Player Features and Ideas Discussion

OCCUPANCY BASED - SYSTEM 2

The second model for sov features a point generation system. Points would be generated based on activity such as Ratting, Mining, Exploration, and possibly even production. The idea of a point system becomes quite intriguing when CCP Greyscale's comment about a system wide GDP is taken into account; if a system were created that allowed for a system wide GDP to be calculated then it would allow a huge amount of flexibility in relation to sov. Currently the sov system focuses on PvP and ignores PvE and Industry. With a system that measured GDP and that number linked to sov PvE and industrial entities within an alliance would become useful for holding space.

This occupancy sov system would center on the generation of points for player activity. Sov structures would require these points as upkeep to remain online. Points would fall into a cache for the owning alliance to allocate based on priority. For example, if a system were to come under attack and point generation was disrupted the defending alliance could choose to focus their remaining points on holding the outpost as long as possible but abandon the infrastructure hub. Since a system that was uninhabited would have no points to spend on keeping anything online a group that moved in and started to actually live and engage in economic activity there could easily install and online their own structures even if some other entity had a nominal “claim” to the space.

This system could create a need for deployable infrastructure designed to improve a specific activity like ratting or mining. These structures would be destructible, allowing attacking entities to disrupt the point generation and force the residents to fight or lose sov. Steve Ronuken made a comparison to the Encounter Surveillance System (ESS); creating more deployables such as the ESS would create a more tangible target for attackers, especially if point disruption allows them to avoid reinforcement timers. When asked a question about cloaky campers used as a method of preventing point generation CCP suggested that it is possible to restrict a ship from having a cyno and a cloak fit at the same time. However after this the discussion of the future of cloaky camping was put off for a later, unspecified, date.

Point 2 - +1 for the elegant solution to cloakys (without ruining the game for A) dedicated cloakys who go out their way to kill people will skill, B) other ships that use cloaking devices.

All for this.

((thought i would bring this to the attention of this forum (or those that might not have read about this)))