Player Features and Ideas Discussion

If done right, this could be very interesting.

Unsubbed for a year and people still posting in my thread.

Seems like this idea would be made more viable after glancing at the new jumping mechanics also.

Also I don't know how to play anymore so if anyone has any suggestions for the OP it would be much appreciated.

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I don't see why not.. but you would need to have like 3,4,5,6 different lowsec routes to make it work and not make a massive bottle neck of death. At least you can do things in lowsec to protect stuff, unlike empire were you can be blaped and there nothing you can do about it.

I have never understood why this game needed so mich "safe" space. Plenty of other games have openworld pvp starting just outside any newb zone or city

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I remember how many bears answered in a negative way when I posted the idea of a flexible security status (e.g. Jita drops to 0.5 due to an incursion in the system). I like tears

Oh yes, this would be great. No longer one single hub to rule them all just because everything can be transported in an easy way to Jita.

The answer is simple if you open up and think about it from a wider point of view. Other games have no reasonably safe place to play for those that are not into the kill or be killed style of game play. Or they go the other way and there is no place for those who want the kill or be killed style of game play so both types of games suffer because they only appeal to one style of game play. EVE on the other hand appeals to both style of game play and it is the combination of both that makes EVE what it is and I hope they never change that basic balance.

Most of low and nul sec are forgotten waste lands with very few if any players in them at any given moment, high sec on the other hand has very few systems that are empty, why would you want even more empty space to roam around in? If anything shrinking the size of low and nul would force the players that are there into closer contact with each other and that may increase the chance for the fights but I really doubt it.

Like it or not the area of space with the most active player base is high sec, remove that and you remove a large portion of the player that pay for game time with real cash money every month. So look at it this way, it is all the people "in all that safe space" that make it possible for CCP to offer the things you like to do. Force those players to traverse low sec space to get from place to place and you would drive large number of them out of the game, thankfully to this point in time CCP has recognized this and left things as they are with regards to how high, low and nul sec are laid out.

This was a bad idea when it was first posted, it is a bad idea now and the fact that it is 2 years old and still not implemented as the saying goes speaks volumes on how CCP views this idea.

This is why low and null will always be better then the security blanket area.

This is actually why I, a fully paid up NBSI blinky "totally a real life sociopath, some guy said so because he lost his pixels" am in support of this. Do I like that it would help the Lowsec ecosystem? Yes, so would a plethora of other things like..actual lowsec content. But the biggest plus is actually something someone said was a downside in the first few pages with "frog would make more money".

Trading in the sense of actually moving goods isn't a functioning profession in Eve currently. Lazy PVPers like me are keeping it on life support via services like Red Frog but by and large it's the domain of logistics alts from the Great Blue Donut and people afk-hauling their own crap around, if it moves at all. This would allow people to actually make ISK by moving crap. If everything became more Jita-centric as a direct consequence then what will happen is people would be able to make space-money by moving stuff to Rens/Amarr and reselling at a reasonable markup.

Currently there is a spread of different resources between the Empires, however that spread is utterly meaningless because they are functionally one contiguous stretch of space. Given that that spread exists, one has to assume CCP had a purpose for it. Separating the Empires with Low-sec would give meaning to that spread, although the OP is absolutely correct that it would require the addition of a substantial amount of space, but CCP have done this before with Black Rise.

Lowsec overall needs a serious revamp, both FW-specific and otherwise, and this should be a part of it. It would benefit High-sec, Low-sec and Wormhole dwellers directly, and in the long term probably benefit Null-sec industry by making it a relevant alternative to just 99.9% safe transport from Jita.