Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Changes:
phase1:
.Forcefield around the stations in thera
..size: small enough to suppport bumping of afk ships & big enough to support alignment after undock
..the FF is neutral. everyone can enter. no password.
..the FF affects targeting as usual. no smartbombs etc.

phase2: (3 months later, if after phase1 thera needs still some help)
.kill statistics for thera-only enabled
.show numbers in local
.. how many are undocked?

Examples:
.Bob came here to buy an expensive officer module for his titan, now he wants to undock. he has no eyes on the station and certainly does not want to wait 4hours until the camp might be gone. he undocks, gets killes and the modules in his ship goes to the looter. the loot is sold. and on goes the cycle.
.. after the proposed changes bob can safely undock and have a look around. noone can target him and he aligns. he decided to warp to his NullExit. unfortunately he gets caught in a bubble and dies. the loot get sold again.
.. he tries again and uses a bounce spots, made by a scout. he exits and had a trip of interesting interaction.
.Helga does not know whether there is someone to pvp around here. The system could be empty or filled to the rim. She does not not and travels to the next system.
.. after phase2 she sees the number of people that are active. now she can hunt for targets, guessing the odds to find sb. also she invests into a buy orders of common loot to make some profit on the side because she knows there are potential customers.

Conclusion:
Have at it!

Haha, no. Thera is 0.0, welcome to nosec.

If you can't stand the heat, leave.

You are not entilted to pampering because you don't want to deal with the unpleasant aspects of livingin a null security area.

Thera is what the players make of it. If you want players to stop doing something you don't want them to do, make them stop. Last I checked, non-consentual PvP didn't break the rules, so there's no reason for CCP to step in and do anything about your problems in Thera. Additiionally, due to the fact that there is stuff on market there, and that people do indeed live there, it seems to me that Thera is working as intended. It is a driver of conflict, and you are merely content. If you don't like it, don't go to Thera. Leave the markets there for those less risk averse than you.

Keep the Shitstorm coming!

Additional Clarification:
.no sentries
.no fckn concord no never
.Thera might be good as it is, i just wondered if FF would be an improvement to gameplay there. as it might make it more interesting also for the bad ass pirates that everyone claims to be.

Hint: "improvement" does not need to have a complaint as prerequisit.

.Yes, that might be.
.But i do not intend it to be lame safe like jita. I agree that there should be risk to transportation.
.Wouldn't there still be the possibility to camp the wormholes, since warps are still long enough to prepare?
.. If dropping a bubble 20km+ towards the station from the hole where the hauler is in warp from and catching him ergo, is NO possible gameplay, then FF are very bad indeed.

I like that Thera fails. Can't wait for CCP to remove that underused, few people benefiting aspect of the game.

The problem with checking on the bubble side instead of on the ship side is that a bubble side check has to query every single ship in the system to see if its flight path intersects the bubble. After that, every ship still has to query the bubbles to see if they intersect, as the system works now. Not exactly how it works, I know, but close enough for explanation. Essentially, you are adding more work to the server to fix something that isn't a problem to begin with.

they problem with all of these smaller market areas is
1: the extreme price on an item, I was in null sec where frigate hulls were 5m ea
2: freelance merchants simply cant go anywhere with out using a offpeak time as everyone in low and null has the twitchy kill aspect and think they must kill everything in site, other wise id be running wares at around 10% jita prices.

the biggest thing about trading anything out there is if you aren't blue, don't even try it. because people cant get over having to have something on their killboards to throw around.

For future reference, starting posts with paraphrased bible quotes really isn't going to have the desired profound effect on this particular audience.

So Thera is hellcamped? Really? That's very interesting and I suppose I'm not as surprised as I'd like to be.

You knew what you were signing up for when you went there though, so your choices really are to either do something about it or leave or hush.