Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Is it true that using a Entosis Link on a sovereignty structure will NOT display any notifications to the players of the alliance owning the structure unless they are in the system under attack? Because, if so, it would highly disengage players from defending their space rather than engage them to undock and go defend their space.
Some big alliances will used their existing IT infrastructure to query the API for such events, but even so, this information will probably be 10 minus late, if even available to normal players (think FC, Directors, CEO only). While there is the question whether you want small scale sovereignty attacks to be dependable with or without FCs, in order to get more people engaged, the attack notifications should be instantaneous and to all players in the alliance owning the structure under attack.

if the entosis module actually applied these maluses to the host ship then this conversation would be much different

but post #1 does not promise any of these things actually happening, so barring another 2 hour interview where they announce these critical details we are forced to assume they are not coming

You can't target while cloaked and you can't warp with entosis link active.

we can argue against a hilariously overpowered game feature while simultaneously being in the best position in the game to resist it

yes, it's so occupied that we alert each other when you try to show up, then we dock up the easy prey and you flee before the actual fighting ships can show up

or you don't and then you get ground into a fine paste while we laugh at you

basically it's not deklein is unused, it's that we're much better at the game than you are

except generate so many more timers that the pure chaff makes targeting the actual point of defense impossible

i'm fine with this chaff occurring due to a force of skilled but theoretically interdictable (read: not bubbles necessarily) folks coming around to **** up sov space

i think interceptors being able to do it is grossly overpowered

This plz

holy nonsequitor batman

i am talking about deklein density here, not your objectively wrong pvp opinions

when you "hell camp" us...we just move...or take out another fleet and just leave you to sit and watch an empty station... here come the threats of "hell camp" number? 10 now maybe more? how many titans was it last time 12? camping us?

perhaps if you took the same amount of effort to "hell camp" your OWN systems..you would have already divised a plan to defend your SOV :)

These types of statements are so blown out of realistic proportions that they have little merit except in an extreme case.

If I had 98 systems and 38 stations I would have about 10 interceptors spread around my area during my prime time, that could respond to attacks and determine if they were real. That is 40 man hours for an alliance with thousands of players. The initial cycle time is just how long it takes to start a capture. If you are active in the systems you occupy you will have 30-40 minutes to respond before you a loss. Plenty of time to get your own scout or ceptor there to pause the capture.

If you argue that an enemy could bring in 200 ships to attack multiple systems, then you are talking about an invasion of 200 ships. Yes you will need to rally greater numbers and secure your space. That is what responding to a coordinated attack is about. Only difference from before is it was all blobbed into one system and now it can be spread all over. New tactics will be needed to new threats. FCs might be assigning 2-3 man teams to 1,2,3 systems as an anti-skirmish tactic. It will require more work on individual pilots and less F1 pressing.

The result will be skilled numbers can beat larger unskilled numbers. Dominance over ones sov will spread beyond being able to defend a couple of systems at a time with vast numbers. Those numbers will need to be able to defend multiple systems simultaneously. The advantage to the defenders, is having 30 minutes to respond allows small gang style of clearing out a system and moving to the next when you are dealing with 1-2 attackers in a system. The advantage to the attacker is choosing what systems to target.

Yes you will need to have enough numbers to counter an attack, but that is not new. I can imagine an anti-skirmish crew of 5-6 ships (designed to catch and destroy fast ships) moving through sov space quickly enough that they could destroy 10 solo attackers in 5 different systems before losing sov. Add in a couple solo stall ships that ran ahead and jammed, or link paused the attacker and the small gangs can be very powerful against this OMG trollceptor fleets ruined my life concept.

Yes having to have several anti-skirmish gangs will create new doctrines in the short term. But once trollceptor fleets are a waste of time and money all the new tactics involving fleets come into play.