You know those cool pve events where everyone shows up regardless of whatever zoi to grab some loot? They are pretty fun and all, but what if there was another way to get that loot?
There is some areas in Sirius that require activity dearly. I will take as example what I know best, Kusari : Kyushu and Nagano should be war-zones with Exiles and BD / GC doing stuffs. Yet they are empty 99% of the time.
Same thing for Gallia.
So what if there was a permanent bonus applied to some areas to give an incentive for activity there :
- a small amount of money for the winner of a fight (Let's say 1 million);
- both winner and loser earning one scientific data or whatever each, a bonus that would be given in the end of the month or when the area is no longer given a bonus.
Now indies are cool and all, but we always say official factions get little gain from officialdom for a lot of bother, so what if those rewards were doubled? (So 2 millions credits and 2 scientific data in the example above).
The only downside I see about it would be the potential for abuse if people ask their friends to kill them freely in order to farm rewards. But if those rewards are low enough and not granted right away, that should deter that kind of behavior. And if bigger rewards are only given to official factions, that would probably avoid most of those issues and actually give an incentive to join official factions, for one.
(01-30-2017, 11:19 AM)Yaoquizque Wrote: The only downside I see about it would be the potential for abuse if people ask their friends to kill them freely in order to farm rewards. But if those rewards are low enough and not granted right away, that should deter that kind of behavior. And if bigger rewards are only given to official factions, that would probably avoid most of those issues and actually give an incentive to join official factions, for one.
This only downside is completely infeasible to counter. The admin team has enough on their plate as is without manually granting rewards, and if it's automated and on 24/7 they're not going to be able to stop it from being abused.
How to make activity in Kusari? Suddenly, I got a very strange idea in here.
Zone: Kyushu.
Type: PvE mixed up with PvP.
How: The overall idea is, make certain zones in Kyushu System spawn NPCs with some kind of special type of well-paid "elite" pilots/captains with buypoint being the base of respective faction (Exiles = Battleship Yamaguchi, KNF = Planet New Tokyo, Dragons = Ainu Depot). It possibly could turn from PvE into PvP as the other sides would try to liberate - or simply steal out the pilots of third party.
Flaws / to be balanced: Would need tweaks to avoid early hour low-peak credit farming.
Note: With recent VHF update, the Heavy Fighter - which is basis for Kusari due to lack of good VHFs as the existing ones are refused to be flown - was technically downgraded into a beating bag and that might influence the activity. Seeing Eagles shooting other Eagles is not a scenario we would like to see as well.