Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There is incentive to pvp in null-sec. Its just inconvenient for casual roamers to find vulnerable assets and to fit ships appropriately in order to trigger combat.

Null-sec is designed around the concept of peak times. When defence has to take place, or control of space becomes degraded.

Its actually more of a problem that would be attackers can extract themselves too easily from pending combat situations if they believe the odds to not favour them. Seen most succinctly with cynos as the stand off distance ensures absolute safety until the decision to commit, but this is true for smaller roams too.

The solution is more and better real time information.

OAs may fix wormhole space. A good suggestion for there.

Afk cloaky camping is of course resolved by making afk anything in null-sec space consistently prohibitively dangerous.

Afk cloaky camp if you like, but risk losing your ship if you do.

The problem is that AFK cloaking removal schemes invariable make ATK cloaking very difficult. You yourself have called for a very sharp nerf to cloaks in general...are you moderating that position?

I don't disagree with this...provided we also remove local and move intel into the OA. And I am open to having the OA offer even improvements over the status quo depending on how you fit the OA. For example one fitting option might allow for a network effect. If you have OAs in your current and surrounding systems you can get intel on all those systems. Of course, the trade off might be that you can't scan down cloaked ships.

Is this something you'd be open to as well?

That is an honest question. I get the impression most of us are on the same page in terms of eliminating AFK cloaking provided we can also address why it is done. If we can kill both birds with one stone (the OA) then it will be generally good for the game.

The OA is a nice idea for wormhole space. It does not need to cover all of wh space either (it could only work in certain catagories of wormhole space).

Basically, if you want to talk about removing local, then you are also talking about removing gates. So why not just add local functions to gateless areas and see if its incredible promise leads to clamouring from nullsec for introduction there?

afk anything in nullsec is bad. So it follows that afk cloaky camping needs to stop.

On the stats

For the purposes of undocked activity:

Highsec: 60%
Lowsec:15%
Nullsec: 25%
whspace: 5%

Total greater than 100% due to rounding.

An elephant's resting heartbeat is 37x slower than that of a canary, as long as we're giving out useless information

Half a trillion isk was destroyed in the null-sec system M-0EE8 quite recently. CCP is opting for the epic ways of making null sec less safe it seems.

The afk cloaky camping makes null sec more safe. That is one of its the huge issues. That which does not undock, cannot be harmed.

Nerfing local would make null sec even safer. Trending towards wormhole levels of safety (wormhole space has 10% the ship losses null sec does).

The correct way to go is to use OA to enhance wormhole space. Which is by any activity measure completely broken.

I suppose in a way he is right....AFK cloaking removing local wold make things so unsafe nobody would play there thus rendering it safe....I guess.

Edit:
OFC is nobody is playing there then going there and ratting and mining would be a veritable gold mine. Obviously the solution is, in game theory terms, a mixed equilibrium. I know for example that Goons would adapt just fine to NS without local and an OA set up. Thee would not be the only ones either.

I agree with the first part, the second part I would think depends on what adaptions happen.



Maybe he needs a new sock puppet.

Please indulge me, whilst I share a few suggestions:

Mobile Signature Override Generator: It's a deployable structure. Once activated, after a few minutes delay it removes every pilot from the local chat channel like in a WH (or it delays local if that's too harsh, you get the idea), reduces the deviation and increases the strenght of all probes so as to being able to scan cloaky ships with the right skills. it is shown system-wide in the overview just like the cynos are, but lasts until it is deactivated by its owner or destroyed.

It can only be deployed in nullsec, just like bubbles. No WHs either because natural phenomenas or another kind of space-magic.

Signature Override Generator: It works like a cyno. It increases the strengh and reduces the deviation of the combat probes of its user. The ship can't move for 5 minutes, it is shown system-wide in the overview, it can only be fitted in certain ships (Cover ops?) but it allows to scan down cloaky ships.

Cloak-override pulse: it throws a big pulse that decloaks every ship on grid after a certain delay. If the cloaker warps out it has no effect.

Thank you.