Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The game would become more interesting indeed.

A vast, interesting and empty galaxy game most indeed.

meh with all the jump freighters out there I doubt it would make much of a difference.

Break all highsec connections between empires.

For example you would have to travel through lowsec from Minmatar to Gallente. Same from Minmatar to Amarr and so on.

ANSWER = I love this idea

Allow highsec connections to only interempire region jumps.

For example you could jump from Metropolis to Heimatar by using highsec connection, but then if you would like to move towards Sinq laison, you would have to cross the dangerous lowsec.

1) Jita's value as largest hub would decrease, because you couldn't run freighters easily with alts.

ANSWER = Yes and would reduce load, don't see much of a downside

2) It would make life on lowsec space much more interesting

ANSWER = Not really. It would just result in more congestion in each Empire space.

3) It would spawn up a real need for escorting your haulers and freighters

ANSWER = Not really. Unless your a multiboxer, who is going to escort you for free? Paying would eat into profits. No guarantee your escort would stop you from sploding.

4) Use of jump freighters would increase, however, it's expensive to use them

ANSWER = The use of these would remain constant, except those who have them might use them more

5) There has been similar changes in the past, like Jitas connections have been changed few times.

ANSWER = Nothing like this has been tried in the past. The carebears would quit in droves if they did.


Look, I love your idea but its not practical. Until we have a better way to enter Low sec instead of throw easy to camp chokepoints its a waste of time.

A multiplayer game simply means that the game "hosts" more than one player and most likely has mechanics which support many players attempting an objective at the same time. It does not mean I have to play with you. I'm wondering if you even thought before making this suggestion or you wanted proof that you are worth hanging out with the cool, "nerf hisec" kids on the far side of the lunch room.

But on a practical note, what would keep hisec from simply becoming like nullsec, an assortment of isolated regions where players pretty much stay until called upon to attack other's space or defend their own. Your idea would most likely lead to the balkanization of hisec where a few powerful entities control the cross empire shipping of needed items, i.e. caldari ice for research towers, and everyone else lives out their pixelated lives in their own little neighborhoods. What people don't seem to understand is that hisec doesn't need a nerf and it doesn't need to be changed (except for the mind crushingly dull pve), and Lowsec doens't need more easy kills funneled into their gate camps. The work needs to be done in null.

agondray pls

lol this stupid idea is still alive? yeah do it and kill eve for real this time =) it dosn't even need explanations why it's such ******** idea

If it was a good idea for anyone but the socially marginalized neckbeards that never leave their low sec gate camp, it would have happened already. You think it hasn't been discussed at game headquarters at least once in ten years?

Mr Epeen

IDK how I would feel about this.

Yes, it would increase risk, however, it would also decrease competition.

If CCP threw it up on Sisi, I'd give it a try to see what all choke points, loopholes and regional pinches there were. It couldn't hurt anything there and if well received, they could then migrate it to TQ.

I'd be into it. I think it would generate a lot of content. It would generate immense economic turbulence, as people find they need to relocate their operations, and where and what you build would become much more important. The immense economic demand for safe passage would lead to a lot of creative emergent gameplay, with player-offered services possibly including HS-HS wh chains, free public intel channels for certain areas to cross lowsec. It would make lowsec much more relevant. It would make DSTs more relevant. It would make freighters much less relevant. PLEX sales for webbing alts, cyno alts, and scouts will go up. Also maybe some actual piracy would happen. It would reward people that understand how to use the map, how to find alternate routes. It would give more meaning to being in one area vs another. It would cause people to purchase more stuff, as retrieving something from far away would be more difficult or not worth it. It would completely play into lore narrative in at least 6 different ways.

And it's in the right forum too!