EVE General Discussion

It's the Single Character Slot mentality. The idea is to improve player cooperation by preventing the ability to keep playing by yourself while still taking on aspects of the game designed for multiple players by running multiple accounts. Skill points also become more important as you can't train multiple characters in parallel for different tasks.

Obvious cons are:
- Ruins/Injures the spy metagame.
- Can't scam/corp theft/whatever with alts.
- No monetary incentive for CCP; multiple accounts are multiple subs.
- Players might quit out of boredom while training non-combat skills.

It's a moot point anyway as you mentioned, it can't technically be enforced.

Imagine for a moment that to leave a system, a player would have to wait for a time for a jump engine to charge up. They have to do it at any one of the planets or the local star. During that time they can't cloak, MWD or warp. Suppose it takes two minutes to do and they have to stay on that grid.

During this time the hunter will be scanning the planets, and checking them out. The person wanting to leave will have to keep aligned in case a hostile warps in. The defender would then need to warp off, this would reset that two minute counter, and they'd have to start over again at a different planet. A solo hunter and solo defender would give advantage to the defender, all he has to do is wait out the hunter till he gets bored. Not much different from today. But, gang v gang becomes a much more interesting situation. to lock down a system, a ship at each planet would be ideal, so that anyone trying to leave gets caught.

Once one of the two gangs gets a point on someone, they can all rush in from different directions and mix it up. Going to have to ask your selves, should we blob up, or spread out? What's the best choice for what we are facing and our goals? Right now the choice is always the same, blob.

Now add to this mix delayed local and instead of the directional scanner just telling you something is there, it also gives you a result to which you can warp. The closer you are and the more narrow you set your scan angle, the more likely you would be to land close to the target. Suppose the worst this scanner could do is give you is a 50% deviation of the current distance between you and the target. Each scan gets you closer at worst.

Also suppose that the more you mash the scan button, within some limited time, say 1 minute, your own signature radius doubles. You make your self an easier target as well if you're scan button happy. Likewise, some defender trying to evade a hunter better be careful how much he tries to find out how close the hunter is and trying to discover which planets are unoccupied at the moment. And the hunter needs to be sure no one else is around too. Is that T1 industrial bait? Should I mush the scan button one more time or not?

These are interesting tactical questions, there are no such questions with gates. Avoiding a gate camp right now means check map, and if you're a multi boxing hero, send alt in shuttle. Wee, so exciting, not.

Alot of calls to remove local. I can totally agree with this it would open up alot more mystery about low/null sec space and make stealth / scouting much more as it should be.

1. Make system local chat delayed in K-space and make regional (or constellation) chat immediate. It's debatable at which larger level local chat becomes immediate. The knowing is still there, just not as the super intelligence tool it currently is. Keep W-space local the way it is!



2. Make 2 levels of NPC corps (noob and freelance) you can be in noob NPC for a certain amount of gametime and then you get automatically moved to freelance level never to go back into noob. You can of course join another corp immediately if you wish, but you can't go back.

2A. Noob NPC corp cannot be wardec'd and freelance NPC corp is just a flat 50M/week to wardec (generally speaking easily wardecc'd). Noob NPC corp people can only post to the Noob forum channel.

2B. Noob NPC corp is 10% tax and freelance is 0%.

You can argue about the particulars of time, taxes, any other balancing and names but the idea is there...



3. Move this thread to "Features and Ideas Discussion"?

Some great ideas in here guys and gals. Keep 'em coming. :)

1) Dynamic system security status, fueled by both NPC and player kills (and the killed players security status. Only affecting 0.4 and 0.5, which could swing both ways. Recently changed systems would retain their sec-status related resources for a limited time.

2) Cloak fuel. Cloaking device would consume Cloak Fuel capsules from your cargo bay. Manufactured from Jove crystal artifacts harvested from new ladar-type sites only found in lowsec.

3) Graduating or booting from NPC starter corps. New certificate system rewarding actual activity (not only mission grinding, but you would get certificates from player kills, completing your first DED rated plex, etc), completing certificates would give material rewards and would eventually lead to graduating. Graduates would have access to improved, ISD-lead factional corps, those who would not work towards graduation would be booted to wardeccable trashbin corps. Ideally this would make NPC corp alts less desirable, give recruiters more factual knowledge on the new player (what kind of certificates the applying player has been collecting) and also give incentives for players who like achievement-style of game-play.

BONUS IDEA:

Apply planetary interaction scanning mechanic to asteroid mining. You rotate the roid to find visually the best spot to place your miner beams, move it when the roid rotates slowly and the hotspot depletes.

The trick to running sites in low sec is to only run angel and guristas rated sites ;) There's only one escalation site worth doing, I think it's called "angel pleasure gardens" or something. The thing never fails to escalate for some reason


Freighters use the JB network, jump freighters use cyno gens or their own personal cyno alts. But what does that have to do with my comment on how easy logistics is in null? They've already nerfed the JB network in the past, and with good reason, CCP aren't going to move them back in that direction.

And of course it would be bad to make it more difficult to camp a JB, because null sec is already ridiculously easy to operate in.

1 ) Bring back warp to 15km or a variant even a warp to 2500 (put some sort of invisible bubble on celestials to prevent BM making)

2 ) Undock @ range not @ 0

3 ) increase station/gate/jump aggression timers


just reset the game pre-sov.

Remove the ability of goon-pets to post.

But, seriously.
1. Replace all gates in null with truly stable wormholes with no mass restrictions (maybe individual ship size?). This maintains the warp in and out points for camping/defending your space and would give a logical reason to remove LOCAL from null as the gates are the "lore" behind local knowing who is in a system..

2. Make space big again. Remove all jump bridges ... go back to cyno alts. (this will not be popular)

3. I got nothing for #3

1. Tax on any type of refinement as an ISK sink.

2. Tax rate increase for sales tax as an ISK sink.

3. Once the big boat spawns in an incursion, for each subcap that drops before it does another cap shows up and aggresses a logistics ship first. This continues to be true for the additional spawns, making incursions exponentially unfarmable and properly curbing Incursion income.

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