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Zondrail Canova
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Posted - 2013.02.26 22:38:00 -
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I just had this thought while listening to a podcast where they interviewed some devs and spoke a little about the rogue drone infestation.
It seems like you could easily have it so that EVE players PI setups can be randomly (pseudo-random distribution would probably be best) get hit by a rogue drone infestation that puts their product to a halt or somehow causes negative effects.
In response, the EVE player can put up a contract with some money that can be filled by Dust players. They could automate the contract going up, too, so they are not out of production for too long if they don't check often.
There would be details to figure out... how hard is it to accomplish a purge of the infestation, how does the payout get split up, if tons of Dusters want the contracts and there are a very finite amount, who gets them first, etc. etc.
BUT... the primary thing that this allows, is a system for doing rogue drone infestations that interacts with actual in-game features, and allows for the payment to be player to player and not just another ISK faucet. |
Fivetimes Infinity
Immobile Infantry
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Posted - 2013.02.26 23:58:00 -
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This would have consequences for the economy of EVE if the idea were to make drone infestations common enough that people could do them whenever they want.
That said, PI is just currency farming essentially. Sure you make POS fuel, but for most people you're just pushing some buttons every day or two and getting stuff to sell on the market. It's a pretty banal feature, honestly. Complicating it with stuff like drone attacks probably wouldn't be well-received by EVE players, even aside from the economic impact, and how would it benefit Dust players? Would you feel a greater sense of gravitas in your PvE coop mode if you knew you were liberating someone's personal ISK factory?
I think their intention for this was to make drone infestation involve districts of planets and be a Dust thing exclusively. That doesn't sound too bad to me. I'm really not sure that anyone would get much of a kick out of dragging PI into it. To make it more interesting, it kind of sounded like they wanted some Dark Souls kind of stuff (in the sense of invading the instances of other players as well as calling for help) so that on just Dust planets without much more would probably be fine. |
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