Ok, a few quick answers to questions IGÇÖve seen come up.

Drifting?

Not in our first test. Today weGÇÖll have the random picking of points on the map and spawning up in the sky.

Drifting will likely become an important thing to add though since it helps mitigate the random nature of the drop by allowing you to steer to some extent.

Lore?

Like drop uplinks, the LOD uses a localized wormhole created by a ship in orbit (that you clone jump to). It canGÇÖt get an accurate lock due to planetary interference which accounts for the randomness of the spawn location and it spawns above the target area to prevent you appearing inside a rock

Droplinks provide a focused locater signal which is why they allow pin point spawns.

You are not getting off the planet, your consciousness is transferred to the ship in orbit and from there you clone jump back to your station. You dump your clone behind.

Droplinks used by more than just squads?

For now itGÇÖs just squad. We are hoping to give the player the option when deploying for it to be personal/squad/team.

Completely random?

ItGÇÖs a random selection from a bunch of points weGÇÖve placed so we could put them all at the edges of the map if we wanted to control the areas more. Right now theyGÇÖre all over the shop.

Calling in a small building, base of operations?

By this I just mean you can set up a starting point for you and/or your squad allowing you specific spawn locations. Allowing more advanced GÇÿtent pitchingGÇÖ options is being considered for future development for sure. This is just a first step.

Squads

Currently there is no logic for group LODs and you will have to land and reform. There are a bunch of things to consider with it, is it just first spawn, what about spawning at different times, what if one member picks a droplink etc. Ideas welcome.

Ok, a few quick answers to questions IGÇÖve seen come up.

Drifting?

Not in our first test. Today weGÇÖll have the random picking of points on the map and spawning up in the sky.

Drifting will likely become an important thing to add though since it helps mitigate the random nature of the drop by allowing you to steer to some extent.

Lore?

Like drop uplinks, the LOD uses a localized wormhole created by a ship in orbit (that you clone jump to). It canGÇÖt get an accurate lock due to planetary interference which accounts for the randomness of the spawn location and it spawns above the target area to prevent you appearing inside a rock

Droplinks provide a focused locater signal which is why they allow pin point spawns.

You are not getting off the planet, your consciousness is transferred to the ship in orbit and from there you clone jump back to your station. You dump your clone behind.

Droplinks used by more than just squads?

For now itGÇÖs just squad. We are hoping to give the player the option when deploying for it to be personal/squad/team.

Completely random?

ItGÇÖs a random selection from a bunch of points weGÇÖve placed so we could put them all at the edges of the map if we wanted to control the areas more. Right now theyGÇÖre all over the shop.

Calling in a small building, base of operations?

By this I just mean you can set up a starting point for you and/or your squad allowing you specific spawn locations. Allowing more advanced GÇÿtent pitchingGÇÖ options is being considered for future development for sure. This is just a first step.

Squads

Currently there is no logic for group LODs and you will have to land and reform. There are a bunch of things to consider with it, is it just first spawn, what about spawning at different times, what if one member picks a droplink etc. Ideas welcome.

Ok, a few quick answers to questions IGÇÖve seen come up.

Ok, a few quick answers to questions IGÇÖve seen come up.

Drifting?

Not in our first test. Today weGÇÖll have the random picking of points on the map and spawning up in the sky.

Drifting will likely become an important thing to add though since it helps mitigate the random nature of the drop by allowing you to steer to some extent.

Lore?

Like drop uplinks, the LOD uses a localized wormhole created by a ship in orbit (that you clone jump to). It canGÇÖt get an accurate lock due to planetary interference which accounts for the randomness of the spawn location and it spawns above the target area to prevent you appearing inside a rock

Droplinks provide a focused locater signal which is why they allow pin point spawns.

You are not getting off the planet, your consciousness is transferred to the ship in orbit and from there you clone jump back to your station. You dump your clone behind.

Completely random?

ItGÇÖs a random selection from a bunch of points weGÇÖve placed so we could put them all at the edges of the map if we wanted to control the areas more. Right now theyGÇÖre all over the shop.

Calling in a small building, base of operations?

By this I just mean you can set up a starting point for you and/or your squad allowing you specific spawn locations. Allowing more advanced GÇÿtent pitchingGÇÖ options is being considered for future development for sure. This is just a first step.

Squads

Currently there is no logic for group LODs and you will have to land and reform. There are a bunch of things to consider with it, is it just first spawn, what about spawning at different times, what if one member picks a droplink etc. Ideas welcome.

I would like to state that i strongly support the tent pitching idea and should be looked at sooner rather than later to see and test ideas around this area. Though i understand just getting spawning working right now is the priority

Ok, next topic!

This week we will (hopefully) be testing low orbital drops in Salvage, or as they have often been called GÇÿsky spawnsGÇÖ.

Up until now weGÇÖve been using fixed spawn points and (shock horror) some mean spirited people liked to camp them. So since we've always been fond of the idea weGÇÖve decided to try out putting the spawn locations in the hands of the players rather than dictating them ourselves so hereGÇÖs is what is being prototyped:

• No default spawns.


• When you deploy you are GÇÿdroppedGÇÖ to a random location on the map.


• Drop uplinks and LOD Beacons can be used by players to set up their own bases of operation anywhere on the map.


• Drop Uplinks and LOD beacons are only usable by the player that deployed them and his squad.

Thoughts?

There was discussion a while back talking about how we need somewhere to drop off salvage to make it "ours". What would you think to it brought back to this base for keeps?

Squads

Currently there is no logic for group LODs and you will have to land and reform. There are a bunch of things to consider with it, is it just first spawn, what about spawning at different times, what if one member picks a droplink etc. Ideas welcome.

There was discussion a while back talking about how we need somewhere to drop off salvage to make it "ours". What would you think to it brought back to this base for keeps?

That's why we'll test them out, we're not married to both types. Droplinks do offer different benefits though such as the ability to spawn in an interior so that is something that needs to be taken in to account as well.

Like drop uplinks, the LOD uses a localized wormhole created by a ship in orbit (that you clone jump to). It canGÇÖt get an accurate lock due to planetary interference which accounts for the randomness of the spawn location and it spawns above the target area to prevent you appearing inside a rock

I really dislike this "localized wormhole" lore excuse. It doesn't jive well with EVE lore as a whole, and speaks of some manner of laziness to a better effect, like actually being dropped from... dropships.

That's why we'll test them out, we're not married to both types. Droplinks do offer different benefits though such as the ability to spawn in an interior so that is something that needs to be taken in to account as well.

Scenario: Squad Member 1 spawns first, landing in a ramdom location. Upon landing she/he puts out an LODB. The rest of the squad deploy to the becon. While they are in transit, random player destoys the LODB. What happens to players in transit? Do they lose their way? Do they now deploy to a random location within "x" meters of becon (say within 100-200 meters), so they can still regroup, but they aren't as far as they would be if they had randomly deployed? etc

only thing i want to know is

how you plan on players "banking" loot
my guess is a hub in fixed locations. which brings me to point two. what are your plans to prevent camping of said places. since some or all of dust weapons are going to transfer over. whats stopping someone from forge snipe camp to steal everyone in that match loot with a one shot kill weapon.(also thinking REs). because this will be more profitable then going out and risk fighting players and drones randomly.

the threat table just isn't to cut it and you time on it seems low, very low. i was thinking in terms of days(online active not RL) to down grade not seconds.if it takes less then 8 hours to downgrade from top to bottom i can see the threat system being abused to "bank" camping without drone interference.

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So I see it as everyone poor and rich that join salvage match should be able to use neutral structure that bank his salvage and take it out of planet, but it should be risks for them, because crowd of people can use it, and there can be some bad people that set some trap over there, who count on easy prey.

Group of players that want to lower their risk of losing salvage should be able to deploy corporation assets on their base of operation(tent pitching) and use it to secure salvage more safer. To make it look more safely RDV would not be involve in that, but low orbital drops of packages/small cargo containers that open their parachute 50-70 above the ground, and land close to LOD beacon(all in subject of low-profile :P). From that place salvage teleport(modified drone teleport) can be manually install or self-install by pressing right button on terminal, but it can not be use without electronic key that is carry by two individuals of that group - they can be killed early and key can be capture, so they need to be protected(mini-game aspects).
To give more tactical meaning to basis they could be armed with electronic warfare equipment, that for example turn off every dropuplinks in some proximity, or reduces the effectiveness of other players scanners.. add noise to other players life basically.

What do you think about that?

i vote a deployable LOS you can call down or set up as your bank location, so you dont want it right next to the site so you dont get camped but also not to far away that it takes ages to walk to it,

I'm very much for players have as much control over these sorts of things to prevent other players gameing the system

i vote a deployable LOS you can call down or set up as your bank location, so you dont want it right next to the site so you dont get camped but also not to far away that it takes ages to walk to it,

im very much for players have as much control over these sorts of things to prevent other players gameing the system

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