EVE New Citizens Q&A

There is a LOT of space out there that is all but empty. Seriously, I can go days in some systems without seeing another soul...

What may be needed is a way to 'free up' systems which are claimed, but not actually used.

Something easier than the mind numbing grind that's taking down a TCU. But that's a sov update.

Wait...what...A GD thread and interesting read, something really went wrong while I was on my ban

The issue is not that New Eden is too small. When traveling through 0.0, you can go 4, 5, 6, systems seeing no one, then see 1 or 2 people, then another half dozen jumps with no one.

i think the problem is that people expect to be kings in a day. EVE is very feudal. Kings have lots of Dukes. Each Duke has lots of Lords. The kings and dukes can't just let anyone set up in their area. If they did, how would they keep their current underlings in line?

You don't "carve out a place in EVE" on your own. You stat as a serf, maybe move up to Lord. Before you can become a Duke... well, better not have a life outside of EVE.

You are certainly not going to be King in a day.

"But then mynnna has a suggestion for us: either throw our lot in with one large ally (someone remind me how this worked out for Gentlemen's Club or Intrepid Crossing) or build an army out of like-sized small alliances to challenge a large alliance. This latter suggestion strikes me as roughly analogous to the continent of South America declaring war on the United States because their populations are roughly equal, forgetting the advantage the latter has in doctrine, discipline, communications, and technology." Jester

Yes, Eve IS too small ... for new players. There may be lots of sand on the beach but some few groups have laid claim to the whole of it. Doesn't make going to the beach all that much fun.

Yes, I'd like to see Eve connected to the "Milky Way." Perhaps some recursive (an Eve within an Eve) Exploration adaptation via wormholes. In other words, so much beach that it is impossible to see it all let alone claim it all.

Days and days without even seeing anyone else. Fun game that. NOT.

Sov too small for you? Invade a different region, or move to w-Space.

Your tiny corner of the game being small isn't really the same thing as the entire game being too small. Hell, there are even systems in _high sec_ that are practically deserted.

The actual size of new eden is just about right....

There are some mechanics that make it feel small though...

Have you ever played the Elder Scrolls games.... They often feel huge, taking a long time to walk/run from town to town to town... and then you learn about "fast travel" and suddenly the world seems small because you can instantly cover that distance very quickly... EvE is the same way...

Capital Ships with Jump Drives, Jump Bridges, Titan Bridges, Death cloning, and Jump Cloning allow pilots to quickly travel from one end of the universe to the next without having to tread through the gazillion dangerous in-between zones... This makes the EvE universe feel small... when in actuality it's not...

Nope,

High sec needs to be made more dynamic, so that people don't constantly gather around the same systems.

0.0 people just need to sack up and fight for their space.