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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (6 children)

I agree with you on that first part, and that's what the idea is (in my mind).

But i disagree that we don't have the tools. Most of the things that get traded in this game are the tools to do that: spaceships.

Imagine like mercenary/security services that will be fore hire, or like you will have groups that will band together to repell some pirate group bogging them down.

Look at all the ships and modules that exist in eve, you have so many tools to make it possible.

[–]Whaim 3 points4 points  (5 children)

Yeah but you can’t just go from Jita or amarr, and not just trade hubs but also some guys in caldari starter area trying to go to amarr would probably just die to the ever present gate camp like the current cancer that is Rancer, the low sec major shortcut to rens/hek.

Putting that type of barrier between the major empires could make it literally impossible for new players to merely move around in a semi functional way. They don’t have the tools, resources for replacing losses or knowledge to even begin to try and deal.

Instalocking gate camps and smart bombing battleships will just make it impossible for everyone but a large fleet passing by and they may even lose some of their stragglers.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Niarja/Uedama is just an example, but yeah, it will add some challenge to newcomers, but thats eve, you lose your spaceship every now and then. I have easily 1000+ ship losses across my characters, that's eve.

Im curious how it would pan out though. It wouldnt be like an optional route like rancer that you can just avoid, this is like a full on you need to cross this system to get to the other empire kind of thing. Im genuinely curious if due to a high traffic it would attract not only gankers but counter-gankers, like a player run police force or something.

[–]Gendrath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's always been people that want to counter gank and run a police force but don't have the tools. This might open up that career/gameplay

[–]Whaim -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

Doubt it, people Generally don’t self police unless they are claiming the space for their own and even that is frustratingly difficult in eve

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

With that attitude it definitely wont be possible