Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Step 4, It's the station stupid!


Sov should be held not by some pointless meaningless structure that doesn't hold ships or provide refining or a clone bay or do anything meaningful for the player. What matters should be the station, the central point of the constellation. The defining yes/no aspect of sovwarfare should be the station. Flip that and you grab the whole constellation. It's already like that in a sense, you grab the "main fleet holding station" of your enemy and its game over. But under current sov mechanics you still have to go grind half a region.


But wait there's more!


Step 5, The step that makes it all meaningful.


I probably lost you somewhere between step 3 and 4. I promise this will make it up. After all it would be stupid if all we did is have timers for one station that flipped a whole constellation. So pay attention. Throughout the entire constellation we set up numerous (One per planet perhaps) LOW HP structures (nerves) to shoot that affect the over all HP and Infastructure Upgrades of the station. Take enough HP in this way and the station holders suffer as the station itself becomes vulnerable to direct attack AND it becomes of less quality. The lower the HP on these "nerves" the more affect on the main station. Now you have to send out roaming squads to police your space so your station doesn't suffer adverse affects and make way for a direct assault on the station itself.


So how would this play out? We'll use TEST and GOONS as an example as they were the ones saying that an all out sov war would be boring. TEST surprise attacks and decides to invade Cloud Ring via Placid. Their first target would be Balenne constellation which under the new sov system would have 77- as its station system. Now would they bring in a 1500 man fleet to hit some stupid structure until it hit some timer, reset and try again this time with 1500 man response fleet with 99 percent of the people involved would have the contribution of "orbit anchor, hit F1 at primary."


NO!!! Under the new sov mechanic it isn't tactically viable to bring in that many numbers. Attacking with battleships and carriers wouldn't be cost effective because your targets are numerous low HP structures. Instead you're going to have to send out small squads of 10-20 Cruisers bouncing all over the system in a cat and mouse game with the defenders. Mobility and warp speed is going to be the important aspect of this warfare, not just EHP and DPS.


Do you hear that sound? That's the sound of MEANINGFUL actually sov affecting small gang PVP to 0.0. The defender will have to form up their own small gang cruiser fleets to deal with this or their station will provide less refining, crappier anoms and so on and so forth.


Now let's say TEST manages to destroy enough (70 or so percent) of these "nerves" through their skillful small gang cruiser pvp. The station in the central system becomes vulnerable to attack. NOW you have the epic thousand + people in local fleets. But now you have it under a new and much more varied dynamic. You had skirmishing make way for a main invasion force.


TEST does enough damage to the station

Sure and if I want to change national political policy I'll write my senator.

Not until they come up with a POS overhaul that has something better than those goddam shared SMAs.

I think its actually a stealth 'buff TEST' thread.

One station per constellation? LOL that'd kill off the last 5 guys that still do industry in 0.0

"That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me." - Dr. Egon Spengler

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Wow someone came up with a worse idea than POS war.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Just because we are trolling you, doesn't mean we are all F1 monkeys, afraid of small gang pew. It means you have a bad idea and should feel bad for proposing it.

A bad idea for F1 monkeys. Got it. Troll away, we all have to be good at something i suppose.