Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was thinking it would be an interesting idea if some of the major trade routes starting droping a bit in sec lvl, maybe random switching between 0.4 and 0.5

Are you asking yourself that question?

Simply going to say no because you fail completely to explain why this should happen...

Why only High sec? Why not low sec and Null sec as well? Turn Null sec into High sec over time if you rat too much. Why, if you already have to repost a redundant idea, do you also just stick to High sec with the changes?

sounds like cancer just like incursions popping up in unwanted places

so like lowsec pve events? they would never be done, pirates wont do them because its another route available to gatecamp, carebears wont do them because lowsec.

Ok...

So what does this do?

Code would stay in the HS systems in order to gank.
Some low sec entities (or even some major alliance) would move into this system to gate camp.

So instead of traders worrying about getting ganked by CODE, they now have to worry about getting ganked by CODE in HS, and being hit by a gate camp in the low sec system.
Now, the only people that can effectively run trade routes are those with jump freighters or those running trade routes in transport ships. However, these ships will also be getting ganked on occasion.

This will cause prices to vary significantly more between the major trade hubs, possibly leading to everyone moving near Jita in order to be near efficient supply availability, putting more load on Jita, and making trade to other hubs even less appropriate.

It would basically kill the market as we know it and make it too expensive to live anywhere outside of Jita's reach.
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It would also be an interesting idea if sometimes the game randomly put you in your opponents ship and him into yours mid fight, that doesn't mean we should think about doing it.

Lol come to uedama with a freighter or something slow.

It's plenty like lowsec I hear.

That makes no sense at all from a macroeconomical standpoint. In a system where crimes lowered sec status, once the sec status went down it would stay down. Major trade routes would be pushed down to lowsec by pirate groups committing crimes just to reduce the sec status, while unused systems in empire space would drift to high sec statuses--which would not cause them to get used because the reason they aren't populated is due more to resources and proximity to anything than it is to sec status.

Completely unreasonable.

My suggestion, on the other hand, keeps sec status in flux, breeding a dynamic world but preventing the sec status from drifting too far from its anchor in populated systems while also making it difficult for player groups to purposely manipulate the sec status of a system to suit their whims at the expense of others who also use that system.



Here is an additional comparison:
In my version, Jita would get bumped up to 1.0 sec status and it would stay there essentially forever. Crime would still happen in Jita--even if my decreased CONCORD response time for top high sec proposal passed, people could still gank using artillery.

In your version, Jita would drop quickly in sec status. The drop rate slowing down due to distance from its 0.9-sec anchor point would be balanced out by players committing crimes more often in Jita due to the reduced sec status, until it reached a critical point of instability and Jita would break. Essentially it would cease to be a trade hub and traders would take their business elsewhere on a massive scale. Then its sec status would go back up once everyone was gone but it would be too late. Also in your version, major trade hubs could not exist.