EVE General Discussion

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~ Bumble X

It works a damned sight better than the two systems we had before that, that's for sure. It's not perfect, but it works, and it helps break the idea that in order to hold space you need more guys than the next group of bros.

Sov is just a game mechanic, not reality. A greater game reality would have the gates themselves be made and controlled by players, attackable and such. While such a 'reality' would be achieveable it would create a very unfair and unbalanced universe. It would polarize the issues that Empire Space and Non-Empire space have right now, which are bad enough as it is (at least to me).

Yes, Sov is very clunky and inelegant. CCP should sit down with the Council and a couple of groups of players to hammer out a better system, but the one that's in place works... just not all that smoothly.

That would be good in theory, but i know what will happen : they will only sit and discuss with players from null sec, enforcing a system which will further prevent high sec and low sec people to create their own independant community in null. True, the sov map looks better than one year ago, but it's still all about big alliances renting and blackmailing. Wspace is a better sovereignty model imho.

Wasn't the thinking here that the little guys will now be able to hold Sov and defend it much better? From what I can see the blob still wins.

no.
vulnerability windows is a piece of dog sh.t some sick CCP brain invented and does feel all but naturally and intuitively.

attack on sov should be possible at all times, not just few hours of defenders prime time.

Couldn't agree more with you. But I doubt they will admit that it was the wrong thing to do and go back to the old system.

My outside-looking-in take on the evolution of Sovereignty is; they've tried to make it a game within a game. At first, you found a place, set up a large edifice, then if someone didn't like you there, they'd come shoot your edifice, (which apparently took a very long time with a lot of huge guns and wasn't any fun!)

SO, they tried to turn it into a capture the flag game within a game. Set up some sort of more vulnerable central edifice with a lot of attendant extras to complicate matters. This didn't really take hold since everybody was playing EVE, not Capture The Flag.

THEN, somebody got the idea they'd hire one of us. Naturally, they picked someone who's highly vocal (without regard to the fact those kind of people rarely have any remarkable skills or abilities) and let THIS person design a game-within-a-game for us. We started out with entosis links, and wound up with HUGE stationary ships.

Nobody really knows what the idea behind the game is anymore. So, if you don't, you're not the Lone Ranger. What is funny is, this isn't the only game management has lost control of and is brassing it out trying to look like they're still driving, and the thing isn't mid-flight having departed the cliff edge a couple of years ago. The list pretty much includes the MMO menu.

Fire the only devs in the world who understand how games work and are created. Hire computer science majors who're glad to have any job at all in the field. Make the corporate mentality weenies happy. Watch the black ink rise (a bit) and the game take a nose dive. We've yet to see if the industry will survive this brilliant set of decisions.

Think of it as a giant experiment to keep you paying money (not develop a game) as its goal. Will it work?
Time will certainly tell.