Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Adding gates to anoms is neither quick nor easy as proven by the issues we've had with new ship classes on gates. Legacy code probably but it's not a nice system they have to decide what can use a gate and what can't.
And also has significant kick on effects that impact on everyone else's income, as well as ratter safety knowing you have to land at the gate, and decloak to use it, and the ability to know exactly where you will land inside an anom when baiting.

Rats shooting fighters more effectively also kicks on to shooting everything else more effectively. Assuming you mean in any manner other than 'give fighters higher priority to target'. And since people already have ways to avoid fighters getting hit even when targeted that probably won't have significant impact on those people. There is nothing in EVE's code base to imply that they can make a specific weapon more effective against one type of target, if you have a gun it has the same stats vs everything and those stats interact with your target.

So no, neither solve the problem. And CCP's solution does solve the problem.

I have never heard anything regarding gates "not being a nice system" or issues with new ship classes on gates. Gates are used all over damn New Eden. Almost every mission I've ever run uses gates. I see absolutely no issue here.



Ratter safety? It's not supposed to be safe. In fact, that's the problem with the current system, that too many carriers are hoovering in too much ISK with too much safety. The "risk/reward" quotient is too high.



Sure, give the fighters higher priority.



Nonsense. There's nothing that can't be adjusted for in code.



Nerfing a ship's PvP characteristics and performance because you have an issue with the economy does not solve any problem. In fact, it just creates more problems.

Again, I don't see how you are avoiding the issue I have raised. Carrier starts in system A after awhile that carrier pushes the re-spawn time up. Carrier then moves to another system and does the same thing. Non-carrier ratters are thus adversely affected in two systems. When you add another carrier ratter the problem gets even worse. In fact, you create an incentive to get into a carrier to be one of the first to "push up" that re-spawn rate.

Here is the thing, ratting in anomalies is kind of like a common pool resource (CPR). Rght now the re-spawn rate is such that we don't really have to worry about the "tragedy of the commons". My complaint is that your idea pretty much introduces, at least to a degree that precise problem. In the tragedy of the commons being the first one to deplete the pasture (fishery, water supply, forest, etc.) is an optimal individual strategy, but a sub-optimal group/societal level. And carrier/super pilots are at an advantage to utilize that common resource pool faster and more efficiently (use it up) and even have an advantage in terms of movement (use the jump drive to move to a new pasture without having to go through gates...use up the pasture while your fatigue goes away).

So please, stop telling me I did not read your proposal. I did. My criticism is apparently too subtle for you.

The EVE online forums post about baalnce are always just a game of "Don't nerf me bro!"