Show industry and low sec some love

Ok, everyone is pretty much saying this. My point with this post is to show some of my vision for EVE. The key is there are some great forums out there, we just need to collate everyone’s responses and put them in some kind of order to present to CCP. This is where I think CCP wants the CSM to act and be a front for the wants and desires of players.

I think low sec needs some love, Mynxee (CSM5) started a ‘making low sec matter’ web site, which has been shifted to here:

http://criminallowsec.ideascale.com/

I suggested (a long time back) the letter of marquee for pirates. It is my belief we don’t need to do anything radical in EVE for game play, just look into history and you will find a solution. For pirates look at real life pirates and the letter of marquee. So a Caldari letter of Marque lets you privateer (not pirate) in low sec in the Caldari state, anyone without high Caldari standings is then fair game. Zap a Caldari in Caldari low sec with a Caldari letter of Marquee you are now a pirate and will be shot by all sides. No French, Spanish or Portuguese man-o-wars in Britain’s harbours in the Caribbean thank you very much. Pirates like black beard were people who went rogue and attacked all ships, not just those they had a letter of marquee from a ruling power for.

Ideas people have like the drug rings, pirate factions, pirate missions and stations are great. Now we just need to get CCP to hear them out.

So while we’re at giving low sec some love how about Industry. I think looking at things in isolation leads to some of the issues we have. I think JF’s need some love, think not? Then why does everyone use a carrier to shift things instead of a JF? I thought a carrier was for delivery fighter plane death into enemy fleets as a capital warship, not a mover’s courier van.

Don’t worry about the planes, its only moving them.

Some others have suggested an industrial capital ship, sounds very cool to me. Imagine one that can fly around and do production, scooping rocks and churning out ships, running command modules while it churns out ammo for an ongoing operation. Another could have giant geodesic domes which run chemical operations, or do some PI tasks on ship. Now that would be cool.

Add to that an improvement in industry. Keep all the minerals, have people build components, those are assembled to make T1 ships and/or T2/3 components which are again assembled in higher tech industrial installations to make T2/3 products. Where’s the assembly lines? This would also hopefully put an end to let’s build 5 BS and move them, melt them and use them for a super cap build as it’s smaller than moving the minerals. That’s just totally illogical. What production facilities available in null sec are also farcical.

So for industry, more components, more assembly options, more materials used in more ways. A capital industrial and some love for low sec with pirate factions, drug manufacturing, privateering and other ideas from the ideas for low sec and now my vision of EVE is starting. Add some fleet improvements, planetary improvements and now we’re talking, more on that in future posts.

So please go and have a look at the ideas web site show above and give it your support to help make EVE the game you want it to be.