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Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
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#21 - 2013-05-31 21:32:07 UTC
What if the eve gate opened back up and we find out Star Citizen is the Earth side... so we have 2 different games from two different developers you can go back and forth between.

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Robus Muvila
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#22 - 2013-05-31 21:41:55 UTC
Ooh I got one.

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Aida Nu
Perkone
Caldari State
#23 - 2013-05-31 22:27:10 UTC
Vincent Athena wrote:
What if CCP ran a new sever that was all PvE. What changes would be needed to make it work?

It could not be connected to TQ at all so they could not influence each other. The space, ships, modules and so on, could all be the same.

Players would have to be locked out from shooting each other except for mutual wars, duels, and being in the same corp. CONCORD would become irrelevant, you could not do an action that calls them. Other griefing mechanics, like bumping, wreck theft, neutral RR, would have to be modified.

The E side, the environment, would have to have its game stepped way up, to destroy sufficient stuff to drive the economy. POSes in high sec would get attacked by mass rat fleets, random huge spawns with supers in low and null, and so on. You could log in to your Null outpost to find it was now owned by the Blood Raiders and being guarded by a mixed fleet of 50 ships, including Titans.

High sec, low sec and null sec would be defined by how strong the NPC rats are.

Claiming sov in Null would have to be based on how well you use your space. Someone else comes in and does better than you, you lose it.

If CCP started this anyone creating a new pilot could choose which server, but then be stuck there forever.



Didn't they do something similar with Ultima Online which resulted in the game basically dying out?

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Fredfredbug4
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2013-05-31 23:24:47 UTC
What if CCP were bees?
What if EVE were bees?
What if Hi-sec were bees?
What if Low sec were bees?
What if Null sec were bees?
What if Wormholes were bees?
What if Jovians were bees?
What if Caldari were bees?
What if Gallente were bees?
What if Minmatar were bees?
What if Amarr were bees?
What if ships were bees?
What if ships carrying ships were bees?
What if pods were bees?
What if star gates were bees?
What if systems were bees?
What if players were bees?
What if NPCs were bees?
What if Chibbra were bees?
What if Goons WEREN'T bees?
What if TEST were bees?
What if I were bees?
What if you were bees?
What if Tranquilty were bees?
What if bees crash the server?
What if bees are the server?

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Amarr Empire
#25 - 2013-05-31 23:59:14 UTC
ISD Suvetar wrote:
Gealbhan wrote:
What if EvE Online is actually a recruitment program for an alien defense force that's been decimated by an enemy and they're looking for that one amazing player for one last roll of the dice. Arrow


Isn't that the plot from 'The Last Starfighter' ?

Damn, need to watch that again now Pirate

Yes, lol, it is, and now i have to DL and watch it again, too! :P
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Keep It Simple Software Group
#26 - 2013-06-01 00:59:43 UTC
The blue donut would become a blue figure-8?...

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Sentamon
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#27 - 2013-06-01 12:18:32 UTC
KuroVolt wrote:
Note: this idea is completely *What If* I realise it would not work for several reasons, just roll with it damnit!

Anyway, what if CCP started hosting a different server
Not a mirror of TQ, an entirely different server with different regions and different systems.

New untouched patches of null sec and empire, and joining this server requires you to make a new account for that server alone [yet does not allow you to use your TQ name]

Then what if CCP let this server develop for say 5 years and then went ahead and introduced gates or wormholes that acted like a gateway between the 2 servers.

Let your imagination run wild and fill in the rest!


I think it's a brilliant idea.

EVE will always suffer from the "It's been around for 10+ years, I can't compete" condition." That keeps new players away. This imo would fix that and bring in new players and even get old players interested again.

Also, Instead of automatic links after a set timeframe you could create a conflict between players were some would want to build gates to connect to the current systems while others would try and stop them.

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Darvaleth Sigma
Imperial Security Hegemony
#28 - 2013-06-01 12:21:52 UTC
Azami Nevinyrall wrote:
"EVE: what if mode."

Sure, I'll play...

What if we got actual expansions instead of over glorified patches disguised as expansions?

(Sorry to harp on CCP for this, but "expansion notes" in EVE look highly similar to "patch notes" in other/all MMO's.)


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Gallente Federation
#29 - 2013-06-01 12:23:14 UTC
Gealbhan wrote:
What if EvE Online is actually a recruitment program for an alien defense force that's been decimated by an enemy and they're looking for that one amazing player for one last roll of the dice. Arrow



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ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#30 - 2013-06-01 12:50:48 UTC
What if EVE is actually one of those "hypnosis" screamer videos gone horribly, horribly wrong?

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Felicity Love
Doomheim
#31 - 2013-06-01 12:55:05 UTC
What if there really are no more "Twinkies" ?

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mr ed thehouseofed
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#32 - 2013-06-01 13:05:32 UTC
Pelea Ming wrote:
ISD Suvetar wrote:
Gealbhan wrote:
What if EvE Online is actually a recruitment program for an alien defense force that's been decimated by an enemy and they're looking for that one amazing player for one last roll of the dice. Arrow


Isn't that the plot from 'The Last Starfighter' ?

Damn, need to watch that again now Pirate

Yes, lol, it is, and now i have to DL and watch it again, too! :P


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#33 - 2013-06-01 13:05:57 UTC
You know what be cool? If this server did exist, then on some unannounced date, they link them together and the two servers duke it out for valuable stuff the other server doesn't have. That would liven it up a bit I think.
Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#34 - 2013-06-01 13:06:20 UTC
Aida Nu wrote:
Vincent Athena wrote:
What if CCP ran a new sever that was all PvE. What changes would be needed to make it work?

It could not be connected to TQ at all so they could not influence each other. The space, ships, modules and so on, could all be the same.

Players would have to be locked out from shooting each other except for mutual wars, duels, and being in the same corp. CONCORD would become irrelevant, you could not do an action that calls them. Other griefing mechanics, like bumping, wreck theft, neutral RR, would have to be modified.

The E side, the environment, would have to have its game stepped way up, to destroy sufficient stuff to drive the economy. POSes in high sec would get attacked by mass rat fleets, random huge spawns with supers in low and null, and so on. You could log in to your Null outpost to find it was now owned by the Blood Raiders and being guarded by a mixed fleet of 50 ships, including Titans.

High sec, low sec and null sec would be defined by how strong the NPC rats are.

Claiming sov in Null would have to be based on how well you use your space. Someone else comes in and does better than you, you lose it.

If CCP started this anyone creating a new pilot could choose which server, but then be stuck there forever.



Didn't they do something similar with Ultima Online which resulted in the game basically dying out?

If you want to only PVE play X3.

They linked the two in a way that made the economy not work. That's why I mentioned keeping them separate, and modifying the NPCs to drive the economy. If you do not do stuff like that, yes it would fail.

X3 is not multi-player so there is no cooperative game play, or a player driven market, or need for industrial empires, or.. well, so many things. There is no MMO PvE sandbox Sci Fi game out there.

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Utremi Fasolasi
La Dolce Vita
#35 - 2013-06-01 14:44:22 UTC
Fredfredbug4 wrote:
What if CCP were bees?
What if EVE were bees?
What if Hi-sec were bees?
What if Low sec were bees?
What if Null sec were bees?
What if Wormholes were bees?
What if Jovians were bees?
What if Caldari were bees?
What if Gallente were bees?
What if Minmatar were bees?
What if Amarr were bees?
What if ships were bees?
What if ships carrying ships were bees?
What if pods were bees?
What if star gates were bees?
What if systems were bees?
What if players were bees?
What if NPCs were bees?
What if Chibbra were bees?
What if Goons WEREN'T bees?
What if TEST were bees?
What if I were bees?
What if you were bees?
What if Tranquilty were bees?
What if bees crash the server?
What if bees are the server?


I suppose this is mandatory.
coolzero
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#36 - 2013-06-01 15:15:19 UTC
CCP BunnyVirus wrote:
Gealbhan wrote:
What if EvE Online is actually a recruitment program for an alien defense force that's been decimated by an enemy and they're looking for that one amazing player for one last roll of the dice. Arrow



how do you know about it... state your business



didnt you try it before with videogames

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Xessej
Perkone
Caldari State
#37 - 2013-06-01 15:39:46 UTC
Seriously consider the possibilities. A brand new server. All toons are new. Nothing seeded in the economy but what is NPC seeded on TQ today. Even the big blobs would be in frigs and cruisers for a while and battleships would be dominant for at least a couple of years.

small alliances would have a real chance at taking and holding sov (the size of sov structures would need to be tweaked waiting for freighters before taking sov wouldn't work imo).
TigerXtrm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#38 - 2013-06-01 15:48:28 UTC
KuroVolt wrote:

Then what if CCP let this server develop for say 5 years and then went ahead and introduced gates or wormholes that acted like a gateway between the 2 servers.


Holy mother of gate camps! :D

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Perkone
Caldari State
#39 - 2013-06-01 16:16:17 UTC
What if the door opens?!

I disagree!
Messoroz
AQUILA INC
Verge of Collapse
#40 - 2013-06-01 16:17:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Messoroz
Gates between servers like that would ruin the games. There is no way for economies to function properly without them both being on the same server. You would create an artificial separation of an economy that should be one but will function like two separate ones.
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