Player Features and Ideas Discussion

how about instead, you fix logistics so it doesn't cause this type of stuff. I'd suggest making all remote assist mods go 'ancillary'.

irrelevants constantly seem to think that they will get to own space the larger alliances don't want

they won't

they will, instead, be buchered mercilessly if they try and the space will be left fallow because everyone loves stomping on ten highseccers who think they have what it takes

Guys I got it. Dont let the sov laser be fitted to fast, agile, nullified, uncatchable ships like an interceptor = problem solved.

Highsec and lowsec guys who say inty gangs are easily countered and have no combat viability when fitted for speed get out.

they are easily countered if they are actually scrapping for a fight

trollceptors don't do this, they just hit what they can and run away if anything at all comes on grid

yeah i gotta agree that using a third party blog site audio interview as the primary conduit for actual details regarding the new sov initiative is pretty awful

it is this hilarious situation where anyone who is interested in actually participating in the game post-summer-expansions has to scrounge all available news sites, blogs, etc to actually get the information needed while official forums/devblog communique somehow manage to spend hundreds of words saying absolutely nothing (such as post #1 in this thread)

Entross Link - just another bad idea

this is a game with ships w/weapons that blows sh*t up - PVP is about blowing sh*t up

there really is no need to discuss game mechanics about this concept - it's just a bad idea

much like timers, this is poor game play

you want to make null sec lawless and dynamic - remove SOV mechanics altogether - it's pretty clear CCP doesn't know how to keep it balanced or develop new game play dynamics

at the heart of all warfare mechanics should be PVP

eliminate stations in null sec

eliminate SOV mechanics

actually develop the POS into a workable, game play item

corps drop and defend your POS where u want it

you want a specific MOON or space - defend it or take it

Hi CCP.

Here are my 2 cents on this game and the upcoming changes extended with a few other things I dont like about EVE...

. remove 'Truesec'
A lot of space is just empty because the space is worthless. Rats are bad, no Officer spawns, low on Anoms. Remove this and people will more likely go out to fill this void. Therefore 0.0 will be attractive more. People will split out, making new corps/alliances and grinding SOV. This is how you break up the power blocks! If every 0.0 has the same sec-status all players will have their chance to pick a constellation they can live from and operate from there. Ask yourself: Why is 0.0 different from 0.0?

. re-evalute the entosis stuff
This makes no sense at all. I will not log on every day and wait for any neut to come by and try to capture SOV and fight him off... This will be a fulltime job. EVE takes too much off my free time either. So when I log on only to scare off those entosis frigs ceptors, life in 0.0 will become senseless. All we want is something between security (once you own and pay for sov), secure income, fun and fleets.

. remove jump fatigue
As I said EVE takes too much of my free time. We play this game for fun and not getting paid as you do, CCP eployees. We are paying subscriptions and your salary for a 'timer', sitting in space and cannot jump. If it goes like your believes we should quit or jobs and play EVE 20 hours a day, huh? Come on...

. time dilation
Do something! I don't care if you simply throw more hardware on it or re-evaluate the whole thing. Limit local count, do multiprocessing, load-balancing etc... Think about to remove a lot of mathematics from the game. If you cannot calculate the load in real time, your architecture/game design is wrong. Ask yourself: Do we really need thiiiiiiiiiiis complexity in the game? A module with 15 variants, implants, skills, bonus, blah blah with counter-less attributes all interacting with each other... You really thought you can calculate this in real time? For 2000 people on a grid? "Do you think this is air you are breathing?" If I want a real spaceship simulation I'd go for Kerbal Space Program! Ti-Di hits you with 50 T3 on a grid... In 2015... Nice "#MMORPG" you built...

. Interceptor Bubble Immunity
This is the worst change I have ever seen. Ceptors have their benefit. This change was overpowered. Only T3 with a subsystem can do this. Let's keep it that way...

. Dreads
What structure (ok maybe a POS once a year) should I hit with it? Combined entosis with jump fatigue makes capitals even more worthless...

. Cloakly campers
Another thing a lot of people are asking for and you simply ignore. For the love of god and our nature please do something that people cannot lock down your hard-earned and payed SOV with a single alt and cloak. Invent something like a Cloak-Jammer (like Cyno jammer) or make the cloak to use fuel. The current mechanic badly hurts in-game environment and real-life. People wasting electricity and produce carbon dioxide just to lock you down. They log in, cloak and let the computer run all day long while AFK... Make green IT CCP!


Thats all I got for now...
Cya

Does not seem too hard to counter this..just put your own entosis module on the structure...bam problem solved...

or spread a fleet of sniping corms around the structure.... insta pop ceptors....

All I see is goon tears and they are filling up my cup

We will be enjoying this new form of SOV ..and any alliances that cannot hold their sov...will naturally contract back to a point where they have the manpower to hold it.

The whole point is to end the sprawling wasteland of empty SOV space.... and this should do it. If a 30,000 man alliance cant have a few people with entosis ships on the standby to stop SOV attacks on thier structures then they dont deserve that space.

If we can't dream in a fantasy game, where can we dream?

Anyway this whole trollceptor thing is a red herring anyway, and I think most folks know it. The real interesting part is the sov capture mechanics, and we'll never see it if infrastructure elements are too easy to defend. It would be great to see an Eve where anyone is potentially at some risk of having fun.

1) Entosis links, while they are active, should warp scram the ship they are fitted to, and disable jump drives. Set the scram strength to something really high like 1000 to prevent any chance of stabbing out of it. Basically like a HIC's infini-point, but it's an infini-scram.

I foresee a meta where every alliance has to keep an alt in a Moa w/ a T1 E-link (or interceptor w/ T2) at every one of its stations/TCUs/iHubs to prevent introllceptors from lawl capping by keeping its link up during the whole of PT. Some will say "well if you can't defend your space maybe you shouldn't have it." It's one thing to have to use your space, it's another to be chained to it. What if we *gasp* want to roam? Others will say "If you can't kill an interceptor blah blah blah..." well yes you can, but it's a PITA and no one wants to be on introllceptor guard duty. The point of the new SOV system was to encourage fun, right?

If E-links self scam, MWD (and MJD) cannot be used and you won't see Svipul's and interceptors orbiting at 150km because an AB won't provide enough speed to prevent them from being sniped, or caught by a defending interceptor.


2) Entosis links should NOT give a capture speed penalty when fitted to capital ships, but they SHOULD give a cycle time multiplier so if they are used to capture, they must commit (see above how jump drives would be disabled).

Using a cycle time multiplier of 5x as an example, if a capital with a T2 E-link starts a capture, the capture process won't actually start for 10 minutes, and each time the E-link cycles that traps the capital on grid for 10 minutes.

CCP continues to gut capitals. I would like to see capitals in use in SOV warfare. By letting them capture at the normal rate, but locking them on grid if they do so (by disabling the jump drive), there's a risk/reward scenario that might encourage their use. Don't forget that a defender in an Ibis can halt the capture progress of an Aeon.