They're literally the worst commodity, can we please exchange JH parts for Sci data or code guns. I mean the other rewards let you have a personal gain, you cant even do anything with a JH parts, it would be amazing if i could open a JH from O-7 to Lyonnais secretly and power trade all day but you cant do that (even code guns break balance but apparently if i break balance with powertrading its suddenly an economic crisis), i cant open a hole from London to Lyonnais and ask ZOI extension for PVP. Even after opening the JH from X fixed location to Y random location i cant do anything there because 0 zoi probably and i might just endup opening a JH from NL to Manchester.. just why ? they're the most rarest commodity ingame afaik.
We need more, readily available and cheaper event-creating commodities that can be put in the hands of players. It feels too much like factions are the driving force behind such events, and even then it's rare.
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As far as I'm aware from what I remember spazzy told me some time ago , they randomly generate where it'll land, rolls once for sector, then another roll for the systems, I don't think they choose themselves where to place it but if it's really bad I guess the admins might move it
I think they're really too much of a gamble to have fun with, and all of them are announced, they also have a chance of failing and just basically disabling the Jump gates or something, that should be reduced in chance
even nemp has 1000x more potential "event initiating capability" when compared to a JH part. you literally open a JH from one fixed location to another random location, nothing else changes, if it makes the a trade route shorter it gets nerfed, no zoi extension or anything, the only ones i see profiting from this or factions with unlimited zoi like SCRA and nomads.
(06-25-2018, 05:22 PM)Auzari Wrote: I think they're really too much of a gamble to have fun with, and all of them are announced, they also have a chance of failing and just basically disabling the Jump gates or something, that should be reduced in chance
Absolutely agree. I don't see the logic in making an activity-generating item fail or generate in a way that could be useless.
I think it would be neat if the other end of the jump connection could at least be choose-able as far as which section of the game its in I.E. Omegas, Kusari, Bretonia, etc. Even better if the admins/devs clear it for both ends being accurate.
Perhaps if both starting and ending system were selectable by the player, the end-system would simply be random as far as the JH's on-plane location within a given system is concerned, i.e. Player chooses precise starting system and coordinates, but only end-system sans coordinates. Simply roll 2d8 dice to determine Letter and Number coordinates for the end-system JH's location, then place the JH in the center of the random coordinate square rolled.
Signature is SEVERELY out-of-date, sooo I'mma figure out what-do with it later!