Taxi / Jump gate

Hello everyone.

Something that should be added is some sort of transport between station and/or jumpgate to certain point of the galaxy (kinda like central hub).
We all have faced this moment where we either were in our combat ship, miner or trader ship and wanted to switch to a different one but cant because we'll have to fly all the way back...
One bigger issue, we find some good station selling good equipment for a ship we got but we aren't in, biggest issue you cant reach it with your other ship no matter how many stuff you remove etc y ou can't reach the minimum LY jump requiered to reach the region it's in.
To those issue and other many one easy and quick solution that, i think fit the current world. The game is set in a high and advanced technology world, those request dont feel out of the way.

•Taxi: People need to fly between station or world one way or another, right? I dont think they suddenly appeared on the station by some space magic and hell, even 1 ship exist for passenger transport, the orca!
For those in need to return to a different station to either retrieve another ship or any other reason, the game should have a taxi system with orca acting like bus and going through station to station in a certain order, you'll have to 'change line' every X station for exemple for long travel.
The system could be fairly simple, you point the station you desire, it show you the different available path from fastest but expensive and cheap but slow.
The downside? giving access to area a player shouldn't have right off the start maybe.

•Jump gate / middle station: Another problem is, some 'region' got a big gap between them, making them impossible to reach with combat vessel without striping them to the bone and getting the most expensive FSD engine for what? just for a single jump to a better region..
I think we should remedy to those issue, so we fighter, could fly around to different space without the need to strip our ship like a cheap hooker trying to pay her meth.
The answer? Middle station ! (or jump gate) You'd have to pay a fare in order to cross them, acting like paytoll and allowing you to cross. Of course some region would be easier of access like this but, in order to get through some of the paytoll you'll have to gain a permit, obtainable by different way possible (exploring, trading, reputation yadi yada)

This is a clunky, messy suggestion and sorry for mistake etc (english isn't my primary language ^^)
Feel free to add more or anything else.
Lets avoid the usual and random non helping "tis a simulazion deal wiff it" kind of reaction etc.
 
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Lestat

Banned
We don't need a area that can be use for greifers, spawn killers. Or something that can ruin Rare commodity good trade runs.

We also don't need another X rebirth or Eve type game.

Besides [proposal] deep space highways ! has already been talk about.
 
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Thank for unhelpful and random barter.
Those are the big line of the idea, you can just put security in those and limitation.

In which way it'll limit rare commodity trade? How it'll be used for griefing etc.
If you're going to add a negative comment try to elaborate a bit more to advance the suggestion rather than spewing word.

The jump gate / mid station, like i said will only be at certain point to cross 1 gap, not to go through entire system.
 

Lestat

Banned
Let see. Rare goods. and jump gate. 160 LY jump. Net you what 10 to 16k per ton. Ya I can see Everyone would be flying Anaconda in no time.

It seems you never played Eve and other games that have Jump gates. What pvp type playes like to do is Hide at the jump gate wait until you enter and KILL YOU.
 

Frankfort

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Let see. Rare goods. and jump gate. 160 LY jump. Net you what 10 to 16k per ton. Ya I can see Everyone would be flying Anaconda in no time.

It seems you never played Eve and other games that have Jump gates. What pvp type playes like to do is Hide at the jump gate wait until you enter and KILL YOU.

I agree Elite was and is a game of exploration trade and fighting what is there to explore with jumpgates

jump gates dumb the game down .

It seems that the younger players only have the attention span of a house fly .
 

Lestat

Banned
For Valemar. I think a better suggestion is. Have muliple Toons. So you can leave one with your friends. Have a sepratte one for regular game play.
 
Sorry, wrong word used.
By "region" i meant system (like sol system, potriti system etc) not complete region. Sorry for the trouble.

Yes if it was to direct region it'll be a problem but i meant jump/gate mid station at some area.
Exemple to get to chemaku i had to drop down gear on my viper to reach a system close of chemaku if i want to get there, even if i tried a longer path there were always a chokepoint to which my jump was too short to make it possible.
What i meant by mid station / jumpgate is allow, kinda like a bridge, access to some system so you can go further in space rather than being locked in a group of system.
 
Sorry, wrong word used.
By "region" i meant system (like sol system, potriti system etc) not complete region. Sorry for the trouble.

Yes if it was to direct region it'll be a problem but i meant jump/gate mid station at some area.
Exemple to get to chemaku i had to drop down gear on my viper to reach a system close of chemaku if i want to get there, even if i tried a longer path there were always a chokepoint to which my jump was too short to make it possible.
What i meant by mid station / jumpgate is allow, kinda like a bridge, access to some system so you can go further in space rather than being locked in a group of system.

For me, what you describe here is part of the beauty of the game...you can't have it all. Hard choices have to be made with real consequences for each, pro's and con's, tradeoffs. If you really want to take your Viper somewhere, you have to configure it in a way that will get it there, and there will be some places that it won't reach no matter what you do, but the Cobra will. It's also a good life lesson...sort of like the kid who's invited to two birthday parties that happen to be on the same day at the same time...they have to make a choice and can't have it all.
 
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