EVE General Discussion

Creating a dynamic system for Eve would be the "shake up" this game desperately needs. However this would be pointless, until low-sec actually becomes something unique and worth wild. Otherwise it would just **** everyone off.

Yet many null sec peeps state this is the opposite...

Did you ask your Goons Masters for permission before you posted?

Like this idea :)

Well... and the activity in NPC "zero" sec would potentially lead to an increase in security level eventully allow for much better mining and ratting under CONCORD protection. The proposed system works both ways.

That bit of the suggestion does make sense though. You'd expect Concord to react and protect key trade routes and player traffic would establish it.

Damned interesting idea. It gets at a problem, which is access to low/null sec space through only a few choke points mean the carebears won't try. What we need is a thinner hisec, with a lot more tendrils and access into low and null sec space.

The current system causes those (HED-GP) access points to low/null sec to be continuously camped, either by the large alliances or some gank gang, either way the carebears aren't coming. But what if nullsec had hundreds of openings, large alliances would be forced to actively protect their space, and when stretched thin they would have to make a decision on what to hold, and not be able to hold huge areas by holding a few key systems.

A little bit more like real space also.

How about the sov holder gets to set the sec level? wouldn't that be interesting - islands of hisec in nullsec.

…sure, with the addendum that areas with high pirate presence become nullsec because, obviously, the pirates have taken the place over.

This means constellations such as Suon,Santenpaa, Karnola, Perud, Coriault… you know, the usual spots?

Pod Pilots do not control the security of the space,

Regular people do. And when regular people make that space very hazardous for other people to the point concord cant do anything about it or the empire police forces they stop bothering.

Remember Concord doesnt have the ability to wft uber pwn anything else that doesnt have a capsuleer pilotining it. Special jovian pod jamming technology makes that possible.

This has always been the problem I've seen. Once you get out to the raggedy edge, suddenly you're taking a long bridge to low or null. the next bridge could be 10 systems over. I can only imagine they put these choke points in intentionally, to foment battle. But as was said, constant gate camps by seasoned PvPers now throws up a big roadblock for young players. The border needs to be more porous in those places.

To the main idea: I'd love to see that sort of shake-up. High pod kill areas get Concord swarmed and their sec status raised dynamically. Hi-sec areas with little population or traffic lose Concord's interest, and start to lose security. Lo-sec ares with high traffic or market or POS's or whatever get security protection. Et cetera.

It would make the game feel alive. When plotting your route, you'd have to actually pay attention to the current sec status. Long used routes would slowly change, and if you want to avoid the new lower sec systems, you have to find a new route. Adds a modicum of planning and tactics to something as mindless as freight hauling. Oases of hi-sec could start popping up in lo or null, providing brief havens for those wearied by the constant cold wars. Conversely, lo and null could creep into the edges of hi where few bother setting up.

A constantly emergent universe that reacts based on player actions. It would be glorious. And it would cause a firestorm the likes of which might ignite the pants of the bloated, slothful lords of the dragon lands, who have long since slain all the beasts and claimed their hoards for themselves.

Its a good idea, would just have to be part of something bigger; I don't think the larger alliances, holding vast tracks of Sov would be happy if their memberbase turned their truesec -1.0 into a 1.0 via carebearing. Leave nullsec alone, and the way it is; messing with this would just **** off most of the playerbase; and further cripple the Dominion Sov system (for example what would happen to outposts and other nullsec only stuff if it was 'suddenly empire'?).

A reactive system sec status in high sec would be interesting, it would have to be a slow evolution, and handled at downtime or the acts of a few could seriously sway important systems.. For instance, Jita would practically instantly be 0.0 by your proposition, unless they would factor in bordering systems and their sec status to effectively change other systems. The Madmirillire and Niarja would also see over night drops in System Sec as well.

I'm all for shaking things up a bit, but it would definitely need to be done properly.. have the negative aspects such as Ganking, Pods Destroyed, Aggression, Etc factor against Missions, Incursions, and Ratting. Have people that enjoy their highsec utopia have to work on defending it from the empire yarrbears. You could even work the individual security status of players that inhabit those systems play into it as well.

This is a pretty great idea, just needs some thought, time and tuning.