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ghosttr Amarr ARK-CORP FREGE Alliance	Posted - 2007.09.01 21:58:00 - [1] The more i play eve the smaller the universe seems to become. Since I have started playing this game the eve universe has gotten allot smaller. Due to things such as wtz, clone jumping, and jump drives, and more recently jump portals. All of these things have been added for the sake of better gameplay, but the end effect is that they have made the eve universe seem allot smaller. Ambulation will put the universe to scale, but that still will not effect how big the universe appears to someone piloting their ship. Wtz, clone jumping, and jump drives made the universe smaller by removing the time sink that it took to move from one place to another. But time sinks are not a good thing, and i am glad they are all here. Exploration made the universe seem a little bigger by adding more content in each solarsystem. But only if you were looking for it, for someone who likes to pvp the universe still seems small. In kali (i.e. rev1 for the noobies) they opened up alot of new regions. And it really had no effect on how big the universe was perceived. I think that CCP should work on adding more content to each system to make it seem bigger. Exploration brought a little bit, but has not brought enough to make much of a difference. And ambulation will make it seem a little bigger, but once you are out in your ship I dont think the universe will seem any larger. Here are several ideas that I have that would make the eve universe seem alot bigger. I think that the more time you spend in one system the bigger that system seems to be, so if we get alot of content in each system, then each system will seem alot larger. I think that one way it could be done it to introduce a system where planets, belts, moons, etc are hidden by default. And the players must find them via exploration, but the difference would be that these items are permanent, and once you find them the icon would appear on overview, right click, etc. This would make it so that if you go into unknown territory you have to explore it to find everything in it. It could also be setup so that the more you find the harder it is for you to find the next object (especially with belts), so going into a virgin system you would find the planets and a few belts quickly (depending on the system), but the more you find the harder it would be to ping down the next item. So systems could have belts/moons that would literally take months to scan down This could also be used with exploration sites, if you are scanning for a site from a easy to find planet you will get a 3/10 plex, but if you scan down a plex from a planet that took you months to find your reward could be a 9/10 plex. A bigger eve Annndd..Player Factions
ghosttr Amarr ARK-CORP FREGE Alliance	Posted - 2007.09.02 06:46:00 - [2] Edited by: ghosttr on 02/09/2007 06:52:29 Originally by: Chris Stormrider yes, but then you'll need a way to share that info with corp/alliance (even sell it through contracts). obviously bookmarks are bad option. a lot of work... only worth it if done nicely ("make it so it doesn't suck"). maybe /signed The beacon can probably be setup so it blocks anything from being bookmarked within a certain distance. (say 100000km?) Natural phenomenon are disrupting it or some other excuse. If you found the belt then it would be up to you on who to give it to. ANd you would do that by forming a gang and warping out to the object. So you could have an asteroid belt that only your corp knows about. Or try to keep it between as few members as possible. It could also protect you from hostiles, maybe the belt could reduce your ships effective sig radius by a certain factor determined by the sig radius of the plex. So if held a home system for a year you would almost definetly have some very very low sig raduis belts. Making them good hiding places against enemy forces. But in the meantime i think ccp needs to double the spawn rate & amount of exploration & encounters. A bigger eve Annndd..Player Factions

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