Slithereen
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Posted - 2004.02.27 05:46:00 -
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I would love to hunt in low sec spaces between and to charge higher prices. However killing the highways is ultimately dumb idea.
It actually turns the game into a warp-travel simulation game rather than a fighting game. Check the death toll on Yulai. This system has consistently one of the highest concentrations in the game. Why? Its because every Tom, ****, Harry, and Sally with a corp war often settles their issues in that system. Wars suchs as by RP corps like Amarr and Minmatar corporations like PIE and Oracle would have to be fought out from dozens of jumps rather than two or three jumps. Bringing people closer to together means wars are easier to accomplish without too much travel time. CCP still sees that the main heart of PvP in this game remains to be the Corp War.
Every trend in EVE shows the developers want to bring the community closer rather than seperating them apart. This includes actions like the recent introduction of smuggler lanes. By bringing people together, gives you less time to travel and more time to actually play. This is already considering that travel times are way up.
There are many consequences in the player structure.
For example, if CCP decides to hold an event in Gallente space (e.g. Crielere) event, it would bias against other race players who would have to take a humongous amount of time to get to such an event.
It would create a movement towards these zones due to mineral and bounty wealth, neglecting out of empire 0.0 areas due to the risk/ISK factor.
It's actually unrealistic at all. CCP's intention is to portray empire space as a civilized space, much like North America and Europe where national and state capitals are joined by large highways running across borders.
I do have to agree that the highways destroys a lot of mystique though.
I think the best reason is that EVE is still far below the amount of players it was originally envisioned and as long as that remains, you need to put them together. When we can log in over 10k players at a time, maybe EVE would be big enough to shake off the capital highways in favor of a regional border highways structure, where instead of the capitals being joined, it would be more like the regional capitals bordering each other that are joined. Personally, if I have a vision of EVE, regional border highway schemes would be my approach.
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