EVE General Discussion

+1 but make some of teh new swathes of lowsec and nullsec that cant be cyno'd to from any other areas of low and null. Make some varied and unusual areas.

I think new space would be nice...but not needed. If new space is introduced it should NOT be like nullsec or lowsec at all. Something entirely new and different. Uncontrolled space, no gates, no sov, maybe a new module that acts as a way to get to each system. Without the module you can't go to those systems at all since they have no gates. Going from system to system will put you in a random location within the new system instead of always appearing at a static gate.

Some new nullsec for sov couldn't hurt either I guess...

No, its sometimes hard to find a figth the way it is.

More people in the same space = more conflict.

The word "space" implies a sense of spaciousness that EVE currently lacks.

100% agreed. This links to another of my hobby horses: Systems in EVE are perceptually "small" - they just don't feel very big - even though in absolute size they're billions of kilometres across, because there are only a few meaningful places to be in them, and those places are 1 grid size each, and because it's incredibly quick to travel acros them and across the map.

The way to make EVE larger isn't just to spam more systems onto the map (although I am more than OK with having more systems if that means we get more types of space); it's to make it so that more happens in a larger number of places within those systems. At the moment, a moon that is hundreds of Km across, or a planet that is supposedly thousands of kilometers in diameter, has an "orbital" grid a mere few hundred k across on one side of the planet - this needs to change to an actual orbital volume. Moons are static and don't orbit planets, but they should do so, and on perceptible timescales.

Currently, it also means nothing to be with a few hundred Km of the surface of a planet several times more massive that Jupiter- there are no gravity wells, there are no radiation fields, there are no magnetic fields, no dust clouds, no environmental effects. We should see these. It should make a difference where you fight. Gravity wells should affect agility, dust clouds should affect sensor strength/scan res/lock range, radiation belts should abrade shields, etc. Fleets with heavy ship classes should try and force engagements deep in gravity wells where their lack of agility makes less difference. Pilots with Sensor Damp EW should prefer dust cloud environments. Armor ships should be able to take advantage of the conditions in radiation belts when fighting shield fleets.

Planetary rings should be real physical, navigatable places, massive rings that are tens or even hundreds of thousands of kilometers in length, dotted with asteroids, icesteroids, anchorable microPOS for individual players, NPC rat hideouts, exploration sites, etc. Fully exploring a single one should be the work of days, even weeks for an individual player. The asteroids and icesteroids and sites in a ring should disappear when exhausted, and respawn in a new location to stop things becoming predictable.

Planets should be able to support multiple outposts, and it should be possible to have more than 1 POS orbit a moon.

A single 0.0 system constructed in this way should be able to support multiple, even dozens of pod pilots. Individuals might be quite happy to stay in a single systems for days or even weeks simply exploring a genuinely massive system.

Instrasystem Travel should also take longer; it should mean much more than it currently does to undertake a 100AU warp vs a 1AU warp. This will further increase the perception of size, and it will also add a tactical dimension for FCs and solers alike - it will become worthwhile to decoy your pursuers to the other end of a system, for instance. That would also straight up increase travel time for subcaps. Similarly, capital jump ranges should be proportionately reduced. That, combined with the perceptual size increase and the increased possible population density, would enourage people to look for politics in their own region - perhaps even their own constellations - rather than on the other side of the map.

I agree.

We should have more empire, more low-sec, more null-sec and more W-Space.

Why?

• Because EVE is getting crowded.
• Space is filling up with junk.
• It takes forever to find a moon in empire that doesn't already have a POS on it.
• Null-sec is littered with stations and outposts.
• W-Space is pretty much claimed in the C1 to C4 categories

How about a couple of new empire regions, maybe with some new NPC corporations being added to the storyline as the controlling entities?

How about some low-sec only regions, where some of the existing NPC pirate factions have stations and agents, along with the long coveted black markets and drug labs?

How about some space beyond the wormholes? Like when you move into the 'rabbit hole' and you reach the end you find a special wormhole that leads into some new null-sec regions, that are only accessible in this way?

I dunno bout you, but I'd rather have this than a couple of new T2 modules that CCP can spend 2 months trying to balance so they don't break PVP.

/Judo

There is such an area in EVE that has no gates, no sov and is generally uncontrolled.

It's called 'Wormhole Space'

While the module is not new, a probe launcher is needed to move from system to system. Without it, you can't go anywhere.

What i'd like to see is a reshuffling (and possible adding) of systems so that the current hi-sec was split in two. So you'd have two major islands of hi-sec with a whole load of low / 0.0 between the to (a large enough distance so it would take more than one jump with a JF to bridge the gap).

No idea if anything good would come of it but it would certainly be interesting ^^

And why is that? Because I can be anywhere in empire and still go shopping in Jita within half an hour.

That still wouldn't solve the issue though. Since people will still control large areas even if they are more spread out. If you still allow the ability to easily move from one side of the galaxy to the other with ease there is still going to be unused/empty space.