Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Not true, the only difference is you can't do it afk (which is often times untrue in null sec),
You don't need friends, in fact just yesterday I saw 2 mackinaws and a dominix mining in a dead end low sec system, I warped in on them to see about some cheap kills and they all had warp core stabs and starting warping away all at the exact same time.
Guy is still there mining, he doesn't have a scout alt or anything, he just mines.

I made more isk doing exploration in low sec than in hisec.

I know people in FW who do level 4 missions constantly in low sec without any trouble.

Hell people even do level 5's without that much of a problem.

So obviously isk/hr isn't the issue here.

I don't think it matters if you do it all at once or not, announce it at the start of when the devs start announcing features and promise that no systems will have their sec status changed, only new ones will be added.

Also that doesn't make any sense, why would a system that was secure, now not be secure?
If it were new territory that would make sense, the new regions should be added first, and the stargates crossing those regions to be separated would see a slow destabilization, something the players can watch, like a wormhole effect inside the stargate.

So players are aware time is running out and can get a feel for and understand the new zones.

The shock to the system thing confuses me.

My take on it is that they don't want all but one or two high-sec islands to end up like Solitude region. The sad fact is, most people will congregate where the most people and business is done just because it's easier.

Again... I like the idea. However, given the reservations presented by the DEVs I can see that many of them see such a change as unnecessarily painful and/or bad for overall, long term, in-game market stability.

Oh... I agree completely. But how painful that adaptation and for how long it would last is something to be a little concerned about.

I never said anything about the HP of the faction ships. I'm not suggesting that the standard factions spawns are what you get, I'm suggesting that what you get would be balanced for middle-sec and classified as faction spawns.

My current idea is to have every attacker cause three navy ships to spawn (similar to CONCORD): a tackle frigate, an EWAR cruiser, and a high-DPS battleship. Their power and toughness would scale with sec status, being nearly impossible to beat solo in 0.6. This would prevent people from using the "bring more ships" strategy, especially if all of the NPCs who spawn could focus-fire on one of the attackers at a time.

To prevent lag, larger groups of attackers could have a scaled NPC response, with the same net power and toughness but with fewer total ships.

This idea would give a solo player room to defend themself--even if the ganker could beat the NPCs OR the solo player, it wouold be more difficult to beat both at the same time. Anyone who goes out in a reasonably combat-fit ship should be pretty much completely safe in 0.6, and fairly safe even in 0.5. Some highly skilled players could even roam around 0.4 alone and defend themselves.

Which would be useless, especially considering that only new systems would be added and none would be changed.

As long as there is one single link between the empires that is safe nothing would change. Only when the final link is cut then all hell breaks loose.

The current map is inadequate, to many choke points. Whole new regions are needed.
Not to mention changing sec status is a TERRIBLE idea. It would screw over lots of people. How would you feel if your orca/mining fleet is suddenly 3 jumps into low sec after taking a month off?

It would cause more harm than good and solve nothing.

Also in the main post I actually proposed lore explanations and an idea of how they could do the new regions.

Stickies are gone! Ill just bump this here.