EVE General Discussion

Every post i read in this general topic is a QQ post.

Is this a joke?, that think looks like it could impregnate women from orbit.

Yeah, kinda agree with OP that gate camps need some sort of change. Done more than my fair share of gatecamping, and been caught in a few myself. I think the major issue I've always had with gatecamps is the "blind jumping". Map statistics don't help the first fish to jump into the net, and requiring an alt just to move about "safely" seems kinda silly. Nevertheless, gatecamps should still be a viable option. Possible solution would be to change the game where you catch traffic coming into the gate, rather then traffic that has jumped thru.

Like others suggested change the radius of arrival after a jump to 200km. Or even better, make it settable (like the Warp To settings) so gangs can still stay in close proximity. The huge radius would make catching targets after a jump nearly impossible (though somebody could probably devise a super-boosted Gallente Recon that could still pull it off).

Then to make it possible to catch incoming traffic warping to the gate, add in an effect similar to a warp bubble to all gates. Anything that would land within 15km of the gate gets pushed out to the edge of the bubble. So even if you use bookmarks or warp to gang member, you still end up 15km from the gate. But if you warp in at range, you're not dragged in. It would slow down travel quite a bit, and make large slow ships much more killable (like JFs for instance). Careful travelers would be better able to avoid the camps, but fortunately there is no shortage of stupid people in EvE.

How about this? New NPC: Concord Parking Enforcer. Gate camping will be considered parking, and parking is not allowed. Players who gate camp get a Parking ticket based on how long they've been parked. 5 mil ISK, every ten minutes if they are within 50Km of the gate.

Gate camping will become costly, and will stop. Same thing with station camping....

You can get a Parking Permit, to allow you to camp gates and stations, from the Concord Parking Enforcement Office, but it's only good for one week, and you can only camp for WANTED felons.

Hmmm..... That would mean that Concord Parking Enforcement would be in Low Sec, as well as High Sec space. They don't avenge victims of murderous pirates like Concord Police would. They just assess a fine for parking violations. So, you could get away with murder in Low Sec, just don't do any parking violations and it'll be good.

If only the game encouraged complete immersion death by having secondary roles that are only sensible filled with a boxed alt.

Changing gate camps won't do all that much without removing bubbles. You can always set up a bubble in between gates. And systems that have camps a lot tend to be the ones that link large parts of null and only really have 2 gates more or less anyway. Otherwise they are hunting someone they know is there... At least IMHO. Fleets don't just gate camp any random gate.

But meh....War is tears and PvP is war. Your a capsuler, death does not become us.

I pray i am never so poor as not able to afford a clone with that can hold all my SP. Getting podded then would really suck.

Who is "they"? Most people in low/null simply don't care about hi-sec except as a place to buy stuff. Be careful of making huge generalisations.

Simple. To gank.

PvP is about ganking. High-sec is viewed as weak prey to exploit to gank.

Because EvE now is blob warfare, they don't have as many targets to gank. So they need a fresh and ready supply (or they'll be bored to death).

But CCP can't do that, as it kills the goose that lays the golden egg (new players, as other than alts of nullbears, are but what's up in high-sec). Do you think CONCORD exists for any other reason? CCP even *now* looks at can-flipping dimly. It tolerated it for a long time, but they need new players and will bend the "laws" needed so not to scared 9 out of 10 out of the game!

It's all about balancing. High-sec is needed by everyone, it has a place. But you can't let the average player run the game, as he'll shoot his own foot and destroy the game itself (so wrapped up in his interest to pewpewpew, and not looking at the bigger picture, and what's healthy for the game overall).

The "flaw" in the design is if your interest is industry the game isn't setup well for it. That's why the industrialists are in high-sec in the first place. Low/Null isn't setup to encourage such players to go into those zones, as you're a rifleman first there. If you have three hours a night to play with your "career" do you want to waste it on pewpewpews? No. You stay in high-sec to play your interest.

Now if the game mechanics changed to where industrialist could actually work at their "careers" in low/null, then yes high-sec will move down to low/null. It's all about "can I play my interest?".

When I first started EvE I joined null corps to get down there to play my interest and sadly very disappointed. Because there was little industry to do. Didn't have the Roqual fleets or research centers to ply my trades. Any of that was ad hoc and not enough to justify playing the game even. I quit EvE out of nothing to do but pewpewpews. That isn't why I came into EvE, I want to play what it has that no other MMO has, not play something that every MMO has...pointless waste of money.

Two 'Reds' entered our pocket so we scrambled and intercepting fleet to cut off their travel. Camped some gates, but they didn't enter the system, we chased after them, but they got away.

Why is this a problem?

Take your time. Any time today is fine.