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Magpie Raven
ZionTCD
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2012.12.20 15:41:00 -
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I originally posted this in the GD forum. The idea just came to me and i wrote it up. Now its in the right place.
There should be something to do beyond battle for the control of planets.
I want to explore the universe.
There could be ancient districts that when entered cn be explored and picked over for anything that is valuble.
Places to explorer could range from lame ship wrecks to long lost Giant capital ship wrecks that crashed decades ago. Ancient temples and artifacts from before the wormhole collapsed or from early civilizations. You would be looking for long lost and rare artifacts from structures and ships that are so old no one even knows knows how to make them anymore. Or old manuals on how to make some super advanced equipment. Basically lost lost tech and ancient secrets from centuries ago.
The things we find could be generic dust and eve weaponry r gear. r it could be super rare officer weapons or materials needed to manufacture stuff.
To keep it interesting the exploration missions or instances would have a PvE aspect. Maybe you have to fight your way through old security bots never shut off or pirates wanting the same thing. Maybe it could be some sort of puzzle. A la Uncharted , or Zelda. It would range in complexity from simply scavenging ancient battlefields, to unlocking crashed cargo ships, navigating through temples or trying to figure a way to a crashed Battleships armory and bridge. Whatever it it, it should be cool, challenging and have some sort of story behind the location..
Items found could be sold on the market or used in manufacturing things. Also there should be things that can be found only on planets making Dust Explorers valuable to EVE players.
Opinions? Just something to do other than killing each other. |
Paul Etrades
Tronhadar Free Guard
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.12.21 18:33:00 -
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In a perfect world this would (a world were CCP had literally unlimited money and time) be possible but......
The maps would have to be so big and realistically there wouldn't be that much interesting stuff in them.
BUT maybe there could be exploration contracts. You could get a contract to scout out a area, or wreck, or temple, ect. |
Magpie Raven
ZionTCD
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2012.12.21 18:57:00 -
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Yeah either way. I would love for there to be Exploration missions |
Pilot Trace
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.12.21 19:03:00 -
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You do not need massive maps to explore, rather I would think that players could scan down planets or wrecks/signatures in space that require Dust people to explore/capture. This should not be a simple task as I would imagine rogue drones/defense systems would be active on certain sites, so mercs couldn't just stroll in and take the goods. I think this is a great idea, allowing some PVE action that interacts with EVE, as pilots could put up exploration contracts, like you said, to either hire people and "roll the dice" to see what they can retrieve from whatever they are exploring, or split the goods with people in their own alliance. Dust 514 should not just be fully PVP centered, although PVP will always be its main focus, some PVE would be perfect. |
Shouper of BHD
Better Hide R Die
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Posted - 2012.12.21 19:03:00 -
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Paul Etrades wrote:In a perfect world this would (a world were CCP had literally unlimited money and time) be possible but......
The maps would have to be so big and realistically there wouldn't be that much interesting stuff in them.
BUT maybe there could be exploration contracts. You could get a contract to scout out a area, or wreck, or temple, ect.
maybe even colinize a planet if the EVE player once a militery presence for both of theese reasons.
To the subject in the OP, something else that also must be taken in mind is server count, CCP can`t have unlimited servers with great connections. |
Ten-Sidhe
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.12.21 23:23:00 -
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Maybe something like the eve scanner system used on the planetary interaction interface. Get a blip on scanner something is there, go to it, and it spawns a random skirmish map(limited by planet type like other maps). You have an empty map to explore and maybe find something. Others scanning could spot it, and enter the map you were doing pve on, then either help, race to get loot first, or pvp for control of site. Maps goes away at downtime and others randomly spawn at downtime, if one is finished a new one spawns somewhere. For this alot could be ported and adapted form EvE.
Building with interiors or underground complex entrenches could be placed in the sockets, npc rats/bots like a single player campaign could guard some locations.
It probably won't be ready for launch, but could make the core of a later expansion. DUST 514: lost empires or something.
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