EVE General Discussion

Hello Forumites!


I've been following a few issues within game that seems to be of interest to players.

As for me, I'm so sick of so many jumps to find content!

I've seen many podders wanting nullsec changes!

Could the answer lie in a revamp of space travel in Eve Online?

I have thought about a few idea's that could be introduced to expand on content and provide more interesting gameplay into the future;

Remove gates and local chat from all null-sec systems

Remove lo-sec - there is either null-sec or small pockets of hi-sec

Navigate around solar systems as normal - BUT;

Add 'Warp Fuel' to ALL ships - so as to have some limit on max warp distance - allowing tactical flexibility and logistic planning factors to play a role in operations

Any system in the cluster is a potential warp destination from any other system

Practically speaking - the in-game map would operate to allow the selection of a solar system to warp to - perhaps a standard arrival/departure point at a destination system stars' opposite poles to create chokepoints would be the best form of 'traffic control'

The ships warp between systems just like they are warping to an in-system destination - such as a belt, bookmark, anom or station - at the same rate as a ship's current warp speed - so warping across the cluster will take both fuel and time

Brings a few more strategic challenges and possibilities for large and small alliances - content is shaken up, innumerable staging systems, sov holding opportunities and whatever else that could be imagined - gates tend to restrict gameplay to a linear route

There is potential for new industrial activities, structures and sovereignty mechanics

However, there will be potential issues such as;

re-imagining the benefits of jump drives, capitals and jump freighters over warping to a destination - maybe a time to destination advantage for jump drives?

problems with deep intersystem safe spot bookmarking - maybe restricting bookmarks to system boundary?

As for Wormholes - they should operate as they do currently - the lore indicates W-Space as unreachable any other way - and as the systems do not appear on the in game map they won't be a potential destination via warp drive.

So throwing up a few idea's - probably all done to death but couldn't find the "what was already discussed about improving Eve Online so don't post again" thread

So basically, an entirely different game.

Mr. Popo looks stunned for 3 seconds & starts laughing.

Also - a few additions -

Hello Forumites!


I've been following a few issues within game that seems to be of interest to players.

As for me, I'm so sick of so many jumps to find content!

I've seen many podders wanting nullsec changes!

Could the answer lie in a revamp of space travel in Eve Online?

I have thought about a few idea's that could be introduced to expand on content and provide more interesting gameplay into the future;

Remove gates and local chat from all null-sec systems

Remove lo-sec - there is either null-sec or small pockets of hi-sec

Navigate around solar systems as normal - BUT;

Add 'Warp Fuel' to ALL ships - so as to have some limit on max warp distance - allowing tactical flexibility and logistic planning factors to play a role in operations

Any system in the cluster is a potential warp destination from any other system

Practically speaking - the in-game map would operate to allow the selection of a solar system to warp to - perhaps a standard arrival/departure point at a destination system stars' opposite poles to create chokepoints would be the best form of 'traffic control'

The ships warp between systems just like they are warping to an in-system destination - such as a belt, bookmark, anom or station - at the same rate as a ship's current warp speed - so warping across the cluster will take both fuel and time

Brings a few more strategic challenges and possibilities for large and small alliances - content is shaken up, innumerable staging systems, sov holding opportunities and whatever else that could be imagined - gates tend to restrict gameplay to a linear route

There is potential for new industrial activities, structures and sovereignty mechanics

However, there will be potential issues such as;

re-imagining the benefits of jump drives, capitals and jump freighters over warping to a destination - maybe a time to destination advantage for jump drives?

problems with deep intersystem safe spot bookmarking - maybe restricting bookmarks to system boundary?

As for Wormholes - they should operate as they do currently - the lore indicates W-Space as unreachable any other way - and as the systems do not appear on the in game map they won't be a potential destination via warp drive.

So throwing up a few idea's - probably all done to death but couldn't find the "what was already discussed about improving Eve Online so don't post again" thread

Gates work.

The lore is also completely based around gates.

It wouldn't be EVE if there were no gates.

I could understand removing some of the bottlenecks though.

Then watch every single start get camped If you can't camp the star because people jump in to random points around it, you just made it harder to pvp in a pvp game.

Gates work because they are focus points that drive people who otherwise would never see each other (because they are in space, which is kind of big) into close contact. Without that EVE doesn't work at all.

so you want travel to be like in Elite...you know there's a new Elite in development.

+1

All ideas are great and foolproof until they come out of someone's mouth

To be fair to The Kadeshi, though, despite a few wayward errants in their ranks coming to the forums and posting silly stuff, they DID just kick the absolute snot out of LowSechnaya Sholupen, which gets them a shittonne of credit in my book. Stupid idea from very good arsekickers. Sometimes, even the best of us say silly things.

Proof some people should be paid not to think.