Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This is something that has always bugged me. Eve is meant to be a sandbox, a world in which players can craft whatever they wish to, at least until someone pew pews it down. Despite this, there have been very few (if any) sustained NRDS locations in SOV space. Even when an alliance declares itself NRDS, there's nothing stopping non-alliance members who enter into the area from attacking whoever they want to.

What I'm suggesting is a way for SOV holders to enforce peace in their homeland. Realistically, with all the power that alliances have, shouldn't they be able to enforce peace in their home territory?

When the empires wanted to do this, they created CONCORD. Even in lowsec, the gates and stations still shoot at those who attack without probable cause. Shouldn't a powerful alliance be able to configure their own nullsec areas to do the same?

Obviously, they don't need to be able to deploy the all-powerful concord police captain, but a deterrent still needs to exist. Nullsec trade hubs shouldn't be a pipe dream. Think of all the science-fiction television shows that have "null-security" areas, such as Firefly and Star Trek. People don't just shoot each other on site at trading communities, because these communities are capable of deploying local security.

Players can't enforce this, because unlike Concord, it's really impossible for us to track every player who may or may not be hostile like concord can.

I think a compromise is in order. Alliances should be able to build security devices in their system that will attack all players that commit a hostile action (their own included), including, but not limited to, up-gradable gate guns and outpost guns, as well as security drone facilities. Similar to concord, and on par with carrier fighters, these drones could constantly scan the system for illegal action and attack aggressors. They could be tanked, they could be destroyed, but they'd also allow for a degree of realistic defense that players are incapable of coordinating with in-game mechanics.


TL;DR:
Local police

That may be the point of NPC nullsec. The point of SOV space is player control.

How is creating a bunch of NPCs that police your space player control? Player control is sending a fleet out to kill the people who have invaded your space, and we have that already.

Low and null sec trade hubs already exist, they are just (relatively) small. Every null alliance I have been in has had hubs where you will be able to buy almost anything, and smaller hubs where you can at the very least find all the ships and mods needed for your alliance doctrine set ups.

Other than that hubs are largely unneeded these days as everybody has, or knows someone that has, a jf/carrier and can very easily make regular Jita runs. If you want more null/low sec hubs give us a reason to need them, remove invulnerable logistics chains and begin revamping null and low sec industry to incentivise local production.

Not to mention the fact that everyone would instantly turn this on, then begin setting everyone else in Eve red. Meaning that any invasion would require a war dec and 24 hours warning.

It would also subject null sec to the ridiculous loop holes in war dec mechanics, war evasion and the current mess that is crime watch.

Sovereignty doesn't mean you have perfect control over everything that goes on in your space, it means that you get a certain set of system upgrades that can facilitate you living there. Nullsec is still nullsec

You have a method of enforcing NRDS... its called your corpmates working together and kicking the everloving crap out of people who ignore it.


If you cant do that you shouldnt be holding the space in the first place.

It's brutal I know, but then thats EVE

I think someone else's signature (I can't remember whose) said it best:

If you're not willing to fight for what you have in EVE, you don't deserve it and you will lose it.

How to improve NRDS:

have better player defense/police fleets

sandbox and all that

Tippia's IIRC.

Although a more accurate version would be: "If you're not willing to fight for what you have in EVE, there's always high sec.".