Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Dear CCP,

If you want the Thera WH system to be the next "Jita", you can accomplish this via 2 simple additions"

1. Make the main Thera station the only station in EVE with the FULL walking in station experience.

2. Seed the new "blighted" weapons in that station as soon as they are released and make it so that afterwards, blighted weapons are produced faster and or cheaper in that station.


These 2 additions would ensure steady traffic and population in the new system and would give people a reason to stick around and return after it's novelty wears off.


Sincerely,
Just another capsuleer

They don't want it to be anything.

It's just a place they made for us to do with as we wish. That is the true sandbox thinking that gives me faith that CCP and EVE aren't going to fold anytime soon.

Mr Epeen

CCP never said they want it to be jita without concord, its the players that are calling it this.

Its a new system, with tools that we can mess with. It may become a ghost town, a pirate haven, controlled by a wh alliance, controlled by a 0.0 alliance, a thunderdome war zone, the jita of wh's, who the heck knows. The point is they gave us new stuff to play with.

When the novelty wears off, someone will come in and take it over and change it, giving it new life. That's what eve is.

No, no, we got rid of that naming convention. It's Polarized

No freighters from highsec, ore won't be brought in, people won't risk jump freighters in lowsec and null.

Market pvp defined by reputation of corporation people don't normally have reputation with, and can't get easily.

You want marketeering to happen here?

1) remove all taxes (if you have accounting 5 and broker 5, regardless of your reputation) you pay 0 taxes in posting orders or setting orders. Period (people like tax havens).

2) to match in someway, the amount of traffic that goes through jita, you would have to make the highsec hole unclosable by players. You would also have to allow freighters in (you don't currently). If you do that though, people will just bypass Thera and move stuff to Jita. You would need a intermediary, which would be the orca. Would people risk orcas to ship stuff, probably not.

3) you would have to make build costs exceedingly cheap here.

4) would have to create a interdiction nullified hauler (not a cloaky, but with high resists to probing) to deal with bubblegate

The main one is probably market taxes. That would make this a better marketing hub than Jita. After that, let them try.

Fozzie referred to it as this when he announced it and that is why the players are referring to it as such, however this is just what they gave us tools to create weather we use them as such they leave up to us

WTB: 8x 'Useless' Neutron Blaster

Pt 2:

While Thera is unique, for the time-being, and is kind of a W-space "Jita" by default, trying to force all the players to choose one of the four stations is a crappy idea, and will likely backfire.
Just the simple fact that two of the stations are directly on-grid with oneanother is going too much in that direction to begin with, and I hope they change that.

Why do you think no ore will be brought in? People will bring stuff in and take the risk if there is a chance to make money. People will even take the risk of mining if there is a chance to make money. Never underestimate human greed and or stupidity

1) This won't happen however

2) no you don't need an uncloseable hole, it is essentially a moving trade hub. As I said already, never under estimate human greed. The wh alliances and corps alone could easily use this system as a way station for stocking up on good and putting things here for sell. They can defend there ships that go into and out of the system with ease. And as it links to other terriroties, other people will go in to see if they find deals or make millions. Human greed is magic.

3) they will be, no pos' means the only cost are everyone making stuff in the 4 stations. It will be one of the cheaper places to build for a while.

4) no you really don't, MWD and cloak trick if done correctly can get you well outside of a bubble and range before you are decloaked. its not that bloody hard to dodge a bubble camp.

Taxes are a sink, and from storyline perspective the sisters will want isk too.

Delayed local is local like it is in WH space. You don't show up in local until you say something.

Yes, freighters will be able to get in and out of the system. However, once they dock at the station, they will never be able to undock unless they are protected by a combat force able to claim 'air superiority' over the station. Imagining what a freighter escort mission might turn out like is pretty fascinating. However, it goes without saying that independent traders without extensive combat support will not be active in Thera. Except for station trading that is.