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Heathen Bastard
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Posted - 2013.11.27 04:30:00 -
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I want to BE the new weapon for eve players, a way for them to take an opponent's ship without destroying it(better profits I'm assuming). then they have something to do that involves dust, and an incentive to do so.
I imagine it goes something like this:
Player A puts out a contract at a station, dust corp A bids on it(these are corporate contracts, to ensure unit cohesion and such) Player negotiates their terms(payment mostly))
Player can then deploy the dust troops as a boarding party(loaded using a missile launcher and a clone pod or some such maybe? has to be something specific to this kind of run) to an enemy ship after dealing with the enemy ship's shields(ships they have kill rights on) with either an AI crew, or they could put out a contract for immediate defense(this might require a specialized module of some sort, wormhole's and such to pull the troops in)
Each class of ship has different objectives, but they all start the same: disabling the self destruct so the enemy player cannot detonate the ship and abscond, them attempting to after it has been will notify that the self destruct is non functioning, but they can still eject.
after that, a series of secondary objectives(with a noticeable effect in eve) such as disabling weapon systems, engines, and culminates with locating and ejecting the enemy capsuleers pod, forcing them out of the ship and readying it to be scooped by Player A or a friendly for dis-assembly, resale, or reuse.
That provides a tangible benefit for EVE players, and engaging content for dust players.
If you hear the words "WORTH IT!" look about, something hilarious just happened.
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Heathen Bastard
The Bastard Brigade
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Posted - 2013.11.27 05:37:00 -
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hmm, the how's about 50% of the total HP of the ship must be depleted(shield+armor+hull)? before boarding parties can be used. they could even be used for security (if someone attempts to use a boarding party on you, and you have a contract, it pops up an alert to the designated members of the contracted corp(directors and such, not every tom **** and harry) to assemble teams for immediate deployment)
not really, you don't have to have a specific model for each ship, just a kind of node system with certain rooms and randomize them, like most adventure games do these days. larger ship class = more rooms. pass it off as the ship's modular nature leads to non-standard room design to accommodate whatever mods the capsuleer uses.
and these are corporate contracts on both sides, so it won't be randoms, it will be corp v corp, and since EVE players stand to lose the most(their ship) they will want to hire the best, there will be groups of dusters who make a name for themselves by taking large numbers of ships, or defending them.
but, feel free to post a link to your idea while you're spending so much energy trying to tear mine down.
If you hear the words "WORTH IT!" look about, something hilarious just happened.
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Heathen Bastard
The Bastard Brigade
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Posted - 2013.11.27 06:20:00 -
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Soon as I have an EVE account I fully intend to put up lots of topics on their forums, but alas, my laptop can't run EVE anymore(they upgraded it right off my specs. stupid vertex shader 2.0 requirements) and I therefore have no reason to keep an account for it active.
And I can already tell, they'd be all kinds of pissy about losing their ships(it's kind of like 50% of the game to have a fancy ship) but how would you do real integration? I want to feel an effect on the EVE side, not just a change in the planetary color coding system.
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Heathen Bastard
The Bastard Brigade
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Posted - 2013.11.27 06:42:00 -
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You're talking to someone who once got to reverse nirvana(New "DMC" it was either that or some kind of aneurism that didn't kill me). I know all about rage and I can take a flame.
And I like the idea you presented.
EDIT: I wasn't trying to appeal to the part of EVE that likes to win, I was trying to go for the guys who're all about making the other guy lose as much as possible.
If you hear the words "WORTH IT!" look about, something hilarious just happened.
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