I have started this game less than a year ago, so I always knew it with the warp to 0 feature. But I know that this was intruduced because people used BMs to get around the 15km slowboating.

My question is the following : why was this introduced, rather than making bookmarks impossible in a 15km radius around stations, gates, whatever ?

The industrial ships have bonus to maximum speed that just seems like a big waste now, and a minimal effort (not afk-APing, d-scan, pivot warp spots) can avoid you almost any risk.

I am not even a pirate, and tbh, I have more often been a victim of station/gate camping. But I still feel like the warp to 0 mechanic hurts the game.

So could some veteran players please explain me why this has been implemented as it is ?

The problem is that the basic concept of the game's core travel system, of jumping and warping players right into killing range of each other with very little warning

This would encourage players to THINK about their indy fits, encourage teamwork (have a buddy in a t1 repair cruiser escort you) and improve the rewards on courrier contracts.

It would also help freeing up some 0.0 space, by reducing fleet mobility and thus the space an alliance can defend.

On the other hand, it would give ratters and miners a bit more time to safe up when a red enters local.

As I said, I never knew the game without the warp to 0 feature, but I would love to try it.

I have started this game less than a year ago, so I always knew it with the warp to 0 feature. But I know that this was intruduced because people used BMs to get around the 15km slowboating.

My question is the following : why was this introduced, rather than making bookmarks impossible in a 15km radius around stations, gates, whatever ?

The industrial ships have bonus to maximum speed that just seems like a big waste now, and a minimal effort (not afk-APing, d-scan, pivot warp spots) can avoid you almost any risk.

I am not even a pirate, and tbh, I have more often been a victim of station/gate camping. But I still feel like the warp to 0 mechanic hurts the game.

So could some veteran players please explain me why this has been implemented as it is ?

warning?
in a game where an undocked ship should effectively be considered lost until such time as you dock again?

you warped to a gate unscouted, there's your warning

What if you're a scout? Should a scout scout for the scout? It's scouts all the way down!

I have started this game less than a year ago, so I always knew it with the warp to 0 feature. But I know that this was intruduced because people used BMs to get around the 15km slowboating.

My question is the following : why was this introduced, rather than making bookmarks impossible in a 15km radius around stations, gates, whatever ?

The industrial ships have bonus to maximum speed that just seems like a big waste now, and a minimal effort (not afk-APing, d-scan, pivot warp spots) can avoid you almost any risk.

I am not even a pirate, and tbh, I have more often been a victim of station/gate camping. But I still feel like the warp to 0 mechanic hurts the game.

So could some veteran players please explain me why this has been implemented as it is ?

lol, if your dying as a scout your doing it wrong

Your core game mechanic should NOT be tedious and time consuming. If you allowed people to warp to any gate within range (unlikely) then I'd be fine with some form of gate align time until jump etc, but since you often travel 10+ jumps in a game play session, that really adds up when you slow boat around, and doesn't make the game any more fun for the average eve player.

My point was though, that you are still delivered into gun range of enemies after taking a blind jump or warp. The fact that you're scouting in a ship specifically set up to survive and escape such situations is besides the point I was making.

As you are residing in this echo chamber of those fully indoctrinated into the mad little ways of this terrible game, you've probably never stopped to think about how absurd this situation is.

There's scouting in other games sure, you go and establish the location and strength of the enemy. In another game if you're moving up towards a good spot for an ambush you'll take reasonable precautions, or find a way around. The fact that Eve requires that you do this for every warp and every jump just shows how crazy its travel system is, because everywhere is a good spot for an ambush and you usually have no options for alternate routes.

I'm not complaining, I'm just pointing this out, I never expect this to change because it's too deeply ingrained in the game and its community mentality.