User:Uryence/sandbox
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Personal goals on the wiki:
- 'Gate camps' needs to be rationalized and updated
- ditto the 'fitting a ship worked example' page.
- The free-standing projectile ammo page needs TLC
- Topology is good but should introduce general concepts (pipe, chokepoint, pocket, and nods to wormholes and filaments; jump distance vs gate distance; significance of in-system warp distances), and focuses on highsec (EVE's least interesting and weirdest kind of space)
- Forming fleets in EVE University badly needs to be brought up to date with current practice.
- Kvasir
Personal goals for the teaching dept:
- Class library revitalised
- Class taxonomy revised
- Retool Careers class
- Spool up reactions class
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A pipe is a linear chain of systems each containing only two gates. The navigation of targets and hunters within a pipe is predictable, and pipes can be used to trap a fleet.
A chokepoint is a single system through which players must pass to make a desirable move between one area and another. Many of the links between different sorts of space (e.g. high security space to low security space, or low security space to nullsec) are chokepoints. From the perspective of high-sec suicide gankers, there are also chokepoints on common trade routes within high-security space. Uedama is one notorious chokepoint on high-security trade routes.
A pocket is a cluster of systems which can only be entered from one direction, usually through one chokepoint or pipe. It is possible to seal off a pocket for gate-to-gate travel using a gate camp. EVE University's Null-Sec Campus is based in a pocket within Syndicate, with PC9-AY as its only entrance.
An island is an area of one type of space wholly surrounded by another type of space. The region of Solitude contains several high-security islands surrounded by low-security and null-security space; these are harder to get to than the core of high-security empire space, but for that very reason they can be conveniently quiet. Ahbazon is a notable single-system low-security island in high-security space, presenting a tempting and extremely dangerous short-cut for high-security trade.
Since gate-to-gate travel is not the only kind of mobility in New Eden, players cannot wholly seal off a pocket or a pipe. Filaments and wormholes allow pilots to circumvent obstacles, randomness permitting, while jump drives mean that a pilot with a pre-prepared ally able to light a cyno can teleport into any low- or null-security known-space system which isn't cyno-jammed.
Jumps versus gates
Jump drive range is calculated based on the straight-line distance between systems, in light-years. The gate network does not neatly map onto straight-line distances. Some systems which are close in gate-to-gate terms, being only a few jumps apart to a ship travelling by gate, might be relatively distant in light years; equally, some systems which are physical "close" to each other in straight-line light-year measurements might be rather more distant in gate-to-gate travel. Furthermore, a ship with a jump drive cannot jump into high security space, but can jump out of it. New Eden's topography therefore appears different, sometimes strikingly different, to a jump- or bridge-capable ship.
