EVE General Discussion

when can we except all this goodness to be aviable on the test server?

Where are industry iterations ??????

Seriously, a big chunk of reasonable things posts are about industry, and there is a post dedicated to industry suggestions, what the heck guys? we're working on a decade old industry interface!

I would actually go so far as to say that in my envisioned enhancement of interceptors as pursuit ships, they would be a VERY nice team with covops probers if a revamp of combat probes happens as well. specifically, combat probes should no longer provide warpins ONLY on 100% resolution - rather, they should be able to provide highly imprecise warpins whenever resolution reaches either 8 or 4 au to a target. this way, the covops pilot can act as a squad leader, warp interceptor gangmates to Dscan range, and let the interceptors serve as his hounds from there, as opposed to having to wait until 100% resolution is achieved and having a really crappy chance of even so much as seeing the target as he gets on grid.

i would think it would be much like an orca just click the button to allow fleet/ corp members to use it

I'm a newone so sorry for a may be silly question .

Is this new expansion allow player to destroy npc station in hi-sec?

So if it allows what will happans to my ship and item that keep in that station?

Thanks

I see what's going on here.

A:
Create more alliance enablers to profit from outside entities

B:
Make operating alliances a much more logistically intensive endeavor

C:
Add tools to profit from alliances that have a larger reach than grasp, and make those tools cost effective from the micro to macro level.


D:
In effect creating a consilidation of alliance power down to what can actually be monitored and defended.

It looks, to me, like the idea is to extend OPPORTUNITIES for player control, but at the same time amp up the RESPONSIBILITY for the things you do control. Currently there is not much in the way of punishment for having a massive reach on all sorts of assets you don't actively defend or use (SoV and PI being the worst offenders, Moon Mining a close third) So we move forward by saying "yeah, you can have all of it, but you also can;t be lazy with it when you have it"

I like this. As a guy who spends a great deal of time violating sov borders, I think the amping up of more opportunist playstyles is a good thing for the growth of small to medium sized corporations, adds consequence for overextension of sov, and is rewarding for thief/salvager playstyles that previously had very little to do (just can flipping and the occasional failed WH base really)

Think about it. If anyone can drop siphons on moons, and you own, let's say 40 moons... well, do you actively patrol those 40 moons? If not, then you might actually be losing income by extending in to more space than you can effectively monitor, as the equivalent of say 10 moons is stolen from you on a near permanent basis. So you call it, you pull back to 30 moons that you actually kjeep tabs on. You spend less on the sov bills and you make just as much in moon goo.

Anyone saying this raod is the "death of hisec" isn't seeng the big picture. What I see here is the consolidation of nullsec if anything. You think people who now have to devote more resources to keeping track of what they used to just plop and visit once every two weeks have time to both maintain their current reach and also expand it?

Nope. I'm seeing a world in which large alliances become more powerful, but also far more consolidated. Where members of those alliances actually have **** to do that precludes them from randomly trolling your precious shiny boat.

It's already extremely easy to violate most sov space and do pretty much anything you want there short of blowing up their assets. Now that there's a mechanism in place for people to walk in and take moon goo, and deposit it in a reinforcable supercan at a safe? I think they have more important things to worry about than "subjugating hisec" as there will be actual content not related to starting random wars out of boredom.

Long time ago I made two small deploydable ideas. I suppose they didn't pass. First one was roleplaying building (allowing people to create their own places in eve) and second was turning lockable cans into small business places. I was actually excited about those ideas but perhaps other people were not.

Roleplaying building idea:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2559690

Cans turned into business places:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2626949

I couldn't have put this better myself. As a lowsec roamer and denizen I can already predict what's going to happen: those that don't invest in the relationships with their neighbours and actual defensive capabilities are going to have their stuff syphoned and their POS systems invaded by smaller piratical entitis with capabilities for prolonged deployment. SOV mechanics are too hazy for me but I reckon the conflict drivers would work the same. Syphon units will be no problem for those actually living in their own space and heck, output a KM for them and I'll blap them for the sake of record keeping. I too enjoy the idea of turning force projection from something considered OP to something risky, instead of nerfing blops and bridges outright.

Also: those mini cyno jammers are a plain buff to offensive POCO bashing in lowsec. In hisec cyno's won't be a factor and conflicts will be kept at a subcap level (which is awesome), but in lowsec offenders can utilize mini cyno jammers to prevent direct hotdrops. Not only hisec, but lowsec will burn as well, as it now adds additional risk deploying caps against a cyno-jammed subcap fleet of my-first-battleships. I might dust off a Mael for this.

So many things needing addressed, like Drone survival, Walking in Stations, real interaction with Dust players (chat rooms and super caps do not count), and being ignored.
Before trying to take away the safety and security of High Sec, try thinking about limiting some things. Its great to be able to become sov, but having to join a huge alliance, brown nose, or follow someone else who has what you want but expects you to play the way they say... something wrong with the freedom there.
IMO: being able to settle a star system, great idea. Being able to settle as many as you can afford, and as many as you can forcefully hold... bad. There should be limits.
I can only place one command center on a planet... in real life, I would deploy as many as needed to harvest resources. LAME Limitation.
Dust players cannot plan attacks on my planets... not in any way that effects me anyway. I should be able to place defenses and such, they should be able attack me, Planets should be more of a game link to Dust. However, Empire control should be a limited protective status... IE; .5 sec, you have ten minutes to attack, topple, and harvest contents of a players storage silo and command centers, before Concord saves that players arse.
Soo many things to think about... and improve. CCP keeps moving forward without putting the final touches on their product. Why keep adding things and not considering how to polish what they have?

I like how EvE is now named after a Jeep. I vote for the summer expansion to be named Grand Cherokee or Wrangler.

Imagine EvE Online: Grand Cherokee.