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Supported on the condition that more low-sec "entry points" are added so there are multiple routes one can take into and through low-sec.

as high sec industrialist, I like the idea - it would certainly add to trade opportunities, production opportunities as well as making life more interesting for everyone.
Alternatively, leave one high sec pipe, but make it especially long and boring :) (for those who insist on safe travel, not to mention that it would create ideal place for high sec gankers )

This again? Well I suppose it has been a while.

No
People - especial new player - are leaving because Eve isn't a "dark, harsh world" full of adventures and mmo pvp-challenges they ve been told (beyond 0-sec). They run lvl3-4 boring as hell.

Because Eve is a f***ing paradise, where everybody can get everything without fighting - just grinding for.

Lowsec is empty and noone needs to go there (fw exepted), nothing there is unique, pirates are pirating themselves.
(Btw an old idea to boost lowsec http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1248596)

In 0-sec arrived you are surrounded by blues.

New Eden needs more difficulties not less to create more obvious ingame passions - and professions.

It doesnt help the game that a newbee has a long time to play till he discovered the hidden secrets of eve-fun even how to write his own history in the sandbox.

And this...more gamemechanic rpg-content could help too:



So I fully support his idea!

That is basically the current system. their are only 4 highsec exits from caldari space and 3 of them are 1 jump from each other and go to the same system. Maybe make it 100 jumps then id be happy.

People who insist on safe travel will still have cloaked haulers and wormholes.

Throwing my support. Cheers.

Supported.

While it makes perfect sense for allied empires to have boarders from high sec space to their allies high sec space this makes no sense for nations at war. I would expect that any boarder between waring empires would be a war zone. i.e. low sec.

If Amarr and Minmatar empires are supposed to be allied against the Caldari and Gallente empires then there should be no boarder between the two sides that is not contested. Sure the current low sec faction war systems are the official "war zone" but how could any system that shares a boarder with an empire they are at war with be high security space?

There are many high sec "Islands" in the EVE universe. The primary empires should at least be divided between two high sec "continents" with low sec space separating them. Other lesser factions should be restricted to their own high sec "Islands"

One thing I have always though would be really cool in EVE would be to have it more like an actual living universe. Have the sec status of systems shift depending on how the war goes. As low sec systems are captured and secured the security level of surrounding systems should shift. If one side controls every system within a 6 jump radius of a high sec entry then that entry systems security rating should go up. Like wise if the opposing side captures all the low sec systems bordering your high sec systems then the security rating of those high sec systems should drop.

In order to stop this from allowing a powerful militia on one side from slowly chewing away at the other sides high sec eventually making that empire smaller, you could have live events where the empire navies jump into the systems the reclaim them for the original owning empire. These could be like a faction wars version of incursions where the winning side could then battle against the empires fleet of faction ships for big rewards. Offer massive rewards to the losing side if they help to reclaim lost systems. Of course it would have to be done in a way that the navy eventually wins to prevent entire regions from switching empire control. But it would make EVE feel like a much more alive universe if security levels of systems fluctuated depending on the outcome of the war.

I believe that it would be more interesting if all four empires were separtated. While it is silly to think that allied empires would not try to be connected to each other I propose that the reason they are not is through the work of their enemies.

Here is my lore explanation for the new regions and why the current gates were severed.


The caldari states new jump gate technology to explore the rest of black rise has caused stargate wormholes to be unstable that are near black rise. This new region is called "Black Void" and has caused the connecting gallente and amarr stargates that are high security space to be severed due to their proximity. The gallente have also lost connection to the minmatar due to this strange event. Black void would be a narrow sparsely filled region filling the void from the serpent's coil to algintal. Many suspect this new jumpgate technology was not discovered by the caldari but purposely given to them by an unknown entity. The Gallente have discovered a new ancient jumpgate network near the myrdian strip, and would be named after the local landmark. The angel cartel and serpentis have began moving in because they feel that their is ancient jovian technology to be had making it very insecure. This region will connect to minmatar and ammatar space with another connection to black void. The ammatar have decided to break all ties with the amarr and destroyed all their stargates in high security space. They wish to ally with the minmatar republic but they are still a sovereign state, at the same time the ammatar have found new gravity wells in divinities edge and began settling their. Divinities edge will be the minmatar's new zone (kinda). Amarr are huge and don't need ****, they just will connect to Black Void and Divinities Edge.

Currently each faction connects to their ally and their historial enemy by high sec while having to cross their allies space in order to get to the enemy of their friends space.

Because I got confused myself writing that here is a simplified form

Divinties edge, black void, and myridian connect to each other so the path would be.
Caldari -> Amarr = Hisec -> Black Void -> hisec
Amarr -> Gallente = Hisec -> Black Void OR Divinity -> Myrdian -> hisec
Amarr -> Minmatar = Hisec -> Divinity -> Hisec
Gallente -> Minmatar = Hisec -> myridian -> hisec
Caldari -> Minmatar = Hisec -> Black Void -> Divinity OR Myrdian -> Hisec

Also Divinities Edge would be difficult to properly place, maybe snuggler underneath ammatar space?


For each race to reach their main enemies area they can still cross the current FW battlegrounds.

All four races can reach the enemy of their friends more quickly by way of the already existing narrow constellations.

Along with a simplified map showing the basic interconnections between regions
Basic Map
The letters are abbreviations for the name of the regions or represent an entire empire as a whole.
I know I am missing a lot of the currently existing empire low regions but I think that map follows the general layout minus high sec connections.

Keep in mind their will be more than one connection between the regions shown with connecting black lines, those just represent what regions do connect with each other. I may make a map that is more accurate and shows better how the new regions would fit into the current eve map but that is for another time.

UPDATE
I have added a new map that is overlaps the current eve map showing where the proposed regions could go and what the new gates may look like.
New map

I think exactly this would happen.

Why dont use a different approach of giving the possibility of a faster travel by "layers".

Say the universe would be a burger. High sec would be the meat itself. Now to travel alot faster from deep Gallente to the outer border of Minmatar you would enter another tier, the "cheese". This low sec tier would enable you to do say 5 jumps instead of 30.
Doing so you give an advantage to people so that they want to use this way, instead of forcing low sec onto highsec players. I am myself dont stay in just one area.

Storywise this could be a middle thing of low sec and wormhole. After the wormholes the races did try to make an arteficial wormhole, which lead to the entrance of a parallel universe or the "hyperspace" like in Babylon 5.

I dont think it is like this right now. There are some shortcuts, but not to bring such a huge advantage of reaching jita from everywhere in high sec within 5 jumps. It maybe brings you 14 instead of 18 jumps. The risk this is bringing is not worth it.

Wormholes arent safe nor are they worth the trouble (finding it first, checking the mass of it, bringing a freighter in it). Blockade runners arent worth their name. You only want to fly into low sec if you can fit a cloak like with the Viator.

Certainly you would destroy the afk freighter routes but you would also ruin normal high sec players life by forcing them through low sec when they want to get from Amarr to Jita.

Again I am not against a buff of low sec systems. The new ORE frigate is exemplary for that. More people will use it and try out more dangerous regions with a t1 frigate. Therefore more mining will happen in low sec, therefore the mineral market will grow out there and you probably with have more professional mineral buyer getting the stuff back to high sec.
But keep in mind that "where there is a winner, there is a looser". That would cause people to quit who dont want to live with this kind of buff of yours for the low sec, therefore the felt and real nerf of their playstyle.

If you really want to get rid of afk freighter, you need to find ways to make it worth not flying afk (and by that i dont mean you will be killed by afk - what you are right now anyway in Uedama).