Player Features and Ideas Discussion

i cant find a way to do this so if it's already a thing simply point out how to do it for me please, otherwise:

I would like to be able to filter out corporation and/or alliance members from local, this would allow me to make my local page much smaller when im doing things where enemies might be a problem but so many friendlies are around i feel the need to have local as big as possible on my screen, normally covering from bottom to top.

I want to it to be both more functional and give me better view of the space vistas CCP worked so hard to create.

No, you're asking for instant notification of anyone not blue entering local. Dress it up however you want, but that's the gist of it.

Been asked, repeatedly. Devs even answered, IIRC at fanfest a year or two ago.

No.

Local was never meant as an Intel tool and while CCP aren't happy with its current state that's what it is and they're not about to make it a *better* intel tool.

+1

Whats the harm? Everyone gets the feature. So whats the harm? Besides this functionality also leaves room for error. What if your contacts is not up to date? Whoops, someone is in system that you filtered that is potentially not a friendly anymore.

Some people are stuck in the past like the guy from Goonwaffe and Cade Windstalker. Its people like them that are the issue why EVE online is stagnating. They say no to everything for no reason other than "Its always been like that, so it should never change". They deserve to be kicked out from this forum.

@ manus, It makes it too easy to avoid pvp (everyone who is not friendly is hostile). That is most definitely a bad thing.

The game has been stagnating because the barrier for pvp has been getting higher. Not only did this alienate the core playerbase (pvp players) but also is boring players out of the game. The 'stagnation' started when wardecs were nerfed.

Its precisely ideas like this that are killing the game.

Just take yourself as an example. You didn't stick around before. You wont stick around now. The players that do stick around are pvp players.

Not everybody that plays eve is a pvp player ,some are explorers and some industrialists as in the Npeit used to ask you about what style you want to be etc

This idea is bad though about removing local as wormhole is about as risk averse place as I have ever seen but not everybody wants to pvp in eve neither should we attempt to drive them out .

The Local Chat is a nice way to Communicate with People around you. In High Sec, it's a nice way to know new People. Also it is "Misused" as Intel in Lowsec and Null Sec, that's right. IN WH-Space there is no Local, or at least without a List who is in there. The Argument for that, is that in WH-Space there are no "Beacons" to which the Chat-system connects. (Nice Lore Idea!!!)

Why this Explanation? Simple: Your Idea to "Filter" who is in System exists: It's Called Player-Created-Channels, and Everyone can Create a Channel for People he needs. Being able to "filter" further is no really useful Addition to the Game, despite maybe for Intel Purposes.

But that's the point: Local Chat is, was and would never be an Intel tool wanted by CCP, as said before. So a Function that improves that unwanted Purpose, is even more useless from the Perspective that CCP defends.

Or in Other words: If you want to Filter who is with you in System, you have to do it with the Options given by the game, and don't ask for more.

So what? Just because you do not want to interact that way with other players does not mean others can't interact that way with you.

Minimize local. Friendlies gone. Shazam.