Sierra Quartermann
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.02.23 21:24:00 -
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It sounds like Wis will remain more of an idea with a future in Eve. I always thought it would be an issue if certain problems were not addressed early on, which is what I assume the new team will be able to do now especially when it comes to populating the rooms inside stations with multiple avatars.
I had a gameplay idea which fits entirely as a background feature in Wis, but one which would enormously impact the need for a visit to a station by every pilot in Eve.
Its when you consider the reward for taking part in WIS gameplay that makes sense, but as far as stations go there could always be many other possibilities. Ill present a case for a simple yet obvious reward, a "hard-to-believe-we-could-ever-get", type of bonus reward. Skillpoints!! Not so far fetched eh? This is the best reward I can think of that would seduce anyone into the stations at this point and could easily be implemented to Tranquility in some form after its been attainable for so long as part of regular Sisi participation testing. Needless to remind of the learning skill hack that provided us the resupply of points around the Incursion expansion.
Lets say that to acquire these bonus skillpoints, one of 3 schools of higher learning is placed in each station and the school would reward the points only from within the station and at its facilities. Just like a bank you could also receive said reward from any station housing the institution you are registered to. Each school would hold relative skills grouped in its field of study and you will choose which included skills to apply your bonus points to.
For example: School of Higher Ed in GÇ£War tacticsGÇ¥ lends to tier groups found in: Drones, Gunnery, Leadership, Missile Launch Operation, Spaceship Command etc.
SOHE in Science & Tech house skill groups from Electronics, Engineering, Industry, Navigation, etc. You getting the picture?
A third SOHE Institution for Political and Economical arts holds bonus points for Corp management, Leadership, Social, Planet Mgmt and Trade.
Some skills may overlap to more than one school. Another bonus... your registration to the school of choice also means you can transfer acquired bonus points to alt characters either in full or partial quantities as long as that alt is registered to the same school of interest. Yes! give us ever transferable skillpoints!
As far as how the bonus points are actually gained, I havent figured for sure. I suppose every school could be tagged onto an existing agent exclusively once registered and doing the missions would stack bonus skillpoints much like loyalty points. Perhaps a tally of points associated with an amount of time we can register to receive them while doing stuff in station, or we can leave this open to the community for the best ideas to come up. |