Well yet another combat event has been announced .....WELL sorry a Siege Event which is classed as a kind of combat Event.
Cant really remember the last time there was a Trade Event to be honest and I thought that it would be a principle factor to the Game Masters now to maybe equal out Events so that at least the community as a whole is satisfied with the way the Events are made.
Trade events are usually done in a way where the Trader is pirated or stopped by the governing body so to speak in the system they are travelling because the cargo has been labelled contraband...... which is fair enough.......
Trade events can be boring to some people because they don't just want to steal you're money they want to kill you to up their ego (sorry about the ego pun to all combat people).....but this is a stigma that is common place on the server regarding the Trade events.
I have a few ideas regarding trade events which might give the Game Masters some ideas and maybe make them a little more exciting for both Traders Pirates and Combat freaks......
Anyway I am trying to not be insulting to anyone during this post but I do think that at the moment the Combat Event seems to be the only Event being made....
MY IDEAS
How about a trade event where you have to start at one point then finish at another point ....but....you have to make a certain number of stops and dock at a particular base or station. these stations will offer a gradually increased price for the commodity being delivered .......so......obviously the risk gets greater as the Trader continues on his journey.....
Each system entered during the event will be classed as a prohibited system ......in other words your'e cargo is classed as contraband........
Each trader who enters the system will broadcast his presence through system chat.........the reason for this is ......any pirate or combat vessel hunting down the trader is not allowed within 7k of the jump hole or jump gate........obviously this will be monitored (if it can be) by the game masters .........anyone encroaching into the safety zone gets instantly disqualified.
The 7k radius safety zone is to make the chase and the hunt more exciting for both the Trader and the hunter and test out the skills of both parties....
obviously if the trader reaches his ultimate goal of getting to the last delivery point .......he will be paid really well ....but also .....why not include some prizes aswel along the way starting with small ones for every delivery point on the way and the big prize for the last delivery point....
Each system can only have a certain amount of pirates and combat ships watching for potential victims if someone gets disqualified then they must leave immediately and that system cannot add another pirate or combat ship........
And also an overall winner can be announced and given either credits or yet another large prize.
This is just a bit of a concept I have sort of thought about and I hope it just gives the Staff of Discovery some ideas....
ANOTHER BRIEF IDEA
HOW about a trade Event involving a race between a big group of traders again obviously against pirates and combat ships stopping them and harrasing them.
This event will have a number of stages which will be formatted maybe over a number of days....First race will obviously start with ....say..... 40 Traders for example .....
As the race goes on if a Trader gets taxed then he will obviously be held up ....... once a pirate or combat vessel has stopped someone the same vessel cannot stop you again throughout the duration of the race.....
Maybe another concept to this would be ..... starting the Trader with a full cargo .........5K cargo ships only to be used......and as the race develops and the Trader is stopped he loses ....or I should say.....Jettisons a said amount of cargo at each encounter .......If the Trader runs out of cargo then he is disqualified from the race......
Also if there are multiple pirates or combat vessels in the system then there is the possibility of the trader losing all of his cargo
Again an exclusion zone should be put around the jump holes and jump gates to give the traders a fighting chance as it were.....
I also think that each race should be arranged for different times on the different days to try and let people who are not available at certain server times a chance to participate......
Again prizes can be given out to the first three maybe.....
Another aspect would be .....any systems with trade lanes must be used so no cruising .....UNLESS you are spotted by a hostile and then you can try and escape....
Also disruption of lanes can also be counted out maybe .......
These are ideas that I am throwing forward just to see if maybe something like this could be organised ......I just think that straight forward Trade events can be a bit boring and this maybe reason why there doesn't seem to be any trade events being introduced.
I may throw other ideas forward too in the future .......if some of my little ideas are actually used
Hope someone likes this idea or maybe comments on it .....
OR EVEN ...... give me some feed back let me know what you think and see if this could be used ........and also used again in different variations .....
The ideas I’ve drafted would be good for the community
And also it means that Combat players and Traders can
Pit their wits and their skills against each other.
The concept of the Race with different stopping stages
Can also be applied to fighter vessels ..... these vessels could have 1 unit of
Highly sensitive cargo which if confiscated gives the one who confiscated it
A game point
Player with the most game points wins the event lots of things can be put forward as ideas
It just seems that Combat events seem to be getting more game time than trade events
And encorporating combat and trade events into one could
Be good fun for all the community and also the traders
Could hire escort vessels too which means freelancers have an opportunity to take part
Then a follow on event could involve bounty hunters aswell
Lots of things could be implemented and used
Another idea
How about creating a thread on the forum for everyone to throw
Game ideas into the pot
So that traders and everyone from the community can
Give their ideas