EVE General Discussion

English is not my first language so sorry for any errors

Ive been playing eve for a few months, quited and recently subscribed again.
So I would like to share some of the problems ive seen and some suggestions that might help solve those problems.
When I first started playing, like many others I wanted to be a pirate but quickly realized that in order to do that I needed a job grinding something or some slave alts in high sec supporting my habits.

There are corporations that give you free ships but still you have to grind something to be there and it seems to be the same in hig, low and nullsec. This made a grinding type of game from the player level to the alliance level, grind more get bigger fleets, blob warfare and lack of meaningful pvp.

I belive this is because after 10 years new eden is too small, but not in number of systems rather it has outgrown the political expectrum in wich the game is situated.

IN the beginings there was 4 major factions, two of these came to be because of rebellions so every minor faction quickly rallied for war and shady alliances where made. This forced the empires to use the capsuleers to explore space and find resources to avoid any political backslash in these coldwar type setting, so corporotation alliances where made and wrote the history of nullsec through wars and spionage. But after 10 years the fighting has become a big backstabbing political game of propaganda where everybody is Blue to everybody and they are just there grinding and building more and bigger weapons waiting for some inner fighting and a collapse.

So its another coldwar type seting matching the one between eve factions, a standoff, making alliances and waiting for something to happen.
What is needed is some way to fix these problems without making a theme park setting instead letting the players shape the universe by playing in it.
A simple way to achieve this, using tools already in the game, will be to let players join minor factions im aware of the concord exploit but this could be used in a slightly different way
-You need good standings with that faction to be able to join once you joined you get the same standings that the faction you choose
-you get a bounty for every enemy player ship you destroy based in the base hull price and the % between your faction standings and the other player faction standings in regard to yours. (the more your faction hates his, the more % you get from the base hull price)
-you get a discount in station fees and taxes depending on a % based on the standings between your faction and the faction that controls the station.

this is not faction warfare you are still subjected to the laws of concord, its just an incentive for pVP in all its form not just ships.

I know you can do something similar grinding missions at a player level and people wanting to do that will be able to keep doing it they don’t have to join a faction so no base hull rewards for them or their enemies.

But this little incentive could bring meaningful pvp and finaly, pvp careers that are somehow selfsustainable if you are good at it and for nullsec it could help with the blob warfare and encouraged small gangs warfare since now, if you bring more people you get less money.It also a new layer of political and economic strategy within alliance level, because now you have to choose between low reward but possible more truthsworthy neigrbous and be far from the frontline or an enemy you can potentially farm to extinction.

It could also improve traders pvp into a geopolitical (however its called in space)economical war and not just .01isk wars since now you have an excuse and an economical reason to keep your system clear from enemy factions and be able to spend those isk you ve been hoarding in proper trade wars while potentially being able to make even more.

And for the miners it would be easier to choose a system to operate if you know its your faction controlling the system and make avoiding ganking more into the metagame aspect by letting you decide wether to cross a sytem or not, depending if only your faction gankers are on the system or if they are not maybe you can pay a quota.

It makes regions different from each other, because right now its mostly the same everywhere it could help decentralized economical control from jita and let the other markets grow creating more strategic and economical reasons to hold systems, more highsec trade wars for important tradehubs and more pvp jobs for everybody.

It also helps with the perception of a good portion of the player base about nullsec being a bunch of nameless corporations and alts and some bigger alliances that some might have never heard of, and gives you a reason to cooperate with other sec status alliances bringing all sec status closed together. ( but always with an economical reason to do it, not just player goodwill )

Let them join factional warfare, keep it like it is today just let players fight for wherever faction they choose. This will help with the current perception of good vs evil and make it very different shades of grey, since there is no single faction loved or hated by everyone, it goes more like a circle ( http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Standings ) this in turns aid for those times in wich a faction is stomping another one and there is massive hords of mercenaries changing sides. Now you have more sides and the switching sides from one side to the other might not have such a big impact.

It also brings lowsec into the trade war spectrum, now you can join facton warfare from the station and profit, if your faction is controlling your lowsec trade route like a proper trader does.

Awesome. And maybe do that over in Features and Ideas Discussion where people gather to discuss new Features and Ideas?

I like the Cold War analogy.. I agree, everyone's building big bombs, but nobody has the balls to use them.

As for the rest... tl;dr

basically let players join minor factions with a percentage reward from enemy players basehull price depending on your faction standings with the enemy player faction.
to make pvp careers viable and to have more meaninful pvp.