Dalton Smithe
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
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Posted - 2013.03.20 05:24:00 -
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Baal Omniscient wrote:DUST Fiend wrote:I personally am a large supporter of PvPvE in DUST, and I hope we come to see many game types in the future evolve around this concept. Having just plain PvE is important too, but having that mix would just be a crazy dynamic, so long as it wasn't too easy to take over drones (I'm thinking some kind of primary drone or structure that controls X amount of drones, can be hacked out of neutral or away from enemies).
Granted, I imagine the technical side of something like that must be a monster of a challenge, but as far as visions go, I personally would enjoy that very much. It would really help bring out the MMO feeling, and would make everything feel a lot more alive. This could also play very heavily into salvage, allowing us to physically loot destroyed drones for rare loot wanted in both Dust and Eve for top end manufacturing.
I can't really speak for the Eve side, but as far as down here on the ground, it would be great to sift through cool, sell-able , loot that I myself took the time to pull out of a drone wreck. I was thinking of it as every planet that has no previous occupants would have to be cleared via PvE before you could build in that district. Then, you would have to keep up with the pest control or the drones could eventually destroy things you build in a district, thereby weakening your defenses if you were to be attacked. I also think it would be cool if you attack a poorly kept district if the drones would help the attackers during battle, but that's most likely WAY further off that simple drone implementation into the district system.
Maybe not constant pest control, but something like random drone attacks.
Recently a new type of drone lairs have appeared, commonly called hulk lairs. It seems that when rogue drones manage to capture suitably large vessels, like large cargo freighters or cruisers, they donGÇÖt dismantle the ship completely, but instead start to incorporate the lair into the shipGÇÖs hull. Eventually these hulks break free from the drone lair that captured them and start drifting out of the asteroid field, sometimes even under their own accord; the propulsion system still being intact. Hulks like these have been found drifting in deep space, far from human settlements, but occasionally they drift close by settled planets or through space routes. This can cause severe problems for the populace and space farers, often requiring heavy military involvement to get rid of.
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http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Rogue_Drones |