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A multitude of the #'s are pretty wrong. By wrong I mean clearly disproportionate to how much effort defenders have to put in vs random reaver/inty gangs. This heavily favors larger alliances with squads and the ability to run 3-4 interceptor fleets at a time. It also heavily favors attackers griefing smaller alliances out of their stations through freeport/hellcamp/shutting down the entire region.

You have a scenario here where any big player can blow out a smaller alliance from an entire region inside the weekly cycle most people login. Do you really want to chain people to their space as part of an EVE job or do you want to spread it out a bit so they have time to mount an effective response? One of the good things about Dominion SOV is that it makes it take approximately a week to punt someone from a single area much less an entire region. This gives slightly more weekly/casual players the time to react and participate in their defense.

I would suggest making the freeport after a 2nd timer and in general making sure things aren't "dead" after a single reinforcement fight. This is going to make the meta just a big hammer against random parts of space and watching anyone small get obliterated as a past time.

All of the timers probably need at least a doubling as well. There is really no incentive to hold SOV for defense bonus's if we are talking about adding 20 minutes to a cap. The rest of the indexes need to matter. The fact that there is almost 0 Industry indexes ground up as a regional whole is pretty telling. Mining needing fixing is another whole blog though.

This does nothing to make those very "buffer zones" referred to in the blog any better. The reason they are buffer zones is not because they are some EHP buffer. I have no idea why Fozzie is referring to them that way but that is a dramatic misunderstanding of why they exist. They are total crap space with no real ability to be upgraded, generate income, or provide any real ability to support someone living there. They are the EVE equivalent of flyover states that you only transit to get somewhere good.

Finally, I would probably reduce the beacons to 3. Since this is tunable fairly easily, I would assume, you can start by breaking up the fights into 3 areas and seeing what impact that has. 5 is strongly biased against smaller players or those that don't want to have EVE by a job more than it already is.

Summary: This is so weighted to attacking and not the defenders I do not believe it will promote the real growth and sandcastle building you want. Instead it means anyone organized, big, and with manpower is going to grief the living crap outta smaller players. Reavers were already pretty laffo, but this is going to stick it into overdrive. Not the fight promoting overdrive either but the AFK cloaking until you have an opportunity to grief kind. You are making the same mistake you made with non-fight promoting siphons.

That sounds great on paper. lets bookmark this discussion and see how it really plays out?

This again. Wormholes =\= null, there are no cynos in WH, you can close off your neighboors in WH, you have more control over the geography in WH.

Thus, just removing local would be counterproductive

Are CCP and the CSM gonna wait until page 100 to acknowledge anything written here?

I'll agree with a fair amount of people who have voiced their concerns about the whole question around WHY we should own the space. Although a linear ISK kick back that some here suggested may not be a complete reward imo. ISK just leads to grinding once you have a system figured out. It has to enable you to have some new kind of fun regardless of the rewards too. Rewards... plural... because it's not always everybody's ideal world to get tied up on any one thing.

I realize of course that CCP Seagull's presentation a year ago hinted strongly that there's going to be new and exciting things like stargates involved after these particular changes. But perhaps we should have some glimpse of how this design ties into that vision to motivate the brains trusts of the alliances to evolve into and start moving.

The whole seeker > drifter build up was engaging enough to excite some speculation. Liked watching that develop.

I'm cautiously optimistic to see how this pans out.

Why should they axiomatically be at risk? The whole point of nullsec is that risk is provided by the players. If some tiny little alliance hops in a cruiser fleet and nibbles off some forsaken buffer system that nobody cares about from some giant renter empire, why should they be forced to confront some huge risk? That's the controlling alliance's job, and if the system is forsaken and empty then they're not doing their job.

This system is designed to make sure that unused systems are low-hanging fruit. Whether it pans out is another question, but all the people who want there to be some giant barrier to taking an empty backwater are failing to understand that that's one of the fundamental problems with the system we have now.

First of all without sov I can place POS's around the area no instant report, second thing is that I can make it a pain, put the TCU next to a death star, keep putting up a TCU, you have to be prepared to stick at it if you want space. Hell if one of the big entities came in and took down my system I would just let them get on with it, but when they left back at it. You have to be tenacious, this is the key thing even if you had will power with the current system, you get flattened, with this system being a royal pain in the butt means something.

I dont think the horror has set in yet as to what this system means for small "elite" groups and ping-based alliances that relied on one BIG TIMER to bring supers or slowcats to.

If it's "actively used space" you should be able to defend it within 10 minutes.

If it's a war front, perhaps you might, I dunno call me crazy, stage a defensive fleet nearby to prevent it being flipped straight after you capped it giving you time to raise the indices?

If it takes half an hour to get to the target system, you live too far from the target system