EVE General Discussion

Not going to re-quote all that. But I do want to continue this thread of discussion.

Being a newbish scrub at less than a year in this game I'll expound a bit on where I was going with "Kill local, and nerf gate camps." For all I know I probably have my head screwed into my arse.


Here's how I'd change it if I had the powers of Mittens the Man-God-Child.

For a person flying solo from system to system the gate should hurl your metal encrusted goo-bag in the general direction of the next one and you should pop up somewhere in the vicinity of the edge of your destination system. Goodbye lame gate cloak. Goodbye pirate blat camps F1'ing their way to buckets of tears. Warping to a gate should still be a risk necessitating discriminating use of d-scan/probes. Fleets would be massive enough to be flung from gate to gate pretty much in cohesion as they are now. Oh yeah while I'm at it, Warp to Zero and Jump needs to go.

Local needs to die. Always knowing who is in the system with you is such a lame-duck. Unless you are a mental defective and start talking in local your mugshot should never pop up automatically. I say let the miners squirm and the pirates work a bit to find hulls to perforate. In the vastness of outer space one would think that you could move about somewhat anonymously without a chat channel ratting you out where ever you go. Wanna know who and what is around you? D-scan. Use it.

CCP pretty much needs to put in cheap micro-POS's that someone can pack in a badger and set up pretty much anywhere, stick two or three ships in, hold a few hundred thousand m3 in item storage and if it get's flattened you're not out much ISK. None of this POS shield and fuel cubes, stront nonsense. Go green and make'em solar powered. Log off inside them and they cloak. Log on and they decloak. Leave it parked outside and dock up at an NPC station for long enough... and it's finders keepers. Get some buddies together and make your own little complex out in some frozen armpit of Low or Null. If we're playing in a sandbox I don't see why I takes 100 people to build a sandcastle. NPC pirates don't seem to have problems setting up bordellos and opium dens out in the middle of deadspace which are then riddled with bullets and laser beams. I want to be able to do the same, and then go wreck someone else's space ant-farm should I feel like it.

Point is there's lots of ways CCP could make Null more attractive to players in general, without taking an ugly stick to Hi-sec. They've just got too much institutionalized inertia and they keep thinking the same way. When all you have is a hammer every problem looks like a nail.

My post wasn't addressed at you, unless that Uni guy is your alt?

Is this a market tax or something like increasing of manufacturing fees?

Because, sir.

Then you in your infinite wisdom can come and school them proper.

Yes. Fuel-less micro-POSes are funny. Funny when you make them explode. And because they're accessible enough to newer lower SP players and smaller groups of players just think of all the barrels of tears you'll be able to extract when you come and deliver some gunpoint diplomacy.

The story of this thread is everyone wants all of Eve to be like where they live.

Also, i am so happy to be in wh space now, as it seems to be the least messed up part of Eve.

Lastly, I have mudbutt right now and i am miserable

Not at all. You don't need to keep your collection of Faction Frigates in High Sec. You can of course but are assessed a tax based on the market value of the items - the percentage could be as little as 1-10% or less. That is a detail that I would leave to the Economics Gurus, Additionally, you don't have to pay the tax but then you are not afforded the protection that others have paid for. It could include some kind of flag to indicate that you are not protected or it could be done without any flags. That way others can either see or not see (depending on implementation) who is fair game and who is not.

This allows an increase to bounties in Null Sec so that instead of having to alt in High Sec Level 4s, they can continue to live in Null Sec which, from what I can tell, is all they really want. The two biggest obstacles that I have seen to this, at least to the extent I have been able to ascertain from this particular thread, is that Industry in Null is ****ed and that is something that really surprised me but you bet your ass it needs to be addressed. The other is a lack of income from the things that high sec is able to take for granted,; specifically PvE rewards in Null. Granted the rewards are higher but in the same time that it takes them to run 1 PvE engagement (and apologize that I do not know what form this takes) they could have completed 4-5 Level 4 missions with little to any risk of being jumped, ganked, blobbed, or some other way separated from the life support system of their ship. At which point they need to dock up, reship, refit, wait for jumper, ganker, blob, to leave system so they can finish what they were doing.

I don't think you can make Null Sec more vibrant if the people that live there are unable to live there.

Additionally, I am a high sec mission runner and much of what most of us take for granted is a logistical nightmare for null sec residents. I do not think an additional tax is unreasonable if it means we can all enjoy this great game.

Do you visit lowsec, where there's much less of a threat to your implants?

can we also have the ability to close down gates at will?

i mean if you want delayed local, go to a wormhole

It again comes to the point of people parking characters outside of highsec to hold assets while continuing to to make isk in highsec. This isn't just nullsec residents, but also highsec residents to avoid paying taxes for themselves. If this is the isk you are funneling to null directly then I see it being minimized greatly.

in w-space you can collapse wormholes that have Bad People on the other side, somebody can't light a cyno on top of you and drop supercaps and you generally have to probe targets down rather than simply ping-ponging between anoms until you find something to kill

oh and you can't simply find a w-space system with NPC kills by clicking on the map

so taking away local in nullsec to "make it more like wormholes" is goddamn dumb idea