Fox Gaden
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.11.27 17:14:00 -
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To make this scenario interesting for the EVE pilot, they need to have a task to perform while the DUST mercs are traipsing around in the ship or ruined station. I am thinking about in the movie Alien II where the mercs are exploring the abandoned base and someone back in the vehicle is manning the sensors saying GÇ£I am reading life forms approaching you, 100 m...... 50 m....GÇ¥
Maybe as the mercs explore the wreck the EVE pilot is looking at an interface where what the merc suit sensors are seeing is getting mapped out for the EVE pilot to view, creating a wire frame 3D map. While other sensors on the ship are lighting up areas of heat or electromagnetic activity. Have the ability to launch scout drones to fly through and map out the area. The EVE pilot can be using them to try to find specific things He/She is looking for, and can direct the merc team via coms to head for a destination, or avoid a potential danger.
Of course there may be Drones in space to deal with some of the time, and in low/Null sec, other pilots.
The two games can be kept separate this way (what happens in the wrecked ship and what happens outside of it) but data can be passed between the games, allowing both DUST mercs and their EVE pilot to share the experience in a truly integrated gaming experience.
EVE side this would require a new interface, which would simply be a new popup window, and some new models. Of course the programming for that interface would be substantial, but it would not require changing EVE in any other way.
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.03.10 16:17:00 -
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PVE:
I expect the first iteration of PVE to be in districts on the ground, and it will probably be limited and buggy. PVE 2.0 will have many of the initial problems ironed out and have more depth. Once PVE is working properly on the ground, then this EVE/DUST integrated exploration would be feasible.
DUST waiting around:
In any scenario that involved EVE pilots transporting DUST mercs, the pilots would merely be transporting empty clones. When it is time for the job to be done, that is when the DUST mercs jumpclone to the combat clones the EVE pilot has delivered to the target destination. The only waiting will be if there is a deal between a specific group of DUST mercs to help a specific EVE pilots, in which case the DUST mercs may chose not to deploy for another Ambush match because their EVE pilot is less than 10 minutes from deploying a CRU in an Exploration site.
Effect on EVE Exploration:
I would not want this to replace current EVE Exploration. I would expect this to take Exploration one step further. So an EVE pilot can run an Exploration site as they do now, or they can hire DUST mercs to look for loot and salvage in any structures or shipwrecks they find. One should not preclude or replace the other.
Other things that need to be done in DUST:
Yes, there are other things that need to be done in DUST before this proposal is feasible. That does not mean we should not talk about where we want the games to go. Whether we get PVP on stations, or PVE on stations first will probably depend on what is easier to develop. Creating one will work out a lot of the issues of how to create the other.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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