Local Comms Blackout - Discussion Thread

[Ms_Steak]

@Isakilll

Because some people don’t have much of a life can and will sit at a computer for 18+ hours just observing.

thats 18+ hours worth of gameplay on their Omega account. If they have fun with it - why not?

[Lugburz]

@Andromeda_Aisele

So as a new player (less than a year into this game) who has invested over $2,000 into this game, this angers me.

Well… i have been playing 12 years so your argument is invalid as this change pleases me and benefits me.
I have no idea how much i have spent on this game money, isk or time wise.

If you dont want to play in dagerous space, highsec is that way ---->

[Lugburz]

wrong.

@Mega_Face

WH is stratios, astero, SB, T3C central with the occasional sabre

so so wrong.

[Lugburz]

@peter_griifin_Austrene

people will stop buying plex till it goes back up in value or buy more

i lol’d
but i didnt…

see what i did there?

[Major_Xadi]

@Karak_Terrel

There was no point to live in nullbear space until now. I play games to have fun and not to carebear away in perfect safety. I mainly live in w-soace and highec where people don’t just dock because of a single neutral in system. HTFU

Well, again, there is never perfect safety in null. You are ignorant of null.
People don’t dock in HS when a neut comes in local because the neut can’t cyno and drop a fleet of blops on you. Neither can they cyno in a wh. WH has mass limit. Null gates do not. If they don’t cyno, and just point and bubble, then you hear about the fleet coming down the pipe in intel.

Please learn what null is and is not, then come back and post.

[Arolanis]

Most people have alts for that. However, if I was paid a good amount of isk to watch the gate for a bunch of corp members ratting/mining I’d do it if nothing was going on. Also, take turns! If you’re just ratting without helping with system control here and there…yikes.

[Chequrself]

If you want to live without local intel channel wormholes are that way ---------->

[My_Cat_Meows]

Blackout will fix afk cloaking as the conflict between knowing someone is there and not being able to find him or her becomes dissolved.

[DarkTemplarCrimsonWolf]

1. Something exploded in Jovian Space (Carolines Star) - Drifters could’ve attacked or caused that event.

2. Jovian Observatories Decloked as That happened. - Why were the Circadian Sleepers scanning them if the Sleepers are actually the Drifters who are actually the Jovians?

3. They appeared shortly after the Jovian observatories were revealed. - Yes because those observatories counted as plunder if there was a war going on between the Jovians and the Drifters.

4. They were 1st active in Those same systems (Thru Wormholes they made) - Yes and? All lore suggests that Jovians got the wormhole tech from someone else, could be the Sleepers or could be the Talocans.

5. Thru those wormholes u could find Spacial Rifts that were artificial. (Supposedly how they got there) - Talocan tech does this.

6. They raided Sleeper enclaves to steal the bodies. - How’d you get this? From the video? That just shows a capsuleer body being repurposed.

@Karmastat

Add to this that a Jovian Corporation - **Academy of Aggressive Behavior, was responsible for introducing Violence back into selected Jovians to act as their warriors (violence had been bred out of their society) to counter the Amarrian Threat as well as others.

Had been engineered out not bred out. How was this violence introduced back? And do pray tell how select is selected? Cause Drifter forces are anything but select or small… and that’s the issue: There’s no evidence, none, that the Jovians resolved their illness, in fact there’s more evidence to suggest they’ve left almost fully the EVE Galaxy for part unknown (see SoCT taking over a lot of old corps active in the main new eden area that were previously Jove controlled).

@Karmastat

This corp was part of the Jovian Directorate, based in Genolution Stations. Which provide implants and such for Capsuleers. It was transferred to the Society of Conscious Thought. SOCT was also involved with the drifter’s interest in the Amarian Empress (who the Drifters assassinated by Doomsdaying her Titan.

1. This is a lot of interpretation.
2. The Empress is unlikely to be dead.
3. SoCT has no links to the Drifters, this is a cart before the horse link due to the assumed Jovian origin of the Drifters.

@Karmastat

Also the description of the Drifters in game contains the comment “Seemingly the inheritors of a legacy left behind by some of the most ancient Jove,” and that they are based in 3-CE1R which is in Jove space.

I referenced that legacy which can be tech or role not just literal children of the Jove type stuff. Also their base in 3-CE1R being in Jove space means nothing if they conquered that system by force. Again they popped up after Carolina’s Star went pop and near immediately afterward at that, if this was the Jovians trying to survive a cataclysmic event it would’ve been a more gradual shift especially with no known cure for the Jovian Disease. Not even cloning works so their infomorphs themselves are afflicted, you think implants and zombification can aid that?

@Karmastat

Circumstantial for the most part but I think its a good bet they are related to Jovians. It may have been an out growth of their solution to the ‘Disease’ that was destroying their civilization.

Again: You cannot cure the Jovian Disease, the Directorate likely realized this long ago because it is a affliction of the spirit more than anything else, ironically, because they cut out so much of what made them, originally, human that overtime what was left lost purpose and that remnant spirit eventually died due to it. This is their Disease and it isn’t cureable, it’s inevitable as they also stopped breeding, far as I know, quite some time ago.

[Lugburz]

<------ WoW is that way

Go back to it.

[Sexton_Hardcastle]

I’m also one of the many new players who just started not too long ago, but I can understand this decision. I think it’s a good idea to encourage committing the V key to muscle memory, one way or the other.

[Chequrself]

You know which way WoW is? LOL

[Lugburz]

yeh, the direction you came from

[Chequrself]

Been playing EVE since 2006 when did you start?

[Lugburz]

You dont seem to be doing too well. Fair play for not giving up though eh!

[Bedlicka]

PVE(low pvp) cloak trash incoming nullsec
CCP WON good destructions this game for the last year

[Major_Xadi]

No, they will look on the NPCs killed last 24 hours, number of jumps 24 hrs, etc. and go to those systems.

[Lugburz]

Looking for other people looking for kills… common sense.

[Chequrself]

I’m doing fine. And I know what I like and I only pay for that which I like. I don’t pay for my accounts with plex, I pay with real cash. I also manually pilot all of them no macros, no bots. If I wanted to play the way this update will force me to play I would have moved to wormholes a long time ago.

No I will unsub if this stays permanent. Which is probably actually a good thing for me. So whatevs

[My_Cat_Meows]

This is one of the best things CCP has ever done, it’s out for 2 days now and i’m still euphoric, lol