things are and can be that simple, i remember the nano nerf. it was sudden and rage inducing. the game is better for it.

Remove local. simple.

Do you have any facts to support your implicit assertion that many people quit the game because of local?

Bad troll is bad.


In case you're not actually trolling:

Everybody agrees that local is flawed. However it's a compromise and the best (read least horrible) option that anybody including ccp has come up with. Eve is already VERY harsh on new players (google "eve learning curve" for a classic picture) we dont need to make it harder.

There are areas of the game without local. Come visit wormhole space, I'd love to shoot you without local.

What about the players that unsubscribe because they have been wardecced out of the game while trying to establish themselves economically?

What about the players that unsubscribe because the distinction between hisec and lowsec is so drastic, and they feelmtheynhave no chance to "ease in" to PvP?

What about the players who unsubscribe because they got harassed out of the game due to their race or gender?

How does removing local encourage these players to resubscribe?

Do you have any facts to support your implicit assertion that many people quit the game because of local?

what happened when all the ppl unsubed from the nanoholocaust. ? the game moved on. it will recover from local removal

all i have to say to this is.

bad troll is bad. dumbshit

Who said people were leaving? CCP seems do be doing it right since the numbers are slowly but steadily on the rise ever since the game came out.

Wanna remove local? Go to a wormhole. Damn nullbears.

You just did a full 180 there. You went from,"Let's get players back into the game with such-and-such feature" to "Who cares who quits, the game will recover".

seems pretty counter productive to me.



Also really doubting you wanted to suggest a feature or idea.

yet the ignorance int his thread is astounding. i state players will return with local removal. idiots state people gonna leave.

people are always leaving and resubbin. so whats the big deal?

Two very in-depth posts that you should possibly read: Upgrading Local to Eliminate All AFK Influence AND in-conjunction with So Local Chat vanished, now what?

Also please try searching or adding to existing threads...

What about making local be an option in Nul Sec that is turned on by Sov Holders or not.

Low Sec is still maintained by the Empires, so should keep local.

Perhaps there could be a Broadcast Array Module in space somewhere that could be Hacked/destroyed to take local offline for some time?

(Also let's keep this thread on topic without resorting to name calling and insults)

It seems to me that local should be made into a channel that you only show up in if you choose to talk.

If you combined that with a boost to the scanner system, then that would limit how harsh the change was.

The two main suggestions I would make are:
1. Scanners should show you the alignment of the ship you are scanning at under a certain range. So at say 10,000,000 km or something like that you can see the ships' corporation information and it will show up with icons like in local or the overview.
2. Scanners should have an auto-update setting.

Combine those with local removal and I think you would cut the harshness just enough, while making for a much more dynamic intel situation.

Edit:

Another option would be to give ships variable scan ranges. Say make recons into AWAX ships that have bonuses to scan range and give them a module that allows them to ID ships on the scanner. Make people be specialized intel pilots if they want to have 100% intel before fighting.