EVE General Discussion

Yeah, I saw this other thread - where is EVE going to go? Pok says EVE goes where WE take it. So, I'm asking YOU:



Now, this isn't your immediate plans as a player. This is more like, "If I was KING, EVE would be..."

There's a lot of talk about the present circumstance of huge tracts of null sec held by one interest and rented out to smaller ones. Some don't like this. Some do. Some don't care either way. There WAS the legendary era of Band of Brothers (BoB, maybe you've heard) holding a HUGE chunk of null sec, and squeezing everybody else into a measly corner. What other castles can we build in this sandbox?

For ME? I'd like to get an alliance rolling that manufactures and markets, does incursions and participates in faction warfare. We'd mind our own business and get good at what we do. Should someone come along and try to interfere with that, we'd do what has to be done. Does it call for growth, or expansion. It might. And, we'd certainly need to be up to the challenge.

Maybe your idea doesn't involve null sec at all. Maybe it's a low sec Shangra-La you want. Maybe high sec is your hometown.

What's your idea?

1. Station Lock-out mechanics would be removed from Faction Warfare. Completely.

2a. All empire high-sec would be separated by low-sec.
2b. More low-sec systems and high-to-low stargates would be added... preventing too many chokepoints from forming.

3. Supercapitals would be banned from low-sec.

4. Cynos can only be used by "specialty" ships (see: ships with a bonus towards cynos).

5. War declaration mechanics would be revamped.
--- a. It would be cheaper to declare war on a corporation/alliance bigger than yours.
--- b. Defending corp/alliances can add an infinite amount allies to the war at no additional cost/penalty.
--- c. No one may join or drop from either the offending or defending corporation during the duration of the war. edit: You cannot disband the corp/alliance either.

6. The New Player Experience will be revamped.
--- a. Less expositories and detailed mechanical information... more "guidelines to live by."
--- b. Optional voice tutorial. Keep things brief so they can be easily cycled through.
--- c. Create missions that more or less simulate what happens in EVE and have a pop-up explaining what happened right after it happens. (example: one mission gives the newbie a cheap ship and, upon undocking, have NPCs "suicide gank" the newbie... then a pop-up appears and explains what suicide ganking is and some tips to avoid it).

7a. Priority would be given to overcoming the technical hurdles on making Warfare Links on-grid only.
7b. A new destroyer-sized command ship will be introduced to appease the skirmishers, small gangs, and poor people. This ship can only fit 1 link though.

8a. If Walking in Station is introduced, the security mechanics will emulate that of high, low, and null security. That means that people can indeed be ganked and lose all their implants in a station... and no, it will not be "griefing" (unless the gankers focus all their efforts on one person over and over again).
8b. You will only be truly safe in the Captains Quarters.
8c. No, you cannot bring people into your Captains Quarters. You want to be social? Go out and risk getting stabbed.

9. Space will have some random localized effects here and there... which will mostly be slight and largely ignoreable.
Example 1: Stars deal omni-damage to anyone close by... enough damage to make small ships panic but not enough to kill them outright.
Example 2: Being near a planet reduces agility/max speed by 2% or something.
Example 3: Being in an asteroid belt deals 1% damage (based on raw HP, not EHP) to a ship regardless of size... ore ships will be exempt from this.

I like some of what you're saying, but in addition to the wardec stuff, I would like to see players get kicked out of NPC corps after 6 months. In the system I live in, there are a handful of 7 year old miners, who never left the NPC corp, making them invulnerable. (Yes I realize I could suicide gank them, but why should I have to? Let me wardec them like anyone else...)

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What's the matter, afraid of someone ruining/breaking your couch? (nsfw)

1, I would like too be-able to build Battle Barges in the game, Since you cant really invade proper into a alliance space without building a port to work out of. We could use 3 types of Battle barges from battle class all the way up to Titian class. We just have no staying power when we invade about nothing real it just ends up endless gate hugging. We need them to lay sage proper against Battle stations and wage proper war.

2, We need better ratting all over 00 space just as good as Cruse systems 3 bs spoons al round.

3, We need real Black op ships or covert ships to fill better rolls as the Black op we have now are nothing but useless in this way. The are really interdictors ship not black ops. Ships all the way from frigs to BS class.

4, We need better jump ships so to work deeper and infiltrate better.

5, We need what I call Black market station here and there about around 00 systems as a gang land pirate system to faction over in 00 systems. These stations should look abandoned messed up looking and not fully able to use shields or work as full stations.

6, We need a black market system with skill for these stations so players who wont to work out of 00 space have some staying power and can dock to fit or buy goods from.

7, Missions don't pay enough out so like maby do better on that.

I guess that's all I can think off that I like to see for 00 right now.

If I was queen of EVE I'd put some cool stuff in my captains quarters and go all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_qQLOgcVOw

Carbon that stuff

I want Hilmar to have a visible role in Eve. He would have his own custom ship with god mode abilities so we can beat up on him continually without him dying.

Edit; Oh, and I would play old saturday morning cartoons on the billboards.

Actually... I imagine high-sec having more or less the same number of systems as it does now... just some new connections and low-sec systems bisecting the different empires.

And I will not even touch level 4s as an issue with a ten foot pole.

How dare you bring logic into this serious thread!

Create a fully-fledged pve version of Eve

Id recruit tomb and have him swing the nerfbat around.