Adam Reed
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.06.30 20:56:00 -
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As usual, sorry if this has been debated/ruled out before. I just thought of it while doing the email survey and figured I'd stick it in here.
I'm a bored, (very) long-term player who wishes exploration could be actual exploration, rather than just scanning for random pop-up sites. How about adding a few fixed, constant 'monuments' to EVE, that players can track down?
For example, someone finds an 'artifact' or something somewhere, that tells of an ancient monument lost in, say, Solitude. The artifact points to a clue leading somewhere else, they solve it and there's a trail of clues until eventually they get to the relevant system, scan it down, and there it is - a monument.
They can't interact with it, it just looks old and weird and unique and has a story behind it, but as the first character to find it their name gets permanently added to the info box for the monument as the person who 'discovered' it.
If you make the clues bloody hard it could be for only the people who are really committed to exploration. You can make them fly into low/null sec to add a bit of danger. The pay-off is simply being the first to see the monument of all the players in EVE. Devs could add them occasionally so there are enough to keep discovering but don't end up with one in every system. There could be interesting lore behind each one. There's no isk in it so it doesn't affect other game mechanisms much. If you're not interested you don't need to get involved and you don't lose out by not being involved. It could lead to a competitive, Indiana Jones-style mini profession for people who like discovering things.
It sounds like something I'd like to do, as a player who's done everything else and has enough isk to need no more. It could be the old people's home of EVE to keep people like me happy without bothering anyone else, like a never-ending supply of tea and a bottomless colostomy bag.
Come on then, tell me why it's an awful idea. |
Adam Reed
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
19
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Posted - 2014.07.01 08:06:00 -
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Bohneik Itohn wrote:Exploration needs work across the board, something like this is definitely a worthy addition even if it is just a novelty only appreciated by a few vets. It'd be icing on the cake for the rest of us new players who use exploration as our primary income.
That was exactly my thinking. And it's also why I don't think there needs to be loot at the end of it, because the people who might want to do this would have enough isk for the loot not to matter - getting your name in the info as the discoverer of the monument would be the loot.
Then again I guess if you absolutely had to have something in your cargo hold after finding it I guess you could just have some unique item of which there is only ever one in the game, like the idol from Raiders of the Lost Ark that got Alfred Molina in such trouble. |