Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Population and Workforce

To control a system, you must control the people. People loyal to you will support with Workforce. This Workforce can be directed to different areas with Deadspace colonies and Planetary Administration Stations.

Maximum population is defined by the planet type. Planetary habitability by type from lowest to highest: Gas (5), Plasma (5), Lava (5), Storm (25), Ice (25), Barren (25), Oceanic (50), Temperate (100). Population mechanics could be more defined by a PI extension/overhaul.

Every Outpost adds population to the system, the more and higher the upgrades, the more Workforce will be available. As long as the system is claimed by the same alliance as the Outpost, the Outpost is invulnerable.

Every system has a number of Deadspace areas that can be build up with colonies, adding population or focussing the work force. Workforce in those Deadspace Colonies (DeCo) is assigned by source. This means if control of population is lost, the workforce in the assigned location disappears and the Colony, Section or Module goes offline. Offline Colonies are vulnerable to conquest.

Unassigned Workforce will produce a small amount of ISK from taxes and small scale trade.

Warfare


-Vulnerability

A Module is always Vulnerable until it is Incapacitated
A Section is Vulnerable when all connected Modules are Incapacitated until it itself is Incapacitated
A Colony is Vulnerable when all connected Sections are Incapacitated until it enters Reinforced
The SAC is Vulnerable when the controlling entity no longer has a system Population majority
A Outpost is Vulnerable when the controlling entity has no Sovereignty in the system


-Incapacitation

When a Module or Section takes Hull damage, Hull is reset to 100% and the Structure is considered Incapacitated until all Armor is repaired and Shields are back above 25%.
Incapacitated structures with some kind of cargo capacity will have all cargo accessible by any player. This will allow shipyard theft and bandit raids.


-Destruction

A Module can be Destroyed when the associated Section is Incapacitated.
A Section can be Destroyed when the associated Colony is Reinforced.
A Colony can be Destroyed when the Reinforced Timer has run out.


-Conquest

A Colony can be Conquered when it is offline.
A SAC can be Conquered when the attacking entity has a system Population majority.
A POCO or PAS can be Conquered when the Planet is controlled by the attacking entity (DUST).
A Outpost can be Conquered when the attacking entity has system Sovereignty.

To Conquer a Structure, a Conquistador Bunker must be anchored next to it and survive through the conquest timer. At the end of the timer the ownership switches to the attacker. If the condition for Conquest is no longer valid when the timer finishes, the conquest fails.


-Demolition

The System Governor can Demolish a Module or Section if it is Incapacitated instead of repairing it, yielding a proportionate amount of construction components to the hull damage received. Demolition is not possible when the Structure has cargo capacity and still contains items. There is a demolition timer that can be aborted at any time and a container with the components will be dropped once it runs out. Demolishing is useful for replacing Structures faster than repairing takes or to quickly remove threatened assets.

If a system is without sovereignty and the complexes are offline, anyone can incapacitate and demolish the structures to salvage the abandoned facilities, albeit at a lower yield.


-Transfer and Defection

Alliance Leadership appoints System Governors on a system per system basis. These Governors are Corporations through their CEOs and Directors and may be a role available to the members. The corporation has to be part of the alliance (possible entry point for Pet Contracts, giving out governorship for money).

If the Governor changes Alliances, the System Sovereignty switches in 24 hours.
If the Governor drops out of any alliance, the SAC is scheduled to go offline in 24 hours unless a new Governor is assigned.
If the Alliance dissolves, the Governor has 24 hours to join up into a new one and transfer Sovereignty.
If the Governor dissolves, the Alliance has 24 hours to assign a new one.

System Administration Complex
- Station Defence Bunker
-- Small sentry slot
-- Medium sentry slot
-- Large sentry slot
-- Ewar sentry slot
- Outpost Administration Center
-- Manufacturring slot
-- Copy slot
-- Invention slot
- Starbase Administration Center
-- Fuel usage
-- Shield recharge
-- Sentry damage
-- Silo capacity
- System Administration Center
-- Workforce increase by percentage
-- Tax income
-- Structure shield hitpoints
-- Complex sentry damage


Planetary Administration Station
- Station Defence Bunker
-- Small sentry slot
-- Medium sentry slot
-- Large sentry slot
-- Ewar sentry slot
- Planetary Administration Center
-- PCC PG
-- PCC CPU
-- PI production duration
- Planetary Transportation Control
-- PI expedited transfer cooldown
-- PI storage capacity
-- PI link PG/CPU need
- Planetary Prospection Array
-- PI extraction rate
-- PI scan resolution
- Orbital Colony
-- Population
- Orbital Market
-- Buy order slot
-- Sell order slot


Military Installation
- Station Defence Bunker
-- Small sentry slot
-- Medium sentry slot
-- Large sentry slot
-- Ewar sentry slot
- Surveillance Post
-- Magnetometric site count
-- Magnetometric site quality
-- RADAR site count
-- RADAR site quality
- Armored Warfare Command Bunker
-- Damage control link
-- Passive defence link
-- Rapid repair link
- Information Warfare Command Bunker
-- Electronic superiority link
-- Recon operation link
-- Sensor integrity link
- Siege Warfare Command Bunker
-- Active shielding link
-- Shield efficiency link
-- Shield harmonizing link
- Skirmish Warfare Command Bunker
-- Evasive manoeuvring link
-- Interdiction manoeuvres link
-- Rapid deployment link


Logistics Depot
- Station Defence Bunker
-- Small sentry slot
-- Medium sentry slot
-- Large sentry slot
-- Ewar sentry slot
- Jump Portal
-- Fuel capacity
-- Fuel usage
-- Jump range
- Cyno Jammer
-- Small sentry slot
-- Medium sentry slot
-- Large sentry slot
-- Ewar sentry slot
- Cyno Generator
-- Small sentry slot
-- Medium sentry slot
-- Large sentry slot
-- Ewar sentry slot
- Super Capital Docking Facility
-- Small sentry slot
-- Medium sentry slot
-- Large sentry slot
-- Ewar sentry slot
- Super Capital Logistics Support
- Alliance logistics


Mining Colony
- Refinery
-- Refinery slot
-- Refinery efficiency general
-- Refinery efficiency maximum, ore specific above 100%
- Foreman Post
-- Foreman link - harvester capacitor
-- Foreman link - laser optimization
-- Foreman link - mining laser field
-- Ore hold capacity
-- Mining drone velocity
-- Ore compression speed
-- Industrial configuration fuel use
- Prospecting Station
-- Gravimetric site count
-- Gravimetric site quality
-- Gravimetric site specific ore
-- LADAR site count
-- LADAR site quality


Science Station
- Metallurgy Laboratory
-- ME slot
-- ME research speed
- Research Laboratory
-- PE slot
-- PE research speed
- Science Laboratory
-- Copy slot
-- Copy speed
- Experimental Laboratory
-- Reverse Engineering slot
-- Reverse Engineering speed
-- Wormhole count
- Invention Laboratory
-- Invention chance
-- Invention speed
- Fundamental Research Laboratory
-- Datacore production (specific)


Civilian Colony
-Residential District
-- Population
- Market Hub
-- Tax income
- Pirate Outpost (corruption)
-- LP store
-- Pirate agent
- Pleasure Hub (corruption)
-- Pirate anomaly count
-- Pirate anomaly quality
- Black Market Hub (corruption)
-- Pirate site count
-- Pirate site quality


Industrial Complex
- Assembly line
-- Manufacturing slot
- Prefab Facility
-- Manufacturing time
-- Manufacturing waste
- Recycling plant
-- Reprocessing facility
-- Reprocessing efficiency
-- Manufacturing waste
- Super Capital Shipyard
-- Manufacturing slot
-- Manufacturing time
-- Small sentry slot
-- Medium sentry slot
-- Large sentry slot
-- Ewar sentry slot


Trading Post
- Alliance Market
-- Corporation store front
- Public Market
-- Corporation store front
- Storage Facility
-- Storage capacity
- Pleasure Hub (corruption)
-- Pirate anomaly count
-- Pirate anomaly quality
- Black Market Hub (corruption)
-- Pirate site count
-- Pirate site quality

This... is very interesting. +1

Holy **** this is long. Gonna read this on the way to my movie later :)

Well, it's been a month and all the stickies are gone from the front page, so here's a bump for exposure. I don't have anything in my head at the moment to add, so the first response gets to decide what aspect of the concept I'll elaborate on next time I post a bump.

Outstanding ideas ...

....but it won't work.


The critical issue with nullsec at the moment is that it is too hard to get to for non-mega alliance players, and too hard to keep systems for independent alliances. There are three or four alliances who control all of that null space, and you must be one of their pets to live there. The Odyssey changes have reinforced that, not diminished it, sadly. Bad design consequences have made null invalid for many small alliances.

So the above changes, while exciting and well thought through, would amount to nothing more than extending the sov grind for the major alliances. Until the fundamental problems in nullsec are addressed, these changes would be qonderful but meaningless.

I didn't read the whole thing, but what I did read seemed good. I especially like that you planned for DUST integration, although Districts only exist on Temperate planets. It seems to me that this means POCOs around temperate planets would be less vulnerable (or perhaps more vulnerable if your alliance's mercs are terrible) than POCOs around other planets that don't have districts.

It would certainly make sense that having sov over a system would require and utilise actual planets in that system .

PI could be expanded to include proper colonies that can be used to improve bonuses from that system and keeping them happy and secure should be necessary to hold sov over them and the system

- say there are 5 planets in that system then you should have to develop and defend them and keep any colonised planets happy.

-Pirates could play an active part in eroding sov if they are unchallenged much like an incursion ... so it would have to be actively defended to keep the sov of that system... perhaps pirates could take over systems and behave like real alliances and expand build ships/ POS etc.. and start attacking real alliances/corps .. possibilities..

Reopening this thread