Player Features and Ideas Discussion

No, this will make EVE feel smaller. If anything, EVE needs to be bigger.

JB's are a player corp/alliance owned structure.
Needs SOV to put up and keep online
No player alliance sov allowed in empire...see where this is going?


Or...they need to be anchoed near a pos. NCP corps don't have pos' up (just in case the lack of sov not good enough for a reason).


Also make ganking simple stupid easy. As is now they have to pick a gate and hope choice is good. JB's are prime fishing holes. Even 0.0 types die hourly to blind jumps and they are supposed to know better. even better...with luck and skill you can burn back to a gate. JB burn backs much harder. If you make the jb, you have to put your lo in fast as hell and right click jump. Assuming you have the lo ofc.....

I don't see that as a problem. Maybe I'm not seeing your point. Customs Offices are now owned by CONCORD in hisec and by players in low/null. I'm sure there can be some kind of JB that doesn't need a POS if that were a problem. There could be C(oncord)OS in 0.8 and up systems as POS aren't allowed there anyway and there would be no conflict for moons. Or it could be attached to a station. Be nice to see them be more than a brick in space. I would also like to see the ability to be able to drop off items without having to dock. Some way to just drop from cargo to a container attached to station that puts it in your items. That's unrelated but still.

Ganking will happen anyhow, it doesn't matter where. And if the JB increases that risk then one could argue that it goes hand in hand with the risk vs reward philosophy in eve. Travel fast but greater risk of a gank and lowered chance of escape. Are you a trader and want to move goods fast, then deal with the increased risk, etc. Same hisec rules apply to ganking regardless of where you are. Gankers still get concorded.


Never heard of super highways, sounds interesting. Maybe that's better than JB's, I wouldn't know. I just think we need something. I believe there are countless times that many players don't decide to participate in whatever is going on far from where they are just because they don't feel like travelling. It's time consuming, it's boring, it can hardly be called playing the game. It's a chore.

Oh I remember that debacle.

Time to get an interceptor. 8) Seriously though, if the jump range was limited, usage was not public, and points could not be used in auto-pilot, I could see it as viable. Very few systems would benefit from it. I have a feeling this is not what you wanted, but that is the only way it would not break trading.

Because they've already tried once?

Remember, it's a huge ~power projection tool~. Not jumpclones, podjumping, staging systems and all that jazz. Just JBs.

World of Warcraft is -> that way

Technically, he never said that was why they were removed. Just that they ruined trading.

Anyway, Concord has their own JBs (how else do you explain the hot drops in HS ) and they would never let some civie use them.

I'm not proposing an instalink between all the hubs and every other place. I get there has to be a sense of distance. I'm sure it can be worked out to a balance. Jumpclones suck (imho), and they don't transport a ship so it's not a good alternative.

Yes, jump range limited, usage may be limited to those with enough standing or security status, still fuel required, perhaps even limit the types of ships that can use it, or have range limited by amount of fuel the ship can carry, or by ship mass, can't have AP use it (just AP to the JB), and the number of JB's could be just 1 per constellation or something.

Maybe the tradehubs will move further apart or new ones would be built because of it, but at the very least I think more people would be inclined to join a fleet/op/roam/whatever even if it's far away. The biggest thing that bugs me all the time about eve is how tedious and cumbersome and time consuming things are. That's why so many people resort to station spinning. It's too much like work and too little like a game and I think this would help it a little. That's a reason why the player base isn't growing like it should. People get bored easily. People like to see progress, results, and getting to the point. It's a complicated game, which is great, but on top of that it's also annoying to finally execute all the complicated things. That's one step too much. Just my 2 cents worth of observation.