CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.24 16:11:00 -
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Reiki Jubo wrote:I'm not necessarily talking about taking a persons proto weapons, lav, dropship or tank, but about looting the resources that are so valuable in new eden. everyone talks about adding industry? isnt theft one of the worlds oldest?
whether we're looting planetary infrastructure, corp armories, technology, hostages or the ore some eve carebear just mined it gives corps the ability to buy, ransom and sell things on the market that other people want.
start dust players off with the ability to kidnap npcs, loot resources or disrupt industry on planets/stations and watch us profit.
 Reiki, I think you're referring to the "looting" of whole facilities or District's, with their refineries and operating personnel intact, and holding them for ransom or "industrial take-over/purchase" by whichever corp makes the juiciest offer to you. I think that's cool.
But I think your thread is about to be de-railed onto the smaller definition of looting, as in pulling a dead red merc out of his LAV, and "acquiring" the vehicle and everything that's on it...
I like the idea of looting a vehicle and acquiring modules that I am "LOCKED" from using, but maybe still can trade second-hand to a player who HAS the neural level to unlock and use them... that's easily answered.
But I like the idea of looting districts even more. I THINK that was (and still is....just needs more SOON-time) the intent of Dust players being linked to Eve Online. Capsuleers want to own a district for its resources, but sometimes I'm sure they just want to SHUT the other capsuleer/corp down from having access to the district.
 Maybe they want the faciltiy and its personnel for themselves (...if I understand correctly, in EVE you have to "purchase" engineers and management personnel the way you purchase a module, to run your spacestations better and better). The capsuleer or corp hires Dust players to assault and overthrow the facility or district they are after. It's a simple contract-hire with a single client.
But maybe when the capsuleer wants simply to sever an opponent's ownership of a district, the capsuleer just hires some Dust players to sack the damn facility and they don't care if we incinerate the place or leave refinery running and its personnel still "purchasable". In this case it's an open-hire, the capsuleer's satisfied when the district is rendered OWNERLESS, and he doesn't care what we do with it, so the Dust players who attacked the place are free to offer the facility (+/- its personnel?) to any other interested capluseers on an EVE market. In effect the Dust players "loot" the district for anything that can be sold as a package or as separate "modules" to Eve players.
I guess the loot-sale would HAVE to be to Eve players, since swag like cases of Biomass-jelly, landing/loading sockets, and "facility efficiency administrator" are unusable to Dust mercs, but make Eve ship players DROOL.
And I don't think it's far away or improbable. I think it is part of the plan and the way it is supposed to work between us and Eve Online. I've said it before: we're having fun here running in circles on Dust 514,... but this is NOT the game yet--we're still a little way from full-blown EVE Dust 514 glory.
You have your eye correctly on the prize, Reiki! That's the game I want to be playing too!! We just have to do more faithful waiting... |