Warfare & Tactics

So I dont know if this idea has been proposed in the past, I suppose someone must have thought of it but if not I think its worth saying.

So an entity gains sovereignty in a place but what does that REALLY mean? You get your corp/alliance name under the system name but how else is it YOURS? Especially to other people in your space how does X's space differ from Y's space?

So going along with the idea of what sovreignty really means IE, we own this place and we make the rules here, just like the hisec empires make the rules in their space. but enforcing those rules is difficult.

So the hi-sec empires have navies and CONCORD to keep things in line in their space. What about a buildable navy? So for example CVA allows neutrals in their space but not their enemies or pirates who hunt in their space. So set up a set of drones who function on basic rules (Perhaps they are drones/fighters but are more expensive b/c they are autonomous. Attack people who are below a certain standing and attack an aggressor (anything which would give you a criminal tag in hisec). They will be expensive, they are designed for alliances to build. They also would disengage and warp off in the presence of alliance members on grid (to avoid them being a huge home-field advantage for the sov-holder). The same lines could apply for POS/Station guns which could be built (much as they exist in hisec) however they should likely be less powerful and more easily destructed so that a dedicated group could take them out, much in the same way a group would take out the weapons on a heavily armed POS. (also lock times should be very long so running through guns should be easy but fighting someone by them may be a bad idea)

This makes a space YOURS it really matters what rules you make. It is true that players should do this to a certain extent but eve is simply too large of a place for it to work all of the time. Of course there are ways to fight it. The roaming fleet of pirates would know that in order to pirate in CVA space I will need to have a force which can counter their "police" or be able to do a hit and run with enough speed to avoid them (just like in hisec where CONCORD has a delay before they arrive but undoubtedly longer). I think its a neat idea which really adds some meat to the idea of sov.

TL;DR: 0.0 alliances should be able to build an NPC navy similar to hi-sec to enforce their laws.

Thoughts?

The difference between player owned space and faction owned space is that the players ARE the 'Navy'. If you want to make a system your own, besides the name on the Sov, you actively defend it yourself.

Having NPCs do it, really makes your space... less yours if you think about it.

There are certainly better ways to reinforce actual ownership of 0.0 space vs a lot of empty systems but this is probably a topic for an overall revamp of 0.0 Sov, which is in a pretty bad shape at the moment.

We need NPC navies removed from eve. Not more added.

Bad idea that restricts player movement with more enforced pve.

I dont even live in null sec anymore so my alliance is non-existent.

The idea is for the times when youre not going to make an HD fleet to respond or there arent enough people. Basically this discourages single pirates from picking on lone miners/ratters and instead encourages fleets. Gets rid of the silly (and lazy) thorn in the side of an alliance. This doesnt make solo-hunting impossible. The dedicated hunter is going to be able to take out a person with relative ease and warp off before the "police" ever get there. However, the lazy AFK annoyance who stays cloaked for 19 hours and then flies to one gate in his fail-fit rifter and catches a hauler is going to have more trouble.

encourages actual THINKING. encourages fleet warfare. and makes null sec sov feel more like actual Sovereignty rather than just a word we use to mean "i erased the last guys name and stamped mine here"