Hi there,
What about adding some new services? Here are a few examples:
- boosting other pilots in different activities, like PvP, Pve, mining, etc. IMHO, this is a very underrated area, where there’s a lot of room for development/improving. The only place that vaguely resembles this is the ‘fleet-up’ menu, but that is also very weak, in terms of offers: some are very far (say 30+ jumps, so that means 60, as you have to come back), some are with newbie miners that have no idea how important a boost is so they reject is, and so on.
Also think about boosting marauder pilots in PvE - shield, hull, skirmish it would be a faster way to finish that site.
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Transporting goods, but posting offers/requests in another format, not in “courier contracts” like now, mostly because that place is full of fake-news shipping, lots of fake offers. It could be a new place for example, like in the “fleet-up” section, where you can find sometimes mining fleets. Something along these lines, you got the point. Yes, there are a few large transport corps, but you have to join their chat to send something, which is somehow not transparent;
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a new window/menu where pilots can help others do the daily tasks, or simply do limited PvP, like PvP to hull. Right now, the only place to do that is post in local chat. This can be expanded into lots of sub-topics, like ‘shield’ or ‘armour’ or drones, vampires and so on;
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an income source for explorers: selling locations, like a combat site, or a wormhole that lands you a few jumps from a major trade hub, etc. Imagine how easy it woudl be for a PvE pilot just to look in that windows, see a Serpentis Phi-outpost and click ‘accept’ or ‘take me there’. After reaching the gate, he would pay the explorer the said ammount. It’s just an example, it can work for wormholes and other stuff. Imagine the big ‘fish’, when you as an explorer, find an undefended vulnerable structure and post it, selling the location for some nice isk. Except, now there is no dedicated place to post/sell something like this.
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Salvaging, one of my favourite activities: why is there no menu where pilots can post and request salvaging services?
Zkillboard if full of “i-want-it-all” bozos that fit 1-2 salvagers on their marauders, instead of simply hiring the services of a salvager. The “social” part seems to get completely annihilated when it comes to this, mostly due to greed, obviously. And sadly. So another place to vastly expand the gameplay.
- High priced targets (read making lots of isk). Exploring, I have come across lots of places with several weaknesses: undefended wormholes/structures; weak def fleet; weak/newbie pilots (credit card players) and so on. There is no place where you can sell such “intel” now, so I can only hope there will be.
Edit: maybe even a new skill training cathegory could be developed, like the Paragon drawings. For example, junior consultant up to senior, similarly do RL school - primary, high and university. After training all the skills, one could implicitly offer all the services. This would imply the pilot is a vet, has lots of exp. with ships, has access to Tech 2 boosting modules, making him very efficient, so allowing him to ask for more isk.
Since all the above is a simple sketch for developing new areas, it’s obvious the subjects can be vastly expanded, so please feel free to comment/add anything that comes to mind.
Cheers!
