Player Features and Ideas Discussion

1) Allow players to drop a device in an empty spot in space that uses some sub-space magic to attract enough space dust from the ether to form a new planet after a 24 hour period. Planets cannot be formed within x AU's of each other to prevent planet spamming. Obviously the cost of said anchored planet forming module should be high. Allow planet to be player named. Give constructing player corp yield boosts to PI on worlds they created.

2) Allow player created planets to be destroyed by other players with planet-busting technology i.e. planet-cracking hislot modules. Again very costly/hard to do. Use similar mechanics to POS defense/timers.

Would these be fitted to Super caps?

Pretty presumptous, you don't



Don't give a **** how planets are 'actually' formed do I. Just like I don't care about missile smoke trails and explosions in EVE space that couldn't possibly exist in RL, or existing planet models in EVE that are static rather than moving orbits, or the jump/med clone technology that naysay's a majority of peoples beliefs that a soul exists in all of us, and cannot be cloned & transported, etc ad infinitum....

You can nit-pick mechanics in EVE to death, but the relevant question here is 'is planet creation, destruction and terraforming (converting from one type to another) compelling gameplay?'

its like inverted mining? you empty your cargo and the asteroid grows?

Funny, I at least had the good grace to allow for the fact I may be wrong. Hence why I wrote 'I think'. How is it you know I don't? Did you use some of that "space magic" to divine the true feelings of the EvE community?


Ok, space magic box makes a planet. Bam. So now every system has 10,000,000 planets, whcih magically hold orbits without causing any instabiity to te rest of the overcrowded solar systems. No-one bothers to blow them up, because afterall, they will be stupidly hard to blow up and you don't need to.

Oh look, someone arranged a load of planets to look like a giant c0ck... Wait, its just Feyd's face...

So yeah. How many planets does a system need again?

I accept a certain level of Sci-Fi to be fun. You should have said about lasers and how they actually work, or something like that. Being able to create a planet, with an eco system and everything, over night... not so much...
As I said, even God took the best part of a week.

Oh and I'm relatively sure that explosions do happen in space. There was a particularly big one about 14 billion years ago. But then it could have been an implosion. As for smoke trails, i'll give you that. Unless there is some sort of combined-solid-state fuel based propulsion, in which case that could happen.
Your analogy sucked mate.

No.

Again, for each nit you pick as an anal-retentive interwebz warrior, there is a counter -- we can go back and forth for days on point counter point but its irrelevant because an idea brainstorming thread is not detailed design.

i.e. You can have a rule that only be 20 player planets can be in a single system, and they can't be closer than 4 AU's to each other...done; off the top of my hat in response to your contrived b.s. naysaying, and Im not even a dev...

Get it dumbass? I am talking an IDEA here for compelling gameplay, not trying to do a detailed design, and neither should you. We can go back and forth debating how many space angels can dance on the head of a pin, but its irrelevant to idea generation.

Read that slowly a few times till it sinks in...



No, your negative anal-retentiveness sucks and has nothing to do with compelling gameplay idea brainstorming.

I'm wondering where the OP plays that there aren't enough planets already?

As a player with basic understanding of laws of physics, i find this idea ridiculous.

Your right, its an idea. It's a really ******* **** idea.

If you want magic, go play WoW. EvE is a Science Fiction game. Emphasis on the science...

You saw starwars and you thought, "ZOMG I WILLZ SO DO DIS IN EVE!1 I willz be sooo 13375!!1"

This does not automatically make this a good idea.
At least not for EvE. Maybe another game. But not EvE. If you "don't give a **** about how real planets are made" then you have no business suggesting ways for it to happen.

I fully understand that EvE is not real, but there are many realistic elements to it. That's one of the reasons why players connect with the game world so well.

Have you considered the gravitational effects these 'magic planets' would have on the rest of their solar system?
Have you considered the physical effects of their destruction?
Are you capable of tying your own shoe laces?
Did you go to school on the short bus?
I may be wrong, but I am currently inclined to believe that the answers to the first 3 are no and the last one is yes. That's would at least explain a few things.


So, your analogy didn't suck because I don't agree with you?
If you don't like people disagreeing with your ideas then it seems that putting them up for DISCUSSION on a PUBLIC FORUM is pretty stupid. But hey, your the guy that wants a magic box that makes a planet... what are we to expect.

I have a few ideas for gameplay, but unlike you, my pedigree chum, I think them through before I present them. This is to prevent fecal matter from pouring from my mind to deposit itself on this forum. I suggest you take the hint.

I'm sorry to say but I do not like this idea at all.

Yes EVE is a science fiction game, and there are certain elements of game play to make it more visually and audibly exciting and interesting. For instance there is no sound in space, so you would never hear an explosion.

However, CCP rightfully tries to otherwise maintain some semblance of reality and plausibility in the EVE Universe.

The creation of a planet in 24 hours is simply absurd.

First, the technology to do that absolutely does not exist in EVE. (We are talking Q-continuum type stuff here). They might be able to do it over an extremely long period of time, but it would be a huge endeavor. In either case, the new planet formed would be nothing but a gigantic ball of molten rock for millions of years. (The earth took approximately 200 million years before a solid crust could be maintained). Presumably we would need some more 'space magic' to compress planetary evolution from hundreds of millions of years down to 24 hours.

Furthermore, planet blowing up technology that fits into the high-slot of any of EVEs ship is also way beyond the realm of realism (without some pretty heavy duty 'space magic' that would completely throw all PvP into irreparable imbalance).

Even in Star Wars it took the Death Star to blow up a planet which was significantly bigger than even the biggest ships in EVE. Watch 'Return of the Jedi' and see the Super Star Destroyer crash into the Death Star. A Super Star Destroyer is 19 km long, an Avatar is less than 14 km long. The Death Star was 160 km in diameter (the bulk of it we have to assume was all the equipment and technology required to generate enough energy for the planet busting weapon). The whole thing was designed as a gigantic weapon. It wasn't just some huge space city they decided to strap a planet busting weapon into its extra-high slot.

No, I'm sorry, but that sort of thing would so totally violate the realm of possibility and realism in EVE that I don't know if I'd still be able to play this game after it having 'jumped-the-shark' so dramatically.