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It would be nice if taking or losing SOV involved more than 1 side bringing overwhelming numbers for 6 timers. It would be nice if there was actually some incentive to attacking multiple systems with smaller (say, 100 strong?) fleets rather than 1000+, with some sort of tug of war and possibility to actually have feint attacks.

we hate shooting structures. that's the big point.
also we need more reasons to need sov.

maybe a system like FW ano, the one where you only need to stay near the beacon for the timer to move ?
on sov it would mean that you don't need tons of ships, and so could do more than one thing at the same time.
of course it would need a good thinking given it will be harder for defense.

Should be several things to discourage power blocks and power projection.

Also...

/me waves to noobcake

1. CCP atleast need alow to anchore more than one station in system for players.
2. Increase all outpost capacity in his bonuses:
2. 1. Amaar station eedto have atbase atleast 50 manufucturing slots and each upgrade makes more them.
2.2 minmatar station to ned more base refining procentage and more slots like 10 at start, and atleast 10 office slots.
2.3 gallente station need more office slots in base stats and manufucturing slots 30 offices at start and 20 manufucturing slots.
2.4 caldari station too need increase of office slot count manufucturing slot count science slot count.

Resureces:

Veldspar in 0.0 need some love and low end resure4ces by increasing reprocesing outcomes form thos types off ores (problem how to separete with is mined in high sec with in 0.0) I tink by creating new ore type with is only in 0.0 with holds all low end minerals.
Sanctum count need to be increased in systems and balances income form it that its more then incursion income in 1 hour. I tink each system need to have atleast 2 sanctums, if ccp wish keep that imapct from system sec status keep it, by increasing sanctum count in beter systems, and by deacreasing usles anomaly count.

I hade some more but for start wil be inaf this.


P.S. english its not my native language and i lerned it in EVE so sorry about grammar:0

Some kind of mechanic to make sov in surrounding systems affect how easy it is to drop the sov in a system? So it makes sense to attack multiple systems at once, rather than just the one?

High sov indexes in adjacent systems makes it harder, low indexes makes it easier. Or possibly have it tied to the change in adjacent sov indexes. so if you have 5 systems around you dropping, you drop faster.

- New location of moon minerals(not all in one region)
- Propably new mechanics aka Dominion v2.0

I'd go further and say that it should be possible to set ones castle up in way that makes storming it head-on equals mass suicide. Or in other words, an entity that specializes in smaller scale conflict should be able to smash a stampeding herd of cattle when on their own turf (yes, I want to re-enact the movie '300' in Eve!) ..

@ Traeb and Co.: You might want to dig up the threads on the subject that were red-hot with activity just prior to the forum switch, if I remember correctly sov was one of the questions CCP asked feedback on.

Having been in FW as an RP'er (read: active plexer) since it started I would very much advise against that. The timer system is badly thought out and poorly implemented, the amount of wasted time is staggering and has turned the plexing scene into one of disposable alt spamming.
The only thing that FW might contribute directly is the hull size restriction on plexes, whomever cooked that one up deserves a medal. Sovereignty plexes should lean towards Incursion system with objectives to be handled within each, be it a series of hacks, salvage, EHP grinds or something entirely different .. anything but a thumb-twiddle timer.

And what is to prevent the current blocs from still controlling everything? What you are proposing is pretty much what we have now, the amount of "dead space" will just increase as will the amount of slaves/pets to fill some of them.

For any type of ISK based maintenance system to work you must first address the passive faucets which currently allow for a critical mass (read: blob big enough to effectively prevent any fights) entity to hold infinite space..

- Re-introduce the capital system.
- Put limits on what infrastructure can be maintained and defended outside of home constellation/region.
* if current TZ timers are kept then it could be a linear decrease in reinforcement timers based on range for instance so that a tower on the other side of the cluster has 0hrs regardless of stront.
- Counter that with significant boons to be had "at home" (ex: production, defense, harvesting etc.)
* Allows for manufacturing centres which may (or may not) develop into trade hubs. Improves local production/viability (helps cut Jita umbilical) and thus the small operation (read: alliances new to null).
- Increase maintenance costs by system count and distance.
- Give skirmish/roam fleets ability to impact space more than popping haulers and docking ratters up.
* Holding space should mean that it requires patrols, a police force if you will. The idea that you can sit by the hearth and only go to war on the weekends to defend your land is stupid to put it mildly.

In short: Early Dominion vision was throttled at birth and what was launched was a shadow of what was announced in the planning blogs. Combat has not been spread out, small gangs have no place, independents don't exist and everything is imported.
Even shorter: Almost the entire thing needs to be redone.

Here's the thing with changing the slots (and refining percentages) -- it's already "hard enough" for industrial types in nullsec since (for the most part, anyway) there's a serious need to have combat-oriented guys protecting your borders and such. This ends up leaving the industrial guys (usually) being looked down on. Yes, I will agree that not everyone does this ... but let's be honest ... as a recruiter you can have one of the following pilots...

Pilot A -- 20M SP in combat skills, only has the basics (i.e. what new players start with) in industry.
Pilot B -- 20M SP in industry, can fly cruisers or maybe BCs with T1 guns

Who would you rather have in your crew?

Now, I haven't been in nullsec in a LONG time so things may have changed ... but I remember I got drafted in because I pulled off some near impossible deliveries to a corp (5 dudes in retrievers, I had a hulk/mack ... the order was for lots of oxytopes, and a few mil units of various minerals). After getting in, I was pretty bad at refining in their station (was a 30 or 35% base station) ... so I worked to squeeze every last bit of usable material out of those rocks that I could.

Yeah, I wasn't useful for anything beyond cannon fodder ... but I made myself stand out in my corporation because I was able to refine at essentially 100% out there... I wasn't just "some miner" who was able to supply some materials ... I was one of "the guys" to talk to when stuff needed refined.

Sure, it makes things "easier" all around for indy types if everyone can refine at 100% with less effort ... but there should really be something left in the game to make training skills that high "worth it" (and no, the Elite Certificates aren't really what I'm talking about).

@Tiger

It takes a LONG time to stage POS (yeah, getting fixed) and conquer a system, etc. I agree that moongoo should probably deplete at some rate, but monthly turnover is far too fast.