EVE General Discussion

CCP focus on PvE, shiny things, WiS, and general care bear things this summer.

So basically, you want ccp to make sweeping changes to a large portion of code without much guidance on what change would work and be liked. Those changes must be finished, tested, player tested, and be released 6 months even though there are already on going design changes that have been planned, approved, and assigned resources.

You really don't want much, do you?

Look, I think we all feel sov mechanics need work. However, to give proper time to such a task, at least give ccp til next winter or even summer of 2014 for something that will work.

So... throwing my 0.02 isk into the ring, and speaking from a non-sov holding perspective:

How about something a little closer to FW?

For every system upgrade, have a few size limited plex around (Ideally with a few entry points. So it can't just be camped at the entrance with overwhelming force). High level upgrades = big plex. low levels = cruisers.

Allows smaller, non supercap holding groups potentially hold low levels of sov, without quite so much of a rolf stomp (Numbers will will. Titans less so. But they'll make it easier to knock out someone's high level sov.)

Sure, there will still be timers, but they're active timers, rather than 'blap something till reinforced, then wait'.

If there's a cynojammer, have it anchored in deadspace, needing a fleet of small ships to knock it out.

Maybe have a hacking mechanic to uprate the acceleration gates, allowing bigger ships in. With a long timer though. Maybe a new skill to reduce it a bit.


One benefit is, you can have, say, some BLOPs running around behind the front lines, knocking out small plex, and negatively impacting supply lines.

Solves the 'hot drops aren't fun' complaint.

This is, of course, bare bones, and from a complete outsider.

Somebody gets it, simple common sense, Malcanis, you probably just got my vote

What would happen if all resources were "regionalized"?

Mind, I don't think that it is such a good idea to have it like this but on the other hand I have absolutely no clue on how things would end up if they were. It could end up for the better.

Alternatively it could end up with the super-blobs merging further and attempting to take over the entire universe and probably be fairly successful at it in the process, given the way the current mechanics are.

Oh, and I'd keep broadcasts of things being attacked down, until there's actually a drop in sov.

Except a broadcast in Local, and a beacon when it's attacked. Lore reason: They're jamming the fluid routers. Or something.

That way, people who look after their systems can know they're being attacked. Otherwise, they don't.

i said significant, incursions aren't significant they're a pretty mundane game mechanic as far as it goes. the live event things are... well i wouldn't know i've never known about one in order to be able to visit it. hence my point, it's just not interesting. or they're simply poorly advertised. either way they don't have an impact on anything. if they did perhaps they'd get more attention. never seen a thread about live events anywhere on GD either.

the very simple fact is things that matter get talked about everywhere; that simply isn't so with live events. it's nice that ccp bother, but it'd also be nice if they bothered to promote it.

I agree that SOV mechanics needs more work and iteration. But its not the reason why big boys dont go to war. Big boys dont go to war becouse theyre used to having easy life, tons of iskies comeing in, stability of area they controll, etc... Life too easy for them. War usually has only one winner, industrialist that sell the ship and other supplies being blown up.

Personally i would welcome few changes to 0.0:
- Progressive tax like payments: more you own, more expencive per system it becomes. Dosent prevent you conquering entire 0.0, but you will pay for it heavy price...
- Ring mining, brake those tech2 material bottlenecks that currently exists...
-Even out 0.0 so even real 0.0 security system has some decent ratting sites, gives smaller alliances atleast in theory some change to gain iskies for war... Yeah i think they took 0.0 anomaly nerf/buff too far...
- Add few random timespace storms that can prevent jumpdriving throw them. Yes you still get there, but may need to take longer route since you hit this wierd space storm... Heck maybe they could prevent jumpdriving to few systems entirely while they last...

if they were all spread out? the big guys would obtain the bottle neck resources and profit from it because theirs is the resource with highest demand/lowest supply.

unless all items used identical volumes of everything, and everything was produced at the same rate, which would lead to a boring system where every one just traded everything 1:1 or they would end up being unable to create everything.

CCP wants to develop themes for their expansions that touch on many area's of play, which is an excellent idea.

I'd personally like to see the next theme be "Make it your own", which would include ownership and customization of the things you own (Your Avatar, your CQ, your POS, your Outpost, your Sov, your ship).

I think that would encompass many of the more pressing, more desired, and more interesting area's currently being discussed.