EVE General Discussion

It's very simple - "they", parties involved in blobs, will loose numbers. That will limit coalitions influence. Actually it's coalitions pressure...

Now half of the coalitions member have no way to go. Actual wars are forced to being their "own" wars.

How I know that ? Becouse coalitions are not monolitic - look what happens when cascading is starting: "some" members evacuate. If we have free space to explore then not core corps/aliances will go there. Same as with WH space. They will go and create new corps, new aliances and new coalitions but smaller this time. Ppls will scatter, capitals will scatter and blobs will get smaller.

Sov change is needed to prevent new territoris from being afk-collected (and prevented from habitating) by old coalitions. Here is nerf you want. Or you arguing that current sov mechanic is... OK ? Capitals, oh yes, capitals ! need ! to ! be ! changed !!! ;)

At the moment creation of new aliances senseless - there is no point in that becouse there is nothing new parties can achieve. New parties are insta-borged into current entities. THAT is what require a change.



That's not true. Corporations living long, long from conflict zone will ignore not-their conflicts.



Excuse me, but you arguing against yourself.

"Endeavor" part grows as range grow. And probability of such massive "comeback" trip falls (with range too). More, it is quite impossible that all forces will be back on some not-anymore-important-for-us timer. You see, you fly to timers to your enemies - usually to your neightbours ;) If that relationship is changed there is no reason to be "back anyway".

And more power on corporation level prevents creating gigantic coalitions, like 3 per whole Universe...

Space is very effective in dividing ppls :) Even mariages brakes thanks to different space and time. Some time in isolation
and there will be no reason to join current coalitions.

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They do "nothing" for hours on end in soul crushing lag for the "I was there" feeling.

Just to point out, there was a time when corps and alliances were not able to blue eachother. CCP added the ability to add blue and red standing because we were forming coalitions.

So any call to make corps the sov holders and to abolish alliances and blues will not work.

I have a very serious question:

How exactly do you limit the movement of players throughout space without seriously undermining the current game.

For example: I like small gang warfare, and routinely roam about nullsec looking for fights. This currently involves 20-system trips around Syndicate looking for other gangs to fight many fleet types (frigates to BS's with triage support). This involves 40-system trips through Sov-space, often in frigate & cruiser hulls. Either you changes limit this game-style to be non existent, or an entity like the CFC can use that same fleet comp to move from VFK to highsec, refuel, move to Berta, Refuel, and move to HED-GP. The only thing that changes is they now need two fleets of ships (one in VFK for home defense as insurance, and one in their forward staging base to Blob VFK). Now, supercaps would be inhibited, as pilots are stuck to the ship, but capital pilots just need two dreads/carriers (one in VFK, one in the FOP) to provide the same damage projection they do today.

What I'm trying to get at, is that moving around the universe by standard gate travel is quick and easy in the games current environment, and unless you somehow make it impractical for gatetravel to move from VFK to Jita within a day (28 systems), then large coalitions can ALWAYS move back and forward between opposite sides of the map to defend their Sov.

So you are suggesting limiting/removing the cross-regional gates?

So you could travel Lonetrek -> Pureblind -> Fade -> Deklein and Lonetreck -> Tribute -> Venal -> Branch, but you couldn't travel Fade to Branch or Deklein to Venal, thereby dramatically increasing the efforts to move to the outer ring of nullsec?

This could be interesting. Although it also means that an invasion into Branch would have penetrate Tribute first, thereby making any Coalition that owns Tribute and Branch only have to defend Tribute to secure all that space. Again, then as long as the majority of combat pilots can fly from their FOB to the Tribute Staging system in a timely fashion, they can go fight where-ever they want.

You do realize HB- to SF- is actually too far for capitals to jump. There are many other jumps like that.

Yeah I do but you guys do pretty well with subcaps. If Failcon decided they didn't like you anymore or you decied you wanted new puppets in Branch you could easily squish them with the regional bridges. Which is a very good incentive for Failcon to stay in your coalition.

Without those regional bridges they could tell you to go feck yourself with some decent safety :)

You do realize HB- to SF- is actually too far for capitals to jump. There are many other jumps like that.

Maybe, but it is simply a matter of a coder changing one value on a database and suddenly it is in range.