EVE General Discussion

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given some really long routes in eve take a LOT of time to do jump by jump, maybe some ships could be allowed to do straight warps toward the destination using all the time, without need to use jump gates, for example you want to go from HEK to jita, this is about 25 jumps on the shortest route possible, even on a shuttle or ceptor it takes well over half hour. and a lot of session changes and stuff.

instead maybe a modified ceptor with some "Enhanced WARP drive II" module, could instead sit 5 mins plotting course towards destination, and then start a warp towards that solar system at 30 AU speed or whatever speed sounds reasonable and finish the warp in lets say 10 minutes, and to avoid ABUSE on sov conquered space, maybe make cyno jammers prevent locking of Enhanced warp drives towards said system too.


as an additional "bonus" maybe this enhanced warp drives could also act as warp core stabilizers but more powerfull (+3 warp stab? and enhance normal warp speed too), and requiring more skills than regular warp core stabs, also they would use a lot of CPU. maybe enought CPU as to make them most usefull on NORMAL industrial ships, badgers and alike that got a lot of CPU.

This actually sounds like a pretty solid idea IMO. I know that CCP has stated in the past that they're looking for additional skill point areas to expand upon and the Navigation Tree is the smallest in the game. It would give some of the vet players additional things to train for.

And yes - long shipping or travel routes take sooo freaking long sometimes.

hahha this is actually easier to fix and funnier than you might think... actually we can create a new kind of Campers...

this long warps should ALWAYS end at the destination solar system Star grid... thus... if you want to camp long jumpers... just camp the star... this would also make the shiny "new" star graphics be more appreciated. and would make some areas of solar systems more visited in general. not to mention... after doing a "Stellar Warp" your capacitor will be drained always. making it a very risky business to for example... jump with a fleet onto enemy sov space. not to mention you are using one less high slot on your ship and a lot of CPU fitting power, for the long jump module.

and just for the sake of pleasing pirates a bit more (hey i like pirates) maybe add an engine cooldown of 30 seconds once you finish a Stellar warp, so for 30 seconds you cannot move.

Remember back in the day with multiple mwds? People would burn in the direction of jove space, then after a couple of days burning would screenshot their map showing the "you are here" pointer over the restricted area.

They were the early trolls, the old masters.

I, too, get bored with long trips but malaire is right about realism part. Those stargates help you traverse massive distances and are there for a solid roleplay reason.


Now....how about....Public Wormholes??

These public wormholes would always appear on overview just like public static plexes and cynos. They could be considered "DED discovered" wormholes that are subject to the same mass and time decay limitations as the WH's you scan for, but they would be an extra special "lucky break" for weary space travelers from the doldrums of a long trip. Public WH's would only lead to other known systems (generated randomly) and "vandals" could destroy them too, just like normal WH's.

Are you a wizard?

We used to be able to do this in the old days... back in 2004 I think? There were extra-long jump-gates between the main empire regions that allowed you much faster travel across empire space. They were called the SUPERHIGHWAYS and for a lot of the time they were excellent. Only problem was at peak user loading they became very busy and the servers couldn't cope, so you had a big build-up of ships waiting forever to jump, then some smart@ss letting off smartbombs.

Since their demise, we have had trade concentrate much more around Jita as a one-stop-shop because as it takes much longer to traipse around the regions, but we have also had jump-clones introduced which have compensated for their removal somewhat.

Maybe the current servers could cope with their re-introduction? This would certainly get my vote.

actually if done properly i strongly believe it would enhance the size eve online inmersion, is just a thing of tunning the speed, we are talking of half hour warps or more... maybe make the longest warp (from north to south in eve) to take lets say 3 or 4 hours? and the shortest stellar warp (between adjacent systems) take around 5 minutes, which is longer than a normal jump gate, this way this warps wouldn't be abused by people. but would help to avoid certain bottlenecks, as the old veteran girl mentioned, at least you wouldn't have to cope with the smartass smartbombing the perimeter jita gate.

as some extra complex thing (we like complex right? this is eve) maybe stellar warps could be made trackable from the landing and the departure point, sort of i initiate WARP from HEK towards some insmother system, as soon the warp initiates at HEK there should be an overview broadcast like that of cynosural fields at HEK that shows the destination, and lets say 5 minutes before the arrival at insmother system you could get just the same way another short broadcast at the landing system on the same way. maybe even go as far as link it to the system infrastructure, thus having better infrastucture alerts you more precisely of the target arrival time and or ammount of arrivals.

There is a difference of the layout of positions in the actual system behind locations drawn on the map and the eve universe. If you'd keep warping you'd start overlapping other systems on the map soon. But as others have mentioned, the warp only really takes you between stuff in the systems on a galactic scale. The actual distances between the stars are much greater. Warping directly to other system at warp speeds would take ages. Greater warp speeds for interstellar travel would be cool and all, but they clash with the way the eve universe is simulated server-side. You need a session change to end up in another system. End of story.
The wormhole idea is cool and all, but with 50k people generating their own wormholes in stardrive fashion, I'm pretty sure things will catch fire in London. Plus the whole jump drives being limited to caps and specialised vessels having good gameplay reasons can of worms.
I don't think, like, ever, in a million years. No.

good thing we have jump bridges in 0.0

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