Player Features and Ideas Discussion

With that statement Jerghul will never be taken seriously again.

Current situation cloaked campers in system making game-play very non fun and making me very close to unsubbing several accounts. Combat scanners don't work. There should be a Tech 2 variant of combat scanner probes that take a long time and don't exactly pinpoint but give a rough idea for the area for you start searching in. they should take a long train just like with anything T2 not used by alpha clones and cost a huge amount. Possibly even limiting the amount of these probes you can have to out at anyone time with shorter time spans that they can be active. Everything should have a counter. Sure local in k-space means you know they are in system. If not using probe to be able to find them then at least make it so that their d-scan can't be used while cloaked, can't target target cloaked why should your d-scan work while cloak?

I know I am not the only that feels this way, browning old posts from 2013 https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=221196&p=4. these suggestions have been made before. EvE is a game and should be balanced. As much as CCP likes to think of it as a sandbox there are still rules that apply. Otheriwse if it was a true sandbox then we would be fitting strip miners to all our battleships, putting lazors on drakes etc.

Please CCP, make cloaking more balanced oh and let Rorquals dock at large industry structures if they can dock at Fortizar they should be able to dock at the Azbels. Consistancy is important.

Thank you.

Kind regards
From a returning player

I'm sorry, but CCP is not going to let you have "fun" by allowing you to completely secure your nullsec space. Did you look at CCP Quant's latest numbers? Nullsec ratting is out of control and probably will see a nerf in the coming months unless something dramatic changes. CCP is definitely not going to give you a module to remove the last bit of risk from what is suppose to be the riskiest space in the game.

Eventually you might get some system to find cloaked ships, but it will not come without other changes that put nullsec ratters at some additional risk. If defending your space is not "fun" for you, then you might as well unsub now and save yourself the pain of dealing with AFK cloakers in a game you will not be playing much longer, or maybe better yet, find some other way to make a living that you find more fun than defending your sovereign space.

Repeating my idea from a few years ago:

Main problem with cloakers are the AFK guys imo, because you can just terrorize an entire system even while not being in front of the screen. If there was a system that would make cloakers force to at least frequently check their screen, the entire cloaking problem would become less of a menace without destroying cloaking. And if you cannot afk-cloak, there will be a lot less afk-cloakers out there.

My idea would be to add a sovereignty feature that is capable of disabling all currently active cloaking systems for a short time (imagine it like a cloaking-EMP), like 5-10 minutes every once in a while (like 4h recharge time). This will not be much of a problem for the active cloaker, because he can just jump around safespots and won't be affected much by it. This will be deadly for afk cloakers. And the people that own the system can at least do something actively against cloakers, even though it is still tough to actually kill them. Random cloakers won't be affected, because a corp will hardly use a 4h recharge device just to get that one guy at the gate.

Effectively such a system would add gameplay value to all players and reduce the AFK cloaker issue by giving players the feeling that they can actually do something against him. Imagine the corp bringing out their finest scanner ships and players, and the hero that finally finds and tackles him. That's a lot more fun that "Oh there is a cloaker".

We do know since they said at Eve Vegas that they are unhappy with the "ease" of nullsec ratting. And the problem is only getting worse. A quick look at Quant's numbers indeed shows that ISK released into the economy by ratting is up almost 50% since the end of the last major war in May.

If that doesn't change, expect a straight-out cut to bounty payments in the near future, not changes that make nullsec ratting safer like the ones proposed in this thread. I mean, feel free to continue to whine here for CCP to make the AFK campers go away, but facts are fact and the current problems with the game are more in the direction of too much safety and too much ISK generation, so a buff to this activity (without a corresponding bigger nerf) seems unlikely at best.

It involves no risk in the sov null blue doughnut with intel channels out 15 systems and 100% perfect intel with local chat.

What?
Peak hours are a player effect not a game mechanic, and nothing is designed around peak hours.

Sov-null sec is designed around the concept of sovereignty, hence its name.
Part of being sovereign is the ability to defend your space which it would seem many are in null sec are not willing to do.

And your evidence for this is what?

So in your mind the only difference between WHs and null is local? That's a fairly small part of why people choose WH space. That's why I said you should actually try them before using them as an example. Now that we've established local is not why people choose/don't choose WHs, what is your evidence that no local would make people undock less?

Pot finally calls the kettle black.


Generallly no it is not the reason why. For the most part the players who I have talked to about WHs it is the bubbles and that there ship can be destroyed with no repercussions.