Player Features and Ideas Discussion

No, it's not more wormholes or different ways to get to wormholes...

Nor is it more space connecting what we have now to "unreachable" jovian space.

Nope nothing like that....

We need new space with qualitatively different rules for exploration and development and potential for rewards.

What new rules you might ask?

1) No outposts can be constructed.

2) No NPC stations

3) No jump bridges

4) No sovereignty

5) No readily available ice products.

6 ) No anchorable bubbles


Just space....rich and full of the most bountiful set of resources in New Eden. Nowhere near the jump freighter-able, outpost infested, jump bridge traversed space we now have to deal with in balancing null sec. The best ores, rats, moon goo, and anomalies naturally occurring.....ready to be exploited by true adventurers with a willingness to work and meet the logistical challenge that truly existing in the deepest, darkness of space.

These regions would be called "Deepspace" regions, hidden from human eyes for the ages but available now for exploration by the few, the chosen, the courageous!

I read your whole post.

my answer still doesn't change.

get into wormholes, its the new endgame.

I like your concept though.

I've actually done two 6 month tours of duty in wormholes. It's devolved into strange little tactical games of collapse my wormhole before the calvary can get there. Don't get me wrong, wormholes can be fun, but it's not become the true bastion for exploration and adventure. Logistics are only marginally more difficult than in regular null sec.

I'm an old school player. I basked in the sense of accomplishment hauling gneiss from one point in quierious ten jumps to a refinery before dreadnoughts and jump drives were a twinkle in anyone's eyes.

Eve Deepspace Regions is just a game concept that is the natural extension of that idea.

I don't really like bots. Miners, bot or not, would have a difficult task in front of them in my conceptualization of Eve Deepspace Regions.

I read that post and something moved.

This is actually something that I've been thinking of as well. Having in a sense just a massive plot of space where there are no celestials to warp to. You have to rely on scanning to find objects, anomalies, sigs, etc in order to move. Like stepping stones.

How about "Virtual Space" based on captured Sleeper technology? It offers the possibility of reliable arena-style matches, and could allow for rulesets that are "gameplay-friendly" rather than "sandbox-friendly" or dictated by the game fiction. Then all the people playing EVE for "the wrong reasons" can have their own place and leave the rest of New Eden to the wolves.

I like this idea

What your proposing sounds like Extra-Galactic Space since Eve is a Galaxy in its own right, which is an interesting concept. Maybe Globular Clusters which can only be accessed by special portals. These portals could only be scanned down by max skilled probers. The easter eggs in these Globular Clusters would have to be something special like Jovian Technologies or something close to it.

Although I'm out of touch with the lore of New Eden, I get the impression EVE could only be a tiny fraction of a galaxy.
New Eden is only a few dozen light years across, yet even a small galaxy is a good 50,000 LY's across.

Also, a globular cluster would be a bit too big to just jump in to, considering they could have a good 100,000 stars in them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globular_cluster) - that's more stars than the whole of k-space. Admittedly, the view would be stunning, if the artists could render them properly.