EVE General Discussion

Fortify Systems Based On Activity.
To start, this system now has a dynamic resistance level on the POCO's based on the strategic level. The line members now can contribute to fortifying systems.

Mineral Bonus:
Below you'll notice that we have a bonus to bounty and a bonus to mineral usage during production. In order to implement the mineral production aspect of this system, you'd need to add an identifier on to all produced items in null sec at these perked rates due to the potential of reprocessing and creating minerals out of thin air. In essence, this would be the implementation of putting your mark on a ship produced and if this item were ever refined, you'd only receive the reduced mineral output.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1707789#post1707789

Expanding on this idea further. Instead of the bonus being mineral reduction, it would be time efficiency and/or more bonuses to refinery. - Fallorn

Ratting Bonus and now you have an effect on security status!:
For ratting in systems, people tend to migrate to the lowest sec systems and focus on upgrading them. Then, you find 50-60 dudes in that same system, they never leave... for days... months... The rest of null a null sec alliance's held space goes unused. So, we're now able to have an impact on security status and this would play into the Farms and Fields™ idea and you'd need to 'rotate your crops' so-to-speak.

How it works is that heavily ratted systems begin to increase in security status (it goes up and the value of the ratting anoms decreases). Systems in null sec have a cap on how low their security status can go, and would never go above 0.0. In order to regenerate a system back down to it's lower security status, you'd need to rat in other sovereign systems.

Sov 1:
-Resistances = 0%
-Ratting bounty x1
-Mineral usage in production x1
Sov 2:
-Resistances = 20%
-Ratting Bounty: x1.1
-Mineral usage in production x0.09
Sov 3:
-Resistances = 40%
-Ratting Bounty: x1.2
-Mineral usage in production x0.08
Sov 4:
-Resistances = 50%
-Ratting Bounty: x1.3
-Mineral usage in production x0.07
Sov 5:
-Resistances = 70%
-Ratting Bounty: x.1.4
-Mineral usage in production x0.06

Moon Mining and the Tech Manufacturing Problem
Contrary to popular belief, tech isn't broken. It's the process in which Tech 2 items in the game are manufactured which is that causes a bottleneck on a single resource. So, I propose we redistribute the moon resources in EVE, then redesign how Tech 2 manufacturing works so that depending on where you live in EVE determines what portion of the process you are focused on.

Basically, around Caldari space you'd have prom and tech. These two items would be the base for creating materials around Caldari Tech 2 products and weapon systems. See, you get to feed the lore nuts, and evenly distribute resources. You also are able to retain the sandbox of what is valuable is based on what we blow up. Drone regions would focus on module materials and drone components. The deeper you travel into null sec, the more prevalent these minerals on the moons become available.

Thu = Gallente/Rails
Dyspro = Amarr/Lasers
Neo = Mini/Projectile
Prom = Caldari/Missiles

This in essence, fixes tech. No longer are you after a single resource to produce all of your tech two. Instead, based on what we blow up in EVE determines the value of moon minerals. Space that has minerals based on doctrines which your alliance flies becomes valuable to you as if you are an industry heavy alliance, you can drive the costs down on your weapon systems and tech 2 ships.

This creates conflict because nobody uses a single racial doctrine exclusively. Some ships use other racial weapon systems to be effective.


The Local Debate
OH GOD NOT THIS AGAIN!?

The wolf and sheep conundrum is vital in order to have hunters and prey. The hunters hate local, the prey love it. The bottom line is the challenge to make both sides happy... so bare with me and let me provide a middle ground. The wolves need to be able to catch their slippery sheep, and the sheep need a mechanic that makes them at least feel secure. If you have no sheep, there's no point for wolves to exist and both sides hate the game and don't log in.

You no longer show in local until you de-cloak.

Just think about the possibilities here for both sides. For the sheep, you need to work as a team in order to provide intel. For the wolves, this allows you to jump into a system, do a system scan and get a head start. Both sides need to be on their toes.

The Cloaking Debate
Another... horrible subject.

Here's my solution. AFK cloaking is a harassment tactic, it's fun! I do it and I encourage everyone to do it someday as it's pretty fun to watch ratting hubs for my hostiles decline in activity. However, playing a game while not at your computer is not really playing a game. So, lets just put a fuel requirement on non-covert op cloaking devices. Covert op cloaking devices now have a time limit and regular cloaks have a fuel requirement of ~something~ cheap, maybe heavy water. It takes space, requires a refuel and would eventually require a chronic cloaker type to be active at his computer. It provides a meta game so we can try to catch that dude's re-fueling truck. Or, I can inject a spy in an alliance and refuel them with their own supplies

In conclusion:
-This system encourages pilots to populate their space and use it.
-It allows for smaller alliances to grief larger ones who have strategically held space. If they don't use it, it's more vulnerable to attack.
-It encourages nullsec manufacturing.


Basically... It does it all.

I doubt CCP will ever allow an increase in ratting bonuses.

Rather we'd end up with
x0.8 for sov 0
x1.0 for sov 5

Because inflation. Recall that they buffed anoms to get some activity and hurriedly nerfed it.

Well, Suqq Madiq is an ignorant toad, but I'm sure you could tell that already.

Everything looks good except the last two points.

For the point about Local, couldn't Local be eliminated and replaced by an intelligence tool of some kind? For instance, could there be a POS module that pings every 15 seconds or so and feeds all alliances/corporations blue to the owner details about any red or neutral ships which are uncloaked and in system? This could solve the AFK cloaker issue as well, since if cloakers did not appear in this intel tool, there would be no annoyance.

Of course, this would require a counter to cloaking. Maybe a new class of Destroyers, which have access to a module which can disrupt cloaks within a certain radius? Or perhaps a script for HIC bubbles performing the same function?

Anyways, those are my thoughts.

Good point, it could very well break many, many more things than it would actually fix.

I can tell you really put a lot of thought into this. I don't fully know the ramifications for all of the changes you outlined but I hope CCP will listen to folks who live in null sec day in, and day out.

With all those "boost null-sec" threads I've started to think it's either stagnating badly or at least not as fun as low/hi-sec where residents almost never ask for new toys.

It's been hit with a lot of nerfs and un-fun mechanics that really make for a lot of monotony. It needs some love, pretty badly.

EDIT: The alliances and people you fly with are great and are some of the most active and contributing communities to the EVE story. However, the tools we have for our sandbox are old, rusted, falling apart and we really need someone to look at them. A lot of the toys you guys didn't ask for, you got anyway and it attracted a lot of our members back to empire because they always felt as though they were forced into a cause that didn't benefit them in some way. Those benefits which did contribute to an individual's fun were slowly stripped away. Why fight or live in null sec if it's not worth fighting for. The only reason they do is to keep the community together, but it's done so at the expense of a very un-fun game.

Things like Dominion sov where a single battle could decide the outcome of an entire war are very demoralizing.

Ratting only benefiting a member and pigeon holing people into dead end pockets really congested the income of pilots.

Empire incursions was another draw away from our lovely homes.

Basically, all we have left are our communities we've built. Empire has gotten a ton of new toys whether you asked for them or not. We now are asking for a reason so that our communities can log in and enjoy the sanbox together.

I propose a fix to the debate good sir.

This isn't rocket surgery.

I was trying to break Agony's lock on me.

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