b/c the coding is complex to allow that mechanic and CCP hasn't gotten around to it yet. This has been much discussed by pods in F&I as well as devs. The desire is there, but not yet the will.

In the event of a war, you'd assume thats the first ******* thing you do to stop your enemy from attacking. Who operates the jump gates in caspsuleer owned null sec? Why cant gates be shut down? Where is the lore behind this?

Because that would make it impossible for them to be attacked. Sovereignty is supposed to be fought over.

...leaving them immune to all but a rogue lighting a cyno.

I believe gates are operated by Concord. Even in nullsec if you hit one it pisses them off [ though not enough to make them venture down to pawn your ass..

Reminds me of Babylon 5.

All gates operate the same way, they can't be shut down, and you wouldn't dare destroy them because of their value.

I'm sure some lore could be that the gates function, OS, is Jove. No empire knows enough on how to control them.. They can build them, in their own ways, but are still stuck using the original code/mechanics that they can't control.. But who knows..

But is CONCORD such a powerful entity that not even one of the four major factions can't do something like storm soldiers into the gates to stop it? And if it is Jovian....why the different designs? Would each empire designed something fancy gate looking around a jovian structure that was in place before they were there? wtf.

Because that would make it impossible for them to be attacked. Sovereignty is supposed to be fought over.

Then how invaders are suppose to attack if they cant get into system.

Op is dense.

Hack the gate, or find a WH + use a cyno?

There's no point in shutting it down if you can just pop it open whenever you want (let's assume gate hacking doesn't take a tremendous amount of SP or time). You might effectively stop a solo or a small group without a hacker, but for large fleets, it's as if the gate was never locked down, making the mechanic a pointless consideration for both the defenders and aggressors.

If you put gate hacking at the end of a long skill training queue, few people will take it (mostly when demanded, I'd imagine), but large fleets will always have gate hackers, meaning shutting the gate down is only effective for unprepared gangs; but any gang wanting to enter your space will assume gates will be locked and will look for a hacker proactively, meaning locking gates down is pointless.

Making gate hacking take a significant amount of time (10+ min) will just serve to bore us, and really doesn't add much to the strategic game. If gate hacking took too much time, FCs would just send small squads out to preemptively hack it, meaning it would be as if the gate were never shut down once the fleet arrives.

Balancing this mechanic in regards to the topology of all of nullsec is also a headache, as I'm assuming jump bridges would give defenders a significant advantage -- something they probably don't need considering they're already at advantage being on home turf (everyone has their stuff there, POS presence, etc.)

Instead of shutting gates down, I wouldn't mind being able to put anchorable guns at them with a requisite I-hub upgrade.

Knowing a bit of EvE Lore... When the settlers first came to New Eden, it literally took years to travel between systems at conventional Micro Warp speeds. The Jove Empire "gifted" these newcomers with the technology to build Jump Gates, which are massive grav generators that are designed to stabilize wormholes. As the Factions explored their regions of space, they built a network of these Jump Gates as they went by placing these structures at wormholes that were fairly short in distance.
The Jump Gate is limited in it's ability to stabilize a wormhole only by the distance that the wormhole spans. That limit is about 5 lightyears ( Equal to Jump Freighter range).

The BIG PROBLEM with shutting off Jump Gates is that doing so removes the stabilizing Grav effects and immediately Destabilizes the Wormhole. And as we all know, it's anyones guess as to when the next natural wormhole spawn a link to the two systems once again, and be stable enough for another Jump Gate to be anchored.

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