Yaar Podshipnik
Arcane
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That would be awesome, but it would appeal to the same kind of people who like danger of pvp anyway. It would induce cries of "muh safezones" from carebears. You can see this with EVE. During Triglavian invasion fleets of Trigs would camp gates and engage everyone without standings to them. Remedy for that was to choose another route (that later in the invasion became really hard), or get a single small tick of standings with trigs (you could do that in free ship you get in game). This little amount of extra danger, that encroached on previously "safe" space, caused so much drama and whining on the forums... And just look up "EVE Blackout" to see how supposedly hardcore elite nullsec players regarded to a bit of shakeup in their little corner of the galaxy.PVP is where the fun is, and you can't really solve unpredictable humans - no amount of discord chats or wikis will help there.
That, or some kind of really dynamic content engine where the world shifts intelligently to player action(s). The kind of thing where empty zones will slowly increase in danger (and loot) until they bleed out into other zones and start to threaten the "safe" areas in the game, a world where the environment figures out where players are massing and sends AOE casters to take them out en masse. Where the game AI at least looks like it's trying to win and it's not just an amusement park. I don't know if such a thing is possible, but I'd love to try it.
I also want to say one thing in the defense of the whiners - CCP did absolutely shit job with communicating the Triglavian threat, didn't provide almost any in-game tools (initially) to facilitate not bumping into them, and made some really shitty mechanic decisions (i.e. Steve, however awesome he might be, was so fucking op. It was fun to hear laser go bzzt though). On the other hand, blackout was communicated clearly, both scope and duration of it, though without too much of a notice. Those whiners have no excuse and deserve to be obliterated.