Originally by: Bagehi

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I will argue against this fix again. I don't want local, but making it just a number will horribly screw up both PVE and PVP and general alliance operations.

PVP - with just a number, roams and camps will be nonfunctional, see the following situations:
-CAMP-
"local went up!"
"bubble up"
"I hate you guys, you just bubbled a slow moving fleet/gang from your own alliance/block"
-ROAMING-
"scout jumping in... 2 in local, make that 3, make that 4..."
"Eyes?"
"No, scanning... found stuff"
"Well, we can't ask in intel channels or alliance, as they were littered with spies even before they became the uber intel source they now (would be) are"
"Warping to them... oh, just another alliance/block gang, sorry guys"
-Fleets-
Well, they are horribly difficult to organize/manage as is (255 max fleet size if nothing else), making local just a number would lead to mass chaos. Perhaps, a year from now, the first 30 minutes of fleet will not have to be spent explaining how to use broadcasts (please, please, please, please REQUIRE everyone who hasn't been to 0.0 to complete a tutorial on fleet broadcasts - for the love of Odin).

PVE - the ratting and mining that Dominion was supposed to centralize, instead of being spread all over the place, would be its undoing:
"Local went up, everyone safe and cloak..."
"Sorry guys, roam coming back, you're safe"
"OH NOES! OUR 10-MAN MINING OPERATION JUST WAS BOMBED TO DEATH BY A DISCO RAVEN THAT JUMPED IN WHEN THE ROAM CAME BACK!!!!1111"

ALLIANCE - The logistics of simply undocking in a home system would become ridiculously tedious, as seen below:
"Anyone know if local is blue in our capital system, where local is always full, and Dominion allows significantly more ratting/mining to go on in a single system leading to much larger local populations that are not docked (so comparing docked count to local count will not work)."
***repeat every 30 seconds as each pilot wants to do something but has to make sure they are safe to, followed by an inevitable***
"I'M DYING!!!!!!11111 YOU SAID IT WAS BLUE!!!!!1111"
"It was 30 seconds ago. Sorry."

In short, you would need to add additional things to the change as OP laid out for it to be functional. Specifically, a FoF system of some form for each case.

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