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Oh, right, I missed that, I'm sorry! I didn't think about the skinned versions on both sides c:
Well CCP, time to speed up that design philosophy where it was said you want to give T2 hulls more distinction, like the look fo Stealth Bombers.
I mean, sure, in the end it will never matter because when is a fight ever decided by a person looking at the visual ship instead of the overview?

We need a tooltip for that, I had no idea.

The 1.3 patch notes indicates that it was a bug that the notification for setting up a tower in sov space did not trigger a notification to the sov entity when the TCU is active.

Once this bug is fixed, when exactly this notification stops being sent to the TCU owner?
When the TCU is reinforced?
When a new alliance take ownership of the TCU?
...

Well I hope this is the right thread for this.

This system has promise - but right now it's suffering from something EVE suffers from far too much already; it's just not fun. If you want this system to have credibility and bring players back or get them involved in nullsec this system needs to be iterated on and done so rapidly.

The main, most genuine problem with this whole thing is that it is far too easy to entosis something (offensively or defensively) with no consequence. A huge majority of entosis ships I've seen are solo interceptors/nano cruisers who, on any sign of danger, simply run.

In my opinion, if you are going to entosis something you should 100% expect be tackled and get into a fight.

Isn't that the whole point? Generate *FUN* content by putting people in space doing stuff? Well I'm just going to be blunt, chasing interceptors around a constellation is not fun. At all. If an alliance gets a notification that something is being reinforced, they should be able to undock, head to the spot, and fully expect to see something they are able to catch and engage. If an attacker is trying to take a system they've reinforced, they should fully expect to be able to catch and engage any defender entosising a command node. Whether or not either side wins said engagement...well that's where the best part of EVE comes in.

The kiting/speed meta (that is already EVERYWHERE in EVE) of entosis ships is going to punish people trying to play this system.

While an Entosis Link is active, the cycle time on a mwd should be reduced from 10 seconds to 1 second. This would mean it would be impossible to perma-run some super fast kiting ship while still allowing close range brawler fits to still burst mwd on top of targets if needed. LINK

Yes.

I expect a lot from Fozziesov, but at the moment it has a severe flaw.

The new system is meant to drive conflict, but when one side refuses to play, we are back to a boring grind.

I would like that the velocity with witch something is entosized, instead of linear, increases each cycle.

If there is an active defender that breaks my lock, it is going to take me the original time, incremented by more warm up cycles.
If they don't come, the 65 minutes maximum time could be reduced to something like 15 minutes.




Also, vulnerable systems that are not attacked could revert to the defender by the end of the vulnerability window. The universe is filling with half contested system.

Have you participated in a whack a mole event yet? Might explain why there are so many 'half contested systems".

I wonder;
A couple of hours shooting a TCU with a fleet
VS
4+ hours of running around a constellation with entosis links, avoiding getting shot.

Which sounds more fun?

Really, there has to be a better way.

Uncontested / undefended timers should stay vulnerable until a result. Reverting back to defender simply means the defender has to do nothing to "win". If they stay vulnerable, it forces someone to defend in their tz or risk losing it while they are asleep.
If a timer is uncontested and it goes outside the alliances vulnerability time, 1 single node should spawn so those willing to do the grind aren't forced to spend hours hopping around an undefended constellation. The time commitment for players with Fozziesov is huge, creates boredom, leads to lack of "want" to log in.

I have now experienced a number of Fozzie sov capture events and fought against small and large fleets to defend and attack.

I would like to suggest that there should be a 2 day period of invulnerability following a successful defence, during which no further attacks can take place.

This would prevent the "drive-by" or nuisance attacks that can occur where attackers have no real intention of contesting at the command node stage and which tie defenders down to no purpose.

Overall, enjoying the new sov mechanics.

I have had two experiences with the capture the flag mechanic for grabbing a system or defending, and multiple little skirmishes with folks trying to hack a station service.

I am not sure yet how I feel about the whole system, but one thing I definitely think needs to happen is that running an entosis link should be like a cyno or entering into siege mode. You should not be able to warp off until you cancel an entosis link and then wait out a timer.