Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Whut ?

Sounds to me like you describe WH ?!

Could you actually link that suggestion.

And 'NO' to other servers, EVE is single server for a reason.

I don't think eve is in danger of long term over supply of players. Sure 92% of them quit before they leave highsec but of those who stay there seems to be a pretty even intake/burn out of keepers.

To be fair, a lot of the places that don't see a lot of traffic, be it high low or null, are in that state because there is literally no reason to go there beyond niche activities like exploration. Genesis is a good example. There are a lot of places out there where you can make almost half a dozen jumps that're just empty space. There are a lot of dead-end backwaters in Amarr high sec that don't have stations and are long trips from any player activity also.

Null sec? Meh, that's up to the inhabitants who can't be asked to care about the potential income of any system that isn't -0.6 or lower

I can understand where the OP is coming from. Part of the appeal of any space-oriented game is the idea of being able to venture into a vast emptiness and feel a sense of discovery as you avoid any potential risks. You can't get that feeling when the first thing you see on D-scan after entering any system or WH is a bunch of POS's. Space starts to feel like Suburbia, after a few hours of that.

The idea of randomly generated constellations that can be stumbled upon by various means appeals to me. Something that only lasts for a couple days up to a couple weeks, that then evicts anyone who was inside and despawns. No POS's, no local, no API data. You never know if you're the first one to find it, or if the place is already filthy with pirates waiting for you to venture too deep, because there is no sign of inhabitance or use.

That would result in an incredibly boring game.

The fact that there are high income areas, and that people compete for them, is a primary source of content.

People dont really compete for them, the bigger guy gets the land, then everyone who can joins him to keep the land, then anyone who either doesnt want to join or didnt make "the cut" is stuck at 2nd best or worst, with no hope of ever amassing enough power to take the better land. due to the best land already generating the most money/resources, on top of the bigger guy having more manpower.

What we NEED, is more resource disparity, make it so even commonly used materials are more so a pain in the ass to get locally in one spot, while being overabundant in another. That way, especially in nullsec, its easy for a landowner to hold a near-monopoly on a single resource type, but would still be forced to sell some for the economic benefit, while ebing at risk of his neighbor who really needs a steady supply of that resource hes short on.

Well, we will probably be getting more space once Player made Stargates come into existence (In the next century), but it will probably just be controlled by the null power-blocks. I like the temporary constellation idea though.

Uhh...The Halloween war, and by extension the battles of HED-GP and BR-5?

Literally every fight over a moon? All of the combat happening in the north of nullsec? The current N3/CFC deployments to Delve?

Which was fought basically to claim the space and rent it out and not over a particular income source generated by those systems. I didn't say that no content was created due to income sources. My comment was in response to the claim that without certain high income sources EVE would be dull.

Rent is a high income source now. It doesn't matter how the value of that part of space is being determined, opposing groups have decided that it has value and they are fighting over it.

Good ratting systems get rented out, renters are one of the most vulnerable parts of an opposing factions income. Drive the renters out or keep them from earning enough to pay the rent and you have generated attrition. A war of attrition is still a war.

And renter tears are still tears.