Maken Tosch
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.09.24 22:29:00 -
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Well, PI is still important in the sense that there is no other way to produce the components needed to assemble a control tower to sell in the market. But considering that there are tens of thousands of planets to choose from in the entire galaxy, all an Eve Online player has to do to avoid attack is to simply dismantle their colonies and establish a new one elsewhere. The cost of doing so would be much cheaper than paying a bunch of Dust Bunnies to defend them for you.
Of course, Dust should have some impact in Eve Online's PI system, but the real impact should come from sovereignty warfare as the power blocs of New Eden fight for control of major territories that hold key resources needed for market domination.
One way to go about implementing this is by introducing a new outpost in Dust 514 that can called (for example) the "Command Center". These command centers that are on a number of planets in each system should be connected to the Territorial Claim Unit (TCU) in Eve Online and likely located on the same planet as where the TCU is orbiting.
Now let me remind everyone here that in Eve Online you need enough Sovereignty Blockade Units (SBU) that cover at least half of the stargates in the system in order to put the TCU into a vulnerable state. That's how it is right now in Eve. Now let's see what should happen if the command center is added to the equation.
The command center located in a system on a planet is under the control of Alliance A who also has a TCU in the same system orbiting the same planet. Alliance B decides to attack by planting 3 SBUs in the system since there are 5 stargates in that system in an attempt to put the TCU into a vulnerable state. But it will take time for those SBUs to fully activate.
So Alliance B sends in a group of Dust mercenaries to take control of the commander center. If captured, then the time needed for the SBUs to fully activate is cut in half. On top of that, the TCU is made even more vulnerable because now it is no longer able to withstand as much damage as it could if the command center wasn't captured. It's defenses are cut in half. This means that Alliance A has to scramble as fast as possible to regard control of the command center, force the invading fleet in space into a retreat, and get rid of the SBUs that are activating in space.
This should be one way of improving the connection between the two games so that there can be real meaning to the game itself. |