Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You are brilliant :)

Changes like this is definitely making me screw my secstatus and move to low or nullsec. Would be cool to have my own little hidden home where I can explorer and pvp in the nearby area.

Floppie,

I'm glad you brought that up!

As a long time pirate and high sec war deccer, I've used locator agents quite extensively. I completely agree that locator agents in their present form would have to be radically revamped. Here's a twist however: what if we could redesign the concept of locator agents to be player driven instead of NPC based? What if players posted "information/location contracts" with a payout that decreased over time. The faster you get a player the correct info, the more money you receive. What if players could download entire data sets of intel information to other players/corps/alliances?

We could have professional scouts that do nothing but map areas for ship activity, resources, all sorts of things. CCP could move currently static resources to a more dynamic and flowing design that wouldn't change daily, but maybe on a monthly or annual scale so that last years resource maps aren't this years etc. This way there will always be something new to discover by returning players... The universe is always changing, Eve should too.

What if while randomly scanning, a player happens upon a few different players, the scanning player checks the "information/location wanted" database, sees that the players he just uncovered are wanted by someone and contacts the original poster to negotiate terms of payment for their location info? There could be some sort of professional level in-game structure that would be game-verified to prevent scamming. But the real way players will experience secure and reliable information is by reputation. Excellent scouts with outstanding reputations for timely information will earn their own reputations as being the "go-to" guy for info. The downside, people might not like the idea that you sold them out! The information brokers might get contracts taken out on their heads for doing so! Man, this just keeps getting better... :D

nice read +1 nice ideas

Pushing this thread back up because I like the idea.

Makes me remember when I was playing submarine games where you had a silent hunter stalking is prey. Like it was expressed by some, the basis of the OP`s idea is what I though I was getting myself into when I started playing this game 2 years ago. I stil like the game but this idea would be an interesting revolution.

CCP should hire the OP, pay him an appartment somewhere in Iceland and provide him with a nice Porsh for is local travels. And how about a Challenger 300 at is disposal?

+1

fully agree

local needs to change, and directional scanner is the answer to removing it and adding greated depth to gameplay.. intel should not be free

What would you be flying?...and what do you mean by "ass deep"?

could not resist!

Funny thing is...

Even if these changes were implemented?

You'd still have highsec people who wouldn't consider the risks worth the reward.

I look at it more as if I can make enough ISK to keep the skillbooks coming, and replace the ships you nullsec maniacs cheerily detonate? totally worth it plus I'd get to shoot at someone before I explode.

Finding an alliance/null corp that works for me (hell finding a recruiter who'll talk to you is nonintuitive) is a pain, though here in a bit I'm going to have to start looking because Highsec is BOOOORIIING.

And if you go out but the costs of replacing ships are bigger than your income? You get driven right back out into highsec to recoup, so doing it solo is right out, as it should be for a long term roam.

Bluntly if I can make enough coin to keep myself in combat ships and mining rigs even when getting my **** blown up, then I won't need things like corp ship replacement programs. Nice to have, but I doubt there's many corps that freely replace my preferences in gear.

Playing EVE in hardmode: Gallente ships

+1

You say that like it is an insult. Ask CCP if they want every carebear to drop their sub. I think you will find the answer is no.



So, you want EVE to have 1,000 players, all flying covert ships, spending all their game time trying to find each other, without being found by each other?


You haven't addressed the most basic of my assertions. If you make it easy to gank people, people stop doing whatever it was tehy were doing that got them ganked.

No local in wormholes. What % of the population lives in wormholes? 3%? Something like that?





As a carebear, I'm explaining to you why your idea would destroy the game and wouldn't give you what you want anyway.

You want it to be easy to sneak up on people and kill them. Any system that enabled that would instantly result in people no longer doing any of the activities that makes it easy for them to be snuck up on.

So, you make just as many defensive systems to make it hard to sneak up on me and kill me. Okay, so you can't sneak up on me and kill me. Okay, what have you gained over local?


If you can sneak up on me and kill me, I don't do anything that lets you sneak up on me and kill me. If you can't sneak up on me and kill me, how is it different than local?

Think it through.

PEOPLE are not going to just sit there waiting for you to sneak up on them and kill them. Get rid of local, you turn all of EVE into Wormhole space with 97% fewer players.



But.. but.... people won't come out when I'm in local. Right, and without local they simply won't ever come out.

Well, pushing aside the your basic dismissal of the concept of "forcing" players to actually run into each other so they can actually interact, let's cut to the chase. You're proposing adding a very significant number of calculations per/ship, per/second, per/location in a game already struggling mightily NOT to have lag. A very significant amount of CCP dev manhours to produce a game where most of the game will remain invisible.

Did I precisely portray your proposal? No. I actually like your ideas, and hope some game improvements might have gotten their germination here. I also would love for the game to accurately portray gravity, inertia, and stations/ships actually orbiting planets(that are also in motion). But dat ain't gonna happen, and I accept that.


Hmmmm