Yagihige
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.07.30 23:24:00 -
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I mentioned an idea i had in local chat and people seemed to like it so i'm wondering if there's more people that would support it.
First of all, i have to say that i never played EVE, so excuse me if i get some things wrong.
Now, most of us will be aware that Drone co-op is coming sometime in the future. CCP discussed it at Fanfest and showed the design for the drones and the drone installations from where they spawn. They also mentioned how it could be that districts in Planetary Conquest would randomly become infected so your Dust corp involved in PC would have a bit of cleaning up to do on the districts they owned which also would give people more things to do with their districts.
My idea was that the Drone co-op would be a perfect opportunity to get the Dust/EVE link a much needed overhaul. If these infestations that were hinted by CCP to happen in PC districts were to also happen in planets controlled by EVE corporations, it would open an intersting way to get EVE pilots invested in contracting Dust soldiers to work for them.
The system would be setup like this:
- Districts have to be in place not only in the current planets but on nullsec planets too.
- Ground drone infestations would occur randomly on any (temperate for now) planet containing districts.
- Drone infestations in districts where Instant Battles take place would be available to all, designed for single players.
- Drone infestations in FW districts would be available to squads made prior to entering battle.
- Drone infestations in planets owned by EVE corps would temporarily affect negatively the benefits said corps get from owning that planet. They'd have two options: wait it out or contract mercenaries to clean up the infestation.
There would be a lot of specifics to iron out but this could open up some new interactions between both games. There could be EVE corps that would fully work side by side with the mercenaries they contract (i'd hope them to be able to contract specific players) or just open a contract that would appear in Dust for random players to fill and initiate. EVE corps would pay a sum of money to initiate a contract and a major part of that amount would act as a sink with only a fraction ending up getting to Dust players. For example, EVE corp pays 100M ISK, Dust mercs share 1M ISK of loot for the contract.
So, that's my idea. Suggestions are appreciated. |
Yagihige
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
252
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Posted - 2013.07.31 23:04:00 -
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sly Bandit wrote:100million gets paid and we only get 1 million.. My tank costs more than 1 million...
Crude example, yes, but if EVE corps were to start pumping money into Dust through these Drone co-op contracts without a very high exchange rate, we'd be swimming in money.
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