Loot Tables? - Feedback

[Connor]

So with the introduction of the PVEController plugin (the plugin that gives you money when you kill NPCs) we've been given the ability to add loot that can be dropped from NPCs when you kill them. You might have seen this in game already with a scidata drop every so often. This has opened up so many new avenues for us and one of them I want to explore are the concept of loot tables. In short this is a list of items that can be dropped from something and in this case it'll be an NPC.

We're looking to introduce this idea into Discovery and I've come for community feedback to see if this is something you guys would be interested in and also if you have any suggestions. The way this works is when you kill an NPC the PVEController plugin rolls you a number and if that number lands in a certain range (depending on the percentage of the drop) you'll get a reward. Each commodity or equipment is rolled separately which means you can have a chance at gettting multiple drops from one NPC. Currently drops are only assigned via ship class (LF, HF, Battleship, Carrier etc). I have fed Kaz some suggestions for the plugin so I hope he takes a look at it.

The idea that I and a few others have currently is that we rotate loot tables every so often so that you get a chance to obtain certain rewards during certain dates. At this moment we're looking to give out codenames via 6 different loot tables that will be implemented in at different times. IE for say 2 weeks we have Loot Table 1 and then for 2 weeks after that we have a different loot table that drops different rewards. Below is an example of what I mean:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...=449066488

On top of this we want to give out codes based on the ship class you're fighting. If you're fighting a snub then you get a chance for snub codenames, battleship battleship codenames etc. Scidata weapons would be the grand prize so they'd be the rarest.

Would you want this to be an event where on certain days/weeks we issue rewards for NPC drops for that day/week only? Or would you want it to be permanent. Or a bit of both? Permanent loot tables added into the game but have an event every so often that boosts the chance of getting rewards?

What are your thoughts on this? At the moment we're toying around with ideas. I've tested this on the dev test server with codes that give you a 1% drop chance (in total) for ships killed. This was only tested with snubs that contained about 10-20 snubs per mission meaning you'd get a code every 5-10 missions.

I'd also look for suggestions on commodities. We can have a super rare commodity that sells decent or is used for RP or a common commodity that's sold at a decent price (kinda like Fleet Admirals). Someone mentioned about a Blackbox commodity to be used for intel faction RP?

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