Player Features and Ideas Discussion

That is called planning ahead. Doing so can reduce or eliminate unpredictability. This also applies to the turrets and drones I mentioned in my previous post.

Failure to plan ahead should give someone else the opportunity to take advantage of the situation (as you have become painfully ware of).


Let me rephrase that for you;

This "feature" adds excitement for the people taking advantage of it. It forces people to plan ahead and punishes those who overlook small details or patterns**.

**If you have been playing for more than a month or two you should begin to notice this variance as it applies to everything you warp to. The most obvious example of this is with stargates. Sometimes you land just outside jumping range of a stargate, other times you land right in the middle of the damn thing and "bounce off."


You are confusing the massive differences in station docking radii and the warp landing variance.

I can assure you, they quite unrelated.

When you warp to a station, your ship lands within a 2500m "sphere" around the edge of the station docking radius... with the center of that sphere landing exactly at the edge.
That is why you sometimes end up well within the station radius and sometimes you land well outside of it.

Here is another way to think about it:
For those of you familiar with cyno mechanics, imagine lighting a cyno just on the edge of a station's undock radius. The jump-in point is anywhere within 2500m of that cyno.
That is how the warp variance mechanic works. Minus the cyno.

when warp to 0 was created it was to reduce the lag created by the millions of bookmarks that were made for gate to gate travel.

it was not because warping to 15km left players too vulnerable.

Players being vulnerable is a damn good thing. But if the bookmarks at stations start to cause crippling lag then sure, and make warping to an insta undock the typical undocking process as well.

until then -1

Im +1 for this change. The existing mechanic is annoying and breaks what little flow this game has sometimes. While I am aware that this would eliminate some content for PVPers I highly doubt anyone is taking heavy advantage of this as it stands, and just looks to it for incidental kills on noobs too lazy to make proper bookmarks and too unlucky to get a good warpin.

Reasons for: alleviate the need of Docking Bookmarks, reducing the load on the database as per CCPs statement that a huge part of is effin bookmarks.

Reasons against: Same reason. What the random docking range does is makes it necessary to chart enemy/hostile systems with stations.

I'm not inclined to one or the other. But this change won't be without a loss.