EVE General Discussion

1) Disallow faction frigates from T1 plexes. This will make them a true newbie friendly intro to PvP.

2) Remove off-grid boosting for PvP.

3) Give new players (new accounts only) 20 T1 frigates of their choosing when they start the game. They get a further 20 T1 destroyers upon their first completion of the tutorial. This will help them to see ships as disposable assets, and encourage them to get out there and take more risks.

Nope, incursions and level 4 missions are much better than null sov income which earns around the same as highsec level 3 missions.

I'll take taking part of the enemy fleet with me when I die than the current one sided slaughters. People are a lot more willing to undock a fleet if they can actually do damage to the enemy.

Having done both, I'm farming sanctums and escalations in nullsec space for more isk and much less risk.

For the individual player, incursions might be much better than ratting in 0.0 but all the incursions that are alive at the same time can't sustain anywhere near the amount of people 0.0 ratting can sustain.

L4s are pretty much on par with 0.0 ratting, although L4s give you far fewer faction drops and escalations.

Moon Goo depletion due to moon mining, following the PI model
source: https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Planetary_interaction

Depletion works pretty much as you would expect but here are some important facts.

* A short extractor program that is constantly re-submitted on the same hot spot depletes more aggressively than a long program with the same amount of extractor heads
* Depleted resources re-generate over time
* You can achieve equilibrium by pulling out the same amount of resources that the planet re-generates. It’s a balance act.

Nuggets are temporary hot spots that sometimes appear on planets. You will not necessary be able to identify them but if you compared the resource map on a planet over days you would see that the hot spots sometimes appear and move around a little. To capitalize on the nuggets, make sure you look for hot spots before submitting a program, since they might have moved.

Regards, a Freelancer

1. ) I would add WIS with FPS combat that allows for boarding parties

*mostly used take over of Battleship + sized ships* and Soon to be Citadels.

this way, a fleet of titans will be a bad thing when a fleet of frigates abandon their ships to take over your titans :D

2. ) More variety of ships of the same lvl/tech using different weapon systems, or even selectable weapon bonuses instead of new ships.

think of a like attack battlecruisers, a Caldari version with cruise missiles

or a amarr corercer with missles

or more drone ship options.

basically just more options

3. ) Bring back the missing bra bug

Three things I would change if I could:

1. Every ship could dial in a warp pretty much the way we see them do it in the various science fiction genres. Forcing people through fatal funnels and gate raep is a buzz kill. Let all the players travel freely, to given extents. Since this is an academic discussion, I won't bother with the mechanics, rules, etc. You want PVP and conflict, break down the great wall of Carebear and let space be huge and chaotic.

2. Fleet primary F1 monkey stuff is boring and also takes a lot away from combat. How is it that 30 ships can lock one ship for OMGWTFPWN instaBBQ? Want to address being risk averse, certain death makes people risk averse whether it's small gang or fleet PVP and raep cages at gates.
I would have set it up so that a ship of given signature can only be locked up by so many other ships before signal degradation and interference would become a factor preventing further locks (I have experience with military radar systems and have seen this sort of thing) . Thus a frigate would only be locked up by 2-3 frigates or 5-6 drones. A cruiser can be locked up by 7-8 frigates but only 2-3 other cruisers, and so on. A capital of course would take a lot of locks, presumably. This kind of feature would actually make fleet engagements mean more than "bigger blob theory". Players would have to engage on the "wing" level and use real tactics and maneuvers instead of being clustered around logistics. Small gang engagements would also benefit.

3. The total separation of security status of systems by systems has an effect that allows much aversion while at the same time, denies risk. Instead of Highsec/lowsec/nullsec structures on the system level, I would have set it up so that every system has highsec in the "inner space" regions of said system. Imagine if I wanted to attack the space station in our own orbit and how much trouble I would get into but if I wanted to graffiti one of our Mars rovers and had the means to do it, and wore a mask in case the camera on that thing was still workign, who would know?
Thus the interior of most highsec systems would be as we usually see it, but once you get out into the distant orbits of planets that do not sustain life (and have less commerce) Concorde takes longer to respond until they don't bother at all, but they would still know what you did (lowsec).
Beyond that, out into the far reaches of every system, nullsec, with all the trappings of nullsec as we know of it today. By putting the security zones in each system it would allow for more flexibility and opportunities for the casual players, just as would item number 1.


Those are the three things I would change, but I would throw in a 4.

4. Make all resources finite. All warfare of significance boils down to resources (living space is a resource as that is limited and the only resources limited in this game so far). That means if everybody and their brother wants to mine a system out, then that system runs out of resources. If you want to suck the moons dry then you have dead moons and might have to kill your neighbor for more, or if you are prudent about your resources but your neighbor was not, they will have to kill you. I would boost material salvage to guard against shortages and also make salvage important again. That is, when you salvage a shipwreck you can pull in almost enough materials to build another ship like that again. There would be just as much fighting over salvage of scrap metal and materials as there was over the resources.


These things would, if implemented, make this game the bubbling cauldron of PVP that many say it should be. For too long (waxing poetic warning) players have sat on their moon goo and in their bling boats with impunity. Pump fist and all that. I'm tired.

Beware of staring too much into the sun, you might go blind

on topic:

-I would remove FW missions, as they don't fit into the whole idea behind FW (contesting systems, small ship and group pvp) IMO.

-Change one of the subsystems of the T3C, so they cannot carry links anymore. I think BCs, CS and CD only should have this ability.

- I would also like the ability to fit multiple ships of one type hull at once, with the same fitting. So it is faster when preparing ships for fleets.

> yup logi
> no
> no logi
> no logi
> you have 5 inquisitors in the large already
> no
> we have 1000 titan
> somebody anchor scan inhibitor
> and then we can fight
> you bring worthless 20k ehp punishers and a full squad of logi
> and expect a good fight xD

Sums it up really