This thread is being made as a request toward the community to pull together low-level ideas for Lore and Immersion in Dust 514.

To put it clearly, some things are obviously out of our scope. This thread is looking for the low hanging fruit. Ideas that can be easily accomplished with minimal development input. An example of something that could be feasible would be adding a description to the 'Brutor' Minmatar SKIN's that explain, briefly, who the Brutor are.

So rather than seeing "This SKIN only applies to Heavy Minmatar Dropsuit frames!" you would see this:



An example of something that is not as valuable is something like, "I think that we should have full character customization with all the different races and blood lines" as this is a very high development goal that would pull away from other tasks with higher priority.

Any opportunity to fill in other-wise dead space with informative, immersive aspects of the Lore will be good suggestions here.

I'm a fan of that I like [Sergeant] Sgt Kirk :D.Depending on how Rattati responds to more titles in-game I'd like to shoot him some ideas to boot back up the possibility of FW ranks, if not for every rank every other rank.

I'd like the Title system being something that really means something to the player, especially to FW guys.

We have no friends after all. My only friend is the federation.

I don't think they'd do that with FW titles honestly.

The LP Titles shouldn't be bought with LP either because you already earned it by reaching that level.

If someone got 612 wins to get to level 10 for a Faction they fully deserve the title they are given by their own merit.

If I could throw in my two cents on Immersion factors, I would suggest making the corps you fight for in Public Matches be a bit more focused, and help drive a "player-centric" lore angle that is so important to New Eden.

To do this I would propose the following steps:

Reduce the number of corps that can be "drawn" as the Attacker and Defender to a much smaller pool. (For instance, only Quafe, Core Complexion, and Effir And Co)

Potentially differ these pools by game type. (So different corporations will be drawn for attacker and defender in Acquisition than in Skirmish)

Keep track of which corp wins and which corp loses. (As far as we know CCP already keeps a track of win / losses for matches, so adding a collection metric based on the actual corps should not be too difficult)

Finally, add in some lore snippets and news based on weekly / monthly statistics, with a bit of lore explaining why Quafe is so fevered about hiring mercenaries to go kick the teeth in of Core Complexion, with these news segments including some data on win / loss ratios, and "MVPs" who were essential in the operations.

Even potentially tie in some rewards or store items based on these outcomes. (Example, Quafe suits going on sale, or Core Complexion introducing a new SKIN)

The idea here is to make the world feel more alive by having lore created around player action, rather than lore being independent of player action. Having those corp tags pop up on public matches should give players a reason to care about them. The idea has a low impact development cost (as it mostly involves slimming down the possible pool of corps to pull from when making contract sides and keeping track of metrics we likely already have) And the lore / news updates do not have to be that involved or frequent. (Weekly at max, monthly at min)

Is it actually possible to link the game to an internet browser?

True, but this time they know better, at least i hope.

I can see the Amarr going on a crusade to avenge the Empress, or like you said, all factions rampaging each other. I want an event like Prime, as in, we can actually play in it. Not just, "oh yea, this just happened, mmhm, yeap, we are going to **** you and let just the capsuleers do it; you are going to just be stuck doing same ol same old. Silly dust bunny, events are for those that matter"

BFCP may have been a wash, but that doesn't mean that it should be the end of events like those.