The only thing I would say is that firstly this would likely only help people wanting easy kill on unaware ratters and miners, and secondly that it would make null sec and low sec less appealing to most and it would start to empty out, since many players will automatically place "indeterminable risk" above "high risk"

So eliminating local would make it less appealing to PvP Carebears, because it would be too much work to use probes and d-scan to track down ships? ;)

I am all for local only showing people who have chatted in it since you entered the system.

The natural order of things is many herbivores, few carnivores. Local is like cutting down all the cover. Without cover you can't hunt a herbivore without it running away or calling all its herd friends to come help.

And causes an explosion of herbs and the decline of carnivores and ultimately very high TiDi and boring game play of herd vs herd.

I'm not sure what removing local would achieve. Local is the only tool bears have to defend against ganks in null. D-Scan isn't an option against cloakers, it's a pain to spam it every 5 seconds and it doesn't have enough range to be useful in larger systems. Basically, if you remove local, you remove all bears because no-one is going to run anoms in a 2bn isk pirate ship knowing that it will be destroyed (So the gankers still won't be getting any ganks). If people can't run anoms in null, what is the point in living in null? I doubt most people are grinding structures for fun, they're doing it for access to their alliance's anoms.

The only way I can see local being removed is if it is replaced with another system which serves the same purpose as local. Something like an infinite-range, automatic D-Scan which updates the HUD, showing other ships in the system and which direction those ships are in and whether the ship is friendly or neutral etc. Along with combat probes, there might be a feature to scan and warp straight to a ship from the HUD without having to go into the system map. That would be a system I feel could improve and enrich gameplay for everyone.

it's a pain to spam it every 5 seconds and it doesn't have enough range to be useful in larger systems.

Yes, PvP Carebears. While steadfastly insisting that local is a key intel/combat tool, the continual excuse is given that it's the only way to detect AFK cloaked players that could potentially cyno on them. At the same time, these same PvP Carebears complain about the lack of "fair fights" and PvP opportunities. Yet they seem to have no problem suicide-ganking in high-sec whenever it suits them, or establishing gate-camps to kill any and all unsuspecting players who stumble into one. But we wouldn't want to deny them an idiot-proof way of immediately detecting any new players in-system, because that might prevent them from quickly docking up to avoid any conflict where they hold every advantage. Heaven forbid someone should actually spring a trap on them for a change...

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