Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Because the problem of instant local intel is biggest in null/low sec... why can't you get this through your thick skull?

Instead of arguing and throwing around anymore insults, i'm just going to block you because you haven't said one intelligent thing yet.

This suggestion has nothing to do with null, but to everyone in new eden....

can we please disable opening pilot info when double clicking someone on watchlist? when flying logi, i tend to have a million pilot info windows open :(

I think CCP is smart enough to be able to weed through good or bad ideas regardless of who writes them...

Besides, you link an article written by the very person who has "diplomatically" ruined null sec worse than any idea someone who doesnt live in nullsec ever could...
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Based on recent events, I think not.



Shows how much you actually know about the guy, stop listening to all the hype. For all his faults, while he was chairman of the CSM, they actually got things done and were of some value. They have been worthless since.

You live in NPC null, where SOV mechanics do not apply......says it all.

Remove all Supers and Titans.

plox done.

You would think so, but past performance suggests this not to be the case.

Supercapitals:
They need a defined role!
My suggestions is to give bonuses to there onfield bonus to subcap
A subcap fleet would want a Supercarrier and Titan around for big fleet fights

ok this is two fold Mittani is right when he said remove EWAR immunity to Supers
give them higher Warp strenght or sensor strenght to solve that issue
40x ceptors jamming a super should still be jammed .....
This makes supers who fish in group subseptible to gangs of frigs. (Good thing)


Next thing adds more fun to a fight.
Allowing Titans to "Expand shield option" as a siege that will blew out its shield and make it act like Pos
it will last 30minutes if they do it and if they get "Reinforced" they will act like a POS for the reminder of the Reinforcement timer ....

now that can make a few intresting fights where a titan can blow up a shield to protect his fleet and the fleet can comback in there prime time to defend there lumbering giant.....
(I know its a HUGE rewite of the code but i do like it)

Super carriers well i would like to see them as quick respawn points ...
how about if you die and there is a SC on grid you get an option to spawn in it instead
If the SC carrier could sell ships pref. on contract to the pod we can get instant refleet and a SC joining a fleet will bring so mutch love.


I know its game breaking changes but i do belive its good changes....



JC fuel changes, Cyno changes:

Now i do know its to easy power projection far with a couple of Cyno chars.
but at the same time JF always get ****** up ...

i read a good piece about Mass and Cyno somewhere and the idea was that the more mass jumping throug the shorter the jump could be ... so jumping 3 JF you could jump further then jumping 10x Carriers ... now thats something to discuss.

Problem Statement from the very very small guys perspective:

1) There is little a small group can achieve against a larger group. In other words, a larger group can simply ignore a smaller group in their space as they pose no threat until they actually SBU something. There is no need for them to undock and drive the smaller group out since the current tactic of docking up and boring them to death works just fine.

2) A smaller group cannot deploy it's full combat force against a larger enemies weakest combat force. This is because the larger force can near instantly deploy its full combat force anywhere in Eve. IMHO, this is the major cause of blues and the desire for both the PL/N3 and CFC sides to exist as they must be able to match each others full combat force.

3)A smaller entity cannot hold less valuable space even though the larger group will not be there 99.9% of the time. In other words, larger group drops 500 capitals in system, nukes everything, and leaves. There is nothing wrong with the overwhelming force coming in and destroying everything, but that should not determine sov.

Proposed solutions:

1)Add a FW-like sov mechanism to nullsec. This should be some short term (ie 5-30 minute) goals that a smaller group can achieve to contest the system. Some examples: complete a DED plex, complete a FW-like plex, mine an asteroid, etc. If left 100% unopposed 24x7, the smaller group should be able to make the system vulnerable in 2-3 days. Unlike FW, once the system goes vulnerable all stations and IHUBs should immediately becoming vulnerable in their last timer with minimal hitpoints (ie in line with a FW ihub). Once the stations and IHUBs are flipped, the TCU is also vulnerable with minimal hitpoints as long as the system status is still vulnerable. The defender can achieve the same objectives in reverse, just like FW, to slowly reduce the system contested level. There is no way to instantly make the system safe.

This change will help with problem #1 and #3. A larger group will be forced to drive the smaller force out and keep them out if they wish to hold the system. Furthermore, a smaller group can quickly recapture a system that has been nuked by a larger force using the existing sov mechanics if the attacker doesn't stick around to hold the system.

2) Add a secondary restriction on all ships jumping/bridging to a cyno or jump bridge (including titan bridges). This new mechanism should work like this. A player must select a central base/home system. When a player attempts to jump/bridge to a system, the current checks are made followed by this new check. The new check being that the destination system must be within X lightyears of the home/base system. If not, the jump/bridge is not permitted. A player may change the home/base system at any time, however there is countdown timer that must occur before it takes effect. In other words, the home/base system can be changed at any time, but the change does not become active for X hours.

This can be implemented as a extra implant slot in every clone called the jump calculator (ie computer that ensures you can safely make the jump) and it can only hold enough information to process the data for a small subset of space. When changing that space, it takes it a while to load the new data. CCP could even add a new skill to lower this value (ie the timer starts at 8 hours with the skill lowering it by 1 hour per level such that the range is 3-8 hours). This value cannot be changed via jumpclones, ie jumpcloning has no effect on changing the home/base system.

As someone who both rats and hunts in null, I can inform you that watching local constantly is actually -effort- to most people, and a lot of people still fail at it.

People still do it because it';s liquid isk instead of (variable value) LPs or things you have to haul to turn into isk (like in wormhole space), but that is now the ONLY advantage to SOV nulls most popular isk making pve (anoms in upgraded systems).

Part of the problem with null sec (from a 'living there' point of view) has nothing to do with null sec and everything to do with EVE's overall design. When i 1st went to null in 2008 there were no wormholes, no incursions (which are farmable in high sec), no faction warfare awards like their are now (FW missions were so crap that must of us in the militias would take time off from FW to do lvl 4 missions or whatever to make isk then dip back into FW). There were high sec lvl 5s due to that bug, npc 0.0 missions were also good.

But mainly, if you wanted to make GOOD isk, you went to null. You chained belts and waited for a good spawn. you scanned down complexes and anomalies and did them and hoped for good loot because the bounties from killing ships weren't enough by themselves. occasionally you got lucky, but mainly it was like being a dirt farmer.

And it was good. Then CCP started stuffing the game with all these new pve "wealth faucet" ways to make isk (wormholes, incursions, upping FW rewards, buffing low sec with things like the pithum/gistum invuls from low sec DEDs, eventually adding the SOE ships which pumped up all the other items in the sisters of EVE lp store, changes to mining and killing gun mining which made selling mining implants from high sec lp stores a gold mine etc etc).

Suddenly, you didn't have to go to null sec to make null sec like (or better) isk. Along with all the buffing of the rest of New Eden in terms of pve isk, there was that disasterous U*pgrade system modification that made most of null sec systems incapable of spawning very many of the actually good anomalies, further degrading any reason to go to null for living purposes.

Sov Null today is mostly 'fly over' space worth not more than renting to some high sec rube that doesn't mind running anomalies that pay less per hour than blitzing high sec lvl 4 missions or being in a high sec incursions fleet. The liquid isk nature of anom pay outs is the ONLY reason you don't see even more people in high sec pve or flying stealth bombers doing faction warfare missions.

You can't jsut fix null, you have to address SOV Null's place in the grand scheme of New Eden if you want it to work. Very few people will 'live' in sov null if they an just make isk safely in empire and day trip to null for gudfights.