Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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My point remains the same removing local is not gonna increase numbers in 0.0! On the contrary is gonna reduce them. Provide an insentive to make 0.0 really worth (like prior the big sanctum nerf) going for small and medium entities and we are back in business. Keep ignoring the problem and blaming it on YOUR bad skills, the problem will only get worst.

i dont know why are you speaking of wh. I will tell you again. You cant compair a wh system to a 0.0 system. With or without local you cant compare them. They are so different. The amount of traffic you get on a gate is much large and you you dont have scan a million signatures. How often do you hear a wh is lost to an invading force? Now how oftendo you hear someone loses a system? WH is the safest area in eve just cos you need to spot it and the opening lasts very little time. You may have heard those crazy ppl that decided to invade some other wormhole. They had to scan and collapse almost 2000 whs.

Dont compare whs to 0.0 there is nothing similar, nothing

Good post.

U MAD?

You are so right. But now is the time to begin taking the forums back and leading the game to a better future. EVE is a game with too much potential to allow it to become a mediocre theme park MMO.

The first step to doing that is through discussion. Defending our points and such. It certainly is a monumental task but I don't think its a hopeless one. The devs already acknowledge local is a problem and decshields became a priority when people began stating their opinions about it..

I would only support removing local if the directional scanner was made automatic. As much as you have to check D-Scanner now, you'd have to check it constantly. That would quickly get very old; this idea needs to be balanced out with making DScanning less laborious.

However, I don't know how much server load this would add; my gut feeling says it would be a lot. But without that, as much as I like the idea of removing local, this needs to be the compromise. All the same, simply automating the D-Scanner in its current form would create huge server load, but I believe CCP has the ability to find an elegant solution to this problem. That is one area where CCP really shine, and it often goes unsung.

if you're going to quote me do it right, or don't quote me at all thank you very much, you'd think someone who's working in our trade would understand that, and hey, less of the kid thing.

i grow tired of idiot weekend warriors playing hardball behind a monitor. would you speak that way to me face to face ?
before you answer that, let me remind you i've been to fanfest and seen just how friendly tuff guys like you become when there isn't a few hundred miles or network infrastructure and a monitor protecting them.

this is just a game remember, also i might point out that this is a forums about a game, if you really can't hold a discussion without getting your knickers in a knot then please feel free to not reply, it's real easy, count to 10 and say, no i wil not hit reply.
i don't expect a reply, i expect you to count to 10.

The problem with this idea is that, first of all, it'll put an extra load on the servers. Secondly, if it's limited to, say, 15 AU, you'll still have a problem being able to get any warning at all that there's someone actually hunting you until you see him land on your overview (it all depends on how lucky he is with your scan cycles, but we're still talking about a few seconds of warning). If it's solar system-wide, then it's either just a f.ex 2s delayed copy of today's local (which would probably be cheap enough, since it'd probably just be a snapshot of the solar system's users), or it would actually be an elite directional scanner-lookalike, in which case you'd have to calculate coordinates at every refresh, which wouldn't scale very well when looking at large fleet fights.

No additional calculations were necessary, the EvE-universe already has 3 coordinates, all of which always have to be processed - your GPU would have to render a small UI-element but thats about it ... i guess since threedimensional calculations are what GPUs are built for it would actually IMPROVE performance in fleetfights