Moving my ships around is either a very lengthy process of clicking jump every time I’m in a new system or a very lengthy process of waiting for the autopilot to handle it.
I propose a new Booster (modeled on the existing Improved, Standard, Strong etc) that provides a decreased percentage in the 10km distance that the autopilot uses when automatically warping.
Drawbacks/side effects could include decreased hit points, increased sig radius, or other negatives that would make a person an easier target for high sec ganking.
Why stop there? What EvE needs is instant fast travel. Avoid all potential unpleasantness guaranteed. They could just sell fast travel tokens (for cash only of course) right from the NES.
Well, I think Xuxe might have been a little hard on you. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still not sold on the idea, but you’re at least thinking about balance and the impact on other play styles, which is a lot better than most people who make proposals do.
As Shipwreck Jones mentioned, your idea takes game balance into account. I like that.
I just really don’t like making autopilot more competitive with manually flying your ship. EVE is much more interesting when the other pilots out in space are at their keyboard rather than AFK ‘automated NPCs’.
Autopilot is intentionally much worse than manual travel. Let’s keep it that way.
