Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I make local an optional feature where people either connect to it or don't in low/null sec just like every other channel.

Laugh hard, and then laugh some more

Change the Font.

Tell the whiners that WHs are > Thataway.

More like people who assumed the thread was about a feature or game mechanic change instead of the dev put in charge of doing something that is hotly debated.

But thanks for your constructive input friend!

I consider everything I've seen and read here on these forums regarding the subject briefly, then I toss that out the window as it will get me nowhere, and ultimately, I have been told to remove local.

After blanking my mind of all the incessant wheedling of the forumites, I get to work on my great idea. What is it you ask? Well, that'll have to wait until I've got a solid idea rolling, and then I'll post it up here for all of you to see and criticize. After that, I'll get to work on something workable.

Isn't that what Devs do?

..actually, (just a little edit here), I'd probably take into consideration the fact that Local, Constellation chat etc.. are either unused or simply used for trolling, scamming, spamming, and the like, and happily remove them.

Constellation chat, I'd wipe out without more than a brief thought. Most of you would never even notice. Empire local would get removed and replaced with proximity local, and the same for Lowsec. That means most of you would have a standard channel open with a low broadcast range that you could see and hear as you approached broadcast points and relays, like stations and gates.

Alliance Nullsec would get Secure Comms; NPC Nullsec would get a separate band of Comms that functioned n the same way proximity local does.The difference being that you would have to have Standings with the NPC stations to tune into it. Kind of a locked out local, that is in delay mode and only becomes accessible if you have the right standings.

None of these would function on ships in space unless you were within proximity of them, or they were directly communicating on the channel. So for the station you are near or in, you'd get a 'passenger list', and for everyone else, you'd get delayed local, and for those in space, you'd see them when they chose to communicate.

Alliance comms would be on communication. Broadcast nodes would be TCUs, IHUBs, and Stations in Alliance controlled space. These could be accessed if you were Blue to the Alliance controlling the area.

How's that so far? Am I a good Dev?

Rattling on though aren't I. Sorry, I seem to have that tendency when I start with this sort of thing, which is sort of why I start less often these days. Tends to be under, or unappreciated anyway.

So, yeah, that's probably where I'd start.

I'd remove incursions from hisec, nerf L4 rewards, add a delay for lighting a cyno after decloaking, remove the ability for bombers to target immediately after decloaking, and then entertain the thought of doing anything to local.