Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I know this has probably been proposed a million times. But I believe there should be a alert when hostiles or neutrals enter your system. Some kind of audio alert tone or simply "Hostile in system" message similar to "Warp drive active" Although not significant for folks in empire ( unless you could set it to war targets only) But I feel that a space ship with so much tech flowing through it would have some way of scanning local and alerting its captain to threats. I feel this should be an option similar to the safety feature where you can turn it on and off in case you are in a fleet fight. Also being able to put Highlighted backgrounds on player names in LOCAL would help significantly. Just a thought please don't burn me to death

I am always at the keyboard, its always the one time im gate camping or ratting that I decide to alt tab or talk to my fiancé that a neutral/hostile jumps in and I either miss them or they tackle me...

Should this only work for you as well then? Since you apparently don't care about other people here...

Not Emptyquoting.

Ratting....safe up. Its not on ccp to have this be safer. Can be hard enough to catch a ratter in belt now. Don't need audio alarms giving sleepy ratters a break. That and how long are you alt tabbed or distracted? The land, they probe, they find you. This a few seconds. Longer if not on a belt but in ca's.

Also how crappy is your crew's intel this hostile just shows the hell up. Several hundred people alliance...we can assume you aren't the only 1 playing your play time frame. Someone is not posting intel. That is not the fault of the hostile so they have to lose their edge. You need to take this up with your crew really. You seem to have some dead weight that needs to be jenny craig'd sooner than later really.

Or are you not focused so long you don't see the intel? Thats on you man. All you. Assume 1 minute per system hop....intel 5 system out....that is 5 minutes to read, safe your boat, and live longer. Waste your 5....lm was earned there really.




Gate camping....your target has landed. They have in taken seconds using jump cloak to make work out what to do:

burn back to gate
shoot for warp off off gate and hope it works
burn off gate then warp
fight you.....

Your new target cared enough to focus on the game to live...you need to focus on the game to earn the right to kill him. Don't have that time....well you get what you get there really.

No stay alert or live with the consequense.

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What I meant is, that you upload your idea despite that there may be other threads about this already out there.

The sentence I quoted shows that you didn't care to search on forum.

you could just highlight all of local and check to see if new arrivals have entered.

Add another voice to the no way group, why?

Not needed in low and nul, there are so few players in most of those systems that keeping an eye on local to spot a potential threat is to be honest stupidly easy and there is no need to make it easier.

No, because you want it for the 2 regions of space where it is least needed, however you would not allow it's use in the 1 area of space where it would truly be a blessing to have. It might be quick and easy in low / nul to scan local for hostiles, try that in high sec when there are 30 or 40 characters in system with you.

WH space is not relevant since local does not function the same way it does in low / nul / high so even if they had it it would be worthless.


This may be technically correct but it ignores the simple truth of the situation and the broader use of the term AFK.
Being at the keyboard but tabbed out of the EvE client to watch a video, cruise the web or talk to your fiance has exactly the same affect as walking away from the keyboard(AFK) since your attention is drawn to something else. So yes you were AFK even though you were sitting at your computer the whole time.