Yes - PO starts to stink dead already. Times running.

Nice idea Jita - it could be a prerequisite to abandoning your mech in an escape arkhe - and arkhes in general would be nothing more then that - and the MK2 would be what the arkhe is now. Abandonend mech could be loaded up in a transporter only.

But anyway - it isnt hard to make the slots to unequip/drop selectable in terminals.

I'd like the idea of a green/red status evolving out of a combination of npc faction standings and self set colors.

If you were having this idea for the alphas - it might be hard to have this in place - since youd be dead meat as soon as you would to - lets say - the transport triangle if there be some kind of support for the victim from guards.

alliance/corp war on alpha would make it hard fpr smaller corps to survive - thats why i never talked about an open pvp implementation, but just the ability to die trying.

The thing is - something needs to be done - i see the pve faction leave the game because its very limited - and seen about 100 guys from affiliated corps leave due to the lilly *** restricted pvp system - contradicted by the fact that beta access is kinda hard for small corps.

At the moment the game forces you to: a) mine or b) join an anonymous pvp guild and scout at a station

No wraith there wouldnt be unprotected areas, just a decreasing density as a measure to reflect security increasing while getting closer so inhabitet structures.

And again - theres no talking about actually successfull ganking approaches rather the ability to fire your weapons at anythnig you can aim and to zone with a flag. Those 2 missing last polints are just crap.

If you implement decreasing pvp dmg like metioned above there wont be a problem with arms races - it couldnt be. Also you could prevent suicide attacks.

Letting attackers be something like a clever scripted mob with a still greately reduced possibility to succeed sounds like a fair idea for abandoned alpha outskirts. This has nothing to do with pvp rather then making the system more logic, more coherent, less immersion breaking.

Safezones at beta would be part of the concept the other way round. Its rather doubtfull that there wouldnt be more safe zones in a conflict zone.

As long as there are objectives like OP fights - and safezones are remote enough to prevent synch-whoring at OPs.

Ok - have you read about the part with decreasing pvp dmg the nearer you are in social areas? This way even a heavy mech wouldnt kill an arkhe with 5 volleys.

Problem solved. Youd just need to connect the max dmg output value as a modifier to the decrease of pvp damage when coming closr to a terminal w/e - and the game autobalanes this itself.

Anyway - i just thought about that OP hacking minigame idea - make it a professian  -and even PVE could be more interestin when you have to hack the kernels to reveal their information OR to get them out of the PVE corpse. Hacking reqs would increase with increasing kernel quality, so that youd need a dedicated hacker for certain parts of the game - within your group.

@the motives for this simply is a well rounded coherent, non artificially devided system to not devide up the playerbase. To give people possibilities to try things. Thats what makes up a sandbox after all. I dont play a sandbox mmo to be restricted.

Not being able to defend myself against a greater number of enemies because pvp flags inhibit jumping - is a reason for me to leave the game - i never seen such bad design. Its gamebreaking.

Well then the loss is too small when its that easy to do / even targeting at terminals (high density areas) could trigger the guards - you dont need no remote rep there.- or the internal balancing is faulty when you can kill somone in comparable gear with 1 shot.

If its more guys - then its a math task to make the loss for several guys hard enough so that ganking a weaker target doesnt sum up.

If it takes more then 1 shot - then players could even trigger the guards themselves like in MO.  and theyd insta kill the enemy.

You could also increase the armor - or decrease pvp damage according to the guard density. So - wheres the problem?

I think everybody agrees that there has to be more sand in this game - better and more interesting pve and fluff. Its not a secret.

DEVs focussed on pvp balancing/additions - now that needs to rest for the sand being adressed.

See Savin, you have no points. You own yourself, becasue you a liar - and the topic isnt improving pve - but bringing pve and pvp together.

But hey thats good if you disqualify yourself for everybody to see. Go on pls!