EVE Search - Fanfest: Crimewatch

Yonis Kador wrote:

Without a finalized plan, for the most part, these Crimewatch changes seem pretty sound. As long as high sec players have an option for consensual pvp ...maybe even a popup......Soandso has invited you to consensual pvp....do you accept y/n? .... the rest makes perfect sense. If I'm walking down the street and I see some dude kick an old lady in the face and steal her purse, I should be able to chase that guy down, make a citizen's arrest, and get her purse back without consequence. This won't end high-sec crime - and as criminals often do, I'm sure people are already working to circumvent the new rules - it's just providing realistic consequences for a place termed "high security."

It's noteworthy that for some pirates, who wear their -10 sec stat as a badge of honor, the only way to get a -10 now will be to mass pod non war targets. Great...

But I absolutely appreciate the extra hit dished out if the target has a +5 sec status. Plotting against the President rightfully carries a much stiffer penalty than plotting against a crackhead you find living in your garage. That makes sense. But really I think they can go even further with this concept. I'd like to see this idea balanced and expanded into a second layer making faction standings also relevant.

Currently faction standings are almost a pointless game mechanic. You need 8.0 with one npc corp for jump clones, 6.67 or so with one for tax-free refining, and that's about it. Following the recent changes involving agent consolidation, accessing lvl 4s is pretty easy now...since if you accomplish one of the two other tasks, you're already over the mark.

I'd like to see faction standing play a much more integral role in game. The first thing we do in EVE is choose a race but our choice plays almost no part in most people's adventure. Your relationship with your government should influence virtually everything imo. Got a 10.0 faction standing with Caldari? If you get ganked anywhere in Caldari space, Concord arrival time should be significantly decreased since they're rushing to help a VIP. I envision faction standing being a factor in calculating taxes, trades, police response time, sec status hits, and if you want to get crafty, maybe even warp speed and/or an ehp bonus when in favored space.

These bonuses/penalties could also be different in each faction's space. If different wormholes can create similar bonuses/penalties, I'm sure it could be explained as some racial technological advancement. I just think it would add another layer of complexity to the dynamism of high sec and maybe give players a real reason to run cosmos, epic arcs, etc. It would be great if this was done in concert with new mission content but maybe these things could be revamped together while changes are being made.

I'm not that upset to see CCP making jetcan theft more difficult since new players seem to be disproportionately affected. Miners call it an exploit, but as I've already pointed out, the cans themselves also seem like an exploit. It makes no sense to me that a frigate with a 100m3 cargo hold can create an object that can hold 25x that amount. The can created would be larger than the ship. Jetcan volume should be directly proportional to the cargobay size of the ship that created it imo. Maybe doing it this way would even make the value of losses commensurate with the ship type doing the canning.

It seems like the only two options CCP has to motivate players in New Eden is by using carrots or sticks. Once they're done giving pirates the high-sec stick, I'd like to see some emphasis put on a low-sec carrot. Players need some kind of encouragement to venture into low beyond increased financial gain. That's already there. More won't do the trick. A lot of the risk-takers in game are already there. So how do you get those less-inclined to take risks to venture out? Maybe an ehp bonus might be helpful. +15 percent in low and +25 in null? I dunno. The percentages aren't important. The ehp bonus keeps coming to mind because it would afford high seccers added security they think they need to venutre into low and conveniently, it would also make pvp more challenging for the guys already out there.

Anyway, I read through most of this topic, got a headache, and these were my initial reactions...

Yonis Kador