Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There is more chance for hell to freeze over before CCP do this but supported.

I havent given up on these ideas or CCP even though I havent wholeheartedly thought if every aspect of implimentating said ideas, so I thought I would give the thread a bump or two for posterity's sake

Please do leave a comment if you like the ideas, even if you just say +1

I suppose the new structures could technically provide a basis for this, almost like a new player anchored signature. (MTU's are like this to suspect baiters) and let players get involved with supporting their chosen pirate faction, or empire factions in pirate space (someone has to play the good guy?).

all you 'i iz so l33t eVe iz a PvPers game naow!'

Shut up u tarts! If everyone only pvp'd then where would the faction gear come from? the implants? the faction ships? hell imagine how expensive rigs would be without npc's.. how would you ever get your sec status up? stoopid bunniez...

AAAAaaanyways yes i agree fully with this post, after having played for a few years i find im lacking things to do when its quiet or i simply cba to roam; i scann only so much before i tire of the same sites over and over, i try to blitz everything if and when i can; why? because its 'old hat'

Missions need a revamp, at least for those of us that have completed soooo many. The missions need to be somewhat randomly generated and not always completable. The AI must be like sleepers or some such, maybe just stronger versions of the normal mission rats sporting more hardware like neuts and point/scram, td w/e; maybe some spider rep, maybe the ships are just like standardised capsuleer ships.. but they should be awkward at least. Take away crappy mission rewards and lp store and replace with better loot tables/bounties for rats, possibly even rare chances of officer spawns.. on occasion maybe devs can take control of the mission to escalate it into a random live event that could have even carriers drop in...

How about more cosmos missions but spread out far and wide and 'hidden', pirate logs that actually point to expeditions rather than just giving you it (i think thats been mentioned before) a continuation of the sleeper storyline would be awesome perhaps with some sort of sleeper type incursions? t3 frigs/bc's? jove agents in space that randomly pop up like wh's (maybe even in wh's) and give some sort of mission?

There are loads of possibilities, but remember this; if you want me to really want to plex and rat and mission in null, wspace or lowsec its gotta be worth it, and not some form of long ass grind...

I support this idea as a whole.

Factional Navy may patrol all systems under their sovereignity. Lowsec patrols might be more challenging than highsec ones.

Mordu's Legion should be a starting shot only. We won't need new ships or ship models immediately. This all would be more a problem of balancing than design.
Caldari, Amarr, Minmatar and Gallente use their navy or fleet issue ships. The fittings could be copied from good player PvE ones. The well skilled NPC pilots should get a bit more AI in order to prioritize the damage dealers correctly and switch targets.
They could also use (drop) link modules and fleet bonusses.

So all ships should deal typical PvE damage against pirates or faction enemies.
In lowsec you could have multiple spawns (escalations) from scout group to small battle fleet.
Such slightly bigger navy fleets may appear at gates from time to time. So gate camps might become more interesting.

Navy fleets may drop usual navy stuff BPCs, ammunition and modules.

Attacks against navy fleet in highsec may activate the warp-in counter for Concord, like attacks against player.
But highsec scout spawn could drop valuable factional modules and BPCs what makes a fight worth the risk.

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Royal Khanid Navy may provide Caldari ships with Amarr armament or vice versa and bonus for Caldari/Amarr skills.
Ammatar Fleet may provide Amarr ships with Minmatar armament or vice versa and bonus for Minmatar/Amarr skills.

LP-Shops of Khanid Kingdom or Ammatar Mandate companies may provide these hybrid faction ships.

You could also have roaming npc gangs, minmatar freedom fighters in amarr space and amarr slavers in matar space, caldari and gallente recon teams in border systems, pirates roaming systems for easy kills and setting up npc camps ect. Overall I would like to see the npcs acting like they were part of the world not just random things to kill wo npc mining ships in belts, haulers moving about, variousgroups that go about thier buisness in the game world arround us would make the game feel much more alive and real and provide more of a sence that you Rare apart of a huge galaxy.

Some words again about *standing* and *security status*.

No auto-aggro by pirate factions:
- personal security status from 0.3 --> -10.0
AND
- standing > 1.0 with faction

No auto-aggro by empire factions:
- personal security status from -0.3 --> 10.0
AND
- standing > 1.0 with faction

So I could decide to support those fleets.

Amazing stuff.

Almost all of which should have been implemented years ago.

Not sure why CCP takes so long to do things.....

I agree there is no good reason not to improve and expand the background npc activities in the game it can and will lead to more things for players to do thus more reason to undock and more chances for player interaction. Also it will add another level of realism to the game and this will help draw in new players who will see all the interesting things going on and want to explore and learn about the universe of eve.