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VO needs more oomph
People are peacefully trading and mining all over universe. Serco/Itani conflict is restricted to safe Deneb empty sectors. Players are having friendly duels in Sedina, newbies are happily strolling in Ecs all over greyspace and traders are moving fat weapons loaded xcs all around sedina/odia....
Enough of that.
It is time to make some bold moves.
We need:
1. Serco/Itani combat fleets (groups) incursions and battles along enemy borders in Edras/Ukari/Helios
When newbie exits Itani space from Jallik to Edras he needs to see all hell breaking loose, same with Serco in Ukari and Helios.
2. UITs are not sacred cows. If they want to trade with Serco/Itani, they need to run blockades thru border wormhole battle zones.
3. Greyspace has to get alive again, fill it with Serco/Itani scouting or patrol parties fighting all over grey. Fill it with Corvus pirate raid groups attacking mining and trade stations and convoys throughout greyspace, make them battle with UIT forces along UIT borders.
Who is with me on this?
Enough of that.
It is time to make some bold moves.
We need:
1. Serco/Itani combat fleets (groups) incursions and battles along enemy borders in Edras/Ukari/Helios
When newbie exits Itani space from Jallik to Edras he needs to see all hell breaking loose, same with Serco in Ukari and Helios.
2. UITs are not sacred cows. If they want to trade with Serco/Itani, they need to run blockades thru border wormhole battle zones.
3. Greyspace has to get alive again, fill it with Serco/Itani scouting or patrol parties fighting all over grey. Fill it with Corvus pirate raid groups attacking mining and trade stations and convoys throughout greyspace, make them battle with UIT forces along UIT borders.
Who is with me on this?
Aye! Also, valuable resources should be found in a central grey space location, attracting many players to fight for them.
I just want Metana back. Itani space invasions were the best part of the game.
Lets shoot everything!
idk cause like whenever you shoot someone you get labeled a griefer
LOUD NOISES
Seriously I like Bojan's ideas, tho.
I love it! Stamp of Approval™ baby!
A simple way to get people and traders into Grey Space would be to un-fix the price of shield turrets. Keep the purchase price as is but, bring the sale price back to where it was when released.
Thats one hell of an incentive to get traders going through Grey Space. You'll see a sharp upswing in player escorts... (VPR, PA, ONE, ITAN all offer escorts). The pirates will have something to do. Unescorted players would have an incentive to pay the pirates or lose out on serious profit. The pirates would likely not limit themselves to strictly Sedina but fan out to Edras as well as making patrols. Atlas and Centaur traffic would drasticlly increase, Moths and XCs would even start showing up.
Thats one hell of an incentive to get traders going through Grey Space. You'll see a sharp upswing in player escorts... (VPR, PA, ONE, ITAN all offer escorts). The pirates will have something to do. Unescorted players would have an incentive to pay the pirates or lose out on serious profit. The pirates would likely not limit themselves to strictly Sedina but fan out to Edras as well as making patrols. Atlas and Centaur traffic would drasticlly increase, Moths and XCs would even start showing up.
Or perhaps the game just needs more people to accomplish said points without AI needed.
I'm looking at adding more grayspace npcs of various types in the near future. Michael did some fantastic work, last week, which helped clear up a major bug with bots getting all bunched up and sitting around (slowing sectors down). So with that out of the way, and some other issues being resolved this week, hopefully we'll be in a better place to do some of this in the not-too-distant future.