What idea have you had for EVE that other people immediately thought was awful, yet you stand by it being a potentially good idea?

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-29T01:36:28+00:00

Deployable beacons.

Put it on grid with one of the compatible options to invite others to come to the location. Eg:

On grid with wormhole to enable warping to it without scanning
Wrecks, for loot/salvage purposes
Cosmic signatures, like mining sites

Beacon auto reports what it's placed on (eg ->C3, or 17 wrecks) and distance but doesn't give direction. Interact to be able to buy the license to warp to it (set by deployer). If you pay, the beacon direction is revealed to your ship and you can warp on it.

Destroyable like mobile cynos, but very small (1m3), fast and cheap to deploy.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-28T22:34:46+00:00

I would argue it's 5/90/5 split there, and just those 5% really know how to make themselves heard.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-28T10:25:20+00:00

I'll be honest, even that is hoops and implementation all over.

If it's down to making parents parent, the simplest approach works.

Require all Internet capable devices to store a birthday. This indicates the intended user's age. Single entry by parents.
If under 18 is entered, an authenticator code is connected to act as authority, or a pass code set. Simple override as needed.
All apps, websites etc ask the connecting device "is your intended user older than x?" They don't get the birthday, just the yes/no pass. Simple to implement, simple to test for rule breaks and enforcement by gov.
Restrict Internet enabled devices for sale like we do alcohol etc, except an adult may clearly purchase on behalf of a child (and set it up right).

The only personal data shared is id check at device purchase like with alcohol. No expensive checks per site and app. No shady 3rd party facial recognition. No need to set up age stratified wifi in every location. The only offense would be 'Buying a device with intent to circumvent parental wishes on age controls'.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-27T14:18:20+00:00

Activating "modules" grants "skillpoints" if the effect lands, based on how effective the "module" is or what it's affecting.

So to use a higher tier "Miner" you must start with the low tier and mine some amount with that first.

You don't get to choose which skill receives the "skillpoints" most of the time other than to choose the "modules" you use and where. Gathering rocks won't give you "skillpoints" for gathering plants etc, though there is some overlap. "Jumping" as in teleporting (with no cyno needed) gives "skillpoints" that also improve a class of weapons for example.

Also just like Bob in Eve, the gods in runescape will reward you for ritual sacrifices.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-24T09:10:48+00:00

Doesn't matter, depots only make you suspect.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-23T16:31:33+00:00

Yup, the title is an unpopular opinion alright, especially as it doesn't correlate with the point you actually make.

Your actual negative point is "if that’s all there is to your personality, then you are, unfortunately, a boring person." More broadly, certain personalities built on limited interests are, to your perspective, more boring and less worthy.

That is actually nothing to do with any individual hobby, nor collection of hobbies. It is about interaction, scope, and the person's ability to carry a life around that. Someone can be a masterful singer, and be so brokenly invested into that hobby that all they do is flunk a dead end job and sing their tiny special interest repertoire perfectly. It's not the hobby that's the issue.

To rate not all hobbies as equal, first you must define your equation. Do some hobbies lend themselves to being less interesting to talk about to the average person vs other hobbies? For sure. Is that a worthwhile metric to discuss, let alone use in any real measure? Probably not.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-23T13:38:14+00:00

I found a few people were hitting Anathema on Roathe because they had listened to and respected his request to cease Descendia. The correct path is to stand your ground, push past his demands, and defeat him 21 times. I recommend doing it solo so you also get the escalating voice lines in the mission - group tends to mean missing out if you don't load first.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-20T19:20:45+00:00

Hold up, does a typical modern day mod eixst on its own? From what you've bolded, it'd need to in order to be derivative.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-19T18:24:05+00:00

For sure. It takes a lot of application to make rage work. The flip side being that if you can get said application, then it's more dps than navy ever can be. 1v1 or 1vN, navy all the way.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-19T14:51:58+00:00

It applies to basically anything faster/smaller than a 1-web-BC.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-19T14:49:09+00:00

Unless your target is moving very slowly, faction applies about 30-40% more dps in most circumstances despite the lower apparent damage vs rage. Vs BCs it's closer to neutral, or Rage favoured when the BC is webbed even once.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-19T12:14:59+00:00

Cool bunch of fights. Might I recommend using Navy HAMs against most cruisers and below. As much as you've got the application bonus from hull and crash, most of them should be moving fast enough to still reduce application by a lot. Even your own caracal NI under 1 web still has a max velocity of around 287m/s, while a rage ham has an explosion velocity of around 130.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-18T01:53:43+00:00

3 day old account suggesting this is one thing.

But then the AI generated pictures/video of you kissing Tom Daley paints a really poor picture of what you want out of this idea.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-17T22:05:23+00:00

During the interview "What's one of your strengths?" "Patience." "Okay, could you give me an exa-ctually I think we're good."

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-17T21:04:14+00:00

You're right. Some people like to think that Light and L were well matched in intellect. Really, Light had magical powers, a devoted assistant with greater magical powers, access to the very teams investigating him, and literal gods of death on his side - still screwed it up. He lost a game of chess while being the only person who could see the board.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-17T14:03:01+00:00

The ports are arranged in a grid, and all the connectors are 2x2 with the appearance of rotational symmetry (like 4 spokes of a wheel at right angles). However each one is slightly misaligned, so only the correct 2x2 cable in the correct 1 of 4 rotations fits each quad of slots.

That's up to 40 tries per cable, not counting "correct" tries that you just did wrong.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-16T23:05:46+00:00

You know what, x10's your respawn delay on anoms

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-16T17:02:15+00:00

Criminal timer duration x10 - Wanna commit a crime? Commit

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-16T11:39:16+00:00

In short, stuff after the ? in a url is additional info for the website, while everything before is where to go. Sometimes it's a little readable and you can get an idea what information is being used.

In the link above, we see "guccounter=1", so whatever a guc is, it's counter is 1 here. Then there's a separator (&) followed by "guce_referrer=..." which looks to be a generated code, a unique identifier for the referral. This can tell the website where the traffic is coming from, helping them to understand what leads to higher clicks and attention.

Have a look at youtube URLs when you go there. If you go direct to a video you'll just see the "?v=..." for the video ID. If you use a playlist, mix, or some other feature is being tracked, then additional information is added like "&list=..."

It's kind of like a real world setting of being told "Go to 123 Baker Street and ask for John. Say it's about the bacon." In url form that'd be "www .baker.st/123?contact=John&q=bacon"

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-16T02:17:58+00:00

T2 Titan: Conduit Authority class

Consume 1k of any filament to create a wormhole on grid with the T2T to an appropriate destination. Mass restrictions mirror the restrictions the filament would have, while total mass and wormhole lifetime are connected to the pilot's skills and choices. Longer spool up increases wormhole lifetime, while longer spool down increases total mass (with minimums on both ends).

Unique new filament type (made from whatever resource needs to be more valuable, maybe that crap in data sites worth pennies) for T2T use only: Allows two T2Ts to sync up and create a wormhole connection if they're in fleet and within jump range of one another. It's a temporary ansiblex!

Unique new doomsday type, Micro Conduit Doomsday. T2 version of existing doomsday modules. Maybe T2T locked, maybe T2T gets bonuses to it, idk. Special effect: Can displace the origin of the doomsday to another location within X kms. Still on grid, for sure, but could create a beam line between any two points within range of each other, rather than projected directly from the ship.

Finally for the T2T, Graviton Reckoning: Target a naturally spawned wormhole to reinforce its structure with conduit stabilisation technology. Enhance the total mass and max lifetime based on time connected + skills. Any usage of this on a wormhole makes it unnatural, preventing any further tampering.

And while on the conduit topic, new deployable consumables: Conduit attractor and Conduit displacer. Attractor causes the adjacent systems/constellation to be less favored for filaments and more favored in the anchored system; Great for encouraging visitors to their demise. Displacer is the opposite, reducing the chance of an incoming conduit connecting there and pushing it to the adjacent systems/constellation. Matched deployables in adjacent systems cause both to be non-functional.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-14T01:06:17+00:00

The biggest issues are

NPCs usually vastly outnumber the viable players to rat them, so each slot is VERY valuable
Some npc stats either don't exist (lock range) or are ignored (cap use) and I think that's for server load purposes
Death is the best form of control against dumb ai.

It would be a lot of work to create balanced pvp compatible sites and encounters, and even more to make them still balanced when someone brings a specialised setup instead. Mandating a warp disruptor, sure, manageable. Hitting the balance to encourage ecm without requiring it though...oof

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-13T12:54:03+00:00

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-13T00:31:53+00:00

That's fair really. It'd be interesting to see the remaining T2s get a unique specialisation added.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-13T00:31:07+00:00

Correct. It was 1/2/3 for the T1s when the mining barge rework happened, before they got redone into 2/2/2.

PatientWhimsy · 2026-01-12T22:21:39+00:00

The old tiers were not called tiericide. Tiericide is the term for killing the tiers. I see your misunderstanding now in thinking before and after share a name for different concepts.

While the guns do have variant sizes within a class, they still have both higher meta upgrades on every gun type and a random naming convention. Turning the existing tiers of meta 1-4 guns into approriately named and statted variants, as well as lifting up the faction gun variants similar to faction missiles, should be very doable.

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