EVE General Discussion

I remember taking my first trip into null to see what it was all about. The region I hopped into was Syndicate, and I was flying a ship pretty useless for actually doing anything in null (dual asb hawk). Went in during non-peak hours wandered around a bit.and eventually docked up in a station that actually had rockets for sale. The next time I logged in, I was not alone. The locals were buzzing about like hornets. Every time I tried to undock I had interceptors and bubble launching destroyers and combat reckons following me out of station. I fit some stabs and was able to warp to a gate and hop in a 2-3 system circle leading my flock of sabre-flying neckbeards on a merry chase before discovering the only gate out of that particular pocket was in the system I'd originally docked in and it was of course bubbled to death.

So I re-docked in the same system and kept my toon logged to pester them a bit while I did other things. Came back some hours later; attempted to make a run for it. The sabres undocked IMMEDIATELY and I redocked as there was no way I was getting through a bubble with company around. Next 2-3 days I undocked and tried to run at random hours; was immediately followed every time. I eventually just let them pop my 40m ISK hawk and 100M ISK pod. They had instituted a 24/7 station camp for multiple days to catch an assault frigate. That's beyond moronic and indicative of just how bored and devoid of life the residents must be. I can only imagine the resources and time which would be devoted to an Ishtar or something else capable of running the null sites. Why bother with that? I will go into 0.0 to run data sites in a cloaky frig but I would not wish to live there and deal with sleepless killer robots on a daily basis.

I'm willing to bet you were not their prime target.

There were like 5 people in local most times I logged on. And they would all undock every time I did. I was their ONLY target.

That's pretty much it, in a nutshell. Which is why I like it.

Jack up the resources in the region and it will just become another perma-blobbed patch of quasi-sov space.

Leave it as the "no-man's-land" is so often feels like, I say.

So glad I can come up with player made content to fix the issue.

Red vs Blue

Done.

How?

Form 2 opposing corps, set standards, and go to town. Its like faction warfare, without the benefits. Only issue will be lulling the people out there, but its described as a tourist resorte.....so find like minded individuals, you don't need CCP to do it for you.

CAS, the NPC Newbie Starting corp, has a band of players who live in Syndicate and bring newbies out there for a roaming fleet every other month. They get nothing out of it, but help move assets and provide ship replacements....with no assistance from CCP. The sole purpose, is to have fun, not make a fortune....once you bring in the people, others will come, and next thing you know it becomes popular again. Only requires effort on the part of the player, not the developer. Try harder and get more people to follow you, if nobody likes it....probably because of caps, bubbles, and blobs along with nullsec only usable ships/structures/abilities which no buff to rewards would fix.

Thing is what we have going on more is more akin to a theme park than a sandbox. People have their income neatly and safely partitioned into one area, an area that's specifically for income generation, then spend it in Syndicate, and area for PvP. Don't read into that analogy too much, as yes obviously things ripple and nothing exists entirely in a vacuum, bit it is sort of illustrative of a point. FW supports a lowsec lifestyle. Sov Space supports a Sov lifestyle*, WH space supports a WH lifestyle. Syndicate...feels lacking.

*Some would argue that it doesn't do this enough, but that's another topic.

Fair point. I guess I am simply not sure that increasing the ISK faucet potential would result in the kind of general increase in activity (e.g. targets) we would all like to see.

I would like to see some driver for more activity in general in the region...but I am not sure what it is, and would not want to see it lose the very thing that makes it appealing.

I have allways wondered why great wildlands never has gotten more npc stations.If you look how empty it has been for all these years.Syndicate has allways been doing good in regards to player occupancy up untill a little over a year ago when the big boys started to come there 'because of content' .

Great wildlands has great potential but it does it's name honour in being a no man's land...

Heh, you guys are stuck in the same loop we are. Too few targets, and the ones here don't want to fight you because you have too many people :(

Come back BNI