So how it works is that the empires maintain the FTL communications in the Stargates. That's why you can communicate to people. It would make perfect logical sense that in null sec, there would be nobody maintaining the FTL communications. However, if your alliance holds the space, you should be able to install an upgrade that allows Local in your area. So in essence I think it'd be great if null sec by default has no local, but the alliances can have their area with Local if they get the upgrade to their space.

the OP should be castrated with a plastic fork

because you can't expect the game to protect you

buhahahahaha really?


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It also gives you Carpal tunnel syndrome - CCP should introduce a proper radar (like in the earths late 1940's) and get rid of local...

Because hitting the dscan button every 30 seconds is tedious in the extreme. Forcing constant manual scanning would harm game enjoyment.

Not to mention completely unrealistic as-is because even now, x-thousand years before EvE, you don't have people sitting on warships pushing a button to make the radar go around once every while.

Is that a bad thing?

why not make people have to actively watch there systems they live in rather than have a instant Intel tool tell them there's a neutral/red in system

gate camps, unknown gate flare no ship seen be on lookout for hostiles.

You'd accidently the whole system!

Our AEGIS radar systems watch 360 all the time, it's like having a real time Directional scanner that you never have to do anything with

bad argument is horrible

local is not protection for anyone, its situational awareness and communications for all.
and the demands for the removal of local is mostly a lot of noise from a small group of mission runners who also advocate the removal of afk cloakers.

its a BS demand, like so many of the rest of the demands on the boards lately.

god first barbie in space and now goddamn minecraft in space

Because hitting the dscan button every 30 seconds is tedious in the extreme. Forcing constant manual scanning would harm game enjoyment.

Not to mention completely unrealistic as-is because even now, x-thousand years before EvE, you don't have people sitting on warships pushing a button to make the radar go around once every while.

Because hitting the dscan button every 30 seconds is tedious in the extreme. Forcing constant manual scanning would harm game enjoyment.

Not to mention completely unrealistic as-is because even now, x-thousand years before EvE, you don't have people sitting on warships pushing a button to make the radar go around once every while.

I guess it kinda reminds me of how prisoners used to be made to turn cranks that did nothing but move paddles through sand all day long.

With scanning as it is at the moment I cannot see the removal of local as anything but making each player quite literally grind a button all day long. I think it may be viable for short periods, I do it myself while roaming, but for the majority of people I have to surmise that such a level of "intensity" would be detrimental to their enjoyment.

D-Scan itself needs an overhaul such as being able to identify friendlies - IFF for example exists today yet in EvE, ships, even in fleet, have no way of broadcasting their coordinates to each other short of warping to, something which is always fun when you're flying in a bomber fleet, heh.

Personally though, I don't think local is broken and should be left as-is.

Hell, maybe throw in deployable limited-lifetime proximity detector probes and the likes for good measure.

Is that a bad thing?

there needs to be a system in place that is unbiased to all parties involved, maybe with a slight advantage to the defenders.