JGC was the only game where I felt my blood pump when I was playing it. It was exciting. I wasn’t even all that combat oriented. There were plenty of times when I got attacked by pirates or opposing factions while mining, exploring, trading. They added fun for me, not stress. It was exciting trying to get away. Even if I failed I wanted to come back and try again. Even hunting flux could be fun if you tried to hunt outside of what you were supposed to be able to hunt. Out of all the MMO’s I’ve played I still miss Jumpgate the most.

I live in the US and the times I used to play had very few people on as well. This was because my job was second shift and I got off from it at around 2:30 am. So you don’t have an escort? Adjust your play style to suit your circumstances. It seems to me that you’re the one who wants to play the game only one way and have a game that accommodates you. If you can be unattackable…that completely ruins it. For me anyway. In JGC you got bounties for shooting down people who weren’t looking for a fight. I thought that worked well enough. I think with some minor tweaking the bounty system would still work.

Net Devil is free to make the game they want of course and I’ll probably try it. But the ideas expressed in this interview make me think it won’t be as exciting as JGC was. Then again maybe they’ll fix it all in testing. God I hope so. I’ve been SOOOO bored.

I played the first Jumpgate, and loved Episode 1 because you didn’t have to fight all that often. You could be a miner, an explorer, a “beacon-changer”, a carrier, and so on. When Episode 2 came out, I was greatly disappointed because flying in space wasn’t safe anymore and all the stupid fighters kept defending the turn for the worse with silly arguments like “ask someone to escort you”. Well, when you don’t live in the US, and have no one online when you play, that’s not even an option, is it?

I left the game completely, for the reason I couldn’t relax with Jumpgate anymore. Now, Jumpgate seems to be coming back in this “Evolution” incarnation, and I truly hope it will be an evolution, and one thing I’m looking forward to is to see if people like me can play this game again. If so, I’ll be one of the subscribers, for sure. If not, they’ll won’t have me paying for it, not one cent.

Space is a large place, so take your fighting elsewhere – it’s not wanted everywhere (and I’m not talking just about PvP, but PvE as well).

I think non loss of equipment on a death will be a very good thing. It makes the game more playable and less work like, therefore people will be more inclined to participate in pvp and so the pvp elements of the game will flourish.

Anything else will place the better pvp players in a position to dictate the activities of less able pvp players and you start niching pvp then and ultimately the game itself.

+1 for non equipment loss from me.

For the crafters this means large markets to fill near areas of heavy conflict. War escalations see higher demand for minerals and construction.

No item loss and a form of item decay means no peaks and troughs in market and instead a steady flow of trade. A good fighter still loses his gear at the same rate as a bad fighter which does not seem fair.

Unpredictable markets open the option for savvy traders. Imagine an environment where a trader could get wind of a major offensive in an area. He makes his guess on which side will suffer the most losses. After analysing the kind of equipment they use he buys up some stock and moves it to the area just in time to cash in on those “ZOMG I need to get back out there now, sure I’ll pay 20% over market for those guns rather than flying 4 gates to get them cheaper”.

I think that is a cool way to blend combat with non-combat play (not the same as PvP / PvE).

But anyway JGE will make a nice change to EVE, but i think the risk vs reward system in EVE is better

1. There will, in all likelihood, be open-pvp servers. This has been established in multiple other interviews.
2. Right now it sounds like ND is leaning towards an decay system to remove items from the economy, rather than a loss-on-death system. Both, if balanced, achieve the same thing.
3. I’ll agree that if they go with the Warcraft system of item retention, it will upset a lot of players. Warcraft’s economy has always been stunted because of it. True item decay, just like item loss (when production levels are properly ramped up), allow for a vibrant player economy. If the WoW school of thinking is pursued, the economy will be just as stagnant as it was in Blizzard’s well known title… minus the consumables.

Give this a little time for balancing in beta. Scorch and Hermann are very careful to say “right now” because they mean the current build. Tweaking the economy can’t happen with only 50 people playing the game. That part really needs to wait for more like 500 to even approach statistical relevancy.

Just my 2 cents

PvP and PvE players in a group together doing stuff don’t mix as has been proven in early Everquest 1. when the PvP people get jumped it leavs the PvE people in a bad situation especialy if the group is in a big fight, which has allways been when the PvP people get engaged. Many other things get wonky when the 2 mingle. A PvP server is the only solution. On PvE servers unreg space is the only valid place to PvP, regulated space should never allow PvP.