Player Features and Ideas Discussion

1 light year is 63,239 Astronomical Units (AU) Eve is roughly 120 light years across at the farthest distance.

49.9 Minutes to travel 1 Light year in a Tier 1 Interceptor, or Covert Ops with t2 warp speed rigs, going 21.1 Au/s, which is currently the fastest possible speed.

Interceptors tier 1 and tier 2 should have a constant acceleration of warp past 150au since there are only a handful of systems in eve that are 200+ Au.

In short, you would be able to travel from system to system without using stargates, but at a time loss ofcourse.

Over lets say 200 au distance the ship starts accelerating to like 50 to 100 au/s or higher, alot of systems in even are less than a light year away but multiple jumps, this would create a whole new role for interceptors.

A warp threshold could be a point between systems any frigate could warp to, any other ship below 10au/s would take incredibly long times to reach your destination. It could be a structure that you activate to switch systems, not a gate, but a transfer array for system to system, and to go with a storyline, it could be these were the old ways of traveling star to star, and it normally took months and months, but now with technology at a higher level these arrays could be used for strategy.

Obviously it should have a distance limit, like not past 2 light years, so the use of gates would still be required, but you could get say 20 interceptors past a huge gate camp easily.

It does have a bit of a feel of black ops, but i thought i would share it, it would be pretty bad ass, giving you that real feel of the size of space, without slowing currently travel speeds. Its just a concept though, subject to change, but you never know what kind of ideas something like this can spark.

Enjoy, feedback is welcome.

Actually, the fastest possible warp speed with the ships currently in existence is 24.9AU/s But if you ever reach that speed, your skin starts to fall off and you turn into a lizard, leading to a dubious storyline about mating with your captain.

The old jumpgate system I believe did this, for a short time before instead just throwing you randomly into another system (not gate to gate).

Travel mecahnics are core elements of gameplay with a lot of other gameplay mechanics built on top of them. Changing them drasticly like this would change the game too much and too fast.

I do think that there are a lot of problems caused by the current travel mechanics, but if CCP were to implement this sugestion they'd have to do it in Eve 2.0

Maybe add a new region, expanding out from the outskirts of the dreaded drone regions, where deep-space travel is possible because... I don't know, the stars are bigger and that's why we can warp to them? Uncharted space with no gates... sounds interesting. Maybe I'm a day-dreaming sci-fi fanatic.

I didn't suggest taking away gate travel, i suggest adding this.

Covops Frigs only, have a limit to 2 LY warp range and the extended warp uses racial fuel at a direct distance per unit rate consistant with current jump drives. Max Au/sec is not increased so traveling up to 2 LY would take a long time. Many systems including Jove regions are beyond this range so it wouldn't be an issue. Covops need a better role than just scanning down ships and pointing, this would give them a pivotal role in logistics and black ops operations.

This should be a module, midslot, and very expensive.