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The Doomsday Scenario - All Systems Become Nullsec
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Lord Mandelor
Oruze Cruise
White Stag Exit Bag
#1 - 2011-11-12 05:56:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Lord Mandelor
This is simply hypothetical, as anyone with a brain knows CCP would never do this (yes I do have to say that before panicky miners go nuts).

Let's say that, without any preparation or warning, all of New Eden goes null. Cynos can be dropped anywhere, you can shoot everything that moves, and NPC Navy ships will only appear to protect their own stations. CONCORD is dead.

I'm just curious to hear everyone's predictions on what EVE would be like if this happened. Inevitably, there would be a major player drop, but I'm talking about the gameworld itself. Would most alliances crumble? Would one super-power have to take over and try to police everything? Would a massive resource drought after the inevitable galactic ship massacre cause a nearly apocalyptic market scenario, to the point where a lone carrier could terrorize a system on its own for days?

Don't think "I was there". What if you were there?
Endeavour Starfleet
#2 - 2011-11-12 06:04:48 UTC
One alliance wins within a month or two after mass numbers leave. Game can reset or CCP can go with warewolves and vampires.

Ya not happening....
Herr Wilkus
Aggressive Salvage Services LLC
#3 - 2011-11-12 06:05:24 UTC
Game would be awesome. +1
Kietay Ayari
Caldari State
#4 - 2011-11-12 06:17:41 UTC
:D they should duplicate the server and do it on that one to see what happens!

Ferox #1
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#5 - 2011-11-12 06:30:48 UTC
CCP did this once before... during the Empyrean Age expansion. They called it "Armageddon Day."

For about 24 hours anyone could engage in combat for any reason without any repercussions. During downtime, the server was rolled back and everything went back to "normal."

How did you Veterans start?
cpu939
Blueprint Haus
Blades of Grass
#6 - 2011-11-12 06:40:43 UTC
ShahFluffers wrote:
CCP did this once before... during the Empyrean Age expansion. They called it "Armageddon Day."

For about 24 hours anyone could engage in combat for any reason without any repercussions. During downtime, the server was rolled back and everything went back to "normal."


they did it on sisi not tq, then did a mirror, was a fun day seeing a titan and getting dd in jita ohh god ccp should do it again
Apollo Gabriel
Kill'em all. Let Bob sort'em out.
Ushra'Khan
#7 - 2011-11-12 06:48:04 UTC
darkfail
Always ... Never ... Forget to check your references.   Peace out Zulu! Hope you land well!
Lord Mandelor
Oruze Cruise
White Stag Exit Bag
#8 - 2011-11-12 07:37:35 UTC
ShahFluffers wrote:
CCP did this once before... during the Empyrean Age expansion. They called it "Armageddon Day."

For about 24 hours anyone could engage in combat for any reason without any repercussions. During downtime, the server was rolled back and everything went back to "normal."


Indeed. I was just wondering what Eve would be like, say, two months after the fall.

I can imagine it now. Swarms of Bantams mining in belts like worker bees, surrounding one of the last Hulks ( a relic from the before time). I just think it'd be REALLY interesting to see an Eve where expensive ships are actually rare, since the only way to get money would be through looting the bodies of your enemies. The carebear population would quickly find out that missions would be death sentence for them.
Arthur Frayn
V.O.F.L IRON CORE
#9 - 2011-11-12 08:06:59 UTC
Here's a way better idea. Return the wardec costs back to the old days before they were exponential when one sufficiently rich alliance could wardec most if not all of the highsec corps and go to town on everyone. That was awesome.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#10 - 2011-11-12 08:36:13 UTC
Lord Mandelor wrote:
This is simply hypothetical, as anyone with a brain knows CCP would never do this (yes I do have to say that before panicky miners go nuts).

Let's say that, without any preparation or warning, all of New Eden goes null. Cynos can be dropped anywhere, you can shoot everything that moves, and NPC Navy ships will only appear to protect their own stations. CONCORD is dead.

I'm just curious to hear everyone's predictions on what EVE would be like if this happened. Inevitably, there would be a major player drop, but I'm talking about the gameworld itself. Would most alliances crumble? Would one super-power have to take over and try to police everything? Would a massive resource drought after the inevitable galactic ship massacre cause a nearly apocalyptic market scenario, to the point where a lone carrier could terrorize a system on its own for days?

Don't think "I was there". What if you were there?




I think it would actually get boring after a few hours.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Spacing Cowboy
Perkone
Caldari State
#11 - 2011-11-12 08:45:38 UTC
Comming from a 0.0 player:

Massive player drop, exercive ship prices, total halt of any pvp after the stocks dry up.

While, for a week or so, a concord-strike due workload would be awsome.

Would personally like to see caps in high permanent... But, that might be a sweet-dream
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2011-11-12 08:47:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Jaroslav Unwanted
Endeavour Starfleet wrote:
One alliance wins within a month or two after mass numbers leave. Game can reset or CCP can go with warewolves and vampires.

Ya not happening....


you got it about right.

Anyway one question :

Is the universe of EVE too small ? That you and your bloodthirsty endeavor cant be filled in areas where its designed to be created/destroyed by players action ?

Looking at the map, null seems pretty large as it is. Sure there is not enough unwilling targets to kill, but thats hardly problem of empire dwellers.
Florestan Bronstein
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#13 - 2011-11-12 09:11:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Florestan Bronstein
Lord Mandelor wrote:
I just think it'd be REALLY interesting to see an Eve where expensive ships are actually rare, since the only way to get money would be through looting the bodies of your enemies. The carebear population would quickly find out that missions would be death sentence for them.

that's just not true.

I am currently living solo in Stain, don't have any blues. I don't make as much ISK as I would in high-sec but I manage just fine.

Yesterday I did a complex escalation ~10 jumps into sov space, next door to a populated system. My shiny T3 (no cloak or nullifier) is still alive.

There is always space for ninja missioners, ratters, ... all it takes is a scout, some paranoia and the willingness to go afk for an hour if necessary. I don't need any mad pvp skills to do this, I stay alive by avoiding pvp.

And serious carebears would just join the local alliance to do their missions.

look at this pretty picture:
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Stain#npc24
unsurprisingly G-ME2K has six lvl4 security agents. People do run missions in 0.0.