? NO.

This just feeds the market for illegal character sales/transfers. It's like the situation with PLEX, it might not be the best thing for an ideal game to have, but it's better to have an official method with protection for the buyer than to leave it all in the hands of Chinese gold farmers.

But we do have an official method already, SP injectors already give us an official method. We currently have two official methods, not one.

I actually agree with this idea because I had a similar one. What everyone is harping on is elements of it that should probably be regulated. I don't think you should get access to the characters stuffs or anything. A password system though could be really interesting.

If you could get a corpse and a force field password then yes you were a very good spy agent and you can gain access to the their tower. intel chat access could work the same. There even could be mechanics in place that could help detect a spy, such as not allowing transfer of permissions, or notifying the corp if a hanger is accessed by a reanimated account.

I also think a time limit would be needed on this so that someone would have to glean the information, or whatever their purpose was quickly. As with everything else in EVE this should by balanced with both risk and reward potential.

Interesting mechanics are not necessarily a good thing.

The destructiveness of this proposal, would be pretty much impossible to counter. It really ranks with the "let ships blow up randomly in space" level of suggestion. It would not improve gameplay, & skill, knowledge, and experience would be completely invalidated.

It would be Blind bad luck, with MASSIVE consequences.

And would add no benefit other than the " I destroyed someones game without needing any skill or cunning. tee hee"

Randomly putting in other peoples name and passwords at the login screen would be a similar mechanic.

Ask valve how that worked out for them?

So....let me get this straight. You want it to be possible to do something which in RL is a horrible hassle to deal with and make possible in game. To have a horrible hassle to deal with in game? Yes?

Sure, I know we kill each other in game...but not permanently like in RL. We scam, we steal, etc. But we can take steps to try and prevent that. And while corp and alliance assets are at risk personal in game assets are not.

This...this abortion of a proposal has no counter at all, direct or indirect. If some ******* decides to ruin a players reputation in game that player whose reputation is being ruined is pretty much helpless.

No. This is a terrible idea.

If it weren't a blatant violation of ToS, and removing the chance to steal personal assets, this MIGHT be an interesting thing to see. But again, against ToS, it'll never happen.