I think a better option for a malfunctioning stargate would be to just have it not work for some amount of time. There are like a zillion gates in eve. I think it would be reasonable to have 5 of them broken at any given time. Have the down time vary in length. Keep the number fixed. As soon as one gets repaired, another random one goes down.

It could be as who cares as a gate to a dead end system in drone space that gets used once a week to some busy high sec bottleneck. Imagine the back up if a gate on the amarr - jita pipe went down for an hour on a sunday and the only way around was low sec. As a neat feature any stooge on auto pilot would have the new route auto recalculated and if that new route goes through low sec, then whoops should have been at the keyboard.

There is gold in this idea!

How much time are we talking in general though? Minutes? Hours? Days? Even a few minutes could be a bit much in some cases. What about bottlenecks or one-gate systems? Having a gate go down at an inopportune moment with heavy traffic in systems without a reasonable alternate route or detour is more serious an issue than systems with multiple gates that are not one-way streets. Finally, how much ahead awareness would players have about a downed gate before getting out to said gate and clicking on "Jump"? Will autopilot be able to address that issue and know when a waypoint is made that a gate needs to be avoided, or be more like most car-borne GPS when it comes to recently started or current road construction and be just as confused?

I think Eve would be more fun if not everything was so predictable. Would like to see a small chance of getting a malfunctioning star gate in Eve, which will transport you to a system 2-3 jumps out for example.

I think Eve would be more fun if not everything was so predictable. Would like to see a small chance of getting a malfunctioning star gate in Eve, which will transport you to a system 2-3 jumps out for example.

I think a better option for a malfunctioning stargate would be to just have it not work for some amount of time. There are like a zillion gates in eve. I think it would be reasonable to have 5 of them broken at any given time. Have the down time vary in length. Keep the number fixed. As soon as one gets repaired, another random one goes down.

It could be as who cares as a gate to a dead end system in drone space that gets used once a week to some busy high sec bottleneck. Imagine the back up if a gate on the amarr - jita pipe went down for an hour on a sunday and the only way around was low sec. As a neat feature any stooge on auto pilot would have the new route auto recalculated and if that new route goes through low sec, then whoops should have been at the keyboard.

There is gold in this idea!

plenty of pros and cons for this but it does add player interaction and some tactics to what was just the same route I've taken for 5years

So what you want is a game mechanic that overcomes your basic lazy nature, want to get out and explore then take alternate routes.
My suspicion is that you take the same route because they take you where you want to go with the minimum of lost time and the least hassle. With this those trips become considerably more time consuming and in fact could become trips your ship may not make it back from.

To the OP.
Gankers find gate that is malfunctioning and gather in the system where it is dumping hapless players, nice an instant ganker target delivery system, no thanks not my idea of fun.

Going to use a phrase I hear around here all the time. If you are to lazy to figure out how to vary or change up your game play then no you cannot ask CCP to do it for you.

This is the features and ideas section it's boring reading another moron tell me that eve doesn't change when it changes all the time ....gtfo out of features and ideas if you don't have any

How about we code this so it only affects your accounts, so the rest of us can play a game without pointless annoyances.

Please think about how, losing all you have invested, planned for, and achieved, and being destroyed by blind luck, makes for good game play.

Roll the dice, end of game.
So God no!

Imagine how boring your life would be, if you knew exactly what you would be doing every day. Very boring. Living is rolling a dice. You never know what will happen.

Imagine how boring your life would be, if you knew exactly what you would be doing every day. Very boring. Living is rolling a dice. You never know what will happen.

Well, if you want to add randomness... how about add a small chance that your weapons will with a small chance randomly fire upon a random ship on the grid instead of on your target. (and getting gcc if it's not a target you're allowed to shoot in highsec.)