Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I am considering the potential of adding a core set of new systems to the empires high security region.

Like the New Eden system, but in a new way.

The security levels of these internal systems would be above 1.0, to reflect a modification to the rules applying to them uniquely.

STORY BACKGROUND:
These represent a combined effort from the empires to reach back to Earth. They believe the home worlds have somehow collapsed, or else they would have technologically surpassed the Jovians exponentially, and would have reestablished contact otherwise.
Whether they would be helping the current empires, or conquering them to reestablish control over this entire area, is not definable.

The concern is that whatever prevented this reunion might have been only a temporary setback, and they could be rebuilding in order to invade.
Enough records survived to determine this as the most likely direction their interests would take, if the opportunity presented to them.

This is not Schrodinger's cat... this box has a power hungry empire behind it, and at some point will come looking for us as a means to advance their goals, at our expense in all probability.

WHAT does this all mean?

A set of wormholes were discovered that had a sub resonant signature like that of the legendary New Eden wormhole. Believing that these could be fragments linking together between our space and the Earth systems, all the empires forged a pact of mutual alliance to explore and investigate what they eventually lead to.

They established a mutual non aggression agreement, to have the pilots work together and not hamper progress by non productive conflicts with each other.
All ships permitted entry are automatically modified to deny targeting weapons on friendly forces. And all forces from our space are considered friendly.

Teamwork, and this unprecedented level of trust supporting it, are the keys to how this gameplay will be different in this space.

They will need it. It seems the sleepers can be found out there too... and worse....

You do realize it's been at least thirty thousand years since the EVE Gate closed, right? I assume you also realize that the technology capsuleers currently have is far, far behind that of the colonists from Earth - Sleepers, Talocan, and Jove are all but confirmed as only a few generations removed from the baseline Terran colonists.

This is also more or less an attempt to stealthily buff highsec in an unreasonable and PvE-centric manner, when CCP has stated many times that EVE is about PvP first and foremost. Just like every other idea that centers around NPCs being the enemy rather than other players, this will probably never be implemented.

And if it is, I'll eat my shoe.

Ok, quick explanation since you misunderstood.

It is an accepted concept that technology does not stagnate, it evolves.
The exception is what happened in EVE space, where a collapse of supporting social and economic systems threw a few groups back to the dark ages, and killed the rest.

Thirty thousand years with no contact means one of two things. Either technology can never bridge the distance, or some form of setback also affected the Earth systems.
Noone knows how or why the EVE gate closed, or what effects happened at the other end.

We survived, and we were far less spread apart and self sufficient than they were.
Conjecture as to whether this implies a disaster, or war, on the Terran side is yet unresolved. Evidence of records recovered suggest either as equally probable.

As to this being a stealthy buff to high sec, read it again.

This has nothing to do with high sec itself, the single connection being a wormhole entrance most likely placed in a new or repurposed system.
Like existing WH space, it would be distinct and separate.

Lorewise, how exactly do the empires find out about earth?

The Jovians have the best records on this topic, but do not like to share the information.

With the discovery of the stable wormhole series, recognizing the resonant sub frequency the WH energy possessed, and learning about the hostile population inside....
They grudgingly decided it was necessary to share the details of our origins, in order to prevent an invasion by these other descendants of our forefathers.

They directed the empires with research information, allowing the few remaining puzzle pieces needing confirmation to be brought to light. Long dead colonies which never survived the cataclysmic failure of the EVE wormhole, were located, and their data harvested to reveal disturbing details.

Fleets moving in both directions had been common, bringing in support and taking out profitable resources and discoveries.
At least one fleet in each direction had been in transit, with their survival after the collapse now considered possible.
It is theorized that they were dropped at some point, (or points), between the two original WH entry points.
Having the actual needed supplies with them to create and establish new outposts and colonies, it is expected the fleet coming towards EVE space had more than what was needed to survive and likely rebuild.
The outgoing fleet, while less equipped for independent survival than the other fleet, still would have had very good probability of recovering and surviving.

One or both of them together would account for the presence in the newly discovered wormhole.
Whether their hostile attitude is due to historical causes, or simply how their survival changed them, is academic.
They are dangerous.

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Don't like that its instanced. I'm assuming this is high reward stuff that would be farmable without anyone able to interfere from the outside.

Not instanced at all.

Go into a system that doesn't scale below a certain level, and solo content can be risky to attempt.

You are welcome to try, but they won't pull punches.

If I could go back in time and stop CCP Seagull from saying anything about building stargates, I WOULD. That shouldn't have been mentioned or even breathed about until we were within a year from it, not approximately five years as we are now.

They never said "destructible stargates". They simply said "building stargates". Please don't get more stupid rumors started, we have ten thousand of them already.

Finding New Eden would have to be nearly impossible if they hadn't been able to do it at the time.

Chances are it's in a galaxy several billion light years away. Being able to determine the star cluster we are in among 100's of billions of galaxies, each with 100's of billions of stars, at a few billion light years away would be a monumental task. For all we know we're outside the visible reaches of Earth.

Of coure that's not written in stone, so I suppose they could make it concievable for renewed contact with Earth and its colony systems in the Milky Way.

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