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I agree with the general principle that all securities of space should interact with each other.

I'm also not even going against the general idea you're throwing out: which looks as though it's wishing to create a stream of production that goes from the outside-in and then back inside-out again.

The only thing that irks me a little is that the low- and high secs don't seem to have any "bonused" actions that involve ships in space while much of the logic that would enable a system like this interactively (as you said, from 2006) have disappeared from the game making it feel a tad outdated.

I mean, i loved the notion back in the day: of lowsec being a production area that saw alot of material shipped around that paved the way for piracy; escorted BoB and proto-NC hauling Ops of Freigthers filled with goodies for Tech II production and the like. It definately makes sense, but alot has also changed in that regard with the profileration of Carriers, introduction of JF and so forth.

So while i agree that high-low-null should be interactive and interdependent, i'm not sure if the production flow of old EVE is the way forward (even though i remember it, and remember it quite fondly as a budding pirate roaming for freight-runs).

The name of the game these days seem to be making each region more self-sustained and not as co-dependent, so the challenge would be to make the securities interdependent on that backdrop (if that makes any sense, i'm trying to draw a distinction between co-dependent and interdependent here, which i am uncertain if it's literally sound): What i am after is that i would like to see each area of space interactive with the other, and inviting players to transgress the borders - but i am not so certain that the different securities need to be so wildly different and unique. That's not sandbox to me.

Some flavour would be nice of course, but i rather belive in having them reminisce of each other than offering completely different resources and gameplay. That is mostly in fear of a dependent system not making them very interactive though, since interactivity is key for me. If you manage to do both, all the more power to you - but priority should be interaction.

Some exhaustion induced raving here, does it make sense?

We already have a system where each area more or less have some unique production-traits: Nullsec with it's capital assemblies, WH with it's Tech III components, Lowsec with it's stream of navy-faction commodities through L5 and FW, NPC-null with it's stream of pirate-faction BPC or implants and Empire with it's bottom-line mining, invention and subcap production. It could definately be tightened up a bit, but there is already a cornerstone there for some flavour while allowing the general economy to seep through all securities better (ie., bottom-line mining isn't, and doesn't have to be, exclusive for Empire - so it isn't necessarily so that Nullsec require unique mining opportunities as much as it requires mining opportunities that meet the risk-reward balance).

I like this idea.

I like the general idea because I'd like to see more traffic and cooperation everywhere -- but I almost see some of the specifics as being in-game already.

High-sec is "bonused" for market orders. Because people go there to buy things you're more likely to sell things there. It's also "bonused" for just about any other industrial effort because you're unlikely to lose that effort to traditional pirates -- but you have to live with the "penalty" that resource contention is high.

In low-sec there are never wait times for production, so you could say that production is "bonused" in low-sec. For entities without their own POS, low-sec is "bonused" for research, copying and invention because the queues aren't clogged up. There is less competition for the resources. This is also true of Null-sec, but it's "penalized" in null-sec because it's much easier to get caught and you don't want to lose your original blueprints.

Null-sec is definitely "bonused" for exploration because the game mechanics cause the best sites to spawn there and nowhere else. It's also "bonused" for mining because there are some ores that are difficult to get anywhere else.

I see where you're trying to go, but I don't think this path takes you there.

+1 in principle.

For fact, see signature.