Mausoleum

Mausoleum

January 22 2016 at 1:51 AM Idea

A structure will be built. This is a mausoleum, a monument to our fallen brothers and sisters. The friendly geniuses in fair and far Reykjavik will find the proper expression of that idea. It will ideally provide for a couple of animated ways to salute a portrait of our fallen comrades.

New Eden should not be about 'safe space'. However, this is a place of reflection, it provides a space to contemplate our beloved friends, our respected enemies of yore whom we had the pleasure of flying with, whom we had the joy of fighting with in New Eden's open skies.

As a nod to the idea of risk versus reward, the place could be in a more difficult to access location, say: the original EVE Gate, such that the way towards it would be perilous, with a chance to salute our fallen friends in peace the reward for making the journey.

It is a way to increase immersion, it makes EVE that much more real, it anchors New Eden as the third place it has become in our lives. It is the last safe haven for the lost souls who are out of reach of the cynosaural field to guide them home. It is only fitting and proper that this place should be built.

To all our friends whom we have lost through the years: fly safe always.

o7

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I went through a stack of old posts I salvaged from my first blog on the discontinued ’Typed’ service and came across this one.

CCP have now recently erected the most beautiful monument to our fallen fellow capsuleers. A very moving tribute. The capsule atop the monument seems superfluous when the basaltic rock formations, hello Iceland!, holding the lit cyno, is poignant enough as a message: we’ve lost one of our own and lighting a cyno to guide them home.

Vanity would have preferred this small post to be the inspiration for this wonderful monument but I’m pretty sure nobody else even saw the post in the first place. It’s also not a revolutionary idea, we have built commemorative structures for our dead since time immemorial.

It’s a great addition to New Eden, it is a quiet statement of support and condolence and it is executed in the grand and gorgeous style of the house. Count on CCP to do the graphics well for any occasion.

To all our fallen friends, with my heartfelt thanks for sharing this wonderful dream.

o7

    

Handcrafted

A new mini game will be introduced into the New Eden environment.

This mini game consists of a chain of missions the pod pilot can engage in. After the chain has been successfully completed the pilot receives the empty hull of a ship, it can be any size, together with a container that holds all the parts that make up the ship.

Combined with an actual blue print, the pilot then has the opportunity to assemble the parts into a working space craft.

There are a few things to keep in mind:

- So long as the parts are being assembled they can be rearranged

- There is no feedback to indicate a particular part has been improperly installed

- When the pilot is confident they have followed the instructions properly, they can lock the parts in place

- Once the parts are locked in place the configuration is considered to be completed and this process cannot be undone

- When the parts are installed and locked, a button ‘Startup’ will become available

- When the ship was properly assembled, the ship will boot up in a graphically pleasing way (nobody has to teach the Elysian minds in fair and far Reykjavík how to do that), the genius in the sound studio will give that a proper expression

- The ship is now a fully-functioning space craft, subject to all the circumstances that apply to any other ship

- When the ship is improperly assembled, the startup sequence will go through its cycle but the crunching of metal parts and/or distressed electronic sounds will indicate something went wrong

- When something went wrong, the ship is now disabled and cannot be repaired. The timer that started when the ship was booted up will act as the countdown timer for a container in space. Although the ship can be salvaged, when that is not done in two hours, the ship will disappear from space

The pilot will need the skills required to fly the ship. It is not a surprise what the ship will be. The assembled ship only produces the working hull of a ship, it does not come with weapons, ammunition, modules or rigs.

The process of assembling the ship and starting it up occurs in a dead space pocket. This pocket can be accessed or scanned down and is subject to the usual rigours any New Eden capsuleer endures during operations in space. There are no freebies in New Eden. A ship can and will at some point be stolen ‘after all that hard work’.

Some people love completing puzzles and this is a means to provide that experience to anyone inclined to complete a puzzle and fly away from the experience with an actual space frame they assembled. It adds intrigue, excitement, risk, reward and immersion in the best MMO in the known universe.

Thoughts?