The suck

In the interest of fairness, and the off chance that someone from CCP might actually tune into this blog, here are some of the issues with EVE that bug me.

1. 1850, meet the future:
I can't transmit coordinates and it makes me want to end myself. Short story of EVE is that every point in a solar system exists on an x/y/x coordinate plane/grid. If you set a book mark at any place in space, you can actually pull that bookmark open and see those x/y/z values. Which is cool. What you can't do is you can't transmit this information to anyone else. This means that if you want to get another person to a place you have found and bookmarked, you have two options. You can

1. Form a fleet with them, fly to the location yourself and have them warp to you. Or 2. you can fly to that location, set a bookmark, (and this is where it gets really odd) you can pull that coordinate physically out of your bookmark window and it becomes an object that you can store in your cargo hold. You can then actually trade it over to someone else and they can put it into their bookmark folder. If that's not 1850 I don't know what is.

Basically it amounts to writing the location down on a piece of paper, docking up to another ship or meeting in station and handing the location off. DUMB.

But wait, you're probably thinking "Hey didn't you say you could see the x/y/z coords? Why not just tell someone what the coordiates are and let them use those to get to the location?" First I salute you for thinking this. It's a reasonable thought and very definitely should work. The only reason it doesn't work is that CCP has not provided any way to travel to a given coordinate. Meaning that there's no way for me to type a coordinate in and say "warp to". Just doesn't exist. Again I say: DUMB.

To be fair, I think I know why they do this. It makes it a lot harder for a turn-coat to disclose the location of her/his fleet to enemies in a game that doesn't allow for coordinate transmission. But I still say they should have done it. There's already so many ways a turn-coat can hut you (please see the BoB is no more post). What's the point in removing this one method for treachery when the existing of coordinate transmission would ease so many other aspects of the game. e.g. "Hey guys I just set up a new production tower in system blah-blah-blah. Here let me transmit the coordinates to it to you so you don't have to plan a special time to fly out there with me and/or so I don't have to create 15 bookmarks and hand them all out to you individually."

Enough for now.
I shall rant further later.