Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Eve is Big.

This is a well established fact. There's ton's of space, lots of stuff, its a big place.
However, over the last few years, all of eve, and nullsec in particular has slowly gotten smaller. That's not to say there's less space, but that space is much more crowded, and because it is of limited volume, the owners of most of it are massive and powerful alliance blocs, that give little chance for a starting group to make it except as their pets. I believe this should be corrected.

What:
CCP hasn't expanded the eve universe since Apocrypha, when they added 3000 new systems and showed that they could basically just push a button to generate hundreds of systems within the server. I think they should push that button again. Now, I don't think that they should just add in new space once. I think they should start adding in new space at a rate of about 2 regions every 6 months.

How:
I don't think that simply adding new space onto nullsec openly will work to keep it fair and leave openings for new players, so some simple, longterm mechanics should be added in for how these new systems should be added.

Before this could be implemented Trusec would need to begin fluctuating based on system population, with trusec slowly trickling downwards the fewer people are present. If many people populate a system, very slowly, over a period of a few months, the system will become worth less and less.

Next, there is the actual adding of systems:

Phase one: The systems are added in as a perimeter around the existing nullsec systems, connected to nearby systems via wormholes. These systems would not be shown on the map, and would basically be like wormhole space sans sleepers. There would likely either be no rats at all, or very strong rats. Things like smuggler gates and things could possibly be sometimes found to connect this space with known space. Cynoing in would be possible but would take more fuel then normal. These systems would contain resources of sufficient value to support their occupation.

Phase Two: After roughly six months, or whenever the next patch roles out, these systems would get 'standard concord beacons, adding in local, asteroid belt beacons, and allowing sov to be taken in them. At the same time, another set of phase one systems is added.

Phase Three: Six months after phase two, gates are added, connecting these new systems to the existing nullsec systems, and they become part of nullsec proper.

These mechanics would then open the door to other interesting things CCP could add, keep in mind these are just ideas and not part of the main point:

New Pirate Regions, wherein the phase one systems would contain a connection straight into a complete pirate controlled region, with gates, stations, and defenses halfway between highsec and lowsec. Lost Sansha Colonies. Hidden Minmatar Military centres, things like that.

Destructible gates. Wormholes offer a unique opportunity. They cannot be blocked, they cannot be stopped, they would allow backdoors into systems where the gates have been destroyed, meaning the gates become less important, just add in W-space mechanics wherein there must always be at least one wormhole in a system cut off from the gate network. If you want a simple way to have gates be killable, just make them very very very tough, and as soon as they die, an NPC 'gate construction site' appears to mark the gate location, and it reopens after like, 4-5 months when the NPCs rebuild the gate

Cyno pointing, wherein a ship with a big powerful cyno laser pointer could light a cyno for a capital from outside the destination system.

This is a fairly simple mechanic in and of itself, but its very meaningful. It means space is always expanding, there is always a frontier, there are always new things to discover, and empty systems to take. An expansionist universe for an expanding population.

That would be interesting though not necessary.

The point of 0.0 is that it is scarce, its survival of the fittest, there isnt enough space to go around and there never should be.

You never want to take something rare and valuable like null sec and make it common or easily obtainable. That being said, 0.0 has plenty of unpopulated space, all you need to do is nerf force projection and fleet movement so the empires that live there sprawl less.

I like the idea of having a frontier, of seeing things in the game no one else has seen. +1

I hope they open the eve gate, I feel like both sides of the wormholes would take sides over time and there would be all out wars on each other : )

Imo they just should resize distances between systems or regions and make capital projection really expensive and kinda pain in the a*s. If you would need 20 or 30 mid point cynos for supercarriers and titans or JFs routes, then it wouldn't be so easy to move limitless capitals on top of someones face. And nullsec industry would get some boost since it would be not worth to make a daily jita run for '3 drakes and 8 missile launchers'. It also makes an opportunity for small allies. I think it could help eve a bit to get some diversity.

I'm not saying its the complex solution for whole nullsec issues. It's just about how space could be changed to make it accessible for smaller players in this game and how it could limit some insane capitals and supers power on present battlefield. Ofc there is no single easy way to fix nullsec and prolly it would need complete revmap but its just a small brick of how things could be done to balance whole nullsec gameplay. ;)

Well currently I don't think EVE does need more solar systems. Because if you gonna roam nullsec you gonna see that around 80% of systems are dead or habitated by bots. All we need is to change/limit the force projection in nullsec to give a chance for smaller groups.

At some point its true what you are saying. But if CCP will be tricky they might limit capital projection at regional level without interrupting constelation and system levels.

Small groups shouldent ba able to invade and conqer other regions since they dont have enough player base and resources.

Dont forget about diplomats, also if u want to live in deeper null u should be more powerfull and ofc get more benefits.

Also remember that limiting capital projection will limit big nullsec players with keeping couple of regions with countless rentiers.