EVE Online's Viridian Is Giving More Ways For Corporations To Provide Gameplay Goals For Their Members
EVE Online's Viridian expansion brings with it new tools to help corporations manage their members and provide direction as to what to do in the vast universe of New Eden.
Viridian is getting quite a few new features, from the SKINR structure dye system that finally allows Corporations personalize fully their Upwell Structures, to powerful new Tech II Lancer Dreadnoughts, and everything inbetween. The core pitch of Viridian when CCP Games first announced it was putting more tools and power in the hands of corporations, and many of the expansions updates are aimed squarely at that target, especially the ability to tax EverMarks as well as the new Corporation Goals feature.
«The way they seem to me is it essentially enables a CEO or director or senior person in a corporation with the correct roles to essentially be a mission giver,» CCP's Community Developer Dan «CCP Convict» Crone mentioned when talking about Corporation Goals in an interview earlier this week.
Effectively as CCP told us me during our interview, this new system allows for corporation leaders to set goals for their corporation members that can directly help and impact the corporation itself. This could mean a corporation can set up goals for miners to bring back a certain amount of ore can throw up a goal in the Corporation panel and set their members on the task. Or maybe you're at war with another faction and you want your members to focus on dealing a certain amount of damage to that alliance — now you can literally give your corporation members a tangible goal to work towards versus just going out and getting the kills.
Gamifying the game, so to speak.
Dan mentions that there is a special Hangar in corporation structures for players to deposit say
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