Abulurd Boniface
Shadow State
SpaceMonkey's Alliance
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Posted - 2012.10.11 18:24:00 -
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It's sad to see CCP lacking the finer points of their magnificent universe, but don't despair, that's why we're around.
The bounty hunter ePeen, a great idea [no sarcasm intended].
Bounty hunters come in ranks.
Bounty hunters have a number of distinctions, expressed as a rank, think carefully about this. It has to be balanced well. Not too many, not too few.
With the rank comes an insignia, just like Factional Warfare.
These insignia can be purchased in the NEX [as should the Factional Warfare tags]. These are not sold for the price of a monocle *stare*.
Once purchased these insignia are visible in the biographical information of the pilot. As is the Factional Warfare rank.
The NEX will carry customisable uniforms [the interface is already there]. When the pilot bought the insignia, they are presented with an option of festooning a dress uniform with their medals and insignia. Awarded medals can be purchased and fixed to the uniform.
There are options for personal uniforms; corp uniforms; alliance uniforms . If you switched corps / alliances, and they had a personalised uniform, a wardrobe could be purchased that holds these uniforms and the distinctions received while serving in those entities, so that you could go back and relive the glory days with the boys and girls, and it will look awesome once we walk in stations *coughing fit*.
Tags would be available that could be fit to the ship, indicating combat victories. There would be tags for specific types of ship, and for a representative quantity destroyed which, in the case of some pilots, would require some pretty hefty numbers. More kills yields prettier tags.
A box would be available that would 'hang' in the Captain's Quarters, showing the medals, insignia and tags earned.
Some consideration will be given to honouring the input of industrialists who will earn civilian honours.
We will see hilarious bugs as the tracking of all these honours goes horribly wrong, and it will offer a moment of comic relief in a very serious universe. That's the downside.
The upside is:
- enhanced esprit de corps when we see ourselves in splendid regalia
- we can finally truly reflect our worth in the game by displaying what we are capable of, instead of the childish tool that is the embarrassingly inaccurate means of the killmail, which nobody but some parties involved will ever see and scarcely remember
- the NEX -finally- serves the purpose that CCP had first envisaged when it was created; it has a plausible revenue stream as nothing will inspire our valiant godlike pilots more than showing off who has the biggest one [the universal cause for warfare since we first noticed there were some aspects of our phenotype we had to learn to brag about].
This revenue stream has potential as it offers a product that customers will really want to buy because: a) it is relevant to their in-game experience, b) it is truly affordable, c) it is manifestly not a pay-to-win feature and d) honours increase over time with ships killed and distinctions earned.
This is what I said at fanfest, I still believe it's a great idea. Tell me if it isn't.
If it is implemented I'm not going to be a baby and ask for a %, but a VIP badge at the next fanfest, now there, that would be my prize.
How say you? |