EVE General Discussion

I like the idea of constellation chat in null rather than local. Would give scouting profession a MASSIVE boost.

And all of that can be done at your own leisure, with absolutely no risk at all, and without any appreciable interruptions whatsoever.


Don't do that, then.


Or blues.


And compare that to hisec: if you don't fly a pimped ship, you won't ever die.


For now. Then, a few months later you start whining again about how hard it is to catch a ratter, and you start demanding more nerfs, and more nerfs, and more nerfs.

And suddenly people have to sit there with one alt on each WH entrance, one on each gate, and alts spread evenly across the solar system to run dscan, just to make sure they cover all the solar system, just so they can rat with one guy.

It's cute that you latched onto the weakest points, and completely ignored the most important ones, namely the fact that your PVE is always done in sites that need to be probed out (and therefore dscan will point out any probes that might be leading someone to you), and that you never have to contend with the possibility of being hotdropped. Oh, I might add, your PVE is done in fleets with ships that are typically better fit for PVP than nullsec.

yeah, thats fine then, its high sec after all so secure up to some point. My point was you can pimp your ship in zero for whatever ISK you wanna spend, while the safety threshold for pimping n high sec is very low (tengus being suicided for 4 CN ballistics).


you CANT be hotdropped too, since there is noone ratting the second before a potential cyno dude enters the system.

so which game mechanic exactly prevents you from doing the same?

im all right with this, never moaned about this much actually before CCP started to consequently improve local, which in my experience rapidly lowered my chances of catching something. This is my issue. there was no need for any local buffs.


there you go. In first sentence pvp fitted ships were your argument for better WH bear survivability than zero bears, in the second sentence you nullified your own argument because it didnt make sense for you personally at all.

Local hasn't really been buffed. I really don't care about the blinking crap (it's annoying and I don't think it's helpful) but why should I be forced to look at thumbnails of everybody's portrait in local? It's a usability issue, not a local intel buff. Local shows exactly the same information as it did before.


Yes, wormholes and nullsec are different. Congratulations for pointing that out.

many people play on small monitors maybe, which didnt allow local to show everyone in expanded view because of its sheer size. This has been changed significantly, which is clearly a buff, because suddenly you can view the double amount of people at one glance, which means the difference in some systems for spotting neutrals without scrolling local window. For blinking as well, someone will probably be using as extended warning mechanism -> more safety again.
Anyways, if both changes were no buff, then why have they been implemented? We could revert these changes without any safety loss, no?


I dont know why you are bringing up high sec and FW all the time into a discussion about null sec. This is pretty irrelevant, this thread is not about high sec, nor it is about FW. Its is about constant safing up null sec.

Its not about how unsafe high sec is but about how safe null is. You can pimp the heck of your ratting boat, you wont get killed by anyone as long as you stay conscious.


you dont need to be an autistic freak for monitoring intel. local changes are very visible as long as the local lies in peripheral vision of your gaming view (which is usually the case). Even more if it is blinking and displays ALL people in local not just subset of them like it was sometimes before certain local buff.


how many goon supers died to hotdrops over last 6 months?

So what I got from your post was, nerf high resolution monitors.
What about UI scaling? Shall we nerf that as well?

more strawman pls

I'm bringing up hisec and FW all the time, because one of the things which make nullsec safe is how depopulated it is. If systems had been more populated, more people would, at any given time, be not paying attention to local and intel channels etc. Hisec and FW are rewarding enough that it makes it worth it to not rat in nullsec, which is the biggest nerf to roaming gangs.


Again, yes, the instant we go into nullsec we become these freakish autists which do nothing but glare at local all day every day. We never look away.


I watch TV series on my other monitor while I do my L4 missions, that's how effort they are. Do that in nullsec.


How many goon supers have been ratting the last 6 months? How many alts do those guys keep in the surrounding/leading systems, for added safety?