EVE General Discussion

Dear EVE developers.

Just make new gamers 7-day protection protocol. Do it.

Its really sad that pirates can kill you everywhere, even in hi-sectors. If old players can fight back, new - can't.

But, limit protocol 7 opportunities, old gamers could use them to transit goods without being attacked by pirates. So limit transit. And disable this protocol, if newies initiating somebodies attack on some period of time.

Its hard to play new players. When these assholes kills them, people stop play this game, because they have lost most of they got.


Best regards, new EVE player.

Better faction navy protection inside high sec space.

I don't intend to get involved with faction wars, not unless you can work for pirate factions.

If you could do FW for pirates then I'd expect Minmatar, Gallente, Caldari and Amarr standing to drop, that combined with a likely security status of -10 would probably mean there would be no place to dock which in turn means there would be no fun in roaming high-sec.

I'm located in high-sec at the moment and as such do very little there as most of what I could do would increase Minmatar, Gallente, Caldari or Amarr rep.

High-sec is a weird place, it's a PvP game yet it seems more like a PvE area that has some awkward PvP attached to it.

I know CODE get a lot of stick over what they do and I don't actually agree with their style of PvP, but the way high-sec is set up I can understand them.

I am considering fitting smartbombs to a ship going to a stargate and using them. Alternatively just shoot at an NPC ship at a gate and see what it does to my standing.

Short term: Sov tweaking, better system management, better structure management, more user friendly UI (for some modules more than others, such as the corp/alliance menus). Black Ops balance. Hacking/archea rework.

Long term: T3 reworks (complete, not just tweaks), physX/other eye candy, WiS, cap reworks, eve-o forum revamp (Self moderation, such as karma systems, an ISD that actually works, active troll/thread derail bans (you know who you are, there's a good reason we use reddit for actual constructive discussion for this game these days)). Complete system wide structure revamp, POS shield removal.

Stars should get smaller with a distance.

The Beta Map is awesome. It could be Awesomer. As a FC, i want to be able to see how many fleet members are in each system, and what shiptypes are in there at a glance. I want to be able to set a destination for individual squads, or the whole fleet.

Enemies that are visible to my fleetmembers should also show up on fleetmember's maps while they're still in visual range.

Highsec Faction War should change empire sov.

I want to see stations, honestly. The hard work seems to already be done with the CQ. I know there was a lot of crying about wasting time on station interiors but i think it would have been great. Allow stations to be free2play, even for unsubscribed players so they can just come hang out with old friends etc. It would be a great advertizement for itself, and im sure it would convert many players into a paid subscriptions.

I love the new ship skins, its done very well, and i think maybe more of them should be aurum-only to help out the coffers. I dont mind "hats" being sold for additional money, as long as it doesnt affect gameplay, and it seems ccp did good with this.

I want a button i can press to rollup certain windows. So i can have all my chat/intel windows open as im cruising around, and hit a single button to hide them all if i need.

The Neocom/NavBar thing needs colors. I want to be able to add a custom color tint to each button so i can essentially 'group' certain icons by color.

i want to be able to open a trade, and drag an item from the window BEHIND The trade window into the trade, without changing the window focus. I might not be explaining this right, but the Trade window comes up right in the center of the screen overtop of my hanger, and then i have to re-arrange all my windows (making sure not to stack them) just to drop a single item into the trade.

If you work for the pirate factions, yes your standing for the empires should drop as well as your sec status to concord, but as your standing towards the pirate factions increases, the NPC pirates should then leave you alone, and not immediately attack you.
Attacking them will of course result in a standing loss to the appropriate pirate faction, and then of course a retaliation from the attackee.

Note: something potentially interesting could be: people with +10 Sansha standing and not being shot at by sansha forces, including sansha forces during incursions.
This will create new content as sansha loyalists could work together with each other and the Sansha invaders in empire space, and attack NPC empire forces + incursion runner capsuleers alike.
I believe during incursions in Highsec, concord should be non-existant, and for a limited time, the effected constallation can be regarded as lowsec (maybe the sec status drops down to 0.4) -- this means that any capsuleer, loyal to the Sansha, can invade highsec space without concord interfering.. join with the sansha side by side, and attack, and be attacked by fellow capsuleers without the worry of concord

Thoughts?

I agree if you have a good standing with a NPC pirate corp. then those NPC pirates should treat you as friendly (all NPC pirates of the type you are friendly with).

I also like your incursion idea.