Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What this should be part of is DYNAMIC sec status. CCP will never have time to do that, and the null sec alliances would absolutely riot.

But consider a game more like real life.
Frontier systems are full of tremendous wealth, and full of terrifying dangers, both human and NPC.

But to fully exploit the wealth, (great mins, moon goo, and very high bounty rats), you must tame this land.
The more infrastructure and pilot activity, there is a an associated raising of sec status, and of course a lowering of wealth of a system. Rocks get smaller and less valuable, rats get weaker, less frequent, and less bounty, plexes less frequent.

Conversely, systems that were once thriving hubs of lawfulness and player activity would slowly be bled of their wealth. They wold be abandoned, and as they are, the lawlessness and associated wealth of a system would slowly increase. A 1.0 system, if not actively maintained, would slide to null sec status, with all the pitfalls and wealth.

Prime null sec systems, with outposts and continuous ratting and mining would slowly become high sec.
High sec systems that no one does anything in (many high and low sec systems have no stations, and very little activity) would slowly degrade into lawless areas of wealth.

The result would be an everchanging canvas, where powerblocs would have to decide if, and where, they have to move to to follow the wealth in the game.

High sec groups would be forced to migrate to better pastures as a 0.5 system slowly turns to a 1.0 system, and the rocks, plexes and rats become almost valueless.
Power blocs would have to play a delicate game of balancing activity in a system with farming its resources to keep the sec status of rising, unless of course they wanted that.

In this world, the monolithic massive alliances would lose their grip. Smaller, more agile groups, capable of moving quickly would succeed.

Hence while it will never happen. The existing power blocs will never allow anything to alter the status quo.

Well, Jita wasn't exactly safe a month ago even with it being hi sec.




Good question. In a null system where you can't claim sov, low, and high there would have to be other options. Maybe running missions for concord to raise the level of a system or running a mission for one of the pirate corps to lower it. Maybe you could plant devices at the system gates and they would:

1. Be shootable by anyone without concord intervening, but your corp/alliance could shoot the aggressor back.
2. Be used to raise or lower the level of a system.

Another option would be to bribe concord... 1 billion ISK per level gets you one week of sec status change.




Well, a lot of people think that carebears are the cancer that is killing eve. This would give them a way to purge the carebears or make them deal with PvP. In Tera on the server I play on, all the guilds who are in charge of an area have the PvP rules enabled. People are still playing the game.

No. As someone suggested, they may even make some systems "totally safe", such as unable to shoot players