Jita Park Speakers Corner

I third it +1

EVE Online: Sovereign

A man's home is his castle, and every man a king.

It encompasses everything from the little highsec corp hanging their first POS and WH dwellers staking an "unclaimable" claim, all the way up to the territories of the largest nullsec power blocs. It's your chance to carve out your stake, make your own place, and leave your lasting mark on the game world--wherever you are in the game world.

As for ideas? Oh, I have ~ideas~.

The first is purely technical, but the bit in the minutes about the Community site gave me the idea: Implement everything that's currently accessible from the NEOCOM (except maybe things that only make sense in game, like the fleet interface) on EVE Gate. Then make the NEOCOM a special case of the IGB that loads the relevant bit from EVE Gate. This gives you a number of advantages:

1) No redundant code. If you change or fix something on EVE Gate, it's automagically fixed on every client, no patch required.

2) Instant "synchronizing" of notes, mails, fits and other things with the Gate, so you could d/l EVE on a new computer, log in, and have everything be exactly the way you set it up. Keep local setting storage as a backup, of course, and caching for performance.

3) A smaller, leaner client with fewer dependencies.

The disadvantage, of course, is that EVE Gate would have to be reliable and robust, because it would be an extension of the in-game client. Technically, I suppose, it would use CREST to add cloud services to the client.

Call the motion!

i think elise mentioned it somewhere in the minutes

the ability to steal :stuff: (read: moongoo) from a running extractor or reaction would increase the potential for fun smallgang action by at least twentyleven percent

a possible change:

extracting moongoo takes three steps, the first two would be replacing the current harvester

1. extracting
2. processing
3. storage

moongoo would be extracted (1 day batch) and then processed (1 day batch) and then stored after processing

it can be stolen during the extraction and processing phase, the extracted, but not yet processed materials may be more difficult to transport (read: huge) and may also require further processing at a processing plant

not sure what shiptype should be used for this, but i think there is a lack of T2 Battleships and T2 Capitals in this game

The Theme should be "Ownership"

POS Revamp - This is intended to expand the players that can plant a flag in the ground in EVE. This would cover all security areas.

Nullsec mechanics revamp where owning space has value, and is desireable. (PS Fix mining anoms too)

Highsec Player Owned Customs Offices, where they become the "starter" step to holding

Give players a reason to stick with EVE and have their own little space empires from the smallest little industrialist holding a Planet and taxing it, to the mega coalitions holding vast space empires. It also provides a progression path in ownership.

POCO -> POS -> FW -> SOV

Formerly exploration was going to be the focus of the next expansion. I think the theme idea is wise as it will make everyone in EVE feel they are getting something new rather than just the few who use the feature-of-the-semester.

But to throw a bone to those who were hoping for exploration, the Summer theme could be "Discovering The Far Unknown". The focus being on amplifying player's sense of being in a gigantic yet discover-able universe. Specific improvements that might help accomplish this would include both things that ease the use of existing discovery tools as well as graphical changes that makes ships and other in space objects scale more accurately in appearance.

Small ideas

• global hotkey for dscan's scan button
• global hotkey for the 'bookmark current location' dialog
• a button to auto arrange scanning probes evenly around their current average location
• enable auto-repeat for probe launcher modules (i.e. continue dropping probes until deactivated)

Bigger ideas:

• continuing ship balances
• Incremental POS improvements (background code refactoring to facilitate easier improvements later. Modular POSes are the dream, but if they're as hard as the CSM notes indicate, it probably makes sense to work on current POSes cause they're going to be around a LONG time.)
• Hidden Incursion sites that require scanning to find.
• Graphics changes aimed at improving the "omg it's huge" feeling and apparent relative size of ships, other objects and travel (dynamic linked zoom/FOV? depth of field? fast mega-warp animation when using gates/bridges?)
• Improve balance/dynamics of existing DED Complex content (concord LP? more randomized ship spawns?)
• Other stuff I haven't thought of

Bumper stickers.
BIG ones. Big enough to read at 1000 meters. ;)

With players able to nominate some text content (to be ruled upon by CCP - Or every ship would have a p*n*s bumpersticker in short order).

I sent a more detail version to Trebor email, but here it goes the resume:

Theme: Fear / Dark

The idea is to bring fear to the heart of people of new Eden with changes to game play and mechanics.


MAIN FEATURE 1 - LOCAL CHANGES

• Revamp local GUI, to separate it from the chat; only intel is now show in the client;
• More or less intel is now shown based on standings with concord in empire;
• 0.0 local intel is always visible, however more or less intel is shown based on standings with sov owner
• 0.0 detailed intel should depend of alliance upgrades;
• Upgrades can be disrupted by small groups for short periods of time;
• in places where no sov was claimed I can't see anything like in wormholes!

Example: I have good standing, I can see picture, name, standings of everybody in local, I have few or no standings I can only see there is someone in local (unknown) but I have no information on who he is, its neutral and have no name (people that have me with good standings will be always shown to me since they broadcast their beacon in my frequency!

Secondary changes: Opportunity to review GUI of chats; new system upgrade; opportunity to make BPOs and seed all system upgrades that are npc seeded; Opportunity to make a pass in PI by using less sold PI products in the manufacture process of these upgrades and fixing some minor bugs/implementing some improvement requested by PI people in the last 2 years.

MAIN FEATURE 2 - STATION DESTRUCTION AND SOV IMPROVEMENTS

• Stations can be destructible and rebuild
• Items will not be lost, Concord will send a rescue team in the next downtime to save and bring all your stuff to the closest low sec station;
• Modifications to sov mechanics by allowing more than 1 station for each system (more upkeep costs);
• Destroyed stations can be rebuild for a fraction of the original price;
• Take the Jump bridge and cyno beacon out of the pos control to the same grid where the TCU is placed making it more vulnerable to attacks of small groups that can disrupt it and making people that use them less safe.
• Station capture should be done once stations reach structure using a new troop deploying siege type module that only super capitals can deploy next to station and takes like x minutes until the "troops" take the station, this time can be reduced if more supers "siege" next to the station...

Secondary changes - Review the number of structures needed to hold sov and to upgrade it;

Example: a TCU should be upgraded to a IHub and a IHub should upgrade to a station, only one structure is necessary in a system to hold sov (a TCU or a IHub or a Station) the structure that is present merges all this 3 structures functionally and menus -> this way only one structure is need to shoot and destroy to flip a system;

Other changes - review the stations modules shield and armor sizes to allow small groups of people to disrupt them for a period of time; put more stations in npc 0.0 and low sec; put more medical modules in more npc stations in 0.0 and low sec; allow station modules in npc 0.0 stations to became vulnerable to attack


MAIN FEATURE 3 - NEW SMALL CLOAK POS

• Create a new small POS that can cloak, this new pos is t3 materials, bpcs, whatever it needs will come from wormhole space
• These new pos will have restrictions, no guns, no industry, just a place to hide and you can keep your ships and stuff; you cannot be scan down once inside and your ship inside the shields will also clock with the pos
• the pos can however be declocked on range by ships, but not anyone inside of it;
• pos and content cannot be scanned, however since pos can only be anchor in moons, there is a factor of chance people can find then and declock them and once decloked you can engage them like any other small pos
• cloak poses uses double the fuel
• Alliances will not receive notice of these poses anchoring
• these poses can only be place in 0.0 space and wormholes

Secondary changes - CCP should use the opportunity to address some of the major issues POSes have like POS anchor routine -> CCP should create a new pos fitting window, similar to a ship fitting window, where we can fit a pos inside a station, save and load fits and when ready pack it! them using a hauler or capital ship go to the moon and perform a unique action (deploy package)!
Also CCP should use this opportunity to merge some pos modules with the pos itself like pos hangars, SMA, silos and so on by having all the different hangars/cargo bays of all modules merged inside the main structure itself and have separate zones for each like in capital ships, (fuel bay for pos, ammo bay for guns, moon materials bay for silos, cargo bay, ship hangar, invention bay...) this way all modules use the same shared pos bays (which size is the sum of all the mods placed inside the pos) ---- » this will promote simplicity and allow people to centralize everything in the main structure of the pos;
Finnaly CCP should remove all modules that normally are anchored inside the pos shield, except silos and hards, just allow people to keep and dropped them inside the main POS structure and the structure creates and shows whatever module functionality it contains by merging their menus with the POS main menu / windows / tabs;

Small Wormholes upgrade: ; change the algorithm of wormholes so things don't be so predictable: maybe instead of 3 wormholes sometimes there can be more and other times only 1 wormhole is open! » the main purpose is to create an unknown factor and some fear in the hearts of people that are already expecting the same behavior from the system everyday.

everyone, please stop talking about POSes.

please get an amarda of devs to work on this feature:
http://i.imgur.com/O9VZr.jpg

Think of all the possibilies if CCP manages to take information out of the Map we have now, and into this overlay thingy

nice themes could be:

Anarchy (for Hisec), Astronomy (for Nullsec),

Booty (for Losec) or Browncoats (for WH ppl)