EVE General Discussion

wew lad

GD has a lot of low hanging fruit

What happened to player built stargates?

Give it a couple more years for CCP to start working on it, then they'll abandon all the work to start some other 'Great' idea.




DMC

I think player built gates is, and always was, a very bad idea.

Perhaps someone can enlighten me to something Ive missed, but to my mind it only provides means for a small minority to essentially exploitatively bypass the hard topography of EVE, for personal benefit, without contributing content to anyone else,

It "breaks" the map.

Id much rather see a project and direction to diversify the value of systems in EVE, thereby making topography along existing gate lines more strategically important.

I very much hope this is one among the many many ideas that though promised, worked on a bit, and seemed like a good idea at the time, never makes it into the live game.

Iirc, this was introduced alongside the speculations of Jovian space become accessible. At the time, I figured (probably wrongly) that it referred to building access gates to that new space, rather than internally.

Player made gates? It got WiS'd on...

Player built gates will lead to unknown space with special properties, what I call "new space" or N-space. It may be the formerly Jove space, or something never seen before. The gates will be player structures, with special fits, and has been hitned that they will require some kind of implant/module to be used by the player traversing them.

What player built gates will not do is to replicate the gate system.

I really wanted to mine a ring too

If Player Built Gates do become a reality, I highly doubt they will lead to new space or to Jove space.

Those gates when built probably can't be re-positioned or set up in another location. I believe they will only be able to lock onto one system of choice in known space, more than likely using Sansha Tech to generate a one way worm-hole. Basically bypassing the need for multiple jumps (Jump Fatigue) and allowing large invasion forces to infiltrate enemy territory rather quickly. It can also establish a supply line for reinforcements. After the area is secure, another gate can be built for a return trip or to strike at another location.

Course the enemy can also do the same thing ...........................



DMC

we already have player stargates. they're called jumpbridges. and people are already demanding they be removed from the game

Sorry to disagree, but CCP's plans are completely different. There's two Chronicles and some fanfest talking about how the player bult gates lead to enormous distances never seen before, specifically they link to somewhere where there's no gates (so so far they're a one-way trip, at least from the Chronicles).

Also there's the Fanfest video where one such gate is activated and causes a massive EMP which disables a whole Amarran fleet tyring to destroy it since there's a prophecy that Something Bad will come through such a gate.

Definitively they're not Jumpbridges 2.0.

What we know:
- developed by Guristas using Wilard wheels.
- lead to massive distances beyond the New Eden cluster
- player built gates will be configurable through fitting (as the new structures)
- probably ships and capsuleers will require specific modules and implants to use them (maybe to be able to come back?)
- Amarran are convinced that something bad awaits behind those gates
- the new space will have unseen properties (new mechanics/gameplay/et cetera)
- the player built gates are a part of the Rubicon vision of players colonizing space
- the Rubicon development plan spans from late 2013 to late 2016/early 2017, so we should be roughly at 3/5 of it