Locke DieDrake
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Posted - 2006.11.21 17:41:00 -
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Rabble Rabble Rabble Jihad.
WTF is wrong with you guys?
WTZ is nothing. It's literally nothing. For the majority of players that already brave 0.0 and lowsec it's a non-change. We already had and use bookmarks. We don't miss our insta's and if we aren't inline we bounce off a gate or SS.
There is nothing what so ever that is game breaking. Nubs and morons will still use AP, so if you are concerned about gate ganking, you'll still have the same targets you had before.
In addition, fast travel times are REQUIRED. PERIOD.
Find an mmo that has slow travel times... oh, whats that, they don't have any subscribers left? Odd that.
Get a clue. Most of us don't want to spend 2 hours going GtG just to get to the part of the game we enjoy.
And can we put this one to rest once and for all? "if you want to travel fast, take a fast ship"
I don't "want to travel fast", I want to get where I'm going so I can do what I planned to do. Sometimes that means brining a barge, or a BS or a hauler. And those aren't exactly fast ships...
I'm not trying to travel, I'm trying to mine, or haul or kill. Travel time is a logistics side affect, much like carrying ammo or travel fittings. It's not a goal, it's simply a means to an end.
When all I'm trying to do is travel, I use an inty with nano's and WMD. Suprise!
In short, this is a non-issue for the VAST majority of players. And REQUIRED for the same.
If you make travel times longer, 3 years into the game, you are going to break more of the game than you can possibly imagine.
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Locke DieDrake
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Posted - 2006.11.22 01:55:00 -
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The solution to this problem is to think outside the box.
Change the way bubbles work. Instead of piracy at the gates/station. You set up bubbles inline with common warp paths. Ex. Gate - Gate Station - gate, belt(cluster)-station.
And bubbles actually pull you out of warp. If you pass within the diameter of the bubble- you are pulled into the middle. We might need to adjust sizes of bubbles.
Dictor bubbles too. And Dictor bubbles specificly should work in low sec and possibly even empire. (but in empire they are a concord offense unless war decked?)
This changes the entire dynamic for piracy and war. And you can still work off the gates or stations too. Although if you alter bubbles the way suggested, they would have a very narrow area of effect on outgoing or incoming ships. Maybe also include some new bubbles. Like a seige bubble that is massive. 500km around? 250?
But to do this, bubbles would have to be recoded.
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Such a heavy burden now to be the one
Born to bear and bring to all
The details of our ending
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