Welcome to the thirteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!
The first banter of this 2nd year of EVE Blog Banters comes to us fromZargyl from A Sebiestor Scholar, who asked the following: On the EVE Fanfest 2009 page are pictures of prizes for the Silent Auction that was held during the event. One of these photos was entitled “Design your own EVE mission”. My question now would be what kind of mission would you write if you got that prize? What would the mission be about? Would it be one using the new system of epic mission arcs? What would be the story told by it? Feel free to expand upon his questions and put together your very own mission!
Way late to the game on this, I know. So I’ll just hit the high points:
Factional Warfare epic arcs would provide additional opportunities for PVP. Essentially, while in the mission, a message would be broadcast in local for all systems in the same constellation (since nobody uses Constellation chat, unfortunately). Additionally, the storylines for each “theater” link together in ways that don’t break immersion when the arcs get repeated by multiple pilots. The missions should have high-end level 3 difficulty. As examples:
- Amarr: The 24th Imperial Crusade needs to sniff out a possible spy and defector to the Minmatar, and the pilot has the task of carrying out raids to narrow down who has the information.
- Caldari: The State Protectorate tasks the pilot with finding a number of research facilities working on drone technology for the Gallente.
- Gallente: The Federal Defense Union needs to secure a number of facilities on drone research, particularly those that may have exceeded restrictions on drone AI similar to the rogue drone incidents several years ago.
- Minmatar: The Tribal Liberation Force sends its warriors to take advantage of intelligence from a defecting officer and attempt to rescue him.
Note that each arc would include several levels of branching for at least four different results (allowing pilots to experience each of them over the course of a year).
As rewards, I’d like to see factional tier two battlecruisers (e.g. a Republic Fleet Hurricane, Gallente Navy Myrmidon, et cetera). These would excel at their roles for damage (projectiles, drones, and so forth), with additional hitpoints and resistances but no defense bonuses.
Maybe next year…
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