The Glade 4.0

So, this is pretty damned awesome, and something I've been waiting for for a long time.

It's great to see the 3 jump point sizes at work, and to get the official layout in a public-facing fashion, along with all the information about systems aggregated in one place.

So, that said... am I the only one who started poking around looking for someplace to set up shop? If not, what caught peoples' eyes, and why? What would you look for in a "home system"? What would you try to avoid?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I have not had the opportunity to sink more than 5 minutes into the idea, but no you are not. I liked the idea of trying to find someplace that will allow us easy access to all opportunities but is still semi safe

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Something between a Stanton and a Nyx if you will.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

This is the sort of thing I've been waiting for to get back involved in this. It's great to see real progress on the actual world starting to appear. I haven't done much since experimenting with the actual flight early on because I was afraid of burning myself out on the game before it was really a game. Maybe time to start practicing again.

I realize this isn't EVE and the same rules won't apply but I don't want to live in the high-security areas. So I'd need to look for something in the lower-security areas.

After spending the last 2 years in low and then null security space in EVE I've found the key is picking a system reasonably close to a market hub, so you can easily go buy supplies and such that you need, but it isn't always a good idea to live AT the hub because there's always people that want to hang out at the hub and attack everyone coming and going. That's less a problem for me since moving to null security space since stations our alliance controls don't allow hostiles to dock, but they are still attracted to our market/staging system since it's a target rich environment, at least until a home defense fleet drives them off. In low-security space anyone could dock anywhere, so docking games at our home station were a thing.

Without being totally clear on how similar mechanics will actually work in SC, I'd say I'm looking for a system near a market hub in lower-security areas, but off to the side enough that people don't go out of their way to go there - a dead-end system nearby or something where trade routes are easily attacked. Basically something like a pirate island not far from potential victims.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

It's really rather interesting to me to see how broadly dispersed the unclaimed (pirate) systems are.

The Vanduul and Xi'an space has a more distinct sense of being a border between two contiguous spaces, but the UEE seems to have "frontier" pockets riddled throughout.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Personally, I keep coming back to the Nexus-Ellis-Magnus corridor. I'll be keeping an eye on that area, for sure.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

If you read the description of the planets it starts to make sense. The planet's aren't so much out of the UEEs reach as much as they are not worth their while in most cases.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Indeed. It's just very different from what a lot of people were expecting, I think.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

It fits with the whole declining Rome thing

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"