EVE General Discussion

ok thats cool but can they spawn items for my benefit??

Jove space can get all of the benefits of the expansion and we still won't be able to go there.

Bringing Jove into the game as an active faction, or otherwise opening up their space, would require *much* more dramatic lead-in before it went live. I'm thinking at least a year where it is perfectly clear where it's leading.

I'm going to guess that Eve will have to kneel before the Jove when they all suddenly appear in the midst of a giant Minmatar and Amarr battle once again. They will declare Dust 514 mercenaries the 'offspring' of both Jove and capsuleer civilizations while demanding their equality and freedoms. Then the Jove will proceed to give mercenaries save haven by declaring a new homeland for them by fiat. This will let mercs settle in whichever new region the devs pick first.

And what does it mean if Polaris has somehow had jumps in it if it isn't connected to anything? I'm guessing the devs are manually juping themselves...?
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/Polaris

Hmm.... well, why wouldn't they make Jove Space an Empire space, like all of the other empires? Then the big alliances couldn't take it all over and farm it for items, and everyone would get a chance to see it and experience Jove technology.

Anti-climactic.


Why?

Because it will be the "ooh Jove space is opening up!!!!" and then in a week it's going to be nothing but nullbears, bots, and gank pipelines.

BFD.

I don't really care what anyone says... THAT would be great!

[slappedhardbyrealism]

Yeah, I know, it'll never happen...

How long before people start begging to be a Jove?

Just roll a girlie avatar with bad skin and no hair.

Would love if Jove tech became available. Many say it would destroy eve but I have to disagree. It's how you implement it that makes all the difference.

For instance. You could make it random events where groups of players are needed to fight and kill 1 or a couple of Jove ships. Make it real hard so it's almost like you fight a real player blob. After your group succeeds or fails. You can loot certain parts like it is with tech 3. Add reverse engineering and research in pos to use the parts. Repeat this a hundred times and you can create a jove ship of your own. (the bigger, the more insane the quantity of parts needed). This way jove ships will be rare as hell and an achievement to create. They will never be able to be build in sufficient numbers to influence the outcome of the game or major wars. They wont render all the other ships obsolete either.

Yes you might encounter a big alliance with 20 titans and one (even rarer) jove battleship but that just adds to the excitement of fights and the game overall. To destroy one would be a bigger achievement on the kill board then a titan kill.

Implement it like this and it would make a great addition to our ever evolving and exciting universe!

0.02$ cheers o/

I thought the design talk was interesting and I thought they were going to announce that Jove space was going to be part of the place where you could do their cowboy roams in land where you couldn't settle anything. That's nearly exactly what I was thinking Jove space would be...jumping around until you get the loot you want and then trying to find a safe way out w/o getting gangked.

going into Jove space? This means WAR!