Player Features and Ideas Discussion

In the event of a war, you'd assume thats the first ******* thing you do to stop your enemy from attacking. Who operates the jump gates in caspsuleer owned null sec? Why cant gates be shut down? Where is the lore behind this?

But lets say in the Gallente and Caldari war....why couldnt thy both simply shut down their gates to stop hostile ships from jumping through? The Caldari had to fire ECM at a gate......so....why not simply have marines storm the gate and shut it down?

I believe gates are operated by Concord. Even in nullsec if you hit one it pisses them off [ though not enough to make them venture down to pawn your ass..

Reminds me of Babylon 5.

All gates operate the same way, they can't be shut down, and you wouldn't dare destroy them because of their value.

I'm sure some lore could be that the gates function, OS, is Jove. No empire knows enough on how to control them.. They can build them, in their own ways, but are still stuck using the original code/mechanics that they can't control.. But who knows..

As a footnote, the idea that's been tossed around in F&I generally goes like this: Players receive stargate control through sov and can do one of 3 things: 1) Nothing: Gate operates normally 2) restrict access based on sov standings or some other finer criteria (much debated) 3) shut the gate down. The counter is that other players can use hacking to override the gate for some period of time and similarly alter it's behavior.

Best left to DUST boarding, hacking and controlling inside the gate, maybe along with capsulars in about two years down the road when its better integrated with EVE. Overall, gates have worked well enough for now these past 9 years, you can and will wait longer.

Just because the Mechanics of it might be Jove, doesn't mean the final product has to be..

Think of a computer Processor.. You can get 50 laptops that all do the same thing, have the same internal part, but are each of a different design.. I mean clearly the gates are manufactured by the Empires, but that doesn't mean that the core parts aren't from someone else..

I remember seeing something about one thing the Jove do is try to keep races on par.. avoiding one with an unfair advantage.. Would make sense that they would share Jumpgate tech if one of the empires discovered it.. or if it was theirs to begin with to keep the empires exploring their own ways, and not staying close to them..

ok i don't live in nullsec though i have ventured there in roams. but just going to throw this idea out there, as it pop into my head when someone mentioned Babylon 5.
The gates in B5 could be shut down, but it took ages. So you could give the gates in null the ability to be turned off by the sov holder, but takes like 3-4 days to turn it off then an equal amount of time to turn back on before it can be used again.
So it can't be used as a last stand measure, but has to be thought about more tactically?

Well if then, perhaps we can finally warp directly to systems, and it wouldn't have say a uniformed route and it would be a bit of a logistics pita to indulge in, and on the same token give an alternative to lighting cynos, just a thought.

Unless shutting down gates only worked for a really short time, say 15 minutes to allow reinforcements to arrive or to evacuate as many assets as possible (intentionally set so that you could only evacuate a few valuables) then I guess it would be a cool idea.

But if it's more than 30 minutes it would be a little broken.

Hack the gate, or find a WH + use a cyno?