EVE General Discussion

I would rather keep local. It means I can pvp while being AFK.

Nah, all hi sec miners have to do is fit tanks instead of expanded cargoholds and MLUs.
Only highsec miners feel entitled to failfit their ships

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It is funny that people only look at the "cost" of the intel, calling it "free", but don't factor in the quality of the intel that local provides.

All local tells you is that some one is in the system. Doesn't say what they are flying, where they are at, if they are in a fleet, etc.


And like typical whiners, all they are thinking about is how easy it would be to ambush players. Totally forgetting that their targets might just do a cost/benefit analysis, and go off to wormholes where the rewards are better and the risk is less (no local, but no cynos, can close the entrances). Or take a possibly lower reward for lower risk in highsec missions or lowsec faction warfare. And highsec also has the benefit of having the best markets, so even if you do get ganked you can reship for cheaper.

Speaking as some one who lives full time in nullsec, I'll leave if a hamfisted no-local was implemented. Less risk and way better return in wormholes or way less risk for almost as good reward in high/lowsec. The only time I would do anything in nullsec would be in "blobs", because there is safety in numbers.


So go ahead an remove local. I, and many others, will go make isk somewhere else, and if you guys find anyone in nullsec, they'll be in a big fleet and you can move on to crying on the forums about how unfair "blobs" are, and start scheming to nerf those.

The medicine only tastes like **** if you have to take it yourself...

What we need here is a legion of AFK cloakers to scare away the nullbears.

Cyno alt is a bit ridiculous but it's done for convenience rather than anything else.
The rest of these are done because skill training requires specialization if you want to get decent at anything within a reasonable amount of time.

Again, making alternate accounts just to sit on gates cloaked for intel is absolutely ridiculous, but it's what people will be forced to do if you remove local in 0.0. Either that or they'll just leave en masse, which is probably more likely.

No local works nicely in wormspace because of no cynos, no supercaps, no static entry/exit points, and mass limits.

No local would work terribly in 0.0 because it has none of those other features in common.

I'd have no problem with local delays provided there was a mechanic that allowed alliances to trim them down with upgradable mods. But realistically ratters aren't all that hard to catch.

What's hard to catch is damn bots.

Local is the ONLY thing that saves the server from processing a a Billion Trillion Dscan clicks by Tens of Thousands of players in Eve,

Every Second of Every Day of the Year.

What a laughing stock of the MMO world would we be if that happened

Well lets see some ideas on that then, instead of "Just remove Local".

I do suspect though, that dscan improvements will be such, that we will end up having "Local" anyway, just under a different name. And what a waste of Dev time and money that'll end up being

Time will tell.