I like it. It's a good compromise between the "remove local" and "keep local" crowds without having some odd kind of delay. I'd want it to have some accompanying null buff though.

Anyone who would move out of 0.0 because they don't have local is a Bad PlayerGäó to begin with, and I doubt they do any real playing in null anyway and are just there because there's better rats/asteroids.

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More systems goons....I mean, scammers can spam.

Keep local, dscan click-fests for hours on end is not a game play feature that should be allowed in 21st century video games. Cheers

Remove local. If someone is too lazy to d-scan they deserve death

afk cloaking

Are you referring to my suggestions or the OP?

I'm a ratting/Ice mining carebear and If they made it so I couldn't tell if a hostile in local I would quit the game.

Think about that though, so would pretty much every other Ice miner causing a black hole in the Fuel market. No Fuel, No capital ship movement, no capital ship movement, no large wars, no large wars, no money made from industry, no money made from industry.

It's like the food web, except with Space Ships.

Ok, how about this.

Don't remove local, leave it as is.

Instead, introduce a whole new breed of ships which allow their pilot's to remain 'hidden' from local until such time as they type something.

Think of these new ships as a new type of covert ops....

Ofcourse these ships would be additional TIERS of the current classes we have and will require a special passive module to be fitted for the pilot to remain hidden or even have it active

Ideas for the module/ships ... when the module is activated, ship is unable to cloak but remains out of local. Only once deactivated, can the ship cloak but will then show up in local.

Submitted for your critical review.

Would they have absolutely no way of fitting a gun or a cyno or anything even remotely offensive?

If we're going to have a ship which is 100% covert, i.e. doesn't even show up in local, then the only way to avoid all roaming gangs to be of this shiptype, is to make it so it can't affect anything at all, its role would be purely a recon ship.

If we're going to have a ship which is 100% covert, i.e. doesn't even show up in local, then the only way to avoid all roaming gangs to be of this shiptype, is to make it so it can't affect anything at all, its role would be purely a recon ship.

I will keep repeating myself:

Removing local + this will be seven steps towards the right direction into solving a multitude of problems AND making the game a lot more intuitive and fun.

I will keep repeating myself:

Removing local + this will be seven steps towards the right direction into solving a multitude of problems AND making the game a lot more intuitive and fun.