EVE General Discussion

Can't wait to see people posting about how a no lifer took their space while they were at work. Good times.

That's weird, I played for over a decade and mostly PVP. I never trained or waited to fly a super, OP doesn't speak for "us all".

You consider spamming T-1 cruisers by the hundreds or thousands just to keep an entosis stalemate going in 90% Tidi from downtime to downtime a "big, epic battle"? It sounds like the old "crash the node on purpose" days to me, just a lot slower. If you've got hundreds of ships with an active entosis link running, you have to grind through all of them fast enough that people can't re-ship and get back on grid. As long as there is at least one running, its a stalemate. It's certainly a viable tactic, with the mechanics as they are now, just like crashing or de-synching the node was back when. An "epic battle" it is not.

How about giving us the ability to move SP around as we see fit? Once every 24 hours you can take away from one skill and give to another...

Best super is a dead super.

That is very true of EVE.

Go back and read the patch notes. Unless the defenders are complete idiots, they set their "prime time" window in their prime time.

The scenario you describe won't happen.

I have. What's your issue? Unless it's changed since I read it, one link from the aggressor, and one link from the defender, count. If the aggressor has one active, and the defender doesn't, progress toward capture is made. If both have one active, it's a stalemate.

99 bottles of beer on the wall. 99 bottles of beer. If one of those bottles should happen to fall... 98 bottles of beer on the wall. All a defender with sufficient numbers has to do is keep at least 1 link active. If you can spam cheap ships and re-ship faster than they're being killed, you're golden. You don't have to worry about the capture the 10 nodes part. It'll never come to that.

One might think that sov warfare would be all about the fun. It never has been. A constant in sov warfare over the years has been being crafty about making it as boring, frustrating, and tedious for your opponent as possible. The design of fozziesov has some pretty big holes in it in that regard. If it was intended to make sov warfare more fun and exciting, it's got a lot of potential to miss that mark.

Did read it. Did you? It does not say that if a ship that is running an entosis link is killed, that another one has to run for a full cycle after the first one dies before it is active. It just says that they require a one cycle warm up. If you and I are both running one, and you die, does mine take effect immediately as long as it's been running for at least a cycle, or does it not, for a cycle? They might mean the latter, but they did not say that. If it did work that way, spamming them wouldn't be very effective, of course. An attacker would still be able to grind you down.

As to cost, are you shlitting me? Don't know if you've noticed, but mudflation is rampant in Eve these days. The larger entities welp Rattlesnakes and Dreads, ffs. What makes you think welping cheap entosis fits would ever become a cost issue?

Yes. If you ever make it through the reinforcement cycles, in the defender's prime time, you've got the constellation wide battle to contend with. If you're facing a coalition with a five figure member base, your chances of pushing it that far, if they can spam you to death, isn't very great.

Nobody knows for certain what's going to happen. It does make it interesting. At the same time, there are design holes in the system, and Eve players have proven themselves very willing and able to exploit those.

It is pretty dumb, however lets look at the evidence at hand: Fozzie and Rise's complete inability to balance ships above small gang levels.