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What was the reasoning for rewarding the meta module names via a raffle instead of basing it on the top 4 alliances that captured the most sov?

My experiences so far with Fozziesov are mixed as are my opinions.

The first part, where you entosis the structure and the structure is reinforced. If the enemy actively maintains the indexes the system takes quite a while to take. The maintained indexes also give them a more predictable window in which they must defend the area. Its the part of the game where you kick a nest of hornets and get ready to deal with what comes, be it blob warfare, a HAC fleet or an I don't give a damn cuz its out of my timezone response.

I like this part.

The second part, where you must essentially control the majority of the constellation while your alliance captures command nodes. This encourages unconventional tactics which I get a good laugh out of, even if the limitless isk and tournament ships do drain the fun out of it to a degree.

I like this part.

Then there is the last part, this part only applies to TCUs and IHUBs, where the structure is first destroyed and then you place your own down, you have essentially bested your adversary through two differently managed stages of the vulnerability timer. But the thing that's out of place here is that assuming you own the system, you can let the attackers do whatever they want in your system for the first two timers, right up until the end where they place their own structure down, and then hotdrop with overwhelming force as soon as they drop their structure down, losing pretty much nothing in the process, resetting the process, and achiving nothing but -1 sov structure for the attackers and the need to do it all again.

I think this part is absolutely no fun at all.

CCP Fozzie I believe it was mentioned somwhere that these sov mechanics were to enable to make smaller entities able to claim sov, but this last part not only goes against that, but gives the defenders ample time to prepare all the assets for the only part of the sov warfare that even matters. In fact I'll go as far as to say that at this point the other mechanics are simply hoops to be jumped through so that this final encounter may be attempted.

That makes no sense, starting early ensures the most systems captured. You don't know how long it takes to take a large amount of systems do you?

What does that have to do with the raffle system? We have taken a lot of systems because we have people capturing nodes almost 24/7.

I think you have a poor understanding of pretty much everything :)

i think you'll find that trying to capture systems that someone is actively defending will be much harder than capturing systems now.
so if you are waiting till the last moment you might be in for a surprise

People could do that now if they wanted and just share the systems 4 way for the maximum chance to win. But currently in this test there is only 3 or 4 groups actually playing.

Only 1 alliance has actually tried to make deals with people and that was brave. Lychton blued Fcon, tried to blue darkness but they aren't playing and tried to blue PL but they said no.

From what I've seen - Orthus is the BRAVE standard issue ship on Duality :)

I'm happy to come guest FC few defense ops if that helps?

Could we please stay on topic? This was supposed to be a thread about fozziesov playtesting, not some alliance's issues on TQ or Duality.

This right here is why Brave will never amount to anything in this game. If your knee-jerk reaction is to blue everything around you then you are forever stuck in the mindset of your own inability. Yes, you can hold a lot of space that way, but at the end of the day you are just doing it wrong.