EVE General Discussion

I will X up to do a thing. Even though it will almost certainly be shooting a sov structure.

Structure-based combat is the way of the future. Time to train for T2 lasers.


P.S. Fighting coalitions that love to shoot structures will be even more horrible.

travel to any held territory under attack threat instantly and effortlessly from anywhere in the universe -> leads to "combat patrols"

lol

I like this idea, though the Gate Camping Heroes(tm) will rage. At least until they figure out that trolling resouces will do almost the same thing, just not quite as easy.

But, it sounds like it'd be a huge undertaking and I won't be holding my breath in anticipation.

There would be a lot of tears by people who do not want to adapt.

This change would need to come with many other innovating tweaks.

If done right, could bring the game to new levels. Could be very fun and make the game more realistic.

I would love this...but it needs to be done right.

It would be rather fun, to get further you would have to either find a station to refuel.
Have a POS to refuel some or have a tanker with you, kinda like the BSG so many loves.

Yes your Sovereignty would be tougher to defend, but think of the opportunities of being able to strand your enemy cause they have no fuel. Cause you have messed up their fuel deliveries, the raids you could pull off in enemy space and they in yours.

The potential is huge, but it will most likely not happen..

It would be vastly different.

Not so much if the gates were removed, and the allowing of warping from any point at one system always made you land at a specific point in the target system, like 15 AU from the sun.

In general however, it would be one of those things that removed the "game" out of EVE. It'd be too realistic, especially in the sense that space is so vast that two players would hardly ever meet, unless we were given tools to follow the warp trail done by another player.

And if then we got a real "radar" instead of this Directional scanner we have now. Or at least in addiction to this scanner we have now. I <3 pressing dscan.

And etc.

It'd require a serious overall of general dynamics of player instrumentation/available tools, asell a a compelte change in mentality.

Although, honestly...

All this would happen if CCP simply gave us a module called "Warp Drive activation" complete with directional / range data on neightbourign systems for players to move from system to system within a given radius to pursue targets, much like their cinematics tend to show. :)

I wonder when people think up these "cool ideas" (usually presented in the "what would this thing I'd like to see be like" posts like the OP. do they ever ask themselves the 2 most important question?

#1 being "why is the situation the way it is now"? (ie why does a game about SPACE/SOLAR SYSTEMS billions of kilometers wide need choke points and places where people could actually meet and shoot their 3 kilometer ranged autocannons at each other.........)

And

#2 "What will doing things this way cost/screw up"?

Critical thinking 101 really, if people applied an ounce of sense to what they post, GD would probably die in 2 days..

Solution: More Trade Hubs will inevitably pop up. Or 90% of all high-sec dwellers would live in or around Jita.

I still don't use Jita as a viable basis for anything price-related, though. I never have and I never will.

I am not sure it could be done. As of right now you change nodes when you go thru a gate to another system. A new node loads a new local and the entire system.

If you fly to the location of another system now without using a gate nothing would be there as you never loaded the new node.
You are simply X distance from your previous location in the old node.

So removing all gates the game would have to have some sort of colision detection system to load the new node as you crossed boundries between systems. This would most likely remove the dynamic nature of the systems we have now as each system would have to be statically maped to known edges to trigger the colision detection.

That would mean a lot of system resources would have to be used to map all usable areas of every system in eve even if not in use. EVE does not do that now as each system has dynamic use of system resources. Only using as much as is in use by players at that time.

Such a change would require a lot more computing power to maintain and possibly reducing the number of players allowed before lag sets in on each node. It would also make the game more costly to operate. Increased computer demands.

If they removed gates, there would be no more warp to zero...

They should also remove the masses of stations, and just have pilots flying super stations throughout the universe, where pilots could just converge on whenever they are near your space