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Tasko Pal
Heron Corporation
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Posted - 2008.05.21 23:36:00 -
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Finding investments for large sums of isk is the hot topic on the MD forum. To this end, I thought I'd dump a few for consideration. Some are familiar oldies.
1) Allow investment in NPC corps. I don't have a clue how to handle this, but these corporations would probably make a consistent amount from their high sec activities plus a variable amount depending on the success and failure of their low sec activities. This could be a future part of faction warfare with the fortunes of the NPC corps going up and down with the progress of the war. Given it would compete with player investments, this might be a bad idea.
2) Player stations in empire.
3) Have the factions build megaprojects. Instead of jump gates just magically appearing, maybe they need to be constructed. Players can exploit the increased demand for materials. Maybe a highly populated world wants to put in a space elevator. The Amarr emperor desires the construction of an artifical gold-plated planet/sculpture, The Sanshas brazenly build a ringworld fortress (ie a structure a good portion of an AU across) in Stain. That sort of thing. Players can get involved by delivering supplies (in huge quantities), donating, or perhaps start their own megaprojects.
4) Advertising.
5) Light structures that can be anchored almost anywhere. Eg, sentry towers, huge storage systems, spy systems, etc.
6) More toys for sovereignties. Additional supercaps, outpost-like structures that give a benefit to an entire system, constellation, or region. For example, maybe all members of the alliance get a bonus to cpu when they're in the same system as the corporate battle computers.
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Shakuul
Extreme Addiction
Atrum Tempestas Foedus
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Posted - 2008.05.22 07:20:00 -
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Advertising is a really good one. I'm sure tons of people would pay for advertisements on the now basically useless concord billboards, which have shown the same stupid booster PSAs and bounties since nearly the beginning of the game. Maybe you could pay to make your billboard larger too.
NPC corp investment you'd have to be clearer on your ideas about implementation. I think it might be cool if you could do npc station upgrades, so you'd pay so many billions of isk to double the number of factory slots in jita 4-4 and take a cut of the fees.
I've always thought the idea of controlling NPCs...using them as guards or maybe haulers or whatever would be pretty cool. Then again they might just add to lag. However, they would be a nice ISK sink...if you could pay a couple of NPC frigs to follow you around or something.
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Typhado3
Ashen Lion Mining and Production Consortium
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Posted - 2008.05.22 11:41:00 -
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OK at first I thought it was a good idea then I realised something that made me reconsider
All of the above ideas seem to be based around npc's.
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Tasko Pal
Heron Corporation
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Posted - 2008.05.23 21:09:00 -
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 Originally by: Typhado3
OK at first I thought it was a good idea then I realised something that made me reconsider
All of the above ideas seem to be based around npc's.
Ideas 1 and 3 definitely are. I think I'll toss the idea of investing in NPC corps.
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