Ive been playing EVE since 2005 and it seemed huge back then. This was of course before warp to 0, jump bridges, titan bridges and cynos were in game so traveling took a lot more time so people didnt often travel from one side of eve to the other like today. With cyno chains and jump bridges etc certain people can get almost anywhere in eve in 30-40 mins and this is what i believe is the major problem in todays game, the projection of force for certain people is too easy.

Moving from north to south or east to west isnt a problem for any one with a bit of organisation. I remember when wars were fought people used to have to deploy to staging systems to attack others, today people can attack other alliances from 4 regions and way and be back home before tea, this takes away small localized conflicts and markets. Certain alliances hold space 5 regions apart, theres no downside to traveling 5 regions away from your home to help allies because you can be back in your own space in 40mins to defend it if anyone attacks your space.

If it was harder to travel around so easily EVE would seem so much bigger again, smaller conflicts would brake out, other market hubs would appear besides just jita and i think the game would be much more fun but people are too used to having traveling so easy that it would never happen.

There is such an area in EVE that has no gates, no sov and is generally uncontrolled.

It's called 'Wormhole Space'

While the module is not new, a probe launcher is needed to move from system to system. Without it, you can't go anywhere.

This.

What does need changing is the way 0.0 model currently works. Massive alliance takes ton of space. Rents it to the underdogs and smaller alliances. Massive alliance gets richer, takes more space... until fail cascade. Then rinse and repeat.

There should be a way for smaller corps and alliances to take 0,0 space without having to be pets or renters, and hold it reasonably against a much larger alliance.

My thinking is, the more space you take - the harder it is to keep it, and the less you have, the easier it is to keep it. How that is done, is another matter!

Would be nice to see expanded empire, but we dont need more null space, if you look at map statistic (average piltots in last hour) you see meny 0.0 system are empty or got like 1-3 visitors per system, this mean 0.0 is empty or is to big, so we dont need expanded 0.0 space... while Empire got heavy amount of people.

This.

What does need changing is the way 0.0 model currently works. Massive alliance takes ton of space. Rents it to the underdogs and smaller alliances. Massive alliance gets richer, takes more space... until fail cascade. Then rinse and repeat.

There should be a way for smaller corps and alliances to take 0,0 space without having to be pets or renters, and hold it reasonably against a much larger alliance.

My thinking is, the more space you take - the harder it is to keep it, and the less you have, the easier it is to keep it. How that is done, is another matter!

Increasing costs come to mind, not linear but exponential. Once an alliance balances out profit / loss over sov, the expansion will come to an halt.

On the other hand, that might not be a good idea, since that wont give alliances means to expand themselves, thus leading to a stale world.

In my opinion, new space is always welcome. These sytems quantity was good when the server had 20k people online, now it feels overcrowed.

I like the to explore new stuff, like we had with whormholes, the feeling of emptyness is great and we dont have that anymore.

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Free The Mittani

No, its sometimes hard to find a figth the way it is.

EVE seems smaller, We need more space!

No.

What EVE needs is to utilize the vast stretches of space it already has.

What you are really asking for is more gates to sit on, not more space. And since an entire star system becomes crowded with six ships due to having only one or two places to go, I can see why the whine.

But think about this. What if you changed each system from a couple of gates and a station or two, to a thriving dynamic entity in itself. Allow player structures of some type everywhere. Stick random habitats in the middle of nowhere. Boost the microwarp drive to the point that pilots will use it to travel and explore the area.

With a little imagination each system could become a microcosm of the universe itself. Giving hundreds or even thousands of people something to do besides scamspam or shoot rocks and each other. Take a cue from the COSMOS systems but expand it a hundredfold.

EVE is small because 99% percent of it is warp to gate or warp to belt. No one bothers to think about all the stuff that could be put in between the two. I envision an EVE where some pilots spend their entire careers in one system because it has so much interesting and dynamic gameplay that they just don't need to go anywhere else.

Mr Epeen