[SUGGESTION] gameplay for hardcore players

I though few evenings about pve, pve, gameplay and all of this...
We can say, according to polls, discussion, forum wars there is around 25% of PvP and 75% of pve.
People are playing these activities from multiple reasons. one of them are casuals who want relax game and other want hardcore action and engaging activity.

I am sure a most of these 25% of hardcore games who are doing pvp, because if you are doing pvp then you need to be hardcore player (you need to have bilions, rngeers, time to train a skill etc), would be interested in very hard and engaging pve activity like 'boss raids', and very hard war zones.

In PvP we are pushing our ships to the limit, we are fighting each other because NPC are like flies, completely not challenging. But, what if i told you a NPC would be hard? Of course personally i would still play PvP in most, but also hardcore PvE would be interesting for me, to get few friends and got o really hard and challenging war.

I also think that hardcore action, where there is no mercy and both we - players are pushing game to the limits, and The MoM, her minions will be also intersting for a not small part of these 75% part of players who are doing PvE in most now.

I would be more than happy if FDev would add a ultra hard content for hardcore gamers.

And, if you are intersted only in PvP, then it could be not boring, and efficient farm for resources. Think about it from wider perspective.


Examples:

- boss raids with multiple waves of enemies - something like in Star Raiders II on atari. Few waves, boss, then next harder, boss, then next harder, then boss.
- raids on surface bases - huge war on surface, with a purpose of damage surface installation, few stages - get air supremacy, take down shield generator, get ground supremacy
- hardcore combat zones - very hard with hard ships and random bosses
- zones with Thargoid bosses

Bosses:
- ships in special paintjob, heavily RNGreed, with uber AI level (i know The MoM can)
- variants of megaships and bigest ships with escord, with boosted DPS - if they hit 5 times vette then they can destroy it
- aliens

These zones/activities really should release a FEAR in player, and ofcourse they should be very profitable

Profits:

- money
- rare resources
- rare data
- maybe some unique weapons
- rank boost

What do you all think about it?
 
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It is an interesting idea.
Even as a casual role playing player, I would like to participate in such activities.

However as for profits, I'd like a dexterity earrings for my commander :p
 
I sense grind here, but OK, let's assume $$$ will not be changed compare to non-hardcore game play.


However I believe this is song of the future... far future, since Dev's have few things to be fixed first.

Examples:
- boss raids with multiple waves of enemies - something like in Star Raiders II on atari. Few waves, boss, then next harder, boss, then next harder, then boss.

sounds good enough, but how many players will play this.. are we talking of 25% of the overall ? ..well implementation of new game mode requires difficulty by Easy/ Hardocre etc...
Most likely that will require separate instances to be built. From game play perspective this may be an idea, from profitability point of view it is just waste of time&effort for Devs for little $
Would rather see Devs to prioritize some other, most important improvements. But in next 5 years... yeah why not !


- raids on surface bases - huge war on surface, with a purpose of damage surface installation, few stages - get air supremacy, take down shield generator, get ground supremacy

Yeah, I can feel this ! With my GTX1080 and FPS drops when only 3 players in wing approaching planet base .... With surface wars I believe we will end up with like 10 FPS, if not regular disconnects all the time. Surface war would become FPS massacre...

- hardcore combat zones - very hard with hard ships and random bosses...

yeah perhaps would be good to give it a try... today when 3 corvettes arrives to CZ, we are quickly run out of enemies, since they do not spawn fast enough. You may have a good point here that new CZ - extreme should be considered to implement....maybe "Thargoids war zone" ? where hardcore difficulty applies... let's hope for best.
- zones with Thargoid bosses... this would be very nice ! hopefully will be implemented as soon as we find Thargoids ...one day :)
 
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Go fight in a CZ in a sidewinder or hauler.

It has been done many times by many people. Not specially interesting. Still mindless.

In overall - intention of that is not a grind, is something completely against grind - an activity what will require thinking, skill, good equipment. Not for newbie players, but for a players who are bored now and want something new and excitement.
 
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