Add a decloaker bomb to the stealth bomber arsenal. Give it a decent radius say 60km. All it does is turn the module off (just off, not offline), if the pilot is there he can just turn it back on. Downside it turns off friendly as well as foe cloaks.

Rather than another whine thread about nerfing highsec I thought I'd post something with the aim of being constructive and take a look at what can be done to return nullsec to its glory days. I posted a similar comment recently, but thought it would be good to start a new thread to gather ideas of new features to entice people to null.

As a solo/small gang pvper I've noticed that nullsec has become rather stagnant over the past year or so, a lot of the old sov skirmishes are diminishing as people are seemingly content with what they have, and the footholds in 0.0 are too deeply entrenched to allow newer corps/alliances to establish themselves. People looking beyond empire are seemingly choosing to reside in WH space rather than null due to the low barriers to entry, unique gameplay and profitability so the landscape of null is not changing.

It's my opinion that currently the majority of eve stay in highsec because it is convenient, more sociable and easier to get into than nullsec with enough the features to keep people occupied and having fun. ItGÇÖs possible for the average player to make enough isk in highsec to buy all the ships required relatively easily, so even the more expensive ships are easily accessible. I'm definitely not in the camp of "nerfing" highsec - this will just **** off existing residents and will not bring anything new to the game, but there needs to be a reason to explore other areas of the sandbox GÇô currently CCP does not offer enough of a reason.

To entice players [back] into null there needs to be a big carrot and not a stick. This carrot should be unique, easy to get into and most importantly it should be fun. The problem is I have no idea what that carrot should be because I still happy out in null .

So my question to non-null sec players - What keeps you out of null, and what features would you like to see which might entice you to venture out here?




Edit - Some really good discussion so far of what's keeping people out of null.

The major frustrations seem to be:

- Lack of things for the casual gamer to participate in
- Lack of accessibility outside of major alliances
- Failure to give industrials a meaningful task

The thing this thread has less of is solutions to these problems - what features could CCP implement to improve the above?

This and your decloak field thing wouldn't solve the problem at all. Cloakers are at safes and they can't be scanned down, so even a radius of 1,000 km would be totally useless for popping them out.

However, the general concept is not without merit - you could create a "seeker" decloak bomb that acts like a probe or fighter... i.e. enters warp and hunts down the nearest cloaked target (with no additional cooldown on them re-entering cloak) you could allow people to remove afk cloakers without the non-afk cloakers being unduly penalized. If they're not afk, they just recloak.

If anything cloak-wars would become more interesting as people used swarms of such bombs combined with scanners to force bombers to constantly move about or be pinned.

Death to null sec. Instead, give the solo player more interesting stuff to do. More storyline missions (with better rewards) and branching plot. More reasons to go out and explore. More and better designed solo complexes.

This is the way to save EVE.

Death to null sec. Instead, give the solo player more interesting stuff to do. More storyline missions (with better rewards) and branching plot. More reasons to go out and explore. More and better designed solo complexes.

This is the way to save EVE.

That is the surest way to kill Eve. Jade constantine made a fantastic post about this point, but I can't find it now.

Basically, Eve only exists because it is niche, take away that niche and it is just an absolutely horrible spaceship game.

As it is, drone regions require an advanced infrastructure to exploit, and punishes groups that cannot work together seamlessly. Drone goo makes the drone regions a very different EVE experience, one which switching to bounties would destroy.

Plus, if that's not enough reason for you, turning drones into bounty rats would turn on a new isk-faucet without turning on a new isk-sink. The result might be inflation. Mineral prices would go up, but not because more people were mining, instead because the value of isk would be dropping.

Basically, Eve only exists because it is niche, take away that niche and it is just an absolutely horrible spaceship game.

Eve isnt a game with alot of scripted content. Try wow they have dungeons and millions of missions. Eve players make the content and its what makes the game good and special.

So my question to non-null sec players - What keeps you out of null, and what features would you like to see which might entice you to venture out here?




Edit - Some really good discussion so far of what's keeping people out of null.

The major frustrations seem to be:

- Lack of things for the casual gamer to participate in
- Lack of accessibility outside of major alliances
- Failure to give industrials a meaningful task

The thing this thread has less of is solutions to these problems - what features could CCP implement to improve the above?

Quite a few folk seem to think that nullsec should cater to their personal playstyle, regardless of whether that playstyle has any real relationship with what the purpose of nullsec is.

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Nullsec was never meant to be a playground for small gangs, though small gangs are not uncommon there outside of giant sovereignty fights; nullsec was never meant to be a solo PvP wonderland, although solo PvP can be found there. Nullsec is instead about cooperation and player enterprise, and what happens when the interests of two groups of players collide.

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Edit - Some really good discussion so far of what's keeping people out of null.
The major frustrations seem to be:
- Lack of things for the casual gamer to participate in
- Lack of accessibility outside of major alliances
- Failure to give industrials a meaningful task
The thing this thread has less of is solutions to these problems - what features could CCP implement to improve the above?

One thing that would really kick the butt, and I would like to see in all of Eve, is the ability to warp from one system to the other with your own jump drive, just like we have seen in Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.

Let's face it, the bubble/blob camp is the one thing that kills (lots of stuff) small gangs and provides gank pipelines.
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Gates have to go for 0.0 to become interesting for both defenders and intruders. At the least, being deposited randomly into the target system would be an improvement.
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Get rid of gates or make ships that can jump without them, without having to be a JF, like a low slot module or rig, and even I would leave high sec behind forever.

........ I don't care for CTAs, abrasive FCs, rules about when I can and cannot do non-corp/alliance activities. I don't care for politics and peoples' hurt feelings causing me to PvP. I don't care for mandatory operations and rules about who I can and cannot sell my stuff to or buy from..........

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We need sentry drones.

Drop them at a gate or put them at the entrance to a WH. They should warn the owner if one of the options / red / bad standing / war / neutral comes through.

Then mining would get much better in both WH and null.

(Naturally it would count against one of the drones that you can operate so less rat drones or mining ones)

I'm sorry, your argument for not removing drone loot is that it would mean you would have to mine for the materials that are available because your in 0.0 anyway?

0.o

What, you mean like almost everyone else?