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CCP has stated they do not want local to be used as an intel gathering tool. Right now it is.

Currently they are trying to figure out how to do that without pissing everyone off.

My proposal lets the alliances decide where they do not want local to be an intel gathering tool. It's not a complete fix, but it's at least something more than we have now. If CCP removed local entirely it'd make a lot of people leave null.

This is really the only way I've seen that would keep things sane. If CCP was ok with removing local in null it would have been done already so saying "omg just remove local altogether" is pointless.

As I said before if you remove local from every system and add a mod to add it back alliances will just put the mod in every system, you changed nothing and just added more boring stuff to do. If you add a mod that removes local entirely it will see little to no use (at most it'll be used during actual war time, at most).

My proposal would actually see some use, granted not widespread, but some use. It gives the holding alliance an advantage by denying intel from its enemies, it ends AFK cloaking by giving the holding alliance delayed local (AFK cloaking is now counter productive in systems with the upgrade) and it gives the attackers a chance to find targets before they have a chance to run to safety.

Saying "omg this ruins my game because I can't talk to people" is literally ********. You can still talk in local. If it's your system you see all your friends. If it's not your system then why the hell are you trying to talk to your friends in local and giving away your position? Talk in fleet you idiot. If you want to taunt your enemy then go ahead, do it, you can't see them in local but you can on dscan. They can see the local list so you can bet they still have it in its own window just like now.