Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This game should be all about gates.
Gates that you can hold, to win something , now it is just about bridges and jump drives , and this is bad.

What did you lose?

A good camp is its own toll fee

First of all, they already have gate guns in half the sec areas of space.

Secondly, the game itself is basically a roguelike. The gate system is integral to how the core game functions.

Thirdly, gatecamps are easy to avoid under most circumstances. In most places they are trivial at best, only in null are they remotely worth a damn.

You want to talk about "no skill"? You're the one advocating that you yourself have to put in less work to avoid getting caught. Take that hypocritical crap to the WoW forums where it belongs.

Lastly, no one, CCP included, is going to take suggestions from a worthless NPC alt.

While it may seem easy and as so many feel they can call it so, it's not. I personally did it because it suited my RL situation. I could log on at any time and still be able to join in on corp activities. There were times we were in different systems, but that's a far cry from my null sec days and their roams and major jumps.

You often need a specific fit, one that tends not to work well in other fights. You sit in the same spot, therefore painting a hotdrop target on yourself. Plus with changes made by CCP, there are long times of quiet. It's often like the old bus scenario, nothing for ages then three at the same time.

That aside, lets look at your suggestions from a low sec perspective:

Increase sentry gun damage so that perma-tanking gate guns becomes a moderate challenge again.

For a start it's as challenging as other players allow it to be. This is the backbone of Eve and it should remain that way. This backbone was only strengthened with crimewatch changes, so that now we can warp out and back removing gate gun aggro. Plus my requested no gate gun fire to drones.
Also gate guns are meant as part of the punishment, not the total. They seem to fit that bill rather well atm.

slightly increase how far from the gate it spits you out, so someone on the gate in an unbonused ship can't land a scram, only a point

This is already the case and we tend to use bonused ships. Plus we also use Hics.
But I do question this idea, seeing as it's already easy to avoid camps with tools provided.

Instant gate gun response in 1.0, and scale down to current times in 0.5 and below.

I'm starting to wonder if you have any knowledge on the subject at all.

slight increase in the number of connections between regions such that there are 2 or 3 major choke points one can chose between major hubs (looking at you niarja).

There are already enough connections. One could even argue there are too many and Eve needs more risk with travel. But that's for another thread and I tend to think it's about right.

The OP is about a player not wishing to use the tools provided and wanting CCP to give him hand holding mechanics. I for one think this goes against the nature of the game and as such makes it a poor idea. Much like yours.

You know, in fairness, high sec isn't a kick in the arse off low/null in terms of violence.

http://evemaps.dotlan.net/stats

At least, at time of posting.


Also somewhat amusingly certain null systems are almost rivalling high sec mission hubs for NPC kills

Would increase the amount of positioning checking for bubble vs ship like 2 billion fold. Unlikely to happen.

id like to see bubbles in highsec :D

Gate camps are a difficult issue for newer and solo players. It can be hard when you haven't played long to identify places where they might be and you don't yet know what systems are almost perma-camped. Camps aren't, however, insurmountable, and with experience you'll find that they're not as difficult to avoid as you'd think.

Moreover, gate camps are important and necessary to protect your systems. Running organized and frequently active gate camps keeps a large proportion of dangerous ships away from certain systems and regions. What tends to be left are things like interceptors, which can be annoying for your ratters and miners, but with a sufficient amount of players able to rapidly respond to such a threat they pose little danger.

Much of the content in game occurs at gates and gate camps are the de-facto low and null-sec content generators. Why would you want to remove that?

Nah, only needs to happen once warp is initiated, same amount of checks involved as right now.