EVE General Discussion

Just give me private wormholes that only spawn exits when I want them to exit. Solo play in WH space for the carebear win!

So, basically, do nothing but annoy industrialists and capital pilots.

Okay.

/facepalm

Oh, by the way, its "bear with me"

I was about to say that.

OP: To bare with you means we all take our tops off together, so no.

Also, creating more space solves the opposite of everything: NOTHING.

There is a thing called exploration. It opens up the solar systems quite a bit. PI also gets you involved with the planets and moons of a given system (especially if you live out of a POS).

And, really, space is called "space" because it is mostly empty. In EVE as in real life.

Just making more space doesn't seem like it'd do much, because coalitions would claim much more than they can use, as they do currently. A lot of null security space is unused, only belonging to another group in name, but might hardly see any actual use from its owners.

If more space were created, it'd need to be similar to wormhole systems in some way. That is, access to this space is limited, and it's much harder to get into it than it is to get out of it. It's also easier to get back into it if you had only recently left it, since you know where the wormhole leading to it is. Others looking for your specific wormhole will have to search the galaxy for the wormhole.

If more space is made, it needs to be similar to this. Maybe they can create a bunch of 'deep space' systems, beyond the border of current null security space. It might be like wormholes in that it doesn't have anybody listed in local chat, and there wouldn't be any jump gates that exist there, since it's newly discovered space. There would have to be some way of being able to jump from system to system, whether it's player-owned jump-gate style structures or something else. Perhaps a new capital ship can be made for the purpose of settling this space, a colony ship of sorts. It could act as a temporary jump bridge for persons that want to move between systems. This might allow people to get far into the 'deep space' before settling up their own deep space empire, far from anybody else. Anybody that wanted to invade them would need to travel around checking all the systems to find their opponent, and then create their own network of temporary bridges just to reach them.

Tell me if this is a horrible idea or something because I am ready to wet myself with excitement at just the thought of it.

So, the tl;dr is something like this, then?

• Keep hisec similar to as-is.
• Less lowsec, but more tightly packed and with more things to do.
• More spread out nullsec.

This is not a small change. Like, at all. It would need a ton of mulling over by devs, deciding on where things are placed, and even then there may be huge secondary effects. Plus, infinite whining. Also, what are the implications of ret-conning the geography of Eve?

It may have the effects you intend, but there is no way of calling it. With it being such a risky big change, I'm not sure CCP would even consider it. At least, that's my 0.02 ISK.

Also, post in Features & Ideas Discussion.

The OP did hit on one of the major things that is a issue with the current setup. The differant area's really lack definition. As it stands there is very little overall differance between High/low/null, other then "safety" and what certain mods you can use.

What they need to do is get rid of gates and make everything operate on ship jumps (think battlestar galactica). That would actually allow geography to provide natural barriers through distant systems not being a simple "jump" away.

Then, ships need to have an upkeep cost. It should increase with ship size. That would eliminate this whole race to super caps =win notion. Since there are now no upkeep costs once you have a cap you no longer have to fork over tons of resources to keep it. If you did they would be more vulnerable to raids on resources and less common overall, without diminishing their significance or their power.

The point the OP is making is NOT to add more systems, just increase the space between them so carriers and jump freighters can not "two-step" from high sec to the outer reaches.

Quite like the idea. Done right, would solve force projection across multiple regions painful, slow and expensive.

Sounds awfully like space exploration to me.

If it cost a billion ISK every region you had to carrier jump between, you'd very much shrink your empires and allow crowding to break up the blobs. Obviously you would still have some blobs as people learn very slowly.

When they run out of ISK and implode, everyone gets a little better and more people need responsibility / power to get the job done.

That's as far as I can think this one through.

Sort of plus 1 the general premise but would hear / read my peers reasons for why things a bad idea before I rattled any sabers

Do i have to load goddamn avatars to get in? Why not just dock and alt-r