EVE General Discussion

I have noticed something about the EVE Universe. Outside of Police, the occasional Trader and Pirates flying around in Paper thin Ships dying by the trillion(They are terrible), there is very little life in space.

CCP has created a ton of great ships that we never see in Non-Capsuleer hands running around. Outside of Security Forces and Pirates 99% of the Ships I see are Capsuleer owned. For the amount of ships you have in one large Lvl 4 Mission you can make any Solar System a wash with life.

* NPC Shuttles moving between gates and stations.
* Opux Luxury Yachts touring systems. (Would make for good Low Sec Pirate PvE)
* NPC Freighters Flying Between Gates.
* NPC Primae's hanging around Planets.
* NPC Mining Barges and maybe Orca's doing Mining OP's.
* Noctus's in those Battle Site Wreck Fields.
* Generally increase the amount of Haulers currently and make them fly between gates.
* Sailboats touring around. Like a Zephyr with a new civilian paint scheme.

EVE feels so empty like we are the only ones out there. It would be cool to see it bustling with life.

Imagine warping towards a Station seeing Shuttle, Solar Sailing Ship and Yachts coming and going from all sorts different NPC Corps taking people to the Stars and back. To see massive Freighters flowing like the life blood of the Galaxy bringing food, fuel, construction materials and wares from every corner of the Galaxy to the people below. Primae's bring goods from Planets to the stations. Mining Ships tearing away in Belts to build the massive Empires.

I am playing in a world of Navies and Pirates, Cops and Robbers. CCP wants a Sci Fi Simulator. A little background would go a long way to this. They have the ships, I say add them in.

Bring Life into the Orbit of Planets, to the City Sized Stations, to the Sprawling Asteroid Belts, to the Stargate Highways that connect us together and to EVE.

So... you're flying in "the arse end of nowhere", and expect traffic.
Go find a player hub. Or do you just want NPCs for more easy isk with no work.

Yes in player hubs there are other ships.

2: NPC convoys that are pirateable, but have armed escorts. Currently NPC convoys can be destroyed if you know how to do it, although the payout is minimal. The only protection they have are station guns, which are sufficient because when they only warp from station to station in one system (and their carried good make no impact on the market).

I would think the best real gameplay value you could get out of this is in Lo Sec. Have Yachts and Transports flying around system with a Convoy of a few NPC Defenders with Sansha type AI who run interference. The Target Ship drop valuable loot at the cost of a Sec Status Hit and provide a bit of a challenge.

Perhaps the number of Defenders that spawn is unknown till you attack but the more valuable the drop chance the harder the Spawn. Say a Yacht with 3 Million ISK payday and a couple of Tackler Frigs and a Bomber Frigate Spawn. Same type of Yacht but it's value is closer to 50 million ISK and 3 Cruisers show up and Warp Disrupt and Web you. The more Value the rarer it is so buddy in a T2 Frigate takes out 5 of the Cheap ones hits a hard spawn and really wishes he was in a Battlecruiser.

Maybe some of them will not even have defenders and are unescorted making it a Craps Roll for what you are fighting against. Perhaps you can have extremely High Value Low Sec Targets that are identifiable as such like a NPC Jump Frieghter carrying 200mil but attack it and it is like fighting a 5-10 Man Incursion when the defense fleet arrive and the ship has 500k EHP so you will have to take out the Defenders first. Bring 20 people and the loot split is not worth it so you are encouraged to bring around 4-7 guys to get a good cut.

Real Pirate PvE Sec Status Hit and all for the folks who don't mind being Flashy Red.

So yeah to sum up they all would be shootable but some would have too high a consequence to make it profitable while others would take a team effort for a gamble of a reward.

The luxury yachts would drop rich, good looking women who you could hold to ransom from the NPC corps or just stash away in your CQ as your personal exotic dancer.