EVE General Discussion

This is a theoretical what if statement:

How would the landscape of nullsec change if your alliance controlled outpost could no longer deny docking rights, med bay, and repair services to other players based on standings...

i think then there would be less incentive in building them or owning them!

but I think it would be awesome alliances would have more isk generation from sales taxes etc..


i think it would add a cool dynamic to the game!

but it doesnt make much sence for a red pilot be able to dock at your station now does it!

dunno rly see good bits and bad "not logical" but lets see

Look to NPC nullsec. Endless docking games and station camps. Wow. Talk about fun.

OP I see your point but I am not sure if it would make enough of a difference I would rather see SOV pushed down to corps levels and allow the corporation to control there space.

There is too much dependency on alliances right now or should I say being in an alliance should give you some bonuses but it shouldn't lock you down like it does now.

alliances should be created cause it is convient for the time. Not the end result.

I don't think this would change anything.... Would you rather your neighbor be blue or Hostile? In general, people will group together for strength and eliminate any nearby hostiles... This change makes it much more difficult to remove those hostiles..

what if you never locked the door to your house.
your neighbours would be able to waltz in and out as they please.
this makes no sense to me.

In that situation, perhaps the option to allow only blues and greys to dock while prohibiting reds from doing so would be a good option.

If I can just pass through as a neutral and can't dock up for a moment to take a break, why should I even bother going out to nulsec?

Well the thing is that sov null doesn't really "work" all that well in terms of numbers of players involved there.

NPC null tends to work a bit more like sov null should work - in terms of having almost functional markets when you compare them to empire.

I do know that sov null has its own "hubs" and corp/alliance inventors/etc but a very large proportion of outposts are dead. Nothing much happens in them other than a few people ratting/docking and logging. Oh and no they're not off on a "roadtrip" to other sov, its usually like that.

It's boring is the real tl;dr. More people docking at outposts = more activity = more fun.

Its obviously not as simplistic as I've made out here but I'm not doing a wall of text.

Yeah, because station games are soooo fun. Have you ever been in NPC nullsec?

I spent a years living in NPC nullsec, I've regularly found excellent small gang and solo fights there. I personally think you have a very skewed view from your "limited" travels through the regions.

"it's just blobbing" -- Really???? You don't find "even" fights in most of EvE, but that doesn't mean most fights are blobs...

My definition of blobbing is when one side engages with such overwhelming force that all the "sport" is removed and we're left with shooting fish in a barrel.

For example...
If your 4v1 consists of 4 AF's vs a hurricane... this could be a fun and interesting battle, far from "blobbing". Sure, the cane will probably lose, but if he's fit right, he'll probably take 2 of his opponents with him!

If your 4v1 is a falcon, a scimi, a vigilant, and a Cynabal vs that hurricane, then this is simply a gank. They'll immobilize and nullify the cane taking all the "fight" out of the engagement.

Solo is not as rare as you may think.... Most of the PvP I engage in is solo and small gang oriented, and learning when to fight, when to run is part of the game. Yesterday I took my Vexor on a Solo Roam through 5 Regions of Russian space, killing a ratting Maelstrom, a hulk, a Raven, a Cynabal, and died trying to solo a hurricane.... This proposal is simply to increase target density... People don't like to travel through 50 systems to find targets...and the current Sov Mechanics make it way to easy to push out any hostiles in the area, leaving Sov Nullsec mostly barren, interspersed by the occasional "hotspot". Why not open it up?