Mrissa Easeah
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Posted - 2005.01.21 22:52:00 -
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Astrographics Features
- All suns look pretty much the same. There's no red-giants, orange stars, no close binaries or trinaries, no dying stars, squashed stars (from gravitational spin).
- I like the ring effects, but I think there could have been more color, besides dirty mocha (despite this being the most likely ring color - ie. dirty ice.)
- Stellar Events. Have something -change- once per day, somewhere in the Eve universe such as:
---Solar Flare: All communications in local is anonymous. All shields are halved for the duration of the flare.
---Planetary Ice Geyser. Everything within 200,000k of a random ice planet has coms interference (anonymous local), but from downtime to downtime, the system has an extra ice belt.
---Gate Repair. High traffic regions only and where there's more than one way around the 'broken gate'. Have a team of NPC Indies, guards, and welders out, lasting only from downtime to downtime. Disrupts traffic patterns.
---Comets. I know, they're coming, but would be nice if they passed within visual (same grid) as other popular locations in a given system from time to time.
NPC's
- No traffic between stations and planetary surfaces. Even if -we- can't do that yet, there should be orbital shuttles that head up and down even just as background noise, and maybe something actually physically there that someone could even pirate from (gaining passengers, trade goods, etc.).
- NPC's that travel system to system, (envoys, convoys, agents of the state, etc.).
- More variety of services/utility from agents, such as finding tips on tradegoods (lowest price in three regions of water is #isk at #units, at this station, now gimme my graft!), limited hiring of 'passenger' level tradegoods, 3rd party NPC couriering of contraband (since we can't smuggle it ourselves yet) x jumps to y station for z fee, etc.
- Non-Jaded Agents. Almost all the agent offers I get, and all the mission descriptions, seem to have agents with a very jaded world view. Mix it up a little. Throw in some naive agents (especially level 1's), maybe even fanboys and fangirls, as well as some diehard, starch shirt, patriots.
- An in-game/mechanics reason for Interbus to exist.
- Station Repair. Occasional groups of mechanics working on the exterior of certain stations (as in gate repair event above.) Add missions related to these visible events.
- Billboard News Feed: Bring it! Change it daily please! Reference to more elements of planetary life, whether in agent missions, free roaming NPC's, news on the billboards, etc. Don't planet dwellers play sports? Gripe about the local economy? Say racially or religiously contraversial things? These, as window dressing, get -REALLY- stale and never looked at after seeing the same things month in, month out.
- Free Roamers. NPC's that have an agenda you can run into in space ... maybe just a little drop down script or two (pick a path) to interact with them on a private 'coms' line to determine how they react. Peaceful, Hostile, Uninterested, and In Need. Be cool to also come accross cripled NPC ships in need of assistance, either hit by NPC's or some other story element.
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