Player Features and Ideas Discussion

How about Noctis-specific probes? The probes find wrecks 1.5 hours old or more that are NOT near or in active mission pockets, grouping results so that you aren't spammed by individual results.

This way, you can't find missions. You can't find newer wreck fields before a player can easily salvage them. But you CAN find wrecks that are starting to expire.

It's not perfect, and it's not *meant* to be. Maybe someone has a lot of wrecks, and you butt in while they're old. Maybe the wrecks expire while you're working on them.

The Wreck Hunter would come in two types. The standard hull and the warp while cloaked hull.


The base hull design would be similar to the Echelon Frigate but in between a cruiser and a battle cruiser in mass.

The Proton being the name of the first Wreck Hunter would have a slot layout as follows:

High Slot : x4
Medium Slot X 3
Low Slot x 2

Cargo Hold: 250 cu meters
Salvage Hold : 500 cu meters

Rig Calibration: x2 slots w 150 calibration points

The Proton would fit the Proton 4 Receiver Module in the mid slot that would boost the Proton 4 probes detection signal by 5% per level learned for 25% increase.

The Proton would have a Proton 4 Probe launcher that would hold a single Proton 4 Probe. When launched the probe could be directed at an warp to object in the system, such as a station, combat site and even a data or relic site that has been scanned down. The probe would warp to the location and begin its ping of the area. Each level of the Proton 4 probe skill that is learned would give the Capsuleer a 10% chance to locate a mission site wreck with a total of 75% chance to find a mission wreck when the Proton 4 Receiver Module is used.

The Proton would also have a tractor beam bonus of 500 m second and a 5% increased chance to salvage a wreck

The Unrecovered Wreck Identifier skill adds an additional 2% per level learned to the overall skills needed that would boost the Caspuleer's ability to find un-salvaged wrecks for an overall total of a 85% chance to find a mission wreck.

The Tandem or the the TII variant would have the same slot layout as the Proton but could warp while cloaked and would have a ship bonus of 10% to find unrecovered wrecks bringing the total percentage to find wrecks too 95%. The Tandem would also have a tractor beam bonus of 1,000 m second and a 10% increased chance to salvage a wreck

Once the Proton has found a mission wreck the Capsuleer would need to complete a mini-game. In the mini-game the Capsuleer would have to filter out background noise or radiation using various tools that once the mini-game has been completed the mission wreck would be able to be warped too and the site salvaged. Filtering out the radiation would involve completing the mini-game within five minutes before the system had to be re-calibrated and started over. There would not be any failed attempts to worry about.

A Mobile Depot would be required to load the tools into the min-game browser however.

Each NPC faction Base such as the Federal Defense Union which is base Gallente would have a set of specialized tools to filter out radiation with. Capsuleer ships would also have a set of tools to filter out the radiation in the mini-game based on the racial design of the ship.

The Mini-Game tools would be manufactured via Planetary Interaction.

Why does this have to be so complex?

Why do we need new probes, when it is quicker and easier to simply add wreck scanning the combat probes bag of tricks?

Why do we need to waste time with this interference idea what does it add to the salvage side of the game?
All I see is extra hassles having to switch probes and that would get old really fast, either that or players would simply use the combats to locate ships, mtu or drones.

I like the basic idea, what I do not like is all the useless fluff you want to add to it.
K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid) should be the goal here, the less work the devs have to do to implement this the better our chances are that they will actually add it to the game.