Shasz
Angels of Anarchy
AL3XAND3R.
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Posted - 2013.01.18 13:06:00 -
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CCP needs a theme.
How about Ownership and Pride?
Take pride in the ships you own (custom paint/colors).
Take pride in your frontier homestead (small, modular POS beginnings)
Take pride in your planetary installations (PI upgrades, Dust 514 defense installations or something)
Take pride in your Alliance's holdings or accomplishments (Some step toward sov revamp)
Be proud of your accomplishments (Manufacture-able monuments that can be anchored)
POS:
Begin the modular POS feature with small, personal outposts that can be placed anywhere. Give them hangar space. Let them mount a small amount of defense or attack modules. Later add other features like refining modules, research labs, manufacturing plants, shield generators, etc.
Maybe each modular POS has not only power-grid and CPU, but also a certain number of hard-points it can accept modules onto. Come up with a unified art design for mating up these hard-point surfaces, and you can mix and match. Maybe some modules have expansions for the number of hard-points. Maybe some boost the CPU and power-grid with supplementary generators. While I'm a huge fan of LEGO, I'm thinking more of a Tinkertoy design here.
Down the road, each of these modules could have their own interiors. Dust battles could be fought inside them, or something related to WiS. Anyway, this brainstorm is starting to ramble, but give us a home of our own that we can take pride in and design to our satisfaction.
Paint:
Dozens of ideas abound for this. Make it happen! Add an isk sink on repairs such that it costs extra to repaint the damaged hull or armor sections. Sell Unique militia skins for LP. Sell paint blueprints. Involve the community in designing the paint schemes and select only appropriate patterns. Give credit to the author's characters in the blueprint description. Ownership - Pride!
PI:
I'm sure you have plans for Dust/PI stuff. It most likely fits in this theme.
Nullsec:
No idea what the plan is here, but you can kick it off with pride.
Monuments:
Let the art team run with ideas for small, medium and large monuments. Let us anchor them. Let them absorb lots of minerals. Let them have custom text descriptions. Let them be blown up in accordance with Crimewatch. Anchoring a can and naming it something happens all over New Eden. Clearly there is demand for something like this. And it has to be an easy feature to implement, and its something the art team can dabble with in their spare time.
Perhaps a thesaurus might be handy in finding a snappier name for the theme, but Pride and Ownership lets you fit in all sorts of crowd-pleasing features. |