Disclaimer: I have never actually played eve vanguard myself, but this might be a way to connect both eve online and vanguard to feel more like they are both in New Eden.
What if eve vanguard affected PI in eve online and caused loot drops in vanguard which makes you lose loot from the colonies, but only a percentage of it and less chance of T3 and T4 loot drops so that there is a less chance that the person doing PI loses a hard to make item.
looks like in Nov they are moving to 24/7 alpha testing..
i am omega but dont do fps games yet
i even do PI
maybe an addition to the upgrade levels each upgrade would fortify it to make it harder to steal from. with level 5 only having a 10% chance of losing resources or something.
passive isk is always nice, but why not add a little risk.
It has been a discussion on and off. And even a concept of special weapon/interactions on the EVE side.
Concepts like orbital bombardment, raids, sabotage, recon from the EVE side…and some suggestions that these actions then give the openings for map contracts for Vanguard and vice versa.
Some of this being drawn upon other game experience and the DUST and EVE integration.
At this moment there is no real way to counter act or offset the massive amount of PI set ups in space. Especially after the PI m3 change…which was kind of broken. Because Fenris forgot that the connections regulate how much can be moved around the game…when they shrunk the PI and not the connections…massive efficiency increase…and allowed people to build massive factory clusters for PI materials.
Hence why alot of people want to have ways to mess this up. Then the Upwell Skyhook system came into being in nullsec. And that has had some different implications to Sov etc. And the Mercenary Den content…and we all know the problems and nerfs associated.