Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would like to see some offerings for the older explorers who have the feeling that exploration is dead.

I would like to see sites in the 200-300 au range from orbital bodies. Ones that have a sig% of .05 and smaller. Ones that require lvl % skills to lock onto.

I would like to see broken stargates that you can find and have to bookmark and then go exploring around to find the missing parts.
Once you find all the missing pieces, you can go back to the stargate location and with skills, repair it and be the first to jump into a new system.....even be able to name it, claim it etc.....

There is so much that can be done with exploration aside from the lame minigame and the endless clickety click click.

I like the idea of the extreme range exploring. It would actually put some effort back into scanning.

Your broken stargates are called wormholes.

There might be the option of making a new segment of wormhole space that has stargates within the constellation. This would change too much to be added to existing systems so a whole new set would have to be made. Call it wild space rather then unknown space and have it be populated with factional rats instead of sleepers.

A number of things would have to be set to prevent wild space from being too similar to either sov null or unknown space.
A couple recommendations for this
A single static wormhole for the whole constellation, much larger then unknown statics making invasion feasible.
Allow only an equivalent of level 1 sov upgrades
Longer respawn time for sites then normal sov
No static asteroid belts but higher ore site spawn rate
Outpost built by players are destroyable not capturable

Any further ideas on how to make wild space are welcome

Wormholes are only predictable because the players write down everything, run spreadsheets to record all their findings, and analyse everything to the nth degree.

Whatever new content CCP introduces will be done to death by the time it hits Tranquility.

The only content that remains interesting over time is other players. Wormholes provide the pinnacle of player versus player in this game, which is why they are still popular. There are riches galore (all fully categorised and accounted, including depreciation schedules) for those willing to take the risk of living in w-space. But they dont go to w-space for the sleeper content. They go to w-space for the freedom, the danger, the profit and the fights.

As many new systems as CCP adds, the mystery will only remain until about the 100th screenshot on Twitter or the first Ellatha database.

There is plenty out there that you haven't explored yourself. The most important discoveries are friendly capsuleers, not neat gameplay gimmicks.

As much as you will all hate this...
This is all from a PVE point of view.

The idea of stargates and new systems is to expand the current New Eden space. Putting new content on the maps. They would lead to other space that upon claiming sov would become known space.
There may be a broken gate in another system that your new one leads too making it unable to activate....maybe have a message that reads to the effect - "Although this gate does lead to a system in an adjacent constellation, it cannot function while the receiving gate in inoperable."
That would let you know without too much information that you are at least within a constellations distance.

I don't like the idea of expanding on wormspace since wormholes are a natural phenomenum that cannot currently be reproduced in EVE technology....If they could reproduce a wormhole, they would simply make a wormhole to lead them back to their origins. (Following the EVE history a bit)

Wormspace is fine as it is. More than 70% of EVE space is either l-sec or null in effect.
PVE players are barely able to survive in h-sec as it is with gankers, scammers, bounty, war-decs, loopholes, etc......
I would like to think there is a place for them somewhere in game.

I really like where this thread is going and this line of thinking has been a long time coming.

What if, upon reaching a certain combination of skills and certs along with a respectable security status, we log on to find some kind of Eve-mail of a package in the item hanger with a bookmark to a "Lore Agent". Thus will begin a turn of events leading to a new system yet unheard of. Or something along those lines.

I too find this idea quite intriguing and would love to see it implemented.

Player Guided Discovery or some such like that, ensuring that it falls to the players to expand the universe along the lines that they want. Though of course CCP would need to lay the foundations of it all, but it has a lot of potential.

+1

Yes please!

cut and past..

The Kuiper belt .. sometimes called the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt (after the astronomers Kenneth Edgeworth and Gerard Kuiper), is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but it is far larger—20 times as wide and 20 to 200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies, or remnants from the Solar System's formation. While most asteroids are composed primarily of rock and metal, most Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (termed "ices"), such as methane, ammonia and water. The classical belt is home to at least three dwarf planets: Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. Some of the Solar System's moons, such as Neptune's Triton and Saturn's Phoebe, are also believed to have originated in the region.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt

basically a massive asteroid / ice belt extremely far out from the local star that could be swarming with rats and other insidious anomalies to kill those unlucky or unprepared to explore

Obviously, given my sig links, I support this idea and others like it.

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