Player Features and Ideas Discussion

CCP has already learned their lesson about that with the Captains Quarters.

Why are you asking them to repeat a guaranteed failure?

Why wouldn't I warp to station? In current Eve, I select the station and autopilot to it.

Your example also removes autopilot. Is that your intention?

And are you happy with removing the scanning mini-profession from the game, now that you can't cargo scan a ship except for when it undocks, or lands in its destination system?

I think it'd be best if you develop a new example for interdiction. This one makes travel far too safe.

No, because the speeds the ships warp at would make getting between systems take an eternity.

I'm starting to be reminded why I used to avoid these Forums.

The Elite: Dangerous example doesn't illustrate anything other than a difference in how warping is handled. While you can reduce the amount of "zone switching" needed to traverse the game via upgrading your Frameshift Drive, you are still zone switching exactly the same way you do in EVE.

Also, I can say from experience that it is extremely simple to hang out at a Star in my Viper, wait for someone to jump into the system, and have them dropped out of supercruise within seconds.

Dude, I'm sorry you play on 1998 hardware, but most of us don't.

Frankly, most of us are tired of you peasants holding us back.

Now **** off.

Seriously, **** off with your pathetically inept posts.

The question was why choke points? The answer is pretty simple. The mechanics in EvE are terrible.

In most games zones are arenas. In most games players enter the arena and undertake an activity be it mining, npcing, missioning or trading. To leave the arena they need to travel back to the exit. During any of these activities they usually can be engaged in PvP.

In EvE you have similar areas for player activity however in EvE you're instantly alerted that an enemy has entered the arena. You can immediately warp (making you invulnerable) denying the other player the chance to PvP you.

Hence the popularity and realistically only reliable method of engaging a player in non-consensual PvP the gate camp.

If there was a requirement for players to be able to be interdicted in warp there would be no reason for chokes.

I guess a good analogy would be in an fps. Whenever you found an opponent they could speed hack to safety making killing them a frustrating game of cat and mouse. That's EvE.

I don't know what game you're playing but it's not Eve.

So hostile, lol. If your hardware is chafing at the bit to go out for a run, why not go play something to put it through it's paces?

I mean, seriously, why agitate to turn this game into something that it's not? People like it the way it is, and if you don't, the problem doesn't lie with us.

Don't be so sure about that. Remove local and watch the exodus begin.

How so.


Local is by and large useless for empire. 50 people in local, you are 1 of them, rest are grey. So 49 players are ignored anyway. Or yellow (I tend to ignore them). Or flagged but again...I ignore that too. Empire I have always been low key. I got my fights out of empire I go on the dl in empire to get my isk and call it a day. Someone was a bad boy but not to me...not my problem. Killing that bad boy, then getting the attention of his 20 fiends after....is my problem lol.

Low sec is not the most jumping spot in the game as is now. And this would benefit carebears to change that I predict. I have a hard to probe tengu setup to be the ghost in the machine. That setup tbh is ruined by local. 6 man local, 5 are blue in pirate corp, I am not and nice and grey to them. They will after running the scrub prober come to the conclusion they need to up the probing game a bit.

Put another way...local announces me in low sec, if pirates want me bad enough knowing I am there....they will find me. I don't see every low grade scrub pirate crew having a virtued, sisters gear fit, max skilled prober on every roam launched that night if local removed. Their scrub can't find me in 2 passes they will hit next system. Or find easier targets if in my system.

0.0 with several adjustments is less concerned about the hot drop from out of nowhere. PL want to dynamite fish halfway across the map....well its gonna take a few days to do that lol. that final hot drop pegged the fatigue.. you have a captive cap audience. Wait them out and it may get some revenge kills.

That and if the bitters leave 0.0...it could be a very good thing. If say goons rage quits en masse if local meant that much to them we'd have a power vacuum. It actually make 0.0 interesting for a change as people fight to fill that void. And the game would be goon (as we know it) free. Win win really.

The simple fact you would even exaggerate "hundreds of millions" is undeniable proof you have no idea what you're talking about. You're not opening anyone's eyes into believing there are groves of players waiting to jump in EVE for a new "experience" they probably wouldn't be able to run. We don't need a "Crysis" version of EVE that only those with dedicated video cards could run. Praise the Lord you're not clever enough to get onto CSM and project your ridiculous ideas, otherwise EVE might "actually" be in trouble for a few weeks until you were kicked out.


Well, if you used that noggin of yours to really think about it, then you would immediately conclude that the jump gates serve as a hardware limited solution. CCP can not remove them without drastically changing the mechanics in ways that isn't feasible. I don't know how many times this needs to be said. The technology to truly have a single cluster with no loading zones can not and will not happen anytime soon. Also, +1 to what Anhenka said in response to you. All obvious reasons when you take your raging blindfold off.


They are already tinkering with the idea of delaying local in null sec. What a glorious day it will be when it happens. If you think it will cause an "exodus" in anyway, shape or form, you really don't understand the players of EVE at all. Makes me wonder why you even pretend to be one of them. (it should be f'n apparent by the lack of support you've received in this topic)