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it does not require the whole of goonswarm federation to contest someone else's sov

we send EUTZ to go wreck nerds and leave USTZ home to defend

easy peasy

I cannot deny the viability, or lack of, in many of the systems in null. However, I am confident that this will be addressed as well in the coming months. This more than just SOV, It's about null overall.

CCP stated goal creates a catch 22.

Any system that allows "a very small group of players in virtually any ship types should be able to completely conquer an undefended system with a few ~10-30 minute sessions spread across a few days" is a system that is open to trolling.

Any counter to trolling (prohibitively expensive modules, big ships needing escorts, etc) will also be a counter to "a very small group of players in virtually any ship types completely conquering an undefended system with a few ~10-30 minute sessions spread across a few days".

I know it's a heresy these days but I think it's time to say sov is not for a small group (as in, a very small group of players in virtually any ship types). We already have multiple areas of space where small groups thrive, its not like they can't play the game. Especially if shoehorning these small groups in means abandoning common sense and elegant design. We can have a nice middle ground in between tidi blobs and ceptor gangs.

Exactly, either scale by number of members or by number of systems/contellations/regions...

THEN provide sov bonuses only for the actual holding alliance members.

If you want to splinter into separate alliances to restrict it to 4hr windows then you need to split your defensive and line members across each alliance as well. Sure they can keep all blued coalitions but it forces them into localised fragments.

Tar-Palantir is a pretty much life long member of Evolution. That means he has been in BoB, IT, INIT, 401K, and now NCdot alliances. All of them had different ways of fighting, scale, and approaches to the Sov side of Null-Sec. What most had in common is that they fought Wars. Not fights, not battles, but Wars and all that comes with it - the logistics, the attacks, counter attacks, new strategies, new doctrines, new allies, new enemies, months and months of constant fighting towards a *goal*. That is Tar-Palantir's passion. Whether NCdot holds sov or not Tar-Palantir doesn't care per se - as long as NCdot still fights Wars Tar-Palantir will remain active. So what he wants most out of a Sov system is something that allows not just fighting, not just roaming gangs, but Wars. For that to work, the Attacker must be able to threaten stuff effectively, but the Defender must also be confident enough in their ability to defend their Sov that they invest in their Sov space and put assets there. With that investment there, when an attacker comes, it is worth fighting to defend rather than just running away.

Being Tar-Palantir, his thoughts about the new Sov system turned into a rather massive Wall of Text™. Such a massive Wall of of Text™ isn't a good fit for a forum discussion - it just chews up too much space. So instead of inserting the whole thing here it is publish on EN24 as those type of sites make more sense for something that long and wordy.

External link to EN24 article - http://evenews24.com/2015/03/05/tar-palantirs-take-on-the-proposed-sovereignty-changes/

So that you'll have a slight idea what Tar-Palantir is talking about he will put a VERY brief summary of some of the main points here. You have the main article link if that interests you.

1. The risk/resources/benefit structure is very heavily tilted in favor of the attacker. It doesn't mean the attacker will always win, just that the attacker can put forth minimal effort and resources - low risk - and cause massive problems/grief for the defender.

2. Properly executed Blitzkrieg attacks even between = number alliances can result in the defender looking at losing most/all of their Sov in a 3 day time span based on about 6-7 hours of game play.

3. The Prime Time vulnerability Window is very, very, very limiting.

4. Removing the Prime Time Vulnerability window makes being the defender utter insanity and more than a little frustrating.

6. (yes, skipping 5) - Large numbers are even more critical than ever for defense. Small powers can threaten and even take Sov due to the imbalances mentioned in #1, but they are very unlikely to be able to hold it.

Some Sov ideas/concepts mostly from the old POS system that Tar-Palantir considers useful for thinking about the design of a Sov system. Yes, Tar-Palantir believes the old POS system, for all its flaws, was far better than both Dominion Sov and this new proposal.

In the end, the defenders will assign the boring tasks of Sov defense to their alts - like always.

And this may be something that CCP will have to visit as a potential issue. But for the time being, and from my perspective, I view all of this as a good thing with excellent potential for new strategies like:

Forced diplomacy, more small gang roams, system ransoms (lol) etc. Either way, those of us who are on the forums with a box of lemons trying to make lemonade ( with some whiskey ) are doing exactly what CCP wants us to do as players. And that is: Come up with new and exciting ways to keep OUR game moving forward into the next ten years. This is EVE.

Xenuria for CSM, now more than ever.

Your having a laugh aren't you, I cant think of any of the big blocs who haven't got a mortal game enemy that has literally been after them for years, hell the two largest blocs are that enemy to each other, and beyond that they each have further dedicated enemies thats only purpose is to see them fail. 2 weeks is seriously nothing to us guys, previous sov wars have active wars that last for months and months and grudges that NEVER stop.

Best way to stop the troll tactic, BC hull and above.
If a new group cant field a few BC's, then they clearly cant move the tcu/ihub/pos's that MUST go with holding sov, and it automatically stops nullified ships being troll worthy, and brings much needed value to BC and BS hulls. Hell new groups might even figure out what boosts are about if a BC is the ship they must look at for a starting point.

those wars lasted 4 months because the pilots in them could sleep during their own RL 'night time'. Eve used to be about alarm clocking and it used to also be about burn out and disbanding alliances.

Why do people seem to think making 0.0 a job is a good idea? why does the workload to play a game have to be so high? And more than anything else why on gods earth did they choose to build a 'fix' model on an area of 0.0 renowned for being filled with people who dont have a clue?