Player Features and Ideas Discussion

We warp to objects because it is easy to program, not because it makes sense. Objects which do not orbit or move from their fixed position whatsoever.

We have gates because they are easy to program. They have been worked into the lore so now people say "Oh noes, you can't change that" as if technology in the future never advances.

Methinks the veterans need more of a shakeup than the noobs. Maybe they should be forced to continually adapt so they would lose the "I only know one way to do this so I will shout down your idea if it makes me have to change the way I play" spiel.

I am sure the system the OP mentions would have planet/POS/sun safety system. But why? We currently warp right through planets now.

And I am sure a Mac II could calculate a distance by burn of a warp drive with reasonable accuracy.

It is like the sand in the sandbox has been so carefully groomed it cannot be disturbed.

i Have no issue with shaking up the sandbox , but you have to keep within the lore and what CCP can do with out starting from scratch ( which involves them screwing up)


The problem with Calculating a point in Space is what you use for a reference, our Dscanners can only tell you a distance and have to be manually angled to order to work out where something is . How much do you trust our ship sensors to allow safe warp flight .



I think the idea could be fun , it won't go anywhere but because it is posted in General discussion and i think there is an idea thread ----> that way . So flesh out your idea and go post it there.

Because name all the sci fi movies that depict choke points in space..

Then think of all the sci fi movies that would be ruined by them.

People hide behind lore to prevent change that would cause them to have to adapt much like the Catholic church repressed science for centuries. Technology advances, deal with it.

Grab a calculator or a geek and take a look at the warp speeds on various ships.

Convert AU per second to km per second.

Look up conversion factor for kilometers to light years.

Understand that the distances between star systems are measured in light years.

Math.



Spoiler: it takes years to get between systems even with the fastest warp drives. Jump gates are set up by pilots in who undergo the journey in suspended animation. The system in EVE called Old Man Star is named for a guy who's entire crew died during transit, and he had to make the rest of the trip awake.

I was always under the impression that Warp Navigation needed something to lock on to.

I think trying to code and implement free warping would also kill the hamsters

For reference, a stock cov ops makes a light-year in about 81 hours. A freighter makes a light year in about 1,460 hours (two months). So a cov ops would take just shy of a year to cross New Eden, where a freighter could make it in about 17 and 2/3 years. Not quite as slow as you're making them out to be, but not a very fast trip.

Clearly cynos and jump drives are the way to go.

if you so desperately want to avoid any combat ever happening, stay in high sec and dont undock