Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Would this be accompanied by a change to the existing structures? Or would it accompany the change to destructible structures? I'm laughing at the idea of having a research station, factory, or refinery in the wrong constellation.

I could support this on a constellation basis, not on a regional basis. We already went through a couple of periods where one region was particularly good or bad.

How would you adjust the new index system to account for these variations? It would be a shame to continue to force people to mine or rat in systems that were specifically optimized to do something else (quite apart from the inherent problem with forcing people to rat or mine in the first place).

Bonuses like this would be like the 2007 moon values were one side had 90% of all the good moons and the other side has none. It is a gameplay issue and it makes no sense from a lore perspectiv. Why should your mining lasers are more efficiant in another system, the WH bonuses already make no sense.

If you want to make space differant I would propose.
Give npcs their isk value in loot. Then change the payout a player receives in a way that makes sense. If an npc is killed in 1.0 to 0.5 Concord will care and they will give you a full payout. With declining security status payout is reduced until it hits zero.
To make this a bit more interresting increase the amount of npcs/sites in relation to their home region.

So in highsec we would get loot+bounty but smaller npcs and smaller spawns. In 0.0 somewhere COncord does not care there will be ahuge amount of npcs but only loot.

Same could be done for mining. Give all regions all ore types but make the asteroids in 0.0 spawn in higher numbers and make them bigger.

Players who like bounty would have to move in a ring close to the empire to get good combination of payout and npc numbers while miners and players who can handle loot would move away from empire.

From a lore point of view both makes sense, the empire regions are secure and have been used for along time pirates would not roam there with big ships and mining companys would have depleted the big asteroids.

Now some will point out that gun mining is bad because it reduces the income of miners. True but last time(2008) we had gun mining the people who got the most profit from removing it were using bot fleets which got banned. Today we have higher ressource prices and mining is worth less then in 2008 . If there would be an overflow of minerals CCP can alway set buy orders and introduce removed bounty this way into the EVE economy.

But again 2020 idea.