Lethys

You can live in your cosy arkzone forever, but you won't be building ships then anytime soon (except you buy overpriced minerals).
 
Everything outside those bubbles should be dangerous to go to. Risk vs reward. Immersive/emergent gameplay. There are lots of reasons

Uhm, no.
 
Because logged off avatars just vanish. So everyone can take control. If he relogs, it's most likely that he just appears in the same spot (pilot seat on the ship) or, if controlled by another player, right beside it (on the ship) - those are only educated guesses, but possible

Well that's the whole point of gameplay...if you have a bubble you have assets there worth stealing. So it is your job to defend that. You charge money for security so ALL YOU DO is keeping the bubble safe as a job

to keep it up: this belongs to the arkship pub
 
besides: ONE thread, covering news or politics will not be feasible. It will be a mess and just plain useless. Politics will mainly be happening on discord

Should the Devs implement an optic mechanics in the game, like Thermal Sights for aiming at targets better at night? That can be emulated by having an avatar's hit chance be at 100% at daytime, but dropping dramatically when there's absence of light arond them, thus requiring Thermal Sights to get 100% of ther hit chance on the enemy. A Night-Vision scope or visor could do the trick, but it would be a "cheaper" version of the Thermal Sights, that would provide 50% of the hit chance the avatar has during night-time.

Thermal Scanning, is a different yet adjacent matter. Being able to scan a ship to see how many people are on-board it for example. You wouldn't want that Space-Trucker to smuggle some robbers into your space station now, would you? Perhaps there could be a piece of expensive armor that could counter that, but the subject goes beyond player interaction, like mining and prospecting the ground below to see if there's lava where you're going to dig (something JC has stated many times, is that there's no magical limit on mining, but actual magma that will certainly kill you).



Please, feel free to tell me how wrong I am :|

Well, the way it seems, the only real safezone is the starting zone. Protection Bubbles beyond that, are simply safer zones. :|
 
But anyhow, you try to reason with Archonious... that won't happen.
 
I say let there be an "Exclusive Membership" choice for your org, that won't allow people in unless they are not part of any othe organisation. I mean, why not. Absolute control and stuff. And given orgs can be part of other orgs, I can it that people like spce-truckers may have to be "neutral" in order to be profitable and trustworthy as an org, so it's mandatory that your space-trucker is not part of another org, before joining a hauler organisation.

Yeah, clearly no SW design there - it doesn't feature those block shaped turbolaser batteries, it doesn't feature the bridge with the two shield generators on top of it, and it clearly and certainly doesn't look exactly like an imperial class star destroyer.
 
Oh wait
 
Do what you want but I think this goes to far. Design something new. Be creative. Don't just copy something. You're free to build everything you can imagine, would be a waste of time to only think of such old designs

throwing around star wars designs again, are we?

Many people were just telling you:
 
There is the RDMS. Via that you can just set the rights of those you deem as multi-org members. No problem there

If there is no mechanic to pull someone out of ftl, then it will just be broken

Yeah, clearly no SW design there - it doesn't feature those block shaped turbolaser batteries, it doesn't feature the bridge with the two shield generators on top of it, and it clearly and certainly doesn't look exactly like an imperial class star destroyer.
 
Oh wait
 
Do what you want but I think this goes to far. Design something new. Be creative. Don't just copy something. You're free to build everything you can imagine, would be a waste of time to only think of such old designs

As ccp puts it: space would be boring without sound. Their explanation is what anasasi posted.

As ccp puts it: space would be boring without sound. Their explanation is what anasasi posted.

Real neat suggestion, coming in three segments. Long post ahead. You've been warned.




1. PROTECTION BUBBLES SUSCEPTIBLE TO RDMS


  I believe it's a very reasonable suggestion. You set it up, therefore, it is meant to be under your control.  You own the Territory, now with the Add-On module, you can protect it from possible threats. The Protection Bubble would also be placed on the epicenter of the Territory, as it would make sense... as it is a bubble.


  2. PROTECTION BUBBLES EMIT PACIFICATION SIGNALS


Welp, the space illuminati can upload data from the Arkship, directly into your head. Tough luck, that can be also used to pacify you within the bubble's dome. An owner of a Territory Claim, can assign who can and cannot use weapons in his claim, heck, build, heck, they can even assign who can enter the Claim to begin with. You try to walk in through the Bubble's force field and you simply can't, as the power of Wi-Fi compels you to not cross the line. The only thing you can do is siege the bubble until it goes down... or...


  3. NINJA H4CK3RZ


Infiltrators. I know many of you just went like "That's so Twerkmotor" but here me for a second. Let's say you assign people in your org to act as a security within the city or have a bank in the city. That bank, would have a reinforced door to its vault. That vault itself, would have guards standing on watch (probably for a high pay wink-wink, nudge-nudge). This form of mechanic can be utilised in different ways, via indirect skill trees. 

One, is a Ninja (sort of). A soldier tree player, specialised into Stealthsuit, an insolating wetsuit that has minor protection and damage threshholds against very small caliber weaponry, some minor resistance to energy weapons and an overall paper of an armour. Its only use, is to make you immune to the transmission signa and negate people scanning for your cerebral implant's ID tag that would pop up with your name on it when they scanned you for your name and all that, but it has a minor drawback. You can't get feedback from your squad, therefore get no "buffs" from being in a party, like command bonuses, or cannot even see your own buddies on the minimap that you are in a group with, or any form of group-wide benefit or mechanics. Same player can be specialised into a sniper rifle ( or on a later expansion on swords? Pretty please NQ? ) ... or that soldier may like BBQ and is specialised in some nasty explosives. That way, the very few who specialise into this, can be legit spec ops operatives, who go into a city and sabotage the powerline to the Territory Unit that powers the Protection Bubble itself. Chances of success? Minor at least, anyone with a brain would probably set up a proper set of Blast Doors that lead to the Protection Bubble Element, or the Territory Unit itself. Does it have its uses? Absolutely, you can always sneak into a city and take out the Anti-Air guns before a major siege, or even worse, find your way into a city's Power Plant and let it go super boom. But there's another way to go about it.



Haxxors. A hacker, would not be specialised in heavy weaponry, or high explosives. They are the equivalent of a a tech wizard in the context of the game. They could

a ) make their name seem like they are someone else, which would have to be turned off manually, since they would not be even recognised by their own org's automated systems as a member of the org, so it's not perma name-change. The "illusion" can be taken away, if the Hacker was to be scanned by another hacker, who is specialised on the same field, using the "scan" feature available to all players, only amplified through the skill tree.

b ) they can ignore the hacking signal emitted within the Protection Bubble. They are not a direct fighter, they are there to do very tricky work, like scouting a city for the location of the Resurrection Node or they are there to access your Market Unit and start working their devious market witchcraft of selling WITHIN your market, therfore, sucking away money off your org's circulation. If you see someone acting suspicious, call a counter-intelligence guy to check the guy in the inconspicious black duster coat, sunglasses and vibrant green t-shirt, he's probably a spy. If his name is Hiro Protagonist and you got this referrence, congratulations, you're a turbonerd  .



Now, since I'm obviously clairvoyant, I will answer your apparent questions.


 
Well, not exactly, I am just advocating for interesting gameplays for people who want to be into security forces and special ops. The real smart hackers will be only caught by real smart counter-intelligence agents in a city.

 
Dear scared-out-of-your-pants carebear, nobody is gonna kill you that easily. It's a stealthy gameplay. The Stealthsuit will block the player wearing it from SCANNING for your name as well, so even if the Ninja was to be in a city and is after for your bounty, he would have to devise a way of identifying you first. As long as you are not an abnoxious Hello Kitty enthusiast who's going for bright green and bright pink armor combo, you'll be practically not even remotely distinguishable in the group with the "scan for name" mechanism.

As for the Hackers... they are turbo nerds who like code, despite what the Blackhat movie may claim with Australian Thor pretending to be a haxxor. The Hacker in the game has no real chance of taking you out on his own, let alone if the RDMS can dictate you can use weapons as self-defense, with the Hacker being tagged PK-RED when they try to assassinate you. 

See? It's not that simple in both cases. 


 
First, STRANGER, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY APARTMENT? Apparently, you must be a Ninja Haxxor as well, because you clearly caught me off-guard with your creeping up to me so stealthily.

Second, yes.


 
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, if I am to quote Bronn from Game of Throens after his trial by combat for Tyrion Lannister.

Lysa Tully : "You don't fight with honor."

Bronn : "No... but he did" *points at the Moon Gate*.

I guess you don't want to be Bronn, milord Cringeworth, but many of us in the community do. :|


 
Probably yes.


 
Being a clairvoyant is a gift, not a superpower.



Here, for your effort of reading this, have a ninja potato.








 

So what makes you the admiral? Experience? Would love to know that

Well not always... You could be in the corona of a star and freeze to death because there are so few particles that hit you

Hahahahahaha. Everyone is selfish. Some want to be the best builders, best city planers, best scripters, best whatever. Selfishness all around you, even in those other groups

Another Cybrex alt making another pirate org to distract others from BOO - I see what you did there!

You mixed something there:
 
Tradehubs will allow people to make money (cut 5% of all earnings for example). With that money they can buy larger shields to construct and with the revenue they can pay for the materials needed to run the shield

Well it doesn't matter much how you are paid because every resource is connected by a common value

Good luck trading with player run currencies. You get scammed in exchange, get scammed in price, get fucked because you have like 200 different currencies in your inventory and finally you get scammed because big players on the market will just ever continue to drop new currency with referral programs and whatnot

Good luck trading with player run currencies. You get scammed in exchange, get scammed in price, get fucked because you have like 200 different currencies in your inventory and finally you get scammed because big players on the market will just ever continue to drop new currency with referral programs and whatnot

Good luck trading with player run currencies. You get scammed in exchange, get scammed in price, get fucked because you have like 200 different currencies in your inventory and finally you get scammed because big players on the market will just ever continue to drop new currency with referral programs and whatnot

Just remember who the people are that would unify for a coordinated cyber bully attack. and who the people are that protect civil liberty.
 
Will you stand idly by while sinister forces plot to take this game away from the people? These sinister forces which would seek any level of harassment all with a goal of putting themselves on top, driven by greed they will watch you suffer while they line their pockets.
 
Remember when Democracy and Anarchy fail you, we're still here fighting for justice and righteousness, liberty and freedom, respect and honor.
 
Elevate yourself to new heights, we're not asking you to submit and join us, we're asking you to let us join together for a better tomorrow.

It won't disappear, the npcs could just buy from you and make a sell order with your iron. Another player can then buy from that NPC if he chooses to.
 
Problems with your idea:
 
- you would favor big orgs who can explore fast
- you prevent small guys / small orgs to ever have access to such a deposit (because the big guys will defend it)
- you prevent people in the early game to thrive and expand more quickly, because they have to mine everything by hand and can't collect money to help them build a ship for instance
- some other reasons other players will state