http://themittani.com/news/local-be-removed-odyssey-expansion
i know its April fools, HOWEVER if low / null were to have local removed.......i would want to keep high

Local is an oppressive game mechanic, that genuinely does remove the mystery of what's out there. I would love for CCP to remove low and nullsec local.

Local is an oppressive game mechanic, that genuinely does remove the mystery of what's out there. I would love for CCP to remove low and nullsec local.

EDIT: A better idea that intelligent people have suggested is that CCP create a new region with no local and none of this intel and then see how that develops, wouldn't that be a lot better for the game?

As for the idea of some sort of blocker, people have come up with these ideas and yes they are interesting, however the issue is game balance, you have to look at risk, the thing is that without local the risk is off the scale, because of the power projection of cyno's. I and many others feel that without local it will reduce numbers in 0.0 further, in the end you will just have PL running around looking for someone to gank, everyone else will be in HS, that would be the logical end game based on risk and power projection.

I'm with you Dracvlad, thing is with Cynos that in my theoretical proposal, the bubbles would only affect the gate actually bubbled. if in a system with 3 or 4 gates, and you only had one bubbled, the other gates would pick up the signatures of cyno'd vessels, and light up local. The only way to make a cyno invisible is to bubble all system gates.. then if that happens, then whoever is attacking are most likely to steamroll the system anyway. Defenders can just shoot out the signature bubble(s) on a gate , and keep it clear if they need that local intel on cyno activity. Certainly a double edged sword, but a fairly dynamic.

In a way, it will make defending a system about scouting, keeping physical watch on gates if bubbling is chosen, or keeping gates free of signature bubbles if local is a must have.

As a low sec pirate I'd love to be able to cloak local from entrance systems, folks entering the system would clearly see the sig bubble, as you do with warp bubbles, so they can freely shoot it out, and re enter if they so choose to get intelligence back, but still gives us the ability to intercept if we also desire. if people warp off to go ratting ignoring the bubble, then for us the hunt is ON! piracy would be back, but still, dscan is a tool to be used.. Bring on the Pilgrim fleet for that delicious PvE carebear tear banquet.

Lowsec? Nullsec? GREAT! i love the idea of the removal of local.

Why does everyone who suggests that local be removed have to have a little devil at the end of the sentence?

Another bad remove local thread.

Why does everyone who suggests that local be removed have to have a little devil at the end of the sentence?

Removing local will reduce pvp dramatically, like wormholes, and it will make low sec pvp more blobby. No thanks, that idea sucks.

http://eve-census.com/

If I want to remove 90% of pvp from low sec and null sec then I would remove local.

Go to a wormhole if you like no local so much. I think its neat that eve has that as a *part* of the game. But people are voting with their feet to stay where there is a local.

Its like having an election where 10% of people choose no local and 90% choose local. Your conclusion: "force no local everywhere!"

Wormholes have only 10% of the population because you have to live out of a POS, you have to store all your ships in the POS, and to do anything in WH space you need nice ships, like a Tengu, or dreads, this takes a lot of SP that some players dont have, it also takes a lot of trust....when I was recruited I had to buy a near 2 billion isk tengu and haul it into deep WH space and setup in a POS with a bunch of people i dont really know.

also WH is not for casual players, you cant just log on and do stuff, most of the sites need 2 people, in C5 or C6 most sites need 5 - 10 people, you have to scan sites, roll statics

the local settings is not the reason why WH are only around 10% of the population. There are high end WH groups that if you dont have a dread IV with T2 siege you cant even apply, let alone get in....

whats removing local accomplish beyond making ganking easier?

most people only fight the lowest risk they can find now.. make me spam 'scan' every 10 seconds to make the predominant 8v1 even easier??

Why not optional local instead of removal?

I can find plenty of wormholes to jump in to. If it were such great pvp, I and many others would do just that. The problem is that no local means you will find you are scanning down empty systems and wasting time. Time you could be spending pvping in known space.