Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The idea is very simple - i will explain it using Jita as example.
Jita is overloaded , have to be on a separate node , and it is still blocked in most of the TZ.

Instead of putting more server power to maintain Jita, lets just make main trade hubs constellation wide.

How this constellation wide trade hub works:
- 1 designated station in each system.
- everything you place on the market can be bought in the whole constellation trade hub , and will be instantly delivered to buyers hangar.

What this will change?
- instead of 1 overloaded system 2k local will be split to multiple systems.
There will be no need to keep jita on separate node.

Jita is located in this constellation :
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/The_Forge/Kimotoro
We can limit the range of this Constellation trade hub to 1j from Jita .

In case of ganking this will not change much.
People will just move 1 jump from those systems.
Most of the ganking along routes will be not affected at all - for example : content creators hunting in all 0.5 systems.

I don't like the idea of trade hubs - but most of the players do.
That's why those trade hubs exist.
CCP didn't create them - they are player made , and maintained by players.

I prefer that high end nodes running trade hubs - especially jita.
Will be dedicated to some more important tasks.

If CCP decides to split this to multiple systems, and place each of those systems on a separate node ( with other systems) then most of the issues connected to jita will be gone.

Including less spam on local , as scamers will be also split by 5 systems.

And what about people who trained skills for region trading?

I was thinking this same thing, it is a pretty simple solution. In fact I think it is probably inevitable that CCP will somehow try to split the server load using some such method as the game continues to grow.

There's not much you can do about it. Except for overhauling the ancient code to make processes more parallelized and multithreaded and changed the mission system so that CN and shield is not the top of the hill anymore.

Apart from that: If stuff is stored in Jita and you buy it in Marausi, as an example, how do you get your stuff to Marausi? NPC Magic? I don't think that will sit well with all those Player-over-everything extremists in the forum. Player hauling? Expensive (or ridiculous couriers) and then where's the point of splitting Jita up?

Eve not having had any sort of NPC magic transportation of player items since the start afaik, I would really not say that people who think that players need to do all the in game hauling of items to be "extremists"

And unless you are a very new player, player hauling services are extremely cheap. It's around a mil for a pickup, then 5-700k a jump. A person running missions can pay for a back and forth trip from Jita to Rens and back for an entire freighter haul for 25 Milish, 30 minutes of running missions or ratting in exchange for someone making 30+ jumps in a freighter with the agility of a whale on land that takes a couple hours if on manual, or quite a few hours if on AP.

Ok if this was to be done then maybe the following delivery methods could be used:

Interbus or Prompt Delivery style NPC corps fly around space in freighters that can be attacked with consequences (pilot is suspect flagged) which mean your delivery is just a vulnerable to ganks as it would be if a player was flying the ship, maybe take out transport insurance . To possibly save server load with this method the cargo ship only delivers on a scheduled say once per hour.

The Jovians did experiment with long range transporters back when Cloaking devices were introduced, didn't work out well for the Ambassador involve but, they could have left that technology sitting around to be found, so you could have an instant delivery, just might not end up where you want it.

Yes they are, and they didn't changed for the last years.
There cannot be a player solution, as the current limitation is not from the player side , but from CCP side.

Like i stated, 1 additional ( or designated ) station in those systems.
When you trade on it - all stuff is put, or pulled from all those systems.

I don't want all trade hubs to be connected, just split the raw 'server power' needed to run jita.
So we will have separate trade hubs , just split between few systems and nodes.

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