Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Okay after reading the dev blog about how ccp is going about the ORE ship changes I have to make adjustments as well.

To the point that Tiers are going away and more emphasis on function vs yeild.

Traveler will remain the scoutiest and fastest thus get additional scan strength

Wanderer will remain the hauler of the bunch but additionally become the tankiest

Voyager will become the best yeilder overall.

Tech 2s will emphasize there with bonuses while tech 1s will protray this though built in bonuses or slot layout.

This also means i have to make a 'day 1 frigate' and make all the current ships cruiser to battlecruiser size.

The new frigate will be named Errant and will be very freindly ship for new players willing ot try thier hand at explroation.

Anyways these changes also mean that all current blueprints are out the airlock as well so cost adjustments expected to probably match the tier 2.

Skills requirements to also change up for these ships.

Also I will be adding a section each for Interaction with Incarna and Dust 514 so there will be more updates for sure.

Until I get around to it stay tuned, Inferno Updates will be on thier way now.

Also the forum is working properly now so time to relink everything back up and get the table of contents restored for quicker navigation and get the images relinked back in the thread.

Also I probably need to finish up the hacker ship shes been sitting in frame work for a while now and needs to be plated up a bit.

Small Update today going to go in and start gutting the blueprints out as they're no longer valid with tiericide around the corner.

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I didn´t read everything, caus too much.
But well i also like too have an exploration ship. At the moment the best ships for explorations are the T3-Cruisers, But i would also prefer a T2-vessel with this function.
I think a medium sized vessel would be best, BC-size really sounds best. Medium sized are fast enough but can also tank and deal enough damage for solo flying.

When they don´t get CovOps-Moduls or Interdiction Nullifier there would also still be a place for T3´s in low and 0.0 -sec.

Ok I now read nearly everything.

Nice idea for the explorer and voyager ships, whose i think are cruiser sized, aren´t they.

I am not convinced about the SOE Strategic Cruiser, cause I don´t like Strategic Cruiser. The existing 4 T3-Cruiser are still not really balanced, so i don´t want any further.

But I think the SOE-Capitals should rather be BC- or BS-sized vessels. Mainly because this whole exploration thing is more a solo part of EVE. And therefore Capitals are just to big, and i would suggest they will be only used by one player who wants to boost 1 or 2 alts. Although these scientific gang links, will may still be used on a Subcapital.
Maybe i overread your point with scientific gang links, but what do they boost. I suggest their will be again three kinds of gang links. But what will be their fleet bonis, so that a Fleet Comander will use them to boost 200+ players, or a Wing Commander to boost 50+ players, instead of using the already existing bonis?

What about establishing some type of exploration on what I call the Fringe Space of each solar system.

Fringe Space is the space that you come to when you burn away from the farthest outlying planet or mission station.

Basically infinite space.

I have let my ship burn for hours trying to reach the edge of the solar system without sucess. There must be something out there why not make it part of a new exploration ring where you have to burn out to the Limit Line which is the edge of the solar system. Once past the Limit Line you could scan for new signatures......who knows what you might find in the space between solar systems.

You know another mini-profession that's totally and completely forgotten?

Commerce Raider... You known those NPC convoys you see all over the place? You can blow them up and steal there stuff. In fact iterating on that might be a good jumping off point for expanding piracy and the pirate factions. I mean, we know there are RP people out there that want to fight for the Blood Raiders, Sansha, Angels, Serpentis, and Guristas...

I'd propose... Lets call it a "Living World" Expansion. When traveling through a lot of systems it seems at times that side for the police force, there isn't anyone there but us capsuleers... maybe a handful of pirates at a belt, but nothing that really says that the system is occupied.

Lets say that systems are occupied by a combination of local NPC corporate 'Drones' and pirates. The corporate drones have their own missions, purposes for operating and so forth. The local navy patrols the belts much in the same way that the local pirates do and so forth...

All of those people are targets.

In 1.0 security space there are no pirates but lord there should be tons of non-criminal NPCs floating about. If I'm flying into a 1.0 system... lets say New Caldari. I should expect the martial strength of that systems owner to be fully on display. Dreadnoughts slowly circling the stargate at 100km, freighters lumbering out docking bays laden down by enormous amounts of goods. If I'm a pirate and decide to attack that NPC Freighter I should expect a naval response that pushes my abilities to my limit and a drop in security status.

Moving to lower security space and the local empire's strength begins to fade, by 0.9 there are no capital ships as part of a gate patrol only battleships. The freighters dry up and are replaced with industrial ships. Pirates begin to appear.

At 0.4 only cruisers and lower appear on gates and are easily dispatched by pirates. Concord patrol vessels begin to appear that aren't DEV hack variants for Pirates to destroy on their way to -10. Industrial ships give way to transport vessels.

At 0.0 the transport ships dry up and are replaced with smaller and smaller sized patrol ships from Concord and the Empires. Pirate transport ships begin to appear as do ORE barges in asteroid belts (ripe for plucking by the pirate).

Destroying CONCORD vessels helps your standing with the pirates, as does the destruction of the opposing empire ships. Slowly you can build your standings with the factions reaching blue status where they no longer engage you.

At -1.0 there are no CONCORD, no empire vessels. Like at 1.0 we see the full might of the pirate nation's capabilities in these systems. Capital ships rove these systems clad in their faction colors as do Freighters. For the CONCORD aligned pilot it's a heaven. For the pirate aligned pilot it's a safe haven.

The pirates factions operate on a NBS policy, all other factions should operate under a NRDS policy.

Something I've suggested in PI 2.0.

NPC shipping contracts.

That is a very good idea. It would open up a whole new era of mission running for those who like missioning.

Basically you could have a 5.0 standing and sign up with one of the Pirate Factions to do missions for them. Such missions would include Declaring War on random Capsuleers where once you pod enough of them you would complete the Pirate Mission Agent for said faction receiving booty gallore as well as increased AUR along with Pirate Faction Modules, Ammo, Equipment, Implants etc.

You could also be given missions that involve raiding other Pirate Coves to eliminate a Pirate Faction Leader, transport goods from one pirate cove to the next, courier missions, manufacturing missions, ect. Basically any type of mission that is available from local agents would be available from the Pirate Mission Agent.

The drawback is that the Pirate Mission Agents would be located deep within 0.0 and could only be found by using using probes to search for them. Once found the Pirate Mission Agent base would appear on your overview allowing you too warp to it instantly.

The PMA would also despawn at regular intervals reappearing in different locations around the Constellation that once you have all of the locations BM an email would be sent to you with the next location that the PMA would be moving too.

Perhaps having PMA established in Fringe Space would be a good way to put to use such unexplored and empty space.
That way all of the High Sector Urban Griefers can run missions for the Pirates.

This is all pretty epic, I think the posts are a bit difficult to decipher, and you really let yourself extrapolate too far from what could have been a much simpler base concept (brainstorming is fun, but you shouldn't worry about exact names or numbers now, since CCP will do what they want. But as a sort of base concept for what could be expansions of the mini professions into full professions, I do support it.

Woah! there is allot of good stuff here!!! I think Devs can harvest this into a year of expansions!!!