Player Features and Ideas Discussion

it's very Brilliant idea i really like it and it's very reasonable.

It would force traders and manufacturers into losec as it would destroy profit margins without doing so. The larger groups could easily control the faster routes and therfore undercut the smaller producers thus destabilizing the market. So it would force people into losec to be easy targets for those who live there. Would you not prefer changes that got people to enter losec by choice in ships fitted for fighting? Surely that would be more fun than shooting unarmed haulers?

-1 bad idea that makes harder for ppl who live in whs and depend on paticular high sec exits. plus it messes up the main market hubs

It would actually make cross-hub trading a meaningful profession with good profits.


This already happens, so there is no change.
As far as being easy targets, a while back there was a thread crying for a nerf to the Epithal because the ship is nearly uncatchable when fit properly.

Yup, again that is the idea



Even better.

basically taking the "suicide" out of "suicide ganking"

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There are already similar first class trade hubs. Jita is just the top because of it's location (a crossroad just like any other major trade hub in any game and real life). The current state of High Sec Empire is equivalent to that of a continuous land mass. And Jita and the other trade hubs can be correlated to urban centers (cities) in real life. So we are going to see the "Push Pull Phenomenon" of urbanization in the game with trade and manufacturing etc of people moving from remote systems towards the trade hubs.

Now here's the catch. Because of the continuous landmass (with insignificant exceptions) of High Sec Empire, all of the Trade hubs will have a pull on all of space. Now because Jita is the biggest trade hub, we can consider it the most "Urbanized" and in that relation it will have the largest pull effect overall. So over time people will continue to migrate to Jita from less urbanized areas. And since everything is less urbanized than Jita, it has a pull even on the inhabitants other trade hubs to an extent.

By separating the Empires with a barrier such as low sec (Real life examples would be: mountains,deserts and bodies of water) there will then be less of a draw from Jita on the other Empires. Each Empire will have it's own trade hub and they'll probably remain the same as it's hard to break people from habits. And the new players that join will be more likely to migrate to their local trade hub than another one elsewhere initially at least.

So I'm assuming when you sarcastically talk about "more polarization" you're getting that idea on the assumption that people will concentrate themselves in the Caldari Empire. Because that would be the only way to increase the level of polarization we see now. But if that did happen there would be a lot of opportunity outside of Caldari space in high sec to make a better income because of the things you cannot obtain in caldari space alone. This would create a draw of people and a draw of income out of caldari space (since non-caldari goods will be sold at a better premium in this "polarized" market). And that income/person draw would create a greater need and profit for local trade.

Thus that prediction also comes with it's own self-depolarizing system.

Separating the empires would definitely cause depolarization on the large scale. Each Empire itself will still be polarized around their trade hub.

As a WH Pilot myself i cant agree with this Statement, as long static highsec WH still leads you in Highsec the only difference would be that you have to guard your moves outside of WH when moving Fuel and Loot, but that apply to anyone so it would simply buff T2 Indus which would be a good thing.

making ganking easyer :P

for all the people saying it affects profits or messes up the hubs you're all wrong. It makes each hub more important and would reduce dependence on jita, how many posts have we all seen moaning about lag in jita? If anything it would incease profits for the people who manufacture locally and only reduce it for people who ship things all over eve for selling