# Local Comms Blackout - Discussion Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Tags:** feedback, official\ **Created:** [July 5, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935 "2019-07-05T16:28:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 243
**Author:** ![Satanix87](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/satanix87/32/188485_2.png) [@Satanix87](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Satanix87)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4906 "2019-07-10T13:26:24Z")
retarded mehanic, like 90% what CCP throw out after they sale oot to koreans. Gues more isk sink is needed so people buy plex for cash ---
**Author:** ![Francis\_McLean](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/francis_mclean/32/285785_2.png) [@Francis\_McLean](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Francis_McLean)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4907 "2019-07-10T13:26:49Z")
> [@Orca\_Platypus](#): > > Chances are overwhelmingly stacked in favor of hunters as it is. Maybe that’s what CCP should balance instead of this. you are literally ■■■■■■ in the head, this is the stupidest thing i have ever read on these forums, please go away and play another game nobody will miss you ---
**Author:** ![Raven\_Annages](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/raven_annages/32/217050_2.png) [@Raven\_Annages](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Raven_Annages)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4908 "2019-07-10T13:28:10Z")
It worked when EVE was still a gankfest, it will work when EVE is a gankfest again. ---
**Author:** ![bucktooth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/bucktooth/32/404034_2.png) [@bucktooth](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/bucktooth)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4909 "2019-07-10T13:28:31Z")
You don’t need no local to catch something using BLOPS. Have you ever been in a Goku/Stuka fleet? Anti-cap umbrella fleets… very few null blocks will drop caps/supers on a stuka fleet and hard engage. There is always a meta vs meta in this game, maybe you’re currently using the wrong one. ---
**Author:** ![Atin\_Adestur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/atin_adestur/32/272412_2.png) [@Atin\_Adestur](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Atin_Adestur)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4910 "2019-07-10T13:29:06Z")
This sums up my emotions at this moment. ---
**Author:** ![Orca\_Platypus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/orca_platypus/32/248437_2.png) [@Orca\_Platypus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Orca_Platypus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4911 "2019-07-10T13:29:11Z")
> [@Francis\_McLean](#): > > you are literally ■■■■■■ in the head, this is the stupidest thing i have ever read on these forums, please go away and play another game nobody will miss you Wants to gank krabs for free to the point he literally can’t do anything else. Then he says he won’t miss the krabs when they all left because they aint his free content. Calls other people names amidst severe self-contradiction and hypocrisy. Yep, the ganktard is here. If only your skill could be noticed somewhere within that ego… ---
**Author:** ![Terran\_Nabali](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/terran_nabali/32/417104_2.png) [@Terran\_Nabali](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Terran_Nabali)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4912 "2019-07-10T13:30:15Z")
If the goal with this is to revitalize nullsec and increase player engagement, I fear this is going to have the opposite effect. Players that think this is an amazing change because hunting carebears will be easier are in for a real surprise when those players either unsubscribe or stay docked or move their operations out of null. Because this will have next to no effect on fleet vs fleet engagements. Sorry, but this is simply not a well reasoned change. ---
**Author:** ![Guirssane\_Arise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/guirssane_arise/32/146096_2.png) [@Guirssane\_Arise](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Guirssane_Arise)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4913 "2019-07-10T13:30:53Z")
Won’t be missed 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_TwoShots](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/joe_twoshots/32/147327_2.png) [@Joe\_TwoShots](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Joe_TwoShots)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4915 "2019-07-10T13:34:07Z")
Great, 17 accounts, that werent even subbed with real cash, but with afk mining income, gone! Bye, neither of you will be missed, krabbies. ---
**Author:** ![DivineHero](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/divinehero/32/147334_2.png) [@DivineHero](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DivineHero)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4916 "2019-07-10T13:35:42Z")
O, nice! Excellent chemotherapy. Let’s see how many healthy brain cells remain after its completion. 🕶 ---
**Author:** ![Tikareth\_Dismaye](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tikareth_dismaye/32/302864_2.png) [@Tikareth\_Dismaye](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tikareth_Dismaye)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4917 "2019-07-10T13:36:03Z")
Game gets hard, bad players quit. Good players adapt. Wont miss no-lifers who just grind isk and create weak content. Whenever anything changes that negatively effects bad players, salt will flow. ---
**Author:** ![Satanix87](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/satanix87/32/188485_2.png) [@Satanix87](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Satanix87)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4918 "2019-07-10T13:36:36Z")
all writing that people wont be missing. you probably didnt play in 2013. when there was 60k playeers on servers. now barely 20k, with all alpha clones and bulshit. what is critical point when eve is gona fold, 10k? or less ---
**Author:** ![cpu939](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cpu939/32/515586_2.png) [@cpu939](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/cpu939)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4919 "2019-07-10T13:36:56Z")
> [@bucktooth](#): > > You don’t need no local to catch something using BLOPS. Have you ever been in a Goku/Stuka fleet? Anti-cap umbrella fleets… very few null blocks will drop caps/supers on a stuka fleet and hard engage. > > There is always a meta vs meta in this game, maybe you’re currently using the wrong one. i find we get dropped by super/titans and capital all the time in our stuka fleet it is part of the fun. Lets be honest this is at this time a PR stunt by ccp, they don’t need the data of how null sec play(ers) will react with no local they have it with the new chat system this is only to really see if it will add or remove to there income. If ccp finds it is good for them they will keep it, if they find it isn’t they will keep local. ---
**Author:** ![Satanix87](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/satanix87/32/188485_2.png) [@Satanix87](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Satanix87)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4920 "2019-07-10T13:39:27Z")
and we all loved eve cuz it wasnt cash grabing game, now not so much… ---
**Author:** ![Arya\_Zanzy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arya_zanzy/32/475488_2.png) [@Arya\_Zanzy](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arya_Zanzy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4921 "2019-07-10T13:39:48Z")
People who think this is just for ganking PVE players are just knee jerk reacting without putting any real thought into it. PVPers hunt carebears exclusively now because there are no more roaming gangs. With all the PVPers undocking, we will have tons of small to medium gang action in surprising locations. Go ahead, unsub carebears, we will still get more fights. ---
**Author:** ![Orca\_Platypus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/orca_platypus/32/248437_2.png) [@Orca\_Platypus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Orca_Platypus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4922 "2019-07-10T13:39:48Z")
> [@DivineHero](#): > > O, nice! Excellent chemotherapy. Let’s see how many healthy brain cells remain after its completion. 🕶 All the cancer cells who are subbing for easy free safe kills are going to flow in. This is the cure that harms more than helps. > [@Tikareth\_Dismaye](#): > > Game gets hard, bad players quit. Good players adapt. Wont miss no-lifers who just grind isk and create weak content. Whenever anything changes that negatively effects bad players, salt will flow. It doesn’t get hard, it gets easier. And when it gets easier to get free kills, all the risk-averse ganktards will resub, creating literally zero content for you. Yay? ---
**Author:** ![Vanbo\_Murgalesh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/vanbo_murgalesh/32/487905_2.png) [@Vanbo\_Murgalesh](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Vanbo_Murgalesh)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4923 "2019-07-10T13:40:24Z")
Since the blackout announcement first came out, i have found myself logging in less and less, and being afk while logged in more and more. nothing has changed, so why is this? Perhaps the feeling of having such a change foisted upon us is more important than the actual change. is it our sandbox or theirs? or both? whatever the reason, the bubble is burst. i have always had a policy of “one game only” for myself and now i must consider carefully why this sandbox is no longer gripping me. is it a bit of termporary burnout? or time for a change? ---
**Author:** ![j0c1f3r](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/j0c1f3r/32/147312_2.png) [@j0c1f3r](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/j0c1f3r)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4924 "2019-07-10T13:40:30Z")
How do you do this? ---
**Author:** ![Orca\_Platypus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/orca_platypus/32/248437_2.png) [@Orca\_Platypus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Orca_Platypus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4925 "2019-07-10T13:42:33Z")
> [@j0c1f3r](#): > > How do you do this? [https://support.eveonline.com](https://support.eveonline.com/) Log in. Submit support ticket. “Please pause my subscription on following accounts due to blackout making them irrelevant: …” ---
**Author:** ![bucktooth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/bucktooth/32/404034_2.png) [@bucktooth](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/bucktooth)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935/4926 "2019-07-10T13:43:00Z")
Getting dropped on is basically the aim of a stuka fleet. It’s to catch off the bad pilot who drifts from the group for an easy kill. The bigger you get dropped on the better your odds of a big kill. It is all about increasing income streams. But as a player base we need to really look at how this is going to affect the ingame economy. We may have to start heavily relying on the high sec bears to create it if most of the nullsec krabs are driven away. This will mean that CCP could in turn make more money from PVPers buying plex to make isk because of the increase in price of everything in the game. We may go back to the start of T2 where a T2 BCU was sold on the forums for 80m! Only speculation though. To be honest I can’t wait for more TiDifests because nullblocks will be more willing to commit. [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935.md?page=242) [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/local-comms-blackout-discussion-thread/171935.md?page=244)