EVE General Discussion

Fast travel is the reward you get for being at the keyboard. Going autopilot means it takes longer but also means you don't have to be around to personally witness the slower progress.

No-one is forcing you to make it tedious.
The UI doesn't lock up just because your ship is travelling through space.

well yeah i read web sites, and this is rewarding play you say?

and of course CCP already made it easy mode by making warp to 0 on gates available but they had to leave a crude nerf to AP in because because.

No, I'm suggesting that you play the game instead.

…it rewards being active — not that it's a nerf to AP to begin with.

Luck is not really a factor, since you pretty much achieve that by default. Badgers can't be alpha:d by a Tornado unless you've fitted them horribly wrong.

Yes. It comes inherent with the increased exposure.

Because getting into trouble is a good thing.

The fundamental design of the game: an engine fed by destruction and conflict, without which everything else would be utterly pointless.

Then why aren't they sitting on the porch doing crochet instead of playing a conflict driven MMO about space ships (most of which can mount copious amounts of guns)?

Luckily creation still outweighs destruction, or there would be nothing for me to gank, or to gank WITH even.

I'm not talking about numbers/figures, I'm talking about mechanics/ways of playing the game... also, not everything in EVE is created by players, but that's a different topic.

You realise that this game isn't only about the guns though right? There are several activities that in fact require no guns.
I'm not opposed to ganking, I've done it myself on several occasions, but it is too easy to do and with no realistic downsides. Your neg sec status does not stop you doing much and can be corrected to a livable level with only a couple of hundred mil.
I think ganking needs to be severely cut back, but at the same time there should be more of a reason to go out to low, null and WH space by increasing reward and decreasing high sec reward. High sec can generate the same level of income as null with relative ease, which is wrong. But at the same time high sec can be as dangerous as null, which again is wrong.
Both sides need to be looked at and balanced to what they are designed to be.

IMO, Null needs more rewards and higher risk (harder hitting PVE at the very least, scrambling belt rats, etc).
High needs more safety and less reward.
WH space needs ice, so self-sustaining is easier, and higher risk+reward
Low sec needs to have reduced risk to players forcing unwanted PvP (so removal of gate ad station guns, etc) and more exploration rewards.

This would encourage people to live in WHs, to explore low sec with the risk of being hunted, to group in null, and to safely pick up dregs in high sec. For me, that's what the 4 sections of space are supposed to do.