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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.05.12 13:54:00 -
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We download our consciousness into a clone half way across the galaxy to fight battles, but how does the rest of our stuff get there?
I propose that the items you own are stored in an automated inventory system at your home station. They donGÇÖt get transported to the battle (except possibly in PC when using non standard items). In battle you donGÇÖt use your items, you use equivalent items belonging to the Corp which owns the Warbarge. The Corp you are working for has a large array of weapons and equipment in their WarBarge, and all the items that are in your fits are loaded onto the MCC before the battle.
When you lose an items on the battlefield, a similar item is taken from your inventory back on your home station and is transferred to the Corp that owns the Warbarge, to reimburse them for the item you lost.
Thus you get instant access to the items you need on the battlefield, yet items are not instantly teleported across the galaxy.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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jerrmy12 kahoalii
Proficiency V.
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Posted - 2014.05.12 13:56:00 -
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Or just teleport our gear to warbarge...
Closed beta vet.
I hardly play dust now.
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.05.12 14:03:00 -
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jerrmy12 kahoalii wrote:Or just teleport our gear to warbarge...
That would be stretching jump gate technology a bit too far. Maybe over a limited range that would make seance, but not half way across the galaxy.
If we could teleport stuff like that in Legion, how would that be fair to EVE players who have to put their ships at risk transporting their manufactured items to market?
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Ender Storm
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2014.05.12 14:07:00 -
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Well, in the end its the same thing. So I think whats proposed by the OP is more like a back history to how the background logistics works on the battlefield than a pratical thing to use as a gameplay device. |
Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.05.12 14:30:00 -
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Ender Storm wrote:Well, in the end its the same thing. So I think whats proposed by the OP is more like a back history to how the background logistics works on the battlefield than a pratical thing to use as a gameplay device.
It is true that this is a completely Role Playing (RP) explanation for the way they want to setup the game initially anyway. Namely, it is an explanation for why you get instant access to your inventory from anywhere.
However, while it is not actually a new feature, and will not require any Dev time from CCP, other than including it in the Lore, having a reasonable explanation for game play based game designe decisions is always helpful for immersion.
It could also govern the course of future development. Such as PC Corps having to purchase Weapon Packs for their Warbarge to cover all mass produced weapons, and have to make special arrangements to bring along non standard weapons, such as Officer weapons.
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ZDub 303
TeamPlayers
Dirt Nap Squad.
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Posted - 2014.05.12 14:48:00 -
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This is just providing lore to a game mechanic. OP - I thought of a pretty similar idea as well.
You don't own or maintain any of your own items, just licenses to each specific item. You could then say that anywhere in Empire space - any NPC station you can connect to and deploy from would have a nearly infinite supply of any specific item. The market would then be about buying and selling our licenses to any one item.
You could go further and say that stations in Null Sec do not carry any legion specific items, and that null sec operations would require loading a warbarge or transport vessel with any specific item. You could still deploy from those stations in null-sec, but the assets must exist and have been transported there from eve side. Allowing legion players to issue courier contracts for null-sec equipment transport, for example.
In terms of deploying to/from a warbarge or NPC stations, you could instantly teleport equipment to the ground as in-system operations would not require much whereas jumping between systems it becomes problematic.
Or something like that. Its makes null sec logistics eve-side something to consider (and additional, real, content) while not inconveniencing legion players that don't wish to deal with it when they stay in empire space.
The design team could then make a choice on whether or not they wish to impose eve-side logistics to planetary conquest or not. possibly opening it up to a mix of both (as some empire systems dont have NPC stations).
You could introduce new mechanics later such as 'deploy from POS' and have POS modules dedicated specifically to holding and deploying legion equipment. |
Evolution-7
The Rainbow Effect
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Posted - 2014.05.12 15:50:00 -
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Also - Lose the MCC war, you lose all the assets stored inside.
Veteran Pilot
"Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart."
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Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
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Posted - 2014.05.12 19:07:00 -
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Zdub 303, I think we are on the same page.
Evolution-7, that idea had crossed my mind as well. Also, some of that stuff might survive the explosion. Loot pinata! 
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