Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Lore is irrelevant, especially since Eve lore is technobabble pulled out of someone's ass.

I think you missed the time involved. Warping would take a conciderable amount of time, more with lower warp speeds. Say a Freighter would take eternity to warp between systems, while a Interceptor could do it in a matter or hours (depending on distance ofc)

it would definatly make Eve more interesting.

However, there are a few points that I would like to adress in this stage.

There would be no way to exit warp after you set your destination, because if you ended up stranded your ships computer would be unable to re-calculate its location and destination with no local star as a reference point. (This would prevent unfair and super safe spots in nowhere land).

Warping should maintain the ship in space and if the pilot is offline, upon arrival the ship will do a normal logoff arrival would be at a random distance from the sun in the director of which the pilot originated.

Warp speed/time should be calculated based on capacitor recharge. To initiate warp it consumes 100% of the capacitor and the warp speed is calculated by the capacitor recharge and the amount of energy required to warp. (lower recharge == lower speed, higher recharge == higher speed, up to the ships top speed, normal skills apply)

When deciding to warp the ship would go to a complete halt and calculate the data the process would take 5 minutes upon which the pilot gets the data with time, distance, speed and an option to abort. During the calculation time the pilot must remain stationary and is a similar method to cyno, as an added risk but also because the ships computer needs exact data to complete the task. Option would be that more CPU means less lock timer, but as a counter to this, bigger ships with more CPU has slower warp speeds and are less likely to utilize this travel method.

I don't see this happening.

As someone else pointed out, Jump gates are already built into the lore of EVE. In fact, the whole premise of EVE is that humans left the planet Earth through the EVE jump gate. The four races developed independently until the Amarrians learned to reactivate the ancient jump gates, which they used to start enslaving the Minmatar. You aren't going to convince anyone to change the backstory, nor the central importance of jump gates.

Removing the jump gates from EVE would be like removing all the space ships from the Star Trek universe. Technically, teleportation technology would/ could make it possible for the people in the Star Trek universe to just teleport themselves from planet to planet at the speed of light, travelling instantly without needing to use spaceships at all.

In some ways this would be very practical. You wouldn't have to worry about space battles between the Klingons and Romulans. You wouldn't need the expense of building a ship either, or even having a crew...but then what would the story be about? Who would bother watching a show about a bunch of guys in spandex beating each other up in the desert?

'Star Trek' is actually a story about the USS Enterprise itself, like 'Jason and the Argonauts' in space. Teleportation was more of an afterthought, a way to avoid wearing spacesuits or using shuttles. In the same way, the story of EVE revolves around jump gates.

Jump gates are a necessary part of the EVE game mechanic, since they restrict capsuleer's movement options. In order to fight each other, you HAVE to have a restricted access point such as a jump gate or an acceleration gate. Otherwise, space is so vast that enemy spaceships would never meet one another, much less be in weapons range. It would be like having a football game with no goalposts, on a game field the size of a continent.