Player Features and Ideas Discussion

9) SOE Epic arc introducing newbies to all four empires is ruined.

Many places on Africa and Middle East, Venezuela / Colombia, Pakistan / India, etfuckingcetera... just make some little research (africa is the biggest example of this tho, with warlords and drug dealers).
But this is a game. Not everything has to make sense, the politics should be dictated by the players, not game mechanichs.

More interesting? No, it makes people waste their time on even more tedius crap...

Are you being serious ?

What kind of country does fit your views as Amarr ? As Gallente ? As Minmatar ? Do you want some cherrycoke with it ? By the way, you have the whole east vs west with Africa in the middle, and middle east being a shattered by geopolitical affairs.

You are trying to disprove something that another person said, which is truth, rival faction borders ussually are lawless and chaotic, this is true in the whole globe, but instead of accepting your little mistake (happens to everybody!), you try to pull straws ?

Well, this is the internet, i don't know why i am surprised :P

This could have a marginal impact on trading and the big picture economy in the very short run. I'd expect that in the long run, the highsec players would congregate in Caldari space, and the other empires would be very underpopulated in general. Of course this would mean that the economy would be mostly concentrated in Caldari space and that there would be regional/empire markets -- but these also already exist to a large degree, anyway, and I'd expect with the lines being cut, more economic heft would shift to the Forge rather than less because more people will concentrate there as it is the deepest market.

The "moving stuff around" would happen in the short term, and unless this was "sprung" on players by surprise, most people who are active will have moved their stuff around prior to the lines being cut, if you will, so likely only a marginal increase in targets even during the transition phase. After the transition, I wouldn't expect any significant increase in targets for lowsec hunters, because people will still stay put in their highsec space -- although, as I say, I do think that at least half if not more of the playerbase would be crammed into Caldari space, and the Forge especially. Not sure how much CCP would like that due to server load issues, to be honest.

So, yeah, the routes and such have changed over the years a few times, and this type of change wouldn't really change that much, I think, other than likely consolidate much of the highsec playerbase in one of the empires. That would be the case even if there were empire specializations (as has been suggested -- i.e., Gallente accesses FW, Amarr accesses null, etc.), because most people would likely want to be where the deepest market is, and just run their missions there regardless.

It's proven to be virtually impossible to force players who don't want to engage in combat PvP into doing so by means of game mechanics, really, over the years. It's a hard playstyle block.

So I guess I'm fairly neutral on this change -- I don't think it would be very impactful, so either way it wouldn't matter much, other than resulting in a much more crowded Caldari space.

Problem is that those who control null-sec does not really want to build an empire... they infact hate the whole empire-thing, and seeing that High-sec is a empire working ... where people can produce, trade and do stuff relativly safe ... under the guard of Concord, that really stings.

If however those who control null-sec would even try to build a empire and invite friendlies (people not nessesary belonging to their alliance) to do their stuff in their stations for a fee ofcourse ... that would actually create a proper empire in null-sec, it would make more potential targets in null-sec and more life there...

Not entirely, it would introduce new players to low-sec firsthand. Give the high-sec adjacent gate grids in those systems, minor, minor protections to help dissuade gate campers (similar to the protections granted in Arnon).

Unfortunately, you are correct, this is a duplicate post and will be locked, and moved to the appropriate forum.

Great discussions though, keep the great ideas coming.

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