EVE General Discussion

Why can't we manually warp in any direction? Something like a cruise speed warp not a full max ship capable speed warp. I could point myself in essentially any direction say 150 km from the closest object/celestial and be able to do a slow speed warp at freighter warp speeds or my idea even slower barely supra light speeds. With normal full ship capable warp speed aka click, align, warp always available.

This brings up 2 problems with at least 1-ish solution.

Problem 1: A ship can almost always be in motion.

Before you combat probe scanner people start to panic. This is a simple solution and possibly a cool idea. Interception warp! With combat scanners you can see someone in "cruise warp" and make an intercept warp making the player go back to normal space and have no choice but to pic a celestial, click, align and warp.

Problem 2: EVE system space.

Space is infinite, but sadly not EVE space. This begs the question, how far out of a system can you go in EVE? In a system from the sun to the farthest object, let's make it 100 AU, making the system 200 AU wide. How far can you get before the server/game mechanic will stop you if at all? And also what happens when you reach the edge of a system? This new ship mechanic could be made to drain cap constantly so you eventually run out of gas no matter what your cap recharge rate is.

It would make cruising the stars/solar system more interesting anyways.

A MWD on a frig is barely faster than the shuttle leaving the atmosphere.

This should go to F&I...

Your post topic is flawed, in that it implies there is something broken, that requires fixing. This is absolutely NOT the case.

However.
You cannot simply warp in a single direction, due to the requirement of warp drives requiring pre-determined coordinates to warp to them.

Now, SHOULD this sort of change happen, where you could simply "Warp" in any direction, this would be a massive, massive setback to pvp. No longer will you have to be aligned to warp off and escape. No longer will you have to break out of a tacklers point range while facing an orbital (Of course, you have to get out of point range, but as it is now, you have to get out of point range, then realign and warp to something, before they get point back on you. This would eliminate that need). No longer will you have to keep aligned while ratting when hostiles show up. Just go into warp!

Terrible terrible idea. This would be SO many kinds of terrible for eve.

Suppose for a moment, that they did make this change, and you cannot enter warp within a certain distance of other ships and objects, what would be the point of doing a slow (cruise) warp? I don't see any, other than 'for the sake of it.' Unfortunately, for the sake of it, doesn't work as a very compelling argument in a game where there are many much needed changes, that this would take away resources from.

However, in regards to your question on distance in a system in Eve, the distance out you can go, to the best of my knowledge, is infinite. A long time ago, with the old scan probes, you could drop a long range probe, and with very poor probing skills, in a very bad ship for probing, you could run a scan, get a hit on a signature with such a bad accuracy, that you could warp to the spot, and be 50+ AU from the nearest object in the solar system. As a result of many of these bookmarks being in existance (super deep-safes), and CCP not wanting people using them, sitting their capitals in them, etc, they moved all the safes to within I believe 15AU of the nearest orbital. HOWEVER, I don't ever remember reading about them putting a hard limit on how far out you could go, just on moving bookmarks.

This used to be in the game AFAIK.

They removed it for a reason.

I think in practice there's just no way to warp that far out anymore, and sublight travel wouldn't cut it.
I remember hearing that you could have a deep space safespot so far out that it was technically in a neighbouring system by in-universe measurements, but still treated as the original system by the game servers.

That is how the game is designed.

As has been said, it was possible to reach ludicrous distances by abusing various in-game mechanics, allowing people to create Deep Safes that were pretty much impossible to probe down. The capability to do so was removed for a reason.

However, back in the first days of EvE, the "Warp To" command was available at almost every opportunity... even when right-clicking on empty space. It didn't take long for players to realize that a pod has the greatest warp travel capability, and reached stupidly long distances within a solar system. When CCP "cleaned out" the Deep Safes, the most distant bookmark they found was, IIRC, 93000 lightyears from the sun.

We used to be able to, but they removed it.