Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I know there are other posts about how to iterate/improve PI but i doubt this fits into those discussions. As you will read this is such a departure from where we are that i think this idea needed its own thread.

So, with Dust and Eve now being (abeit lossely) integrated i was thinking about something i saw, it may have been during the alliance tournament, from CPP about having other games rather than making Eve a monolith of game. Keep Eve as spaceships, Dust as FPS. Well i thought about this and perhaps PI could be removed from Eve and turned into a Mobile App.

Why turn PI into a mobile App
Expose the new eden universe to another set of gamers.
The interface i think would lend itself to touch screen.
PI is very much about setting up and playing for short amount of time more often, this lend itself to a mobile games very well.

What would need to change / be added to facilitate this
PI Mobile app would have to have :
Integrated with the New Eden Market.
Integrated into the Contract system, at least for couriers.
POCOs i would not like to see change, they are a very good source of conflict in low sec, so a planetary trabe hub would be needed (see below).
Corporation integration. Should always be there for all New Eden based games to feel part of the New Eden galaxy as a whole.

How would it work
It would not be very different from what it is now. The mobile app user would create a plantary base as an eve player does now. Then they would buy/sell stuff either to other PI mobile app players or eve players, maybe later Dust players if they need PI materials to make stuff for Dust?

Issue: Mobile app user would have no way to move stuff from one planet to another
I would work around this by making plantary trade hubs. They would be like stations but the only service they need is the market and a hangar. This has an added benefit of allowing intra planet trading of PI goods (thus PI corporations are born as they save the tax by working together). Also the POCO rather than sending things to your spaceport they send it to your planetary trade hub hangar. So the person (that would be an Eve Player) can take stuff to a POCO and send it to their planetary trabe hub hangar and sell it to PI mobile app users. In this scenario eve player pays the tax. This could be just setting up sell orders or filling PI mobile app users buy orders.
Another option, and i would want both, is that the mobile app users send the PI goods to the POCO (the mobile app user pays the tax) and use the current eve contract courier system to get an eve player move the items to a station. Asumming the mobile app user can remotly make sell/buy orders they can then buy/sell PI goods to the eve players from stations.

Using the above Eve players and PI users are generating content for eachother, which i believe is in line with CPPs vision.

There would im sure there would be many more things to sort out, but you would do this in the normal design cycle fo a new game, ie the PI mobile app game.
I don't deal with finance but i would make this app free but have a way to get aurum involved like Dust does. Maybe certain structures need aurum to buy, but obviously they have access to the eve market they can do this via PLEX if they make enough in game isk from PI.

But this way the PI can be developed in parellel to eve. It would also be another gaming first i believe??


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