One of the things I liked about doing the original Epic Missions arc was the fact that it took you all over the place.
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I know that that there are "landmarks" all over the EVE Universe, and I know that I've not gone out of my way to see any of them. There is the EVE Gate, the Black Monolith, a Titan wreck that has been named "Steve". Mynxee talked about a roam she did looking at these plus other sites in a post called A Worthwhile Jaunt.
I don't know how many capsuleers have actually taken the time to go and see some of these sites, but I suspect a large number haven't. Which brings me to what I think would be an interesting mission series.
Mission: L4 - Meeting at the EVE Gate
Your agent informs you that a traitor and enemy agent are going to be meeting at the EVE Gate and he wants you out there to spy on them and get a record of their conversation. You are specifically told not to engage them or get noticed by them. Which means a CovOps ship.
When you warp in you'll see the two ships about 40km away and once you approach to within 20km the conversation will begin. Once they are done talking they warp off. You are free to look around or you can leave and return to your agent.
Once there he'll hand you another in the series and send you off to another landmark somewhere in New Eden.
I don't anticipate these to be difficult in themselves, but there can be some long travel necessitated by this, potentially through low and null sec. And I required a CovOps ship in it. So I made it a Level 4 mission.
As an alternative it could be made into an Epic Mission Arc by trying to hit every landmark. That would probably take a while. Also this would have missions mixed up with combat vs. just spying.
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Hmm, making people actually go to the landmarks is a pretty good idea, I've never been to em but I really want to go to the EVE Gate (Need to ask some folks in my corp to join me on that trip). And the idea of spying missions is also pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteHi Cle!
ReplyDeleteI second TheElitist! To have a mission for visiting landmarks is a nice idea! And it would also fit quite well into the type of exploration missions I was trying to champion. And thankx also for that link to Mynxee’s list of worthwhile sites!
Cheers,
Zargyl