Kayle Ki
Ktaomai
Knights Of the Southerncross
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Posted - 2006.12.27 23:33:00 -
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Removing names and numbers from local would-
Free up more 0.0 space. You won't see 400 man alliances claiming 3 regions, because they have to pack themselves tighter to actually defend their space.
Allow for guerrilla warfare. You'd actually be able to sneak small gangs into hostile territory, and have a chance at attacking them with suprise, an element sorely lacking in EVE.
Result in more fighting and less "dock and wait". As it is currently, I can enter a hostile station system in a t1 frig, and instantly 20 people dock. That's not fun for me, and it sure isn't fun for the 20 people docked and waiting for the hostile to leave.
Allow for and require far more tactical movement in fleet battles. It would actually make use of the new gang system for squads and what not, splitting groups up, instead of moving as a massive blob. Currently you can move as a blob, because there's no suprise anyway. With local gone, if you can get through a gate and away from it before somebody passes by, you've gotten into the system undetected. If you do that in waves of squads your chances go up. You can then camp various points in the system, and have roaming teams ferret people out of the belts into the suprise camps at gates/stations.
Require more teamwork for non-pvp oriented tasks in potentially hostile areas. Ratters would need to think about being PvP capable, miners would want escorts, patrol teams would actually serve a valuable role.
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It won't happen for various reasons stated above until -
- System scanning becomes more effective and more common place. The Kali revamp to scanning was a step in this direction.
- Functions are added to the system map for better coordination
- Possible constellation sovereignty additions, allowing scanners to be installed at gates to notify when somebody enters a system. Some sort of advanced detection system for heavily occupied space.
The devs have said they don't like local acting as an intel tool, but won't change it until alternate tools are available to serve a similar role. That doesn't mean that there will be some other random window that just tells you who's in the system, it just means the other tools we have need to be improved/expanded to compensate. It's a work in progress, but one that I believe if/when they are ready to implement it, will do wonders for EVE.
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