EVE General Discussion

I guess the distinction between a blockade and a gatecamp would be whether it's intended for wartargets or random people?

Either way, it's pretty lame PvP. And if anyone wants to get through bad enough they'll just use a cov-ops or fast aligning frig, so you're never really denying access completely, just getting anyone stupid enough to come through in anything that can't make it.

Without having to worry about gatecamps people could hunt targets more freely, instead of just sitting on a gate waiting, and waiting. You'd find more taking an active role than you would waiting for them to land in your lap. Especially when word gets out where you are set up.

Sci-fi fiction?

Is that like fanfiction for Science Fiction or a genre about fictional accounts of making science fiction?

Can anyone recommend some good science fiction fiction?

Heh, Department of Redundancy Department.
I didn't catch the slip. sorry.

Actually, I can provide an example of Sci-Fi fiction. If your at all familiar with the Heavy Gear setting, then the Heavy Gear TV show and the Heavy Gear 2 PC game count.

If you're not, those examples are fictional accounts within the setting cannon.

I like the idea with the distress signal and vigilant(s). When it comes to gate camps I've also got one idea, as everyone else.
You implement the random jump in gate point idea someone had some time ago, making gate camps in high and low hard. But to keep the ability to gate camp in null, the SOV holder should be able to "hack" the gates in their systems (simply by right clicking on them or something very easy, no skills required) this hack would center all the jump in points to a very close proximity to the gate. 20km diameter maybe? In NPC null this "hack" should obviously be on as "standard".

That's just something i came to think of when reading this thread. I've probably missed out on something that could make this ruin the game, but it's just something to make smarter people able to come up with something awesome or just ignore it completely.

Oh, and some new module that can balance it out but not put us back to square one. Like a new Warp bubble with terrible range but that's able to trow people out of warp? Put it at a planet between gates and watch pinatas appear...

Ok, smart peoples turn.

Bring back PvP? I had no idea it was gone! Or, maybe all the PvP-ers are busy ganking Hulks. Go figure. I know! Find a Hulk, wait beside it, and when the PvP heroes show up ATTACK!

I hate this idea. It's so.. gah! ST.

No more cartoon space games please. I really don't want a big button that says ACME on my HUD.

edit: corny <-- That's what I was thinking; the word just didn't come to mind.

I find your thinking very reasonable and the general gist of the idea is good. Ideas always need polishing after the initial thought but, sounds pretty good to me.

It is unfortunate that ccp is actually moving in the opposite direction.

Please tell me where my market orders, contracts, manufacturing line jobs, research lab jobs and planetary networks are involved in PvP. I haven't seen a KM for any of those ever..... - so not all of the game is a PvP area....

You are greatly exaggerating the threat of gate camps in today's EVE.

We've lived in a wh with lowsec static for 3-4 months, which has resulted in us travelling to all the major hubs from countless of lowsec systems (we open to a new random system every 24hrs).

Number of gate camps seen: under five? And half of them were inside lowsec.

Number of ships lost to gatecamps: one scout (lucky seboed hictor caught our Falcon before it cloaked, counts more as a pilot fumble-related accident tbh)

I would say most "camps" we've seen are usually just roaming fleets waiting for the order to jump in and engage a target. If you happen to jump into their lap, of course you will be shot and it would appear like a gate camp to you.

There are a few busy, nearly perma-camped pipeline systems like Tama, Amamake and Rancer (? no recent experience from there), but outside these entering lowsec is safer than jumping in to Jita.

That said, I don't get why would anyone want to live in hisec, there you always need to travel somewhere before you can actually play EVE.

I was under the impression that the Interdiction spheres couldn't drag you out of warp in mid warp, i may be wrong in this since i haven't tried it myself. Only seen them being used to drag people coming out of warp away from the gate.

And being able to anchor anything "aggressive" in high will probably never happen, maybe a warp-canceling-field-generator for the interdictors, you'll have to be very careful tho since catching none-reds/war targets probably would get you a GTC and Concord are not going to disappear from high.