Tyler Lowe
Minmatar
DROW Org
Sylph Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.11 06:22:00 -
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 Originally by: Devilish Ledoux
0.0 WILL be safer with a "warp to 0km" option. Consider the following scenario:
I'm happily ratting in an empty 0.0 system. Someone shows up and I feel that they may want to wtfpwn me. Also, the longer I'm in the system, the more likely it is that the hostiles will catch up to me. I decide to move on.
Under current system: If I have a bookmark for the area, I will try to use one to escape. Unless I'm at a gate or have a preset insta from the belts, the bookmark may or may not get me close enough to the gate to let me escape. Or I can just warp to 15km and try to get through before I'm caught.
Under "Warp to 0km": I warp to the gate of my choice and jump. Unless the hostiles know what gate I went through, it will be very difficult for them to catch me. Assuming I moved fast enough to keep them from setting up a bubble, my safety is all but assured.
In closing, safety should never be assured in 0.0 space.
Why wouldn't you warp to one of your bookmarks in between gates in such a case?
That's really the problem too. It's bad enough that everyone and their alts has bookmarks from gate a to gate b, but in order to be assured that you can in fact avoid being stuck 14km from the gate you tried to insta warp to, you need mid warp bookmarks so you can hit the gates from anywhere in system.
New regions get added, new players keep coming on board, and the bad lag goes to completely out of control lag (or is it there now?). It doesn't take too many poddings before a new player catches on and starts saving up their ISK for bookmarks, or simply joins a player corp where they get copies of bookmarks for most of Eve for free.
I have bookmarks for regions I've never even been to FFS.
Yes, it's going to be easier to get a spy alt up and running, and yes, ganking new players will get a little bit harder, although new players are bound to make enough mistakes that they'll still end up taking the clone express back home enough times regardless of warp to distances. People still need to get aligned to an object to warp to, that hasn't changed even a little bit.
If it's going to save the servers from having a complete meltdown, whether you like the change, hate the change or couldn't care less one way or the other, it's needed.
J.A.F.O.
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