EVE General Discussion

You never visted the ArcheAge forums, did you?
You should give it a try, but be aware that it might hurt your brain.

To be honest OP makes sense, why set up stations in the first place if they will be obvious camped death traps(at least in null there are less people and big chance to just slip by), where docking is equal to suicide? Kills Lore too, lots of pirates and low-lifes camp right outside sister's stations and they do nothing. They could at least put up a sentry or two to protect their critically important research and staging bases.

(this is more of a lore post, not gameplay one, i fully understand Thera is for pvp only and its ok game mechanic, plzdonteatme)

the two closeby stations remind me of an old unreal tournament map

http://files.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/289740_S/10-of-the-most-influential-fps-multiplayer-maps-ever.jpg

LOL.

CCP always like "we don't know what players will do with new content."

Then later:

"Here's new content. Hey you can have dictor bubbles in it and there will be 4 stations".


What did they think was going to happen?

So much for that idea. I won't be feeding anything expensive to these "death camps". Maybe clone upgrade costs were removed just so bittervets would give it a second thought.

Everyone will forget about Thera in a week. It's an inconvenient lowsec system, basically. It requires probing, risk, and there's nothing there. It needs to be CONCORD policed to become any type of mos eisley of EVE (yes, highsec).

Thera is barren. Players just haven't figured it out yet.

So get a few guys and shoot the ship with the disruptor field. then you can pve to your hearts content. because you can't anchor bubbles there.

The best way to make a it a mos eisley of eve is to have player security force and make it NRDS. Then you keep it open and can camp the wh's and deal with reds and mess around.

But alas, won't happen. And my corp is to small to even try and do that.

Long ago I fielded the idea that we should have "deep space" in every system with withering police depending on how far out you go. So in the first three to 1 to 3 AU you got space police, afterwards it takes longer to respond so at 5AU or more it can be up to a minute. Past 20 AU there is no protection and it's like nullsec.

It would have been good for Thera - some levels of protection at least to put a damper on the people with nothing to do but death camp everything all day, but in the same system allow for a free for all a usual.

I know I know.... "let the players do it". But this game suffers from YEARS of advertising the importance of ISK and attracting min-maxers to whom any and all activities that do not generate ISK are avoided like the plague. We'd need around 4 years of an ad campaign that attracts players who don't care about that sort of thing and then you'll have the idealists who see this situation as an opportunity for fun and not some incursion into their 50 gajillion ISK per day obsession.

tbh, default warpable holes (from inside and outside) might be the minimum necessary to make Thera happen.

that's nowhere near full-scale participation in Thera.