Jumphole Overhaul

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There are a few points in the post.

Yup. The idea of squeezing activity zones through more streamlined hole/gate connections while keeping the redundant, already unpopular systems purposefully on the sidelines is not to create activity, but to force the current activity we have to play more often in a smaller area so that there is more interaction between this already small group of players.

Jump connections is not useful for conjuring nonexisting activity either way, but some of us think the game will be more fun with people using same few systems, as there are less players to fill everywhere by now. So we could only hope that such a change could help the general activity indirectly, as people could hopefully play more if they knew they could find something fun more often and without spending a lot of time to find any. It is a lot of hoping, though what is sure in this world? Nobody wrote a book titled “How to Make Your Dying Game More Fun and Active Again 101”.

I read a couple people in this thread and they said your, mine and a few other's suggestions over this month on this topic would not actually create activity. It was to reply to them and I agree with them that it indeed won't create activity, but squeeze it, and which is what is needed right now to adapt to our lower player count, which will probably remain that way no matter what we do. And I also explained that squeezing could help in an indirect way to create more activity. A few posts above wrote that "there's a 50% chance of it not doing anything", I also replied that here.

The challenges of implementing such a change has always been a concern for me and, since I do not know any deving work, I did not know the extent of these challenges to be able to decide if the amount of work is worth it for a dying game with volunteer devs. Good to finally know that it is not worth it.

This is the first thread I read with a dev replying and another member confirming that they do not think this idea is worth working on. I had asked in the earlier thread, but a dev only said they'd talk about it in a stream, though I did not have the time to watch that stream at that time, and I've seen no other posts from a dev regarding this matter. And since I did not know the amount of work that needs to go into this, I could not judge the worth of it. Another point I make now is that I don't think very simple jump hole connection adjustments could work. A lot of the connections need to be worked on if we want this to have a proper effect, jumpgates too, and most of the clutter needs to be removed to bring back the amount of intensity of interaction we had a few years ago. That is my opinion. /edit: forgot to mention that trade balance needs to be worked on too. They should remove most of the existing routes and put emphasis on a few to squeeze trader activity inside our focused zones.

I didn’t consider ‘jump drives 4 everyone’ as a possible thing until now so I dunno. It sounds fun somewhat.

What I wrote is my point. I mean, it could be fun. Better than nothing. I don't get why you make me write the same things twice.

I even suggested increasing ship speeds further on earlier, because I really hate flying 20 minutes to get to a place where MAYBE I could have some interaction before my limited free time is over. It's even worse when there's nothing going on anywhere on the server and I'd have to check several places out.

After all, there's actually less interaction than there's players online. Most seem to just not be interested in me one bit. Those that say "hello" only zip past me to continue whatever the hell they might be in a hurry for in an old as hell game. I am bored as hell with this game and I welcome any change that will help me see a few more people a little easier.