Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think they are pretty pointless. There is nothing worse then hunting another gang or solo guy jump after jump only for them to get away from you because they managed to get lucky to jump through a regional gate. I don't know if it's been brought up before but they need to go.

And you can't chase to his next gate? I don't think I've ever seen two regionals in one system.

If there were no regional gates, how would folks get to a different region? You can't advocate locking pilots into whatever region they are now just because you don't like regional gates. That's just silly.

because variation is good.
If they are that big of a problem for you, stop camping regional gates then, or use a map to see where you the heck you are in the universe when hunting someone instead of blindly trying to engage at the biggest gates.

Not a gate camper. It's just something I've been thinking about and have heard many other people complain about. Instead of someone making a post about why we need them. All I've gotten was "stop being bad at eve" in one form or another.

I'm not asking for them to be smaller then regular gates. Just regular gates. They would be camped regardless of size. People who just do camps will bring what ever they need and more most of time. But that's not what Im asking about either.

It's not a rage post because someone got away from me. People get away from me all the time. And a lot of people all of the time. Its life in eve. My question is why are they larger? How does it make sense? How does it help the over all game play? I think it actually hurts game play. Mostly small roaming gangs. You haven't said a compelling reason why they are in game. I'm asking for people who enjoy my style of play. 10-15 man gangs who hate losing prey and also their own ships because they spawn far from a gate just because someone decided durring the early stages of eve certain gates are larger for what ever reason.

They are this way because a regional gate is likely to see more traffic than a normal stargate, and therefore increases the chance of getting targets to kill. This comes at the cost of having a larger area to cover.

In other words: In one aspect its easier to camp a regional gate because of high traffic, but its also harder to camp because its bigger.

2 Border Gates in K-IYNW and 3 Regional Gates in Romi as well as 2 more systems in Kador with 2 Regional Gates in one system, or S-E6ES or F-5FDA in Scalding Pass. Wicked Creek, The Spire, Outer Passage, Perrigen Falls, Fade, ; The Forge, Heimatar, Sinq Laison (all Low sec), which have systems with 2 Border/Regional gates. Just for the sake of it and they are certainly only exceptions from the rule. ^^

However, what is really a "nuisance" are the Minamatar constellation gates. They are huge, have a larger 0-kilometer radius than some Regional or Border gates and they are very numerous. I wonder if the OP is mistaking Regional gates with these.

For the rest: I agree that they give some variety and force to make quick decisions to send ceptors after the fleeing target and get to the next gate quickly. And they also force people to put more effort into chasing after targets. Except for the Minmatar Constellation gates, which could indeed be shrunken a bit; and some broken Minmatar Border gates, where you need to be inside the structure to be at 0 (that needs a fix, btw.), I don't see problems here.

Guess i was wrong then