Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Sure, just make nullsec actually worth doing stuff in or all of the oh so easy kills you want won't happen, because they'll move to highsec to do incursions, or to wormholes where the risk is actually worth the rewards.

Tell the risk averse to hurry back to high sec space already.

It is not in question whether the rewards would change in response to the level of effort and risk. After all, the whole point of L4's and incursions even being comparable to null sec activities pretty plainly spells out how dumbed down null rewards are at this time.

As for the kills, I won't see any if I get my way. I'll be mining in the belts enjoying the higher rewards null will have. And knowing my competition in other areas is getting chewed up.

Win / Win for enlightened self interest PvE pilots everywhere. Specifically those willing to make more effort.

They are more than welcome to set up something that displays IFF broadcasting ships who are blue.

The possibility that an automated D-Scan could be set up at a POS is another topic, and can be balanced by the same things D-Scan already must deal with: clutter from unknown objects as well as unpiloted ships.
Interesting tactics could include deliberately launching probes into a decoy system so they can be spotted there, and going to the real target system while defenders waste time looking in the wrong place.

Yeah, they need to downgrade that whole free intel thing.

Who needs scouts in EVE? Local hands out system presence, and the map hands out activity levels.
Maybe they'll interpret the data for us next, and tell us where the targets are like overview beacons too.

So? There are articles on the very website you link that would see that as a good thing. That information on the map suggests people might be there mining. Just like the information on dotlan jumps/hour or jumps/24hours gives one an idea of how trafficked a system is. And I've sat in fairly well trafficed systems and seen nothing in 2 hours when dotlan indicated I should be seeing 20-30 ships jumping in and out.

Oh and BTW, do something about the horrible ads or whatever on themittani.com that are causing problems with the site loading.

Bumpity

The solution to this is to make intel gathering more useful.

You should read this, in that case, it solves the whole issue you pointed out here.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=112964&find=unread

If you had read it, you would have noticed this thread does not ask for local to be removed.

It describes changes that are likely in the event it IS removed, or at least reduced enough to satisfy the balance for the changes described here.

Like risk.

The null sec experience is not the high risk area. It's been domesticated, and is now quite tame.

With risk this low, is it any wonder that L4s in high sec are compared to PvE activity in null?


That ship sank a long time ago.

This thread is about being able to hunt cloaked ships.
For that reason, it may not be a good fit for wormholes, since they like their danger with a slice of unknown.

You are clearly lost.

If you want to debate the virtues of removing local, please seek a thread discussing such.

This thread is about hunting cloaked vessels.

This thread, so far, seems to be the closest to the mark on reducing AFK cloaking I have seen. However, I do not think your solution to be completely balanced. I believe the amount of activity a covert pilot displays should be a factor. Moving should give a small bonus. Altering speed, moderate bonus. Turning, and altering course, a large bonus.

While I am strongly against AFK cloaking, active cloakers should be affected to a minimum, as they have a vital role to play in the game. As far as Local Chat is concerned, eliminate AFK cloaking and remove cloaked pilots from chat.

Also, a thought on your idea and warping covert pilots. While scanning, if your skills are high enough compared to the covert pilot, you can see the direction warped from point of origin, but no idea of distance. The higher the scanner's skill, the longer after the covert's warp direction can be seen after the covert warp.