Deviana Sevidon
Panta-Rhei
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Posted - 2008.06.26 19:47:00 -
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Edited by: Deviana Sevidon on 26/06/2008 19:49:41
An idea that might be a bit radical and hard to balance at the beginning but would research and production a lot more interesting:
Let people make direct changes to BPOs but also limit the amount of changes that can be done. Introduce modificators that could be added to a ship during a research job on the BPO and are later part of the BPO, so that every ship produced from it has the modificators.
Modificators are things that are added to a BPO, that increase some abilities and lower others, while drastically increasing build cost and take a long research time. The modificators are a bit like rigs for a BPO, but cannot be removed once integrated and take a long time to be researched.
Modificator Examples:
Anti-Proton Injectors. A change to the main reactor, so that much of its output is directly brought to the engines. However this comes to the cost, that the energy flow to all other systems suffer from this modification and a critical system failure is likely if the engines are overheated.
Base Speed +30%.
Capacitor Recharge, Shield Recharge, Powergrid -30%.
Additional Heat Generation of all Speed affecting Modules + 500%.
Building costs: +40%
Gravity Lense
An extensive modification of large parts of the ships subsystems, to replace them with focused graviton field generators. These generators do nothing by themselves but provide a powerful boost to certain modules:
Removes one of the ship bonuses and replaces it with a +10% bonus to stasis webifier and warp scrambling modules, for each level of ship skill.
- Additional capacitor consumption of all propulsion jamming modules +150%.
- Increases ship mass +100%
- Additional building cost of ship +350%.
You see the logic here? It is a build in modification of the ships BPO. One thing that would be important is that, the more changes are made to ship design the longer it takes and each mod should increase the research time exponentially. So just piling up changes to a design would be possible but not viable, because changes that would create a super rifter, would also take years of time to research.
This would allow producers to create their own brands of ships. Maybe everyone would just die to get their hands on the new super rifter, or the new breed of anti-nano mallers would be the new top sellers of eve.
This could even be a boost to pirates and mercenaries, when a modified ship can be traced to certain producer corp, then pirates might try to extort the modified BPO from them and as a responce the producers might have to hire mercenaries for protection and a share of their profit.
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