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As many people I think the prime time feature feels wrong. But I am going to slap on the Devil's Advocate hat. Also, my null sec experience is limited.

One advantage is it allows smaller entities to more effectively defend their space. If you need 24/7 response times you need all TZ covered. This is not reasonable until you get some sort of critical mass. So perhaps this feature will enable smaller alliances, which might produce more targets? Easier to turn that blue to red if they are not in your alliance?

Once you don't NEED these people to cover your off hours your group might be more likely to go off on their own. And this will eventually solve the problem of people feeling they are not contributing to their alliance due to timing. They would probably navigate to alliances that meet their play style and TZ.


Now one problem this can cause, especially with the force projection nerf, is pockets of time. I would imagine the sov would eventually form into pockets of prime time separated by other pockets of time. But once this occurs, large scale/multi TZ alliances will once again be needed if people want to expand. As long as there is a reason to expand :)

Again, I agree, the prime time feature feels wrong, but perhaps it will shake things up. And it seems like that might be needed.

Because you're doing the "b-b-but my skillpoints!" fallacy line. SP doesn't mean squat if it's not properly focused.

The idea is EXACLTY to not bring HUGE fleets. Will be FAR FAR smarter to spread in several smaller fleets and hit LOTS of places at same time.


That will create opportunities for more fights of smaller size.


Will create MORE fights. Because as of now, if the attacker brings more ships, there is no fight at ALL. With new system, if attackers want to blob they must be very inneficient. If they want to be efficient they risk have one of the fraction of their fleets engaged.

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You sure that's not because CCP made a awesome trailer video and have nothing about the patch to do? At least in my alliance I seen a great dip in activaty since Phoebe and we acually do null stuff.

Linking a ship which requires sov to build, to taking sov, is an inherently flawed catch-22, and the point of how the capture mechanism is right now is that it IS easy(ish) to defend against. A titan can go in there, splort splorf its DD then ride its EHP buffer until it can receive RR again. Just no.

Yes, it's as if CCP doesn't actually want pilots to undock and engage in activities in space.

Which is another point. The fighting for sov is all very interesting, but I don't see many reasons to bother fighting for sov. Most nullsec space is virtually worthless. The best nullsec space is actually the NPC pockets with pirate level 4 missions.

I lived in Providence for a year and trying to scrape a living running anomolies was soul-destroying and I could barely afford to keep myself in pvp ships. Many anomolies are worthless, nobody ever runs them. Even the best ones don't make great isk.

Bottom up income sources in nullsec need to be buffed - a lot, because right now most space just isn't worth fighting over.

One other important point. WTF is the CSM? I haven't seem a single post from a current CSM member in this thread with an opinion on these proposals. Neither have I seem any of the candidates for CSM sharing their opinions (except for Xenuria and he doesn't count). I want to know what the nullsec candidates in particular think about all this.

Manny, Endie, Corebloodbrothers - where are you?

I think I've seen it suggested in a couple other places in this thread but I really like the idea of declaring primetime by corp, not alliance. That way whichever corps that hold sov can have their systems come out in their primetime and still get fights instead of being chained to the dominant TZ of their alliance.

Why? Why shouldn't relatively new and inexperienced people be able to give it a go in unused/undefended space? Is sov supposed to be only for the elitist few?

That's my second post in the thread.

They've created what seems to be an improvement on a system that generates and enables conflict.

But where are the farms and fields? Where is the incentive to actually live there, besides just the **** trophy of planting a flag?

As for the CSM, there are two possibilities here. Either they already knew and had their say by now, or they got caught with their pants down and haven't formulated a response yet. Pick whichever you please until someone corrects me.