Player Features and Ideas Discussion

over years I play game then leave then come back so on and so forth.

one of the biggest reason I keep quiting the game is travel. time is money when I get on I don't want to have to spend a week just traveling.

there needs to be way to improve it I can understand that some people make there living in game just moveing stuff around but all in all most people play this game to have fun. when I come home from work after 16 hours shift I don't want to waste the hour or two I have to play just jumping from system to system.

one of things that can be done is remove the jump animations while interesting the first 100 tiems you see them after that I could care less just pop me to next zone 20 sec every gate to watch that stupid jump sequence is wasteing my time.

another thing isn't it time to remove the 15km out auto pilot method in high sec if it did't make traveling 100 times longer I could at least put on auto pilot then go cook dinner get my house stuff done so that I can at least get something done while traveling.


maybe these are not the ideas but something needs done cause I am sure I am not the only one who gets tired of this I mean does anyone find it fun to have to spend most of your time getting from point a to point b when we could be blowing up pods?

I remember the game before they had gate jump animations (which was introduced about 2 years ago). The "load bar" took roughly the same amount of time as the entire jump animation currently does.

Basically, there is no difference between "animation sequence" and "no animation sequence." Both take equally long.


Nope.

If you want to get somewhere faster, be at the computer. Not being at the computer carries penalties.

Be happy there is an autopilot at all. I'd personally like to get rid of it.


Let me ask you two questions;

1. What do you do that requires you spending an hour or so travelling?

2. Have you considered limiting your activities to a specific region or area?


The reason I ask these questions is because a lot of players have been asking for CCP to increase the size of EVE to make traveling take longer... to instill a sense of vastness... to make the moving of supplies and forces simply too much for any large group of players.

That last point is important too. Because you see... there is something called "power projection" in this game. Essentially, the faster a player can travel from point A to point B, the faster that player (or group of players) can extend their influence and power.
This is bad because it basically stifles players (and/or smaller groups of players) who want to set up shop in a specific area.

Now, a few people will say "I don't care about big alliance or projecting power... I just want to be able to move around faster with less tedium."
The problem is that YOU and EVERYONE ELSE are working under the same mechanics. If YOU can go faster, so can EVERYONE ELSE. If YOU can move a ship somewhere with less tedium, so can EVERYONE ELSE.

You cannot separate the two.


So you have a choice; either...
- everyone is able to move around quickly and freely... and you accept that some massive group from the other side of the map can and will smash you because "you are operating in an area under their influence."
- everyone is limited in the speed and efficiency of their movements... resulting in more tedious logistics, roaming, and general travel.

Ascendancy implants, Hyperspacial rigs and Hyperspacial accelerators.

It's not like there's a shuttle that goes 30 au/s with implants or anything like that.

i can do about 40 jumps in 20mins, this sounds like an afk gameplay buff, no afk is wrong and it imposes risk in most cases. no you cannot go cook dinner while traveling with no risk so you can makes money

In my opinion the game needs a few more inter-constellation and inter-regional gates in empire space, so as to slightly reduce the number of jumps it takes to get around on long trips. Some trips are just abusively long. 20+ jump routes just to get from a hub to a lowsec system shouldn't exist imo, I don't see the point, other than boring the players out of their freaking minds.

The game is actually losing players because of this, I've seen it with my own eyes. A friend of mine tried the game and stopped after a day, he told me he liked it but he just couldn't stand have to jump around for minutes at a time, that it was boring as **** and just wasting his precious game time.He was quite right too.

Um...AFK travel is bad.

Also please tell me the route you take



You know a long time ago, i used to make good money selling bookmarks for gate travel. You see back then, there was no warp to Zero.

So, you are not going to get any sympathy from anyone here.


EDIT: Oh by the way the jump gates animation does not in anyway change the amount of time it takes to jump compared to the way it has always been.

No.

No.

No!

I was actually about to suggest SLOWING DOWN traveling. To further increase the size of EVE.

Speed up traveling? Hell no.

im all for a warp speed buff all across. also please please remove the jump gate animation is so annoying!

for more crowded eve +1
for power projection issue -1

for autopilot:
Doing something in eve afk is healthy for RL, ccp is considering this, i hope. Please make some things afk-able (mining etc.), if and only if it provides more opportunity to ganking, killing, etc.
at the moment autopilot is only used in highsec. (although some rare cases exist o_0)
When you camp a gate and there are people traveling though, if they are active, they might be able to avoid the camp. if they would simply warp to zero and jump and warp to next gate, they still can be catched.
I wonder how many players would use autopilot to travel though lowsec, if autopilot would be set to zero.
And i can see more people trying to catch them. Could be a sport.
No problem with power projection here.

Could also be nice to set a whole fleet to autopilot-fleetwarps.

I just ask myself, will there be more kills happening? if yes, do autozero. if no, remove autopilot.