Tanith YarnDemon
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Posted - 2009.11.02 11:52:00 -
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I'd like to see it as less of a grind, a more random enviroment. From what I understand the idea is to be "unplugged" while in station. This also means it would opt for a more discrete kind of missions. Where the risks are greater, where you will need to maintain a higher grade of paranoia but also get to share some unique content.
Behvaiour and approach would play a greater role. Early on you might only be able to pick up simple tasks, a drugrun or surveilance. As your fame(.. infamy?) grows, you will attract bigger fish from both ends. You will get in on bigger deals, more rewarding, more detailed and shadier operations, much higher antes. A successful mission might grant you a steady stream of income and even minions to do your bidding, but on the same time you might run in to just the kind of people you don't want to. You might get missions to simply bribe political figures, concord officials or why not blackmail rivaling corporations. The kind of heat it generates would of course lure the same kind of people there to stop you, you'd run into an undercover agent tricking you into confessing or sending you into your certain demise. Or maybe your contact is being blackmailed by some other player, who got that task by some even bigger fish at the opposite end of the scale.
I guess central is that it orbits around the much darker aspects of EVE. That you will need to think twice before ever agreeing to anything. You should after a conversation with some contact do their biddings by fear of their repercussion should you decline, not necessarily because the reward motivates you. And it should all be handled by a much more subtle approach than agent missions are today. There is no set standing when an agent will talk to you, it depends on vast many more variables. There is no database of agents or even missions, because it's all very fluent and dynamic. You might be offered to do something for great reward, however if you decline, another character appears and forces you to do the same under some (maybe) hollow threat. Your ship has been rigged or they have contacts in the wrong places making you a clear -10 outlaw by downtime tomorrow.
You should be digging your own grave, slowly, without knowing exactly what you're doing. It might lead to riches and fame, it might lead to becoming an outcast, robbed of it's last isk and in bad standing to everyone. Which... just might be exactly what someone somewhere is looking for.
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