EVE General Discussion

The spool down doesnt have to be affected by tidi.

Correct, anything your small alliance can do we can do in the same numbers.

Times ten.

Right now, dreads are trapped for 5 minutes by their cycle, and if engaged by local subcap forces, their support only has to destroy tackle to escape after the cycle. Couldn't see small entities using them at all if they were trapped for 2 hours by a drive cooldown, and unable to log for 15 minutes because of one potshot from 1 noob frigate.

And no large entities need only have regional forces the same size as regional opponents to produce dominance, as an exchange would the have the strategic effect of removing the large entities defences for a few hours whilst reinforcements worked against their cooldowns (and other strategic forces would have to work against the same problem to engage), where as the local opponent would be wiped and restarting procurement to have any capital force at all.

If you lose a piece in chess, exchanges become strategically more dangerous.

IMO what you describe would be good for recreating the British Empire, because that is exactly how they operated for hundreds of years (willing to force exchanges without local superiority, and court martialling captains and admirals that failed to do so).

The only thing that will work in my opinion is the following:

1. Create cheap and effective mobile bases - CCP have done this details still awaited
2. Create a way to attack passive moon income, - CCP have done this, may need adjustment
3. Reduce the EHP of sov modules where NPC pirates have not been kept down, will turn off IHUB and also reduces the time taken to online an SBU
4. Dread cycle reduced to 2 minutes
5. Remove automated mails of stucture/POS attacks
6. Limit the mass that can jump through a cyno
7. Make a portable covert cyno jammer as well as the portable normal cyno jammer

Do that and then see how it develops.

Caps are supposed to die. Theyr'e not supposed to be immune from that. This is EvE. Its a harsh (or should be) place.

Why?

Cool, so explain how the things listed here would work towards that goal.

Otherwise you're just throwing tantrum and screaming "But I want a pony!"

That is a good answer, because its designed to give smaller entities the ability to take systems that others do not use, holding them is another matter, but if you have the will to keep fighting then make it possible.

Biggest issue for anyone being attacked is the base of operations, this is why getting the Personal Structure right is so important, you need a base to be able to fight from. Also this attack people for lol's and to get good fights has to have a way that the defender can get back at them, the siphon unit does that. The target of course is the lessor used systems, so that people feel that they can actually take them, of course holding them means time and effort in keeping the EHP high of the sov modules, this means that people will try to camp them to reduce the control and people will have to kill NPC's to keep it high, resulting in more small gang combat. But all those poor systems sitting in there with a TCU now become very vulnerable to attack.

Dreads are the ships that smaller entities would prefer to use, cost with insurance is rather small, and 2 minutes suits smaller entities better as they can fire off a few rounds and GTFO leaving the residue EHP to sub caps.

The mails are evident, you need to patrol your space.

Cyno's give too great a force projection, therefore limit it, this will not hurt small people as they cannot get too many in a fleet anyway, I know that the major alliances will use multiple cyno's, but that has an impact in perhaps resulting in split forces etc.

The BLOPS are being fielded in greater numbers, if it keeps up like this then it will get silly, I also think that this will impact cloaky campers because they will need two toons now, one to hold the tackle, the other to cyno in the fleet, also it makes it a race for the camper to get in position to be effective, therefore making it more likely that people will leave stations.

There is this persistant myth that large alliances leave space unused just to wind up highsec pubbies when in actual fact the reason huge chuncks of 0.0 is unused is because it sucks, hard. If you want people to use all the space they claim (which is a worthwhile goal) you need to make it worth living in. That means changing personal income from even the worst truesec 0.0 to be better than level 4s and having it scale upwards from there.

Siphons in their current form will not generate fights but that has been sufficiently covered in the devblog thread so I won't get into it here.



This is a very one-sided way of looking at things. I'd actually rather see dread timers go back up to 10 minutes. Your small alliance is much more likely to need the full 5 minute timer to reinforce a tower. Reduce the timer to 2 minutes and now the 255 man CFC dread fleet can reinforce twice as many things. Right now they're sat vulnerable doing nothing.



Space in Eve is too porous for any mechanic that relies on guarding entrances or constant patrols to work. Unless you make significant changes to how ships behave when you log off, cloaking and cyno mechanics strucutre mails are necessary. In addition, if you're looking for fights you want people to know when you're attacking them.



Major alliances are also much better positioned to keep ship stores around the universe. I can't imagine the CFC would have that much difficulty just storing 20 dreads in each region it owned. They could probably come close right now by just asking people to re-sub capital alts they have lying around. The people you really hurt by reducing jump range are those who want to get in, reinforce a structure and get out again quickly because their cyno chain is going to show up on the map much longer in advance.

In general your ideas are all stick and no carrot. The thing is if you make living in 0.0 suck enough that the current occupants leave you some space, why would you want to live there?

You didn't have to say 2 hours.

The jump cooldown is analogous to games with initiative anyway, and any jump in, means that local forces outrange your jump out. ie you literally start engagements with half your initiative gone.