EVE General Discussion

If you really want to grief botters, afk'rs, industrialists and miners, it's really pretty simple. Nerf local. Make it so that a player doesn't show up in the local channel unless they type something. It's that easy.

Most of the botting programs are tied to a change in local chat (or at least that's how they worked a few years ago when someone offered to set one up for me). Nerf local and you could go kill most of the bots 'cause they wouldn't know to warp to a safe as soon as someone jumped in system.

Want to really mess with the afk miner? Or the half-afk ratter? Nerf local. Make them hit their scanner button every 2 seconds or post scouts on the gates or actually tank and stab their hulk or their ratting ship. Give the griefers REALLY good odds of catching these lazy sobs.

Want to kill a freighter or two each night? You guessed it... Nerf local. Park your gank fleet more than 14 AU off the travel line and go on a killing spree. Seriously.

Want to ambush jump freighters? Or cap ships in travel fittings? Drum roll please.... Nerf local. Your poor victims will have no way of knowing that you're cloaked up and watching their POS.

Put the fun back in EVE guys. Nerf local. Please. It's only about 9 years overdue FFS.

Oh, and if any of you so called "PVP'rs" who are just a bunch of whiney high-sec haters argue against this, well, you're just showing your true carebear colors. I'd LOVE to PVP without local. It's almost a wet dream of mine. And if you doubt me, well, this is my main and you can go check my record - I probably have more kills than you.

Edit #1: This post was all about lowsec and 0.0. I honestly think high-sec should be high-sec and folks should be safe there. I just wrote this 'cause i was sick of the goons and all their high-sec hulkageddon bullshit. I wanted to see how many of them would come out and support the nerf local idea. Looks like none of them. In fact, I had several oppose it. Hmmm. I wonder why that is... Oh, perhaps they need local for their afk mining and ratting in 0.0...?

Edit #2: When did the goons start trolling the forums 24/7...? Is that a new thing or have I just been asleep for the last 3 years?

Oh god the irony

Are your balls so small that you can only take on indies? Not only this, but you need the element of surprise aswell. The problem with what you are asking, is that in Hi sec you cannot pre-emptive strike.

There is nothing stopping you from having your wish tho. Go into a WH. It has all your obvious pleasures, and then some. Be warned though. WH dwellers bite back. Oh does that scare you? Is this why you want Hi Sec easier one sided kills?


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As long as delayed local is implemented in low-sec and null-sec as well. This would make stealth bombers and recon cruisers far more deadly.

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If a human can use the d-scan to detect threats, so can a bot. And more reliably, I'd guess.

AFK people aren't influenced by local, so this won't be a nerf for them. It would probably make finding gank targets more of a hassle.

But local is both too easy and too deceptive, so I agree with the sentiment to replace it.

to be practical, botters don't care for rules... they'd get that information somehow either by automating dscan as well or some other method.

everyone else would be ****** and it could really only serve to screw everyone else over at this point. people would still use alt eyes and other methods to check gates, stations and belts.

I can see why people would want that, im just not sure it would be good for the game. There are too many people around these days that are entirely risk averse and would probably quit over it, sadly.

From a PvP standpoint there are negative aspects to delayed local. So its not all in favor of the aggressor.

Now while I said I agreed with the idea, I forgot to state that for Low-Sec and Null. High-sec I'm a bit partial on, due to the fact I don't see the need of restricting it.

Thing about Hi-Sec is...

Well, it is Hi-Sec.

Local navies and CONCORD would keep tabs on who enters the system. It makes perfect sense to keep Local as it is.

I really like this idea, even the thought of it adds an exciting little chill

Only problem is it is a security area where theoretical safety is intended if not completely enforced so its not ideal for the area.