TL;DR: CCP is setting up a permanent monument in Molea as recognition of the player-developed graveyard. This is a stepping stone along the path of removing POSes (containers anchored within 200km of a POS do not decay in space) - the new monument provides this same anchoring behavior without any other impacts. Cans remain subject to looting/attack mechanics as per current configuration. The monument also occasionally produces a visual effect in memory of the fallen.
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I’ve been there many times, and I’ve been affected each time.
One cannot underestimate the ingenuity of capsuleers, and I wish to publically salute the founder of Molea, @Azia Burgi, and all the caretakers who followed over the years.
Molea presents EVE Online in a unique light, and I am glad CCP decided to place a monument there.
I’m similarly surprised that they didn’t add a publicly accessible item hangar that accepts only corpses, and has no withdrawal rights - a nice ‘final internment’ for the fallen. Cans would still have a place as messages and holding grave goods/offerings.
It’s a nice idea and it’s cool that CCP both decided to do it and developed a mechanism to do it (even if that mechanism just means a copy-paste of a chunk of POS code).
It’s also great that people have re-purposed this as a remembrance to their fallen, whatever their nature might be. It would be super-cool if CCP would put a couple defense turrets around it, and maybe beef up the HP of items stored around it. Not enough to insta-kill desecraters, but enough to discourage casual vandalism by the bored and ill-mannered.
Any hand-waving about it is to be expected. CCP has always gone out of its’ way to attract the socially maladjusted, and every game has their share of bleeding hearts and Dudley Do-Rights.
Some people will make heartfelt gestures, some people will make casual ones, and other people will find they only feel significant when they’re destroying something somebody else values. Such is Eve.
Each storage location in EVE can only hold a maximum of 1000 stacks of items so that would mean it would only be able to hold 1000 corpses before being unable to accept more
Each storage location? Like the Hanger Bay’s in NPC stations?
If so, CCP could easily add multiple ‘Internment Vaults’ to the Monument turning it into a Mausoleum. Players can still anchor Cans at the site filled with various items dedicated to the deceased allowing Tomb Raiders to do their thing.
I’d like to bring up something that @Destiny_Corrupted proposed in the JihadSwarm thread:
This idea is, IMO, a perfect solution to the Molea issue; any member of the EvE community who is confirmed to have passed away could have their character(s) transferred to a dedicated “mausoleum” corporation as a way to respect their passing.
Someone would probably figure out a way to exploit invulnerable funeral cans, but this idea seems like the closest thing to an exploit-proof system that CCP could make.
Damn, guess you’ve been busy… 