EVE General Discussion

I would hope if CCP ever did open up Jove space than it would be some conditions:

1 - The entrance to Jove space much harder to scan down than a wormhole.
2 - Very small mass allowed to go thru said entrance before it closes, a couple dozen ships max (no capitals)
3 - Entrance only stays active for a hour then closes.
4 - A one way trip, have to scan another entrance back to regular space.
5 - NO SOV Allowed
6 - NO Local
7 - NO POSes Allowed
8 - Jove rats (combo Sansha & Sleeper AI plus)

9 - Here's the kicker, Entrances to Jove space only found in low or null sec.

Jove space would have to make it extremely hard for someone to live there for any length of time.

Lmfao. So what you're asking for, is wormhole space, with tighter mass limits, and no control towers. Do you have ANY clue how moronic this is?

Sounds like a personal assessment to me, based only on what you describe as so-called "legitimate speculation".

If they did open up Jove space: here's an idea to prevent the nearest coalition from just taking over and ruining the experience for the rest of us: Maintain the lack of stargates to the outside, so while you can jump between the systems in Jove space, access to the outside is limited. The access they should get should be through wormholes. To maintain some level of danger, I suggest only C5 and C6 connect (or at least those are the only systems that should have Jove statics) so you have to make multiple jumps to get there from highsec (HS to low level WH to a higher level WH to jove space). Note this also means null is still closer to Jove space since they get more links to high level Wormholes, but ALL null is closer rather than just the Sov blocks that are physically nearby.


If this leads to jove ships, the skills should have to be reverse engineered or otherwise acquired at high cost, and the ships themselves should be on the level of faction ships in cost and abilities (I know everyone always goes on about the superiority of Jove tech, but it's been a while since any of their ships were seen in open combat [and I do NOT count dev ships because dev ships cheat] and we have recovered quite a bit of tech since then that might reduce the power gap; we do routinely blow up Sleepers and take their tech. Aside from that, their superiority over the Amarr once upon a time was just as much due to military intelligence and the Amarr's own hubris as it was the Jove's actual military power)

Epic tears over an alt? Methinks, you overestimate people's emotional attachments to their alts (WiS boobies notwithstanding.)

THIS should be usefull for a lot of people in this thread.

Actually, the new space will be an invite only area. Invitations are sent to all bittervets and when they go, they shall never return. Nobody will know quite where they went or how awesome it must be there, but it leaves everyone else in Eve to enjoy the game as it is, without having to listen to whining about "disappointing" expansions long before any details have been released.

they are not going to give access to that area of space, quite simply because it is where they do their testing before they open the doors for players when they are releasing patches.

as much as the lore or w/e makes it sound like a wondrous place there is nothing much there i suspect.

As suggested previously it will just be that someone from marketing has taken the raw number of systems and said that number.

Having to enter through a WH makes no sense.
As soon as you can light a Cyno in there everyone and their mother can jump in from Various ranges.

Soon as you enter system you contract the Jovian Disease and begin to have bad booster side effects....