Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Exploration Gate:
This would resemble an giant acceleration gate, for much the same reason. It causes ship acceleration on top of normal hyperspace. The effect would be a sped up version of the regular warp tunnel.

Objective: When setting this prior to use, (it would require a selection), your ship would be hyper-launched to the distance and angle specified. (We are talking light-years in distance)
1 lightyear = 63,239.6717 Astronomical Units (That's a big sandbox!)

The exploration gate can have ranges that it can reach, and specific ranges it will not send ships to, (already known systems).
This allows CCP to define the size and shape of the area it can send people to.

Distances involved might make it practical to initial launch in an expendable ship, and self destruct once you finished exploring the area, as the distance by normal hyperspace would take possibly days, if not even longer.
Keep your medical clone up to date!

Found the right area? Let your buddies know the angle and distance, so they can follow you. Pick the ships you want to use to work the areas. Something that can support jump clones would let you travel back and forth more practically.

Cost to operate: Whatever makes sense, it could be linked to mass times distance, making the concept of exploring in light craft more practical, and heavier craft something done only when people are ready to invest in someplace they really believe in.

This.

If Deep Space is going to be truly deep, it needs to be relatively inaccessible and have the true feeling of the Wild West. Having a mobile platform would be a boon to true Deep Space exploration.

I'm looking at this from the standpoint of genuinely not knowing where you are on the map except possibly a general direction. "Where is home?" "Somewhere that way. Yeah, don't look at me like that. That's why we brought the platform."

I like the idea of deep space being deep space. As in not a location that is based around a star.
I can see potential issues with deep space being deserted due to the ease of which it could become a "solo only" content area. If there are no locations where pilots can meet, trade, manufacture, etc., the lack of trade goods becomes a problem.

Deep Space should be difficult to access. Not just via "stepping stones", but it should be time consuming as well. Since you are going to an anomaly or signature that is to an unknown location, you need special modules and skills, and much like lighting a cyno, you have to initiate the jump and then your ship "calibrates" for 15 minutes or so, totally incapacitated. Once you get *in* to deep space, this isn't as much of an issue, but when you are trying to make that first step, which may not be from a system that Concord is in, that 15minutes can be a long time. Deep Space alignments should always require that time-frame, with skills being capable of reducing it (and where, dear pilot, are you going to get said skill books?)

Deep Space exploration vessels similar to the "hive ship" ideas that have been posted in the past would allow for corps or alliances to have a sort of "mobile outpost" of their own

A large number of anomalies and signatures peppered throughout space (a minimum of 64AU between them) would allow for pilots to take a wide variety of paths. Just like current anomalies/signatures, they would be spawned/despawned depending on player interaction.

Whether it be "hive ships" or some new form of POS, players/corps/alliances would need the ability to have some sort of outpost-like structure they could use as a hub for their operations. These structures would need restrictions. Such as one per-alliance, in order to prevent deep-space from just becoming more alliance dominated null-sec. The benefit though is it provides a location of self-sufficiency for a given group of players. I like the idea of these being capable of becoming trade hubs. The alliance that owns the hub would be responsible for protecting it, as well as it's customers. Well protected trade hubs would be used more often, and should be profitable to the owners.

Star systems could be in place, such as the suggested binaries, but in order to prevent permanent establishment, or at least to discourage it, said star systems could be similar to wormholes, only the detrimental effects would be far more reaching. Being in a system for 10minutes or so, while you scan, slowly eats away at your shields, an hour latter, you are into hull, and then your ship pops. Get in and set up a special hardened POS, including the current shield hardeners, and you can establish a base that will last you a good week while you mine out the pure Arkanor belts.

One thing that this opens up, which I'd love to see happen, would be to allow CCP to use deep-space as a way to slowly expand New-Eden.

Through whatever imagined mechanic, at one point or another, a special signature appears. The signature leads to a stable star system. Sov can be worked out by others, but the main idea as I see it is that a system is found, an alliance goes in, sets up shop, and they then begin the process of building a stargate. This should be a staggering task, with minimum time limits. Gate work progress could be stopped, but not reversed. Allowing alliances to fight over the system should one desire to take it from another. When complete, the stargate is aligned with a system within it's range. Upon completion, the nearest empire region builds a connecting gate in k-space (which magically appears over downtime), and the two gates are connected. (24hour anchor period). When the whole setup is complete, the new system is given a name, and CCP puts it on the map as part of New-Eden.

Acceleration gate = sure gank camp spot, imo.

That's not even challenging to fix.

Make it a super high sec outpost system, in a location reachable from both Null and high sec directly.
Security is not just there, they are able to rapidly deploy in numbers and strength sufficient to crush any violent outbreaks.

Security will ignore your security status, but only in this system. After all, you will be leaving their space, and if they did not like you, having you leave works just fine for them.

Variations to security include capacitor suppression that denies all but propulsion systems power, etc.
The point being, noone gets killmails while they are near this gate.

I really like the idea of prolonged warping or gates players can assemble and align to these new places. Our ships already travel faster than the speed of light. I like the idea of having to actually wait out a warp and leave suspense for the ones at the receiving end.

Also, instead of solar systems, maybe it should be colossal sized asteroid clusters and within nebula with weird effects on game mechanics such as reduction of visibility (grid size?) and scanner probe strength.

The asteroid clusters could feature new Gravimetric sites and the nebula new Ladar sites. These new sites could contain realistic introductions such as moon materials, gases, and alloys. Other than these shiny Grav and Ladars, these 'places' should have nothing else to offer. The resources are limited and respond at a slow rate. (maybe the whole system disappears once it is exhausted and abandoned.)

Availability of these places should be limited in nullsec as we don't want to help the already existing monopolies in this game even more. I want to think of this as a way for smaller corporations to have small teamwork building activities with an industrial edge. PVP can still happen so it doesn't become carebear heaven.

Yeah sure there's plenty else that needs to be fixed and added to the game, but I like exploration and things that can make things better for the underdogs in this game.

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Eve at this tme does not need more space, it actually needs less.
Less space will create more player interaction as we are forced to live within close proximity to one another.

Wormholes already created extra space to devide players away into seperated segments of space.

No more space please until the player base grows.

Oh yes please. Make it happen. A star map that shows only the places you've been to. It will be thrilling to slowly get your map full of stars as you explore the universe.

My previous post did not belong in here so i create its own.

I fully support a Deespace area where we need to probe to move around. A very huge area.

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