Fearless Speech
Valor Coalition
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.06.21 17:20:00 -
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We have to be able to make EVE players money. And lots of it. Without some means of us determining the supply of a valuable resource, we will never really matter to EVE players. As nearly every poster above me has mentioned. Though, it is kind of silly that as of right now.. there is no way for us to be mercs. There are no contracts (implicit npc contracts don't really count) either for dusters to dusters or Eve to dust.
An idea I would like to see though: I'd like to be able to take my Dust character into EVE. Right now, I'm not an EVE player, I'm very interested in it, but... call me a carebear I don't get why my immortal clone merc can't also fly a space ship. My understanding is that capsuleers are clones as well, using some similar tech to explain it. Keep the two skill systems entirely separate, and just make my EVE character model my Dust Merc with the same name. (I know I'll have to pay for EVE access, and that's cool.) That's a whole new level to MMO. One universe one war--so why can I only fight in one part of the war?
Especially down the line as we get integrated into ship fighting (boarding actions and the such) it would make sense for Dusters to want to be able to say fly and operate assault craft, then once we get close enough to teleport in/dock with the ship, get up out of the pilot's seat and pick up my ar to push inside. Also, once Dusters can own WB's, why shouldn't we be able to fly them?
And to fuel EVE interest, maybe make all EVE accounts have this secondary merc life. They all earn passive SP starting the day its implimented, and if they never link it up to a PSN account and play.. meh. But simply knowing a few months from now as a vet eve player that hey, they have a few mil sp in this free game, maybe they'll check it out.
This could also be a window to a balanced implimentation of boarding actions in fleet battles. As it is now, there are already various classes of ships more or less required to be compeditive (tacklers, dps, etc), add one more: the WB. You must have a WB (or at least some similar module on say a capital) in your fleet to deploy mercs either to aggressively board or repel boarding actions. This deepens fleet tactics while leaving "in the sandbox" a way that EVE only players can counter (kill the WB, maybe "jam" clone deployment teleporters, etc etc). And, to balance that a fleet might not have dusters.. maybe all ships have some number of AI drones just built in that you can pay to upgrade etc, but some amount comes free with the cost of the ship. Not hard to imagine various protocol drones wandering decks of a Titan. |
Fearless Speech
Valor Coalition
RISE of LEGION
7
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Posted - 2013.06.21 18:32:00 -
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ZDub 303 wrote:The only way I can see that happening fearless is if they abandon dust on the PS3 and go all in on a PC version.
However.. linking dust as an addon to an eve subscription? hm...
I'm not saying I should be able to play EVE on my PS3 or Dust on my computer. Just have it on one character that has a persistent name, wallet, etc. Really it'd just be naming your capsuleer the same as your merc and adding a feature to let you see the respective skill tress, markets, etc. If I want to play Dust, I get on my PS3. If I want to fly space boats, I get on my comp.
Only real challenge from CCP's perspective would be adding a little more to each UI, and the question of things like, can I orbit my own battle fields (which would technically mean I'm in two places at once). Same for any persistent location things in eve. I'm sure Jove tech could solve that though. |