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?