EVE General Discussion

If CCP does expand the universe this is a good thing because it could attract more players.

I don't hear much about when they expanded wormholes and put a station in there, I cant even remember the name.

Would be cool if they gave us 100 new constellations to explore and inhabit. Perhaps we could have access to a fresh new galaxy were drifters lurk in their billions.The goal could be about obtaining drifter tech and marketing it back here in known space.

The story could be that another major wormhole opens up which is unstable and will only be open for a limited time. an npc corp ventures into uncharted space with a massive convoy, cut a long story short and 1 single pilot from that convoy makes it back to known space in really bad shape suffering from a type of space dementia. He was the only survivor, a data cache was found in his ship containing blueprints on an unknown type of tech and details on how to build a stable jump gate which leads back to the uncharted space........

This is actually a good idea, could even tie in with Player Built Jumpgates, possibly opening up Jove Space for exploration and colonization with the Drifters as an opposing force.


DMC

Don't know who you are nor do I care but you're definitely wrong. As an explorer I enter and travel through low and null sec systems all the time. Besides that, high sec is actually more dangerous than low sec anyway. Hell, after you get past the border systems, most low sec systems are empty and void of players.

The point is that CCP created a lot of low sec content that has been barely used over the past 10 years. It's wasted content. CCP has constantly tried to entice players to go into low sec with lot's of carrots and has even tried using the stick a few times to get players there. Nothing works, most players tend to stay in high sec which begs the question why?

There's only one answer that I see which is Concord.

If CCP want's to have players engage in low sec content, they should expand Concord game mechanics to low sec as well. They can continue reducing Concords time response with each lower system security level. As for Capital ships, just have it remain the same, 0.4 and lower sec systems. Same with Level 5 Agents. In fact everything would basically be the same, the only actual change would be Concord enacting revenge for unauthorized attacks.

Concord response time in the lower sec systems would allow gankers more time to attack more targets, players would have to fleet up and tank their ships much more to operate in the lower sec systems in order to last during the response timer. Granted everyone would be more spread out which would make hunting targets an actual task but hey that's a part of war or pirating, depending on your situation.

Anyway, the question of how to get players to engage in low sec content has been constantly asked for years. Everybody keeps ignoring the main reason why most players won't go there. I bet if Concord game mechanics were added to the existing low sec systems, there would be a definite increase of players engaging with and operating in low sec space.


DMC

oh boy, I can't wait to see all the civilized and intelligent discussions on the forums now. I have been away from eve for two years, so if eve changed since then, the community must have also changed.

*looks at this thread*

wait nevermind I take it back.

Factional Warfare systems are sanctioned conflict areas and as such would be immune from Concords jurisdiction. Just like Factional Warfare members, Neutral players who enter there would do so at their own risk, even if they engage or are attacked by others in those systems.


DMC

Personally I'd find it cool if the transition between 0.0, lowsec and highsec were more fluid. Perhaps this could be achieved by adding more utility and weapon turrets to the various gates. For example: remove one of the two gate guns in 0,1 systems, leave 0,2 systems unchanged, add a further gate gun in 0,3, add a further gate gun and an ECM battery in 0,4, remove concord response in 0,5 systems but add a large number of extra gate guns, ECM turrets and perhaps even drone batteries to the gates in those systems.

Sure, some systems would need to have their security status adjusted but it would make more sense to me that way. I mean, why would concord be able to respond with an overwhelming force that can literally obliterate any target within seconds in a 0,5 system but just 1 jump away in a 0,4 they're not even capable of providing any form of effective gate guns? Seems a bit strange to me.

On the other hand, I think this should be a very low-priority feature since the world of EVE and the security rating of systems is actually fine the way it is. This kind of thing would more be "nice to have" and hardly very important.

as for DMC's idea - concord should have very little presence if that would even be seriously considered by CCP. not to mention the response time should be very long, if in .5 it's around 30 sec IIRC then .4 should have it at 90 seconds, and cloaking be possible after 75 seconds.

but then again, anything that is not hisec is labeled as "lawless" space. meaning no police. so if you want to have police forces in lowsec, it has to be a faction police as concord are way too OP. you might as well turn all lowsec into hisec.

An agreement with the OP.

I think the population figures are based either on playtime spent in a security system (hi, low or null), or number of jumps into a security system, or something of that ilk. And yes, I believe it consistently shows that hisec accounts for a significantly larger amount of player activity than low and null combined. But by my advanced mathematical braining, I worked out that 90% of hisec activity is actually Jita scammers.

Maybe if the spaceships weren't so beautiful, people wouldn't get so attached to their imaginary property, thus would be less averse to losing them, thus would be more likely to venture out of hisec. (For obvious reasons, Minmatar ships are not included for the purpose of that last sentence).

then if you are referencing ccp, what was it again that ccp said about new players being killed and more likely to stay in the game? i forget