Player Features and Ideas Discussion

All of this would be a vast improvement over the current system. +1

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It's even more ridiculous that you have people in 0.0 alliances that hold low truesec, upgraded systems and don't bother to use that, instead opting to fund their PvP with highsec incursion alts.

Good stuff.

+1

Frankly, your system is missing a MAJOR component....

Use your space, or risk easily losing your space!!!

You need a dynamic number of RF timers!

I'd call it a Sov Index:
If people don't use their space, they get NO RF timers.
If they utilize their space lightly, they get 1 RF timer...
If they use properly, they get 2 or 3 RF timers...

To give an example with our current system;

Sov Index = Sum of all military & Industrial indexes in the constellation / 2x Number of systems in constellation.

Round down... If you heavily use your system, it will be a 4 (or even 5) == 4 RF timers to defend your stuff. If you don't use the system at all, it would be a zero, so anyone could come destroy your TCU/IHUB and place their own in a single military move!

Next, your Industrial and Capital bonuses are broken:
If I can generate "extra minerals" simply by building something, reprocess it, build ti again, reprocess it... you have a mineral faucet that will be exploited and break the mineral supply of EvE. This would ruin EvE's player-run economy.

Likewise, if I can make 15% profit by selling my alt 400b isk in modules, only to have him trade it back to me so I can make another 15% profit selling my alt 400b isk in modules... you just broke EvE's currency, and make isk worthless.

Perhaps you weren't suggesting creating ridiculous loopholes like that, but I thought I'd double check!!!

You are correct that breaking the game is not something I'm looking to do and that bonus is in fact broken.

The bonuses need to be sufficiently powerful so that, as the previous poster has pointed out, people have a good reason to move to nullsec.

For industry: Make the system bonus essentially be a +x ME / +x PE to all manufacturing jobs. There is a point that adding more ME or PE to a Blueprint does nothing. At the same time, invented jobs for t2 items generally start at -4/-4. If the system boost were +10 ME, then building ships in that system would become very profitable. Same with t2 ammo (as for t2 modules, not so much).

For Market.... there isn't much you can do that won't be easily exploitable. I suppose you could eliminate all broker fees and sales taxes without issue, but outside of a major trade hub that probably won't be major incentive to trade. Another idea, as you've been mentioning the "difficulty" of nullsec logistics, is you could have up to "x" m3 of NPC Courier service to/from the Hub each week. This would blatantly compete with player logistics, and would have to be very limited or else it's simply inappropriate (like max 2.5k m3 per week or less), and delivery is to/from only a few very specific highsec systems.

Also, I'm very serious that all sov needs to become very difficult to defend when people aren't using their space. This is the only way sov will balance out, as anything less will result in large coallitions taking and controlling space they don't need, want, or utilize. Big groups can, will, and should still roll in and kick people at whenever they want, but the point is any joe blow alliances should be able to destroy the claim on any constellation they aren't using. This essentially makes it pointless to claim a system before you can work it.

seems legit +1

I like it.