I live in 0.0, and I'd love a delayed-mode local like the one in WH space. It'd be a very easy nerf to AFK-cloakers, as they'd not even be able to scare people anymore.

At the same time, it'd encourage teamwork amongst 0.0 residents, and would add some excitement to the constant sanctum and sov grinding that 0.0 is today.

On the issue of local chat, one compromise/solution I can think of is to make being cut off from local an effect of cloaking.
With the exception of covert ops cloak users (for which getting the jump on enemies is the whole point), my understanding is that other cloak users would give up too much in the way of being able to move/resync times to be able to seriously exploit not appearing in local.

Null sec is already dead.

Strange however that i dont see many of your corp members trying to do anything significant in 0,0
And no, im not after ganks. I do however want to be able to try and find a fight without an entire region knowing about me as soon as ive enterd local somwere.
What you want to do with your carebear needs is of no interest to me, and never will be either.
Eve is a cold hard place, and local the way it is, ruins a lot of that feel.

Out of pure curiosity, but how the hell does ppl in 0,0 really take any risks these days??
you have info channels, you have jump bridges, you have bubbles to slow gangs down and you have local.
so no, you dont really have any risks, cause as soon as someone enters local you can warp away or log, wich is risk free.

Also your char has 0 kills and 0 losses, so dont come talk to me about risks, when your either a) have never been to 0,0..
b)post with an alt to hide your mains identity, in wich case again you prove you cant take risks.

Uhm,

AFK cloakers & Delayed local

I'm not really sure why people worry so much about them, however, here is a suggestion.

Create a module for sov holding alliance(s) which gives them the ability to disable all cloaks in a system. These modules should at minimum have a timer as to avoid abuse of being turned on and off every five minutes. They also should be able to be destroyed as any other anchored structure.

Personally I like the idea of delayed local. It gives human players time to aquire bots and dispatch them to their new clone.


Just my two wooden nickels.

A better option for dealing with cloakies who just go AFK all day would be for the cloaking devices to wind down on some sort of timer where they just wear out after 60-120 minutes. Maybe have them slowly take heat damage and have to be repaired. Smaller ships might be able to stay cloaked for longer before overheating, or you could add modules/rigs that let you exchange utility/gank for a longer-lasting cloak (before you have to decloak and apply nanite paste to repair it before recloaking).

(Disclosure, I fly cloaked ships - a lot.)

I am still looking forward to the removal of local and the improvement of scanner tools. Removal of free warnings is a good thing to me. I hope it has not been scraped. I am also anxious to hear about black ops improvements and establishments / contraband. Can you please let us know if this is still being actively worked on?

Gotta love all the anger at no-local 0.0, I in fact thing it's a better idea to have no local in 0.0 as it makes you actually think, use d-scan a bit more often, plot your course through 0.0, be more paranoid, etc. If possible just add in destroyable subspace beacons as an upgrade for Sov holding alliances, they should not be built into the IHub and not linked to a POS but be placeable in open space, also said upgrade should cost money per system covered per month, you want local? you pay for it, this would add in more depth to the tactics you could employ and also make smaller raiding parties viable (send a small fleet ahead of the main one to wreak havoc on enemy communication lines).

Removing local would allow smaller entities to operate in nullsec. You have a D-Scan don't you? I mean, there would have to be an improvement so you could tell if a ship on scan was friendly or not but quite frankly, your logic is flawed. Local just gives everyone a chance to dock up and avoid fights - which isn't fun.

Also, it means that people looking for fights have to also find you - they won't be alerted to your presence in-system. But nobody seems to realise that

I've seen a lot of discussion on the removing local in 0.0 front, personally I feel the following should happen:
- You do not appear in local for 30 seconds after you jump into system.

This will mean that a skilled pilot will be able to use directional scanner to find any enemies in system and tackle them, if they are intelligent they will be using directional scanner and run away. If this is too in favor of the pilot jumping into the system then I would also add that:
- Local chat does not appear fot the first 30 seconds after you jump into system.

What this means is that everyone has to rely on the d-scanner for intel initially some other ideas are that the base time should actually be 1 minute but upgraded down towards 30 seconds with sov upgrades then a sov holding body will be paying for their intel effectively.

more destroyers please
Oh, and making them useful would be nice, too.

oh for the love of god just shut up with that crap.