Rall Mekin
Jadablade
Redneck Rage
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Posted - 2012.10.26 20:10:00 -
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I would like to see:
A. True piracy in EVE now--You can board a ship and take its cargo (small sec hit if in low); board a ship, pod-kill the pilot in ship, and steal the ship and everything on board (bigger sec status hit if in low); NUKE THE SHIP FROM INSIDE (sec hit equivalent to stealing the ship). Think about it? Tackle a Titan in null? Already have enough supercap kill mails? WHY NOT STEAL IT AND SELL IT? Also, someone won't a pay a ransom, but you can see the shiny on board and you don't want to risk blowing it all up? Send in a Dust team to capture and secure objectives! It follows from this, that you could end up with soldiers having bad sec status that concord/faction Popo continually hunt on foot, which would be interesting--transporting characters with bad sec status from one side of high security space to another could be a very specialized, lucrative career?
B. PC Dust514, and also, the option for ALL capsuleer pilots to start mercenary training. If boarded by a mercenary team, the captain can add bonuses NPC squads he selects/buys beforehand (if he doesn't have his own mercs on board). Basically, dumb drones that he leads into battle. However, captain dies he wakes up wherever his clone contract is... don't know about clones on board your own ship, though, as that seems contradictory to how things are now. I mean, we already pay a monthly subscription fee, why can't we enjoy Dust, which is free to play, and keep our capsuleer skillsets.
Yes, I realize there are all kinds of lore/technical implications and this isn't anything for the here and now, its just something I wish we could see.
C. This goes with B., but a complete integration of Dust into the current EVE client and Universe. I would love to eventually walk in station along side dust soldiers, have to watch out for kill rights from space being transferred to Dust soldiers in stations, no longer be safe docked up in null/low/wh space during a siege, and be able to defend my ship to the bitter end hand to hand if necessary. RP'ers would love it, and I think so would more EVE captains. It would dramatically change things, but it could be AMAZING.
D. It follows from point C., but it would be logical if they eventually integrated Dust and EVE so completely that there were massive, persistent maps on worlds that both capsuleers and dust soldiers could explore on foot, on air, or from orbit. Basically, merge the two MMO's into one massive persistent map and no longer have a distinction between capsuleer/soldier. Just let everyone train everything and experience all levels of this universe without the coarse distinctions. Basically, you could be in command of your Abaddon one moment, and then descending to a planet surface accompanied by a full contingent of officer's and soldiers whose skill sets focus more on the terrestrial side of things.
The ideas would expand EVE and Dust naturally into each other over time until its one large expansive world with unlimited freedom. Yes, I know its nowhere near like this now or anytime in the future, so please do not flame me. I'm just imagining. Much like EVE now, you would still have people specialize in things, probably with sets of dedicated soldiers and dedicated pilots, as the skill trees on both are massive. However, being able to jump between to lifestyles and game player types should still be a possibility--I would learn basic defense if only to help out in the defense of my ship if sieged, especially if it was expensive.
Anyway, at this point, I'm going to start getting tl;dr's, so, I'm done. |