By way of preamble, there's been some interested observation of EVE Online in our own Comic forum over the last few months. The large scale PvP wars took some interesting turns and it was fun to talk about and watch, even if playing the game isn't that exciting. Because of that I've been following the articles written by the Mittani, spymaster for the Goonswarm Alliance.
His latest article covers his trip to EVE Vegas. In the midst of drunken debauchery seeking a story, he talked about a Development workshop where they come upon some great ideas to revitalize the somewhat pointless lowsec areas of EVE space.
The gist of their ideas had to do with Corruption and Vigilantism. One one level what he was talking about rang a lot of bells. The idea that PvE could feed effects on PvP areas sounded very familiar to me. There's also a lot about how to take advantage of their existing skill systems and resource/crafting management.
So this got me to thinking because PvE Competition has been something I've posted about a lot for this game at various times. I'm really behind the idea that PvP and PvE can in it's own ways feed each other, opening and closing off content, changing the abilities available to either side etc.
I think all these thoughts could apply to our game in various ways. Either in the new expansion, or in a revamp of the mechanics for PvP zones or base raids. We've seen the addition of PvP specific awards, I think the system could be expanded. I think Competiion (through the completition of PvE content) would provide new motivation and rewards along the way to changing alignments.
I'm sure based on the hints we've been given I'm at least a little behind the devs on this kind of thing. I just wanted to point out that broadening the conflict/competition beyond the personal level of storytelling would not go amiss with at least some of your players.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
By way of preamble, there's been some interested observation of EVE Online in our own Comic forum over the last few months. The large scale PvP wars took some interesting turns and it was fun to talk about and watch, even if playing the game isn't that exciting. Because of that I've been following the articles written by the Mittani, spymaster for the Goonswarm Alliance.
His latest article covers his trip to EVE Vegas. In the midst of drunken debauchery seeking a story, he talked about a Development workshop where they come upon some great ideas to revitalize the somewhat pointless lowsec areas of EVE space.
The gist of their ideas had to do with Corruption and Vigilantism. One one level what he was talking about rang a lot of bells. The idea that PvE could feed effects on PvP areas sounded very familiar to me. There's also a lot about how to take advantage of their existing skill systems and resource/crafting management.
So this got me to thinking because PvE Competition has been something I've posted about a lot for this game at various times. I'm really behind the idea that PvP and PvE can in it's own ways feed each other, opening and closing off content, changing the abilities available to either side etc.
I think all these thoughts could apply to our game in various ways. Either in the new expansion, or in a revamp of the mechanics for PvP zones or base raids. We've seen the addition of PvP specific awards, I think the system could be expanded. I think Competiion (through the completition of PvE content) would provide new motivation and rewards along the way to changing alignments.
I'm sure based on the hints we've been given I'm at least a little behind the devs on this kind of thing. I just wanted to point out that broadening the conflict/competition beyond the personal level of storytelling would not go amiss with at least some of your players.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill