For some reason this sounds like "Rift"

What level Minmatar cruiser will I need to fly these Quantum Ruptures? Will I be able to know both the direction and location of my Quantum Rupture as I'm flying it around?

Your proposed distribution of the ruptures is a little wonky, but otherwise i like the idea, which is weird. Lowsec needs conflict drivers.

The distribution is actually to allow conflict as people use level Vs to force-anchor the QRs in favorable systems, to enable them to use them easier, while not crippling their use through a region because of single powerful groups. Monopolies are impossible, but significant control is not.

About damn time ya posted this, we talked about it a week ago. If I'd known it'd take this long I'd not have stayed up chatting about it until 2am!


I kid. Having read it in full, I still love it and I'll be sure to bring it to the attention of CCP.

Okay, i think i see what you mean better now. I look at this idea and I see something i would drop caps on given a chance. How do you feel about adding an acceleration gate locked by the type of spawn it was?

I've got some immediate reservations about this idea. As a resident of Molden Heath, I'm generally pretty happy with the existing set of conflict drivers and the available PVE content, and the no-man's land nature of life in that region.

I don't want to see the overwhelmingly large nullsec entities of New Eden want to embed themselves into low security space for a desirable, passively acquired resource that is unique to those regions of space.

Yeah, but running sites to get the modules, while not literally player made, is sort of a specialized player discipline. I would hate to see honest site runners and ratters have their only market niche taken over, or even infringed upon; they essentially produce these modules into the economy even if they do so without materials and manufacturing. One does not want to devalue plexing.

Lowsec has Security Tags and soon Mordu's ships; if there was another 'unique' product that could be produced here and didn't threaten another niche/playstyle, this would be much better.

NPC nullsec needs some of all this love lowsec is getting. They have even less ways to make money.

Yeah, but running sites to get the modules, while not literally player made, is sort of a specialized player discipline. I would hate to see honest site runners and ratters have their only market niche taken over, or even infringed upon; they essentially produce these modules into the economy even if they do so without materials and manufacturing. One does not want to devalue plexing.

Lowsec has Security Tags and soon Mordu's ships; if there was another 'unique' product that could be produced here and didn't threaten another niche/playstyle, this would be much better.

NPC nullsec needs some of all this love lowsec is getting. They have even less ways to make money.

Everything that non-FW lowsec has, NPC Nullsec has, we are getting the Mordu's ships, sure, but more stuff needs to be available to people who aren't part of super-blocs in nullsec, NPC nullsec, included. More ideas need to be created that revolve around the Nullsec lifestyle. I don't have any ideas at current but more could be dreamt up, for sure.

Lowsec is honestly more dangerous than NPC null as it stands, so it also deserves more rewards as well. You also have larger existing rewards through a lower security status and pirate faction missioning.

I'm uncomfortable with the permanent capped rift where one can cap them and just sit. The moment I apply this to any large low sec group coupled with power projection it will become a situation where some regions are mostly or fully capped with a few groups growing plump off of them. Then we have nice regions of blues where everyone has capped their rifts and they all back each other up if someone tries to shoot one. So now we have CAPs (capped aggression pacts) where we don't shoot each others rifts and we work together to shoot others who may shoot our rifts.

It sounds uncomfortable familiar.

I also think that applying this to faction modules will nerf combat site exploration. We saw what scatter containers and the ease of accessibility did to rigs. This creates a version of low sec faction moongoo. That is simply to say that, as noted in this thread, applying such an idea to a current item such as faction drops is unpleasant.

The rest of the flow and story I like. I'd like to apply it to something new vs something current and create a net positive in

Then we have nice regions of blues where everyone has capped their rifts and they all back each other up if someone tries to shoot one. So now we have CAPs (capped aggression pacts) where we don't shoot each others rifts and we work together to shoot others who may shoot our rifts.

It sounds uncomfortable familiar.

That could happen, but that could happen for just about anything that is worthwhile to take and/or protect.

Can't get behind this. There are things that already exist in game that could be used as components for faction modules.
Once again the Pirate Materials form data sites come to mind.

This concept just seems to be exploitable.

The biggest concern here really is how do you realistically keep Null-Sec out of the Honey Pot?
You just have to look at Faction Warfare as a very clear example of this, now you want to really bring what boils down to a blend of Incursion / Faction Warfare / Ghost Sites to a wider audience.

Don't get me wrong I do believe that those who aren't involved in FW do deserve some interesting mechanic they can be involved in outside of Anoms, Complex and Gate Camps ... but this I see either not being worth enough to bother with, or quite simply all of the smaller groups getting almost instantly shutout but the Pirate Alliances and Null-Sec Blocs.

I mean we already have Moons that anything even half-valuable is exclusively held by Null-Sec Blocs, PI for the most part defaults to any of the major powers ranging from Pirate Alliances down to FW Alliances for the valuable Planets. Leaving absolutely nothing for the smaller more independent groups.

And sure I get it, cut-throat EVE mentality blah blah blah... but the issue is always a case of Numbers and Power Projection that secures valuable resources - so I would argue ANY new mechanic / income should be focused instead of deliberately reducing that to smaller groups so tactics and skills beat pure numbers.

That doesn't guarantee smaller groups will succeed, but I'm just thinking here in terms of Wormholes rather than Faction Warfare mentality about how open these areas are to give them an equal footing and increase conflict that way.

Just an idea.