Player Features and Ideas Discussion

While taking down Sansha motherships in empire is fun, I still feel a bit sorry for Nation sympathizers and for all my fellow players who need a reason to get to 0.0 for more pirate faction content.

But it's starting to get a bit old: Sansha forces come in, they stick around for a while, lose a lot of ships, then pop up somewhere else.

Meanwhile the empires do NOTHING.

Perhaps it would be a good idea for the Empires to make a foray into Stain. Putting stations there with agents representing the military corporations of the major empires doling out missions - even level 5s - against Sansha forces would not be a bad idea but it could also be a good thing for Sansha friends to be able hit up Sansha agents in existing stations for missions against empire assets.

At the same time, a factional warfare element might also be interesting whereby players can join conflict-specific corporations and battle for combat sites and stations. Sansha allies would be able to join the Nation Militia and carry out attacks on FDU, Caldari Navy, etc corp members (likely existing members of the FW militias?).


These ideas or something like it would make sense in the storyline as you could expect that after a year the empires will get tired of these attacks and counterattack into Sansha-held territory.

Being 0.0 space, the opportunity for more level 5s and higher payout high risk level 4s related to the cause of defeating or defending Sansha on their own turf would be a good addition, and those who want to help Nation finally get to do more than be a cheerleader in highsec. I would also wonder if Sansha eventually becomes a "Fifth Empire" faction which I am sure a lot of people will like.

It could also be hoped that more 0.0 content would certainly bring more people out there, even with a good host of lower level missions for those who want to head out while young.

Unlike the Sansha incursions, this reverse incursion would be ongoing and therefore not ending with a destruction of an empire capital but let's imagine if there were NPC motherships belonging to the empires open to attack from Sansha NPCs and players and requiring defense by players working for the empire factions? This combination of PVE with PVP bridging only touched on in FW could certainly be entertaining.

This would work great as an Incursion Substitute for players who play as Pirates (see my brainstorming thread).