Player Features and Ideas Discussion

"it's already stagnant and boring let's make it worse"

It is for you maybe. I'm sorry you are bad at Eve Online and have no friends to help you out.

The rest of us are shooting stuff, getting blown up, making news and getting paid.


Sucks to be you I guess.

I would have to work much harder at EvE if there was no local.
I would have to totally revise my tactics if there were no local..

I think i would actually really love it if there were no local :)

Compromise.......

1. The head of Concord Communications gets caught via a phone hacking scandal in bed with several pirate/fringe faction heads. The scandal causes communications infrastructure to collapse.

Hi Sec – Comms is now provided by faction police/Navy (Maybe a FW component) and the delay is dependent on the security of the system. 1.0 – 0.5 has a 10 second incremental drop in a ship registering in local.

Lo Sec – 0.4 -0.1 1 min incremental drop in registering in local. (Maybe a FW component)

Null – 15 to 30min, (maybe a Sov Component), or no local unless you engage the ships comms.

2. At a wild Gallente party scientists having a larf set off an EMP Pulse using a System gate as the power source. This decloaked 4 sneaky Amarr spy ships which were in system. This tech was rapidly rolled out rendering current cloaks obsolete wherever there is a power system huge enough to pulse regularly. The gate can charge and pulse every 5 mins (or insert time here/relate to Sec level)) decloaking all within 10 AU (or other distance here/relate to sec level) and/or every time someone jumps through.

3 Minmater ingenuity soon came up with a counter to this. Made from old refrigerator parts and gaffer tape, an active cloak force field projector soon hit the New Eden market. This field is able to deflect the pulse particles around the ship. It does however need fuel (insert PI /player made fuel) to power it giving it a limited time to hide before needing to refuel. Due to shielding problems though it cannot be used in conjunction with a Cyno generator in anything smaller than a Battleship, in fact it could only be made to work effectively in a Black Ops BS Hull.

.........So in short.

-Local gets nerfed, or removed unless you choose to use it.
-Cloaks loose utility but still retain limited use. (unaffected in WH space, or by a very limited range POS module)
-No more AFK Cloaky potential Cyno lighting bastage ruining everyone’s plexing/mining pleasure (and way of making ISK for many) in Null.

So, What is my motivation for posting.....Well WH space has no local and it is a thriving community of ISK making players, pew pew happy players, or both.

Why won’t the above ideas work as a compromise?

I moved to WH space straight from Hi Sec so am used to no local, it didn’t take long to adjust to this. During roams (Both group and solo) of Low and Null I am always amazed at how few people there are in the vast majority of systems. I don’t have experience of Null/Sov Politics and warfare which is why this post is phrased as a question.

Something does need to change as Hi Sec should be a training ground for most before they head out to do something more interesting/immersive seeking to make their fortune thereby prolonging their sub paying career. Hi Sec industrialists, peeps who have limited play time, those who have found their niche and enjoy it will never leave Hi Sec – this is understandable.

On a side note it would be interesting to run a poll on how long a player remained in Empire before heading out to pastures unknown though. Me, it was about 6 months, but then I am a slow learner and Eve is such a huge complex game.

Fire away,

Raptors

nerf bombs too? why not nerf everyting so that you can actually get some kills since you are so bloody bad at it and you have to relly on wardecking high sec industrialist and removing local and nerfing bombs to win at eve.
I tell you what needs nerfing, YOU posting in forum
The thread is called Grow some balls, i say to you, Grow a spine!

they certainly don't involve making the game unplayable for anybody who isn't in a fleet

By not making it worse, for one.

CCP just should add 0.0 regions on the verge of existing one that have no local, are connected via normal stargates and where cyno works.
OF course it should be rich with resources.

That would be perfect test if no local works in normal space ( it works perfectly in w-space )

Nullsec requires changes to make it more populous.
This is a change to nullsec.
This change is therefore good, and will make nullsec more populous.



Without local, I'll probably still live in nullsec, but if you think I'd ever do an anomaly that any roaming cloaky ship can arrive in with absolutely no warning, you're wrong. I'd move money-making to an alt in a one-man highsec corp, and L4 mission instead. For the record, I count seeing scan probes on D-scan as giving me appropriate warning, although I'm loathe to even so much as hint that anything that would result in one mashing D-scan 720 times per hour would be a good idea to implement.

yeah because aside from no local wormholes are 100% identical to k-space