True Adamance
Praetoriani Classiarii Templares
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2015.01.19 02:16:00 -
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Contextual Gameplay
I've been stewing for a long time about how I always wished you actually felt like a star faring intergalactic mercenary and how surely it's pointless for all this conflict to be happening all over the cluster at the same time since there is no way to cover it or make it seem like the evens of your battles mean something.
As such one of the ideas was that the Dust 514 and EVE online NeoCom screens share a small "Breaking News" bar much like you see on New Networks which flashes players teasers of contextual information and New Eden content.
This information could include
- Alliance Tournament Results
- Major Battles of EVE pilots
- Random Superfluous Lore tid bits
- Event Teasers
- And Contextual Information about Public Contracts and Special Contracts
It's certainly not direct interconnectivity but it does represent that Dust and EVE are on the same shard. The events that happen there are ones we'll hear about and see footage/ news updates about, etc.
However this hasn't covered the contextual aspect of Dust Gameplay. I'd love to see events that occur as a result of these contextual new updates occur and define the public battles we fight across.
Example 1 - Players has just had this model implemented and for a two week period they are seeing news updates about Roden Shipyard has recently acquired Terrestrial Mineral Mining rights in the Intaki System of the Placid Region both but that the Intaki Syndicate is contesting those rights.
A couple of days after that players will hear about a a Roden Shipyards Mining Colony that was sabotaged and Destroyed.
When players now deploy to Public Contracts all contracts will for the duration of this "Alert" or "Flash Point" be set between Roden Shipyards and the Intaki Syndicate. These "Flash Point's" can last as long as CCP wants them to and can adapt according to the plot of the "Flash Point" culminating in something I am sure groups of EVE side players would want to get involved in.
Example 2- The initial News reports are stating that after the destruction of the Mining Facility the civil disobedience has spread across the districts where Roden Shipyads has established its Mining Facilities seeing more and more incidences of Sabotage, Corporate Theft, and the increased presence of Mercenary Warbarges in the area.
A week after we as players have been deploying to these "Flash Points" we see another update where the Intaki Syndicate is openly critiquing Roden Shipyards and visa versa both offering increased ISK pay out over the course of a week. Resulting in a tangible in game effect for us as players. These effects could result in the use of the "Special Contracts" tab with specific rules or variation graphically or otherwise for us as players.
The week after that depending on who has won the most battles we will receive a new update about the current state of things. If the Intaki are winning
"Roden Shipyards suffering from a sudden drop in stock prices as investors pull funding from the Placid Mining Project"
or
"Despite hindrances to the proposed acquisition of the Placid Mining Rights Roden Shipyards has pacified the region and is instituting and economic programme to aid dislodged Intaki Residents"
In this respect there is very little actual work for CCP to do, to my meagre understanding, other that set the factions of a predetermined length of time and occasionally update the the news tag lines that run across out NeoCom units.
So if I were to boot up Dust 514 right now I could hop on. Look at the News Headlines and see that
-Intaki IV is experiencing the above civil dispute
-Joe Bloggs has won the Mindclash Inter Empire Championship
-Another Big Titan Fight happened
-The Minmatar took Arzad
-That the Ardishapur Family are having issue with the Equilibrium of Mankind
From there when I sign up to a Public Contract I am either assigned to the Intaki Syndicate or Roden Shipyards until the "Flash Point" has ended.
After the "Flash Point" ends I can see teasers indicating that soon the two new factions might be the Ardishapur Family and the Equilibrium of Mankind with their own modifiers and short compact....and most likely scripted plot.
Variations that could affect these game mode could be
Locality - Battles set on a specific planet or in a specific system
Battle Payouts- Sometimes they might be increased, decreased,pay out with more salvage,rarer salvage, less ISK,or less Salvage, etc
Moods- Perhaps you are fighting on a Desert Planet or an Ice Planet, or perhaps the EoM has dropped Insorium over the planet resulting in Toxic or Misty Moods.
Etc
Something that could give matches context. Those who don't care about lore shouldn't mind and those who do, or like special rewards, special contracts, etc might really enjoy the new content.
*"He spoke, and we made it so all worlds were one, all peoples were one, all faiths, creeds, and nationalities were one.
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