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Please reduce the number of SOV timers

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Xeno Szenn
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#221 - 2016-03-23 07:02:23 UTC
Getting rid of the sov map would create a truly occupy sov situation. if you have the strength then you own it if not then rip. I don;t think it's the right answer though planting a flag on the map is important so some people in this game. mabey just have a tcu no sov upgrades and all that just you can put your flag here now protect it kind of deal.
Hello Meza
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#222 - 2016-03-23 07:11:15 UTC
Reiisha wrote:
I was thinking, why not remove the sovereignty mechanic outright? I feel too many mechanics are necessary *just* to decide the color of the map.


This.

You can still have colour on the map based on who "lives" and "works" where and how much. There is still no reason other than colour on a map to actually have sov.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#223 - 2016-03-23 10:49:50 UTC
Aiwha wrote:
Practice implies you get better at thing. You're starting to lose timers, so you might want to rethink how you're "practicing".

If you mean initial timers, 20 minutes is incredibly short. It's easier to let those go and respond to the finals which are on a schedule, than scramble to get people there in the last few minutes of an initial hack. The initials are gimmes.
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#224 - 2016-03-23 13:05:26 UTC
Eli Stan wrote:
Get rid of sovereignty as a formal game mechanic. In other words, delete TCUs from the game.
There would be of course many many repercussions of such a move - but it's the ultimate form of Occupancy SOV.


Leave the TCU there but just make it and the I-HUB ownership flip according to what happens in a system. PvP kills, PvE, mining, everything. THen it really become an occupancy based SOV system instead of this abortion where occupancy only really give you a bonus for the flag capping real game.
Barrogh Habalu
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#225 - 2016-03-23 14:09:45 UTC
Frostys Virpio wrote:
Leave the TCU there but just make it and the I-HUB ownership flip according to what happens in a system. PvP kills, PvE, mining, everything. THen it really become an occupancy based SOV system instead of this abortion where occupancy only really give you a bonus for the flag capping real game.

There is a downside to IHUB flipping mech the way I see it - it doesn't incentivise people to blow the thing up except in situation when people who invade a system aren't looking forward to settling there. I'm not sure if hardware not going boom more often is within EVE philosophy and/or economical model.

On a side note, when CCP declared sov changes, I was actually expecting this kind of thing instead of what we have ended up with.
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#226 - 2016-03-25 00:10:16 UTC
Barrogh Habalu wrote:
Frostys Virpio wrote:
Leave the TCU there but just make it and the I-HUB ownership flip according to what happens in a system. PvP kills, PvE, mining, everything. THen it really become an occupancy based SOV system instead of this abortion where occupancy only really give you a bonus for the flag capping real game.

There is a downside to IHUB flipping mech the way I see it - it doesn't incentivise people to blow the thing up except in situation when people who invade a system aren't looking forward to settling there. I'm not sure if hardware not going boom more often is within EVE philosophy and/or economical model.

On a side note, when CCP declared sov changes, I was actually expecting this kind of thing instead of what we have ended up with.


If you have to do something meaningful in that system to work toward the ownership of it, stuff will end up going boom at some point unless the space is not worth the effort. If the space isn't worth the effort, then you have a different problem on your hands to deal with.
Tiddle Jr
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#227 - 2016-03-25 10:30:50 UTC
Not sure but if someone decided to hold the territory and consider himself as a land lord later on this would automatically means that someone else would think of to take that territory as well. So here we have this conflict of interests which lead both sides to have a deal or fight. Having limited period of time during which one the territory vulnarable for capture is a complete nonsence. Same thing about that a small gang of rookie ships mounted with single module could 'destabilize' the whole system by opening doors for invaders. This type of sov is a cancer. The disease which tend people to collaborate under 'blue doughnut' or let the land go into someone else hands.

"The message is that there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know" - CCP

CBBOMBERMAN
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#228 - 2016-03-25 16:12:33 UTC
Tiddle Jr wrote:
Not sure but if someone decided to hold the territory and consider himself as a land lord later on this would automatically means that someone else would think of to take that territory as well. So here we have this conflict of interests which lead both sides to have a deal or fight. Having limited period of time during which one the territory vulnarable for capture is a complete nonsence. Same thing about that a small gang of rookie ships mounted with single module could 'destabilize' the whole system by opening doors for invaders. This type of sov is a cancer. The disease which tend people to collaborate under 'blue doughnut' or let the land go into someone else hands.


blue donut existed for years way before new sov. New sov is not related at all to the blue donut. Infact the new sov has changed space completely. All you have to do is open veritas sov and see the big difference between north and south. The blue donut only really exist in the north now..
Tiddle Jr
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#229 - 2016-03-25 22:03:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Tiddle Jr
double post

"The message is that there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know" - CCP

Tiddle Jr
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#230 - 2016-03-25 22:05:07 UTC
CBBOMBERMAN wrote:
Tiddle Jr wrote:
Not sure but if someone decided to hold the territory and consider himself as a land lord later on this would automatically means that someone else would think of to take that territory as well. So here we have this conflict of interests which lead both sides to have a deal or fight. Having limited period of time during which one the territory vulnarable for capture is a complete nonsence. Same thing about that a small gang of rookie ships mounted with single module could 'destabilize' the whole system by opening doors for invaders. This type of sov is a cancer. The disease which tend people to collaborate under 'blue doughnut' or let the land go into someone else hands.


blue donut existed for years way before new sov. New sov is not related at all to the blue donut. Infact the new sov has changed space completely. All you have to do is open veritas sov and see the big difference between north and south. The blue donut only really exist in the north now..


Its just confirms that CCP doesn't know how to manage null sec ownreship properly. And goons the only ones who manage to succesfully control huge territory under imperium's vings. And XiX. Brothers of Tangra and Northen Associates spaces been left for good by their landlords. And these landlords are attacking goons now only for fun or either content but not to hold their sov. Cause both pl/nc said after aegis that they don't interested in sov.

"The message is that there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know" - CCP

Xeno Szenn
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#231 - 2016-03-26 02:03:40 UTC
there have been a ton of good fights recently and a few things have highlighted the strength of fozie sov. Small groups working away from the main fleets. Fights going down almost nightly including large engagements. neither side commiting to fights they will obviously lose. All in all so far the system seems to work. i don;t know how it works on a large scale yet but on a small scale it seems to work quite well. I am really interested in seeing what citdels brinig to the mix. also Lucas Kell and Rain6637 it's been a ton of fun chatting and debating with you. I hope we can have more conversations about game mechanics and keep the discussion going.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#232 - 2016-03-26 03:08:42 UTC
My mind turns to you (PL) when it comes to citadels. Right now yeah you have sov but will the docking rights to supers entice PL to commit to a citadel and fill it with stuff?
Xeno Szenn
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#233 - 2016-03-26 04:00:10 UTC
i'm not anyone in PL but i don't think it would to be honest. It's hard to be nomadic when you have to defend assets all over. If you could cyno over the entire map again potentially but witht he current way we move in eve it would take away our nomadic lifestyle. Like i said i'm no one and could be 100 percent wrong.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#234 - 2016-03-26 06:58:20 UTC
I was on a fleet multiboxing entosis links tonight. I need some time to compose myself.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#235 - 2016-03-27 04:19:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Rain6637
Rain6637 wrote:
I was on a fleet multiboxing entosis links tonight. I need some time to compose myself.

Dear CCP,

You know how Thera failed to become the "Mos Eisley of EVE" without Concord because it's way too dangerous to appeal to industrialists? In the same way, Entosis fails to appeal to players who aren't willing to make EVE a full-time job.

By participating in Entosis gameplay I feel as though I'm betraying the playerbase with "but activity has increased."

It feels like you're trying to make social gameplay harder to maintain in spite of you. Your notions of what gameplay should be are out of touch and we are literally using the act of playing as punishment against each other.





Open up Jove space held by CCP alliance for a week and see what it's like to maintain Entosis sov. Even if you fail, I would give you credit for having experienced this epically disjointed gameplay.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#236 - 2016-03-27 04:27:34 UTC
Do it on Sisi and give Polaris frigates a 400% bonus to entosis minute effectiveness, idgaf.
Tiddle Jr
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#237 - 2016-03-27 04:33:23 UTC
It appeared that Entosis module one of the most powerfull tools in Eve which makes people think that they got almost thumb of god in their hands or makes it feel Eve your second home full of assets which you have to protect or take care of which in the end makes it full time asssignment.

"The message is that there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know" - CCP

Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#238 - 2016-03-27 04:43:12 UTC
Considering an AFK Vexor can entosis a structure in 20 minutes, by hypothetical DPS that means a structure now has

300 DPS x 60seconds x 20 minutes = 360,000 EHP
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#239 - 2016-03-27 04:44:35 UTC
Better do it AFK though or else you'll lose your damn mind, potentially a fleet at a time.

I can't imagine a better way to dare your playerbase to stage a mass exodus but I'm sure you'll surprise me.
Sister MaryElephant
Stellar Conundrum
#240 - 2016-03-27 05:22:41 UTC
Mmmmmm Goon tears.
Took ten years but the JV1V syndrome bites you in the ass when ya actually have to fight.
good luck...have fun......

Lol