Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Couple of quick points:

You really think people are going to put 5,000 robotics into an iteron V and run it through a dozen or more low sec systems? Really? No. For that you use a JF. Somethings will be moved via claoky haulers, some by JF. The rest, probably not moved except when added to a JF cargo that is too big for a cloaky, but small enough to justify tossing in some other crap.

Regarding wormhole travel:

And if the other end is closed and the one you jumped in from closes behind you? 1.4 billion in ship, and who knows how much in cargo pretty much lost.


No. Why does it have to be immediate or 100%? Really, this underscores your lack of understanding of economic processes. Substituting away from something does not mean it is immediate and 100% except in a very rare case (when goods are perfect substitutes, which is very rare). Still there could be some substitution effect and it could take awhile, and people bordering the appropriate low sec might be able to get some ice via null. But this kind of thing means you might be wrong in your conclusions.

TL;DR: Stop stating things with absolute certainty and going to the most extreme answer FFS. It just makes you look stupid.

And as for POS and manufacturing, I don't need Gallente. In fact Gallente aren't special or great for things like invention or building, they are good for moon mining and reactions in that they get a silo bonus (and in case you aren't aware of this, you can't do reactions in hi sec). A Caldari POS might work just fine. Just a quick look at the Caldari control tower tells me you could have a 2-3 assembly arrays (if you are making components) and 5 or 6 mobile labs with room to spare.

There you go again, stating things with absolute certainty (A side question, if you are this brilliant at figuring out what thousands of Eve players are going to do...why are you posting here and not turning your simply awesome powers towards becoming richer than Warren Buffet or something?). Of course it could happen...or not. As I noted a Caldari POS would work just fine.

Here is a quick hint: if your prices go up due to a general rise in the price level, it doesn't follow that your profits go up. You have to factor in the rise in production costs and a very real possibility of a drop in the quantity you will be producing since demand may take a hit. Fewer economic transactions do not usually make people better off as a general rule of thumb. If the price of the good you are selling is the only thing that increases, then yes, in the short run your profits go up.

I was hoping that gate guns would only shoot you if you pod someone however I was mistaken. My idea would be much better if CCP would remove gate guns making frigates and destroyers more viable in low. I suppose it is mostly a matter of opinion though.

Currently if i look arouind in low sec, i find so many gate camp and really i was looking at some camps for some time, and mostly it was always the same.
If something move in that can shoot back the campers cloak or run, if a freighter or anything else that cant shoot back move in, they attack.

New Idea, extremely shaky on a lore level but perhaps the high sec empires should very greatly spread out, instead of the eve map being like and onion where high sec in in the center surrounded by low and then null, perhaps it should be inverted with each empire being very distant.

You don't need more low-sec. The real problem is that system security is a hard limit.

There's no practical difference between 1.0 systems and 0.5 systems, and then suddenly you jump into 0.4. That makes hi-sec a big area, leaves almost no dangerous waters in between, and reduces all pirate activity to camping a single 0.4 system everybody has to go thru.

It should be more of a gradient. CONCORD in 1.0 should be like today, but everything below that should have less and less patrol ships / sentries, with increasing response times, such that there's small difference between 0.5 and 0.4. Then you have more dangerous waters, but on the other hand, the safest route is less predictable because you don't have this hard limit between hi/low anymore.

Security penalties for engaging other ships should be gradual too, depending on the system security.

Sounds more clunky than my idea, but perhaps both could be implemented at the same time? I like prices being more influenced by players actions (like piracy) than artificial taxes. Not to mention not that many people have trash standings with 1 empire in particular so its affect would probably be minimal and only inconvenience a portion of the eve population.