EVE General Discussion

This is a nutshell is precisely why most people that could get involved in nullsec in a meaningful way avoid it like the plague, and why so many null systems are "empty." Right now you have 2 choices, join the blob or stay in high/low.

"Yeah so" . . . It clearly shows you didn't earn your space and the only reason you keep it is because timers and auto emails along with power projection allows you to. In short these big blocs are completely propped up not by hard work and effort but by timers.

Without automatic emails and timers to protect "your PB" and not a CFC in sight for months, that space would have been taken by people who would have fought for it and used it.

CFC are simply riding the timer gravy train for everything it's worth. It's why you get all constipated and outraged when anyone criticizes timers.

So, you're telling me you do want WoW Battlegrounds, then? Not a sandbox?

I get outraged when a single person thinks they should be able to destroy sov structures (or POCOs) on their own with impunity.

None.

Absolutely none.

Feel free to write to your local null-sec alliance lobbyist CSM representative. I'm sure they'll by sympathetic.

Do you have a better idea than the current system? And by that I mean something that you've carefully thought out and considered all the downsides that the little guy will have to deal with.

I said timers are a big problem. I didn't say simply removing them was a solution. The solution would have to be a balanced redesign of the whole system not just ripping out timers.

Nerf the ease of travel.

And more importantly, let's just cut to the chase: Nerf Size

Almost every organizational aspect in Eve has limits. Squad size, no. of wings, number of members in a corp, etc etc

USE the MECHANICS we already have TO FIX THE BLOB

Just off the top of my head:

-Significant cap on number of standings you can issue for an organization
-Cut down the number of players that can be in a corp
-Cut down the number of corps that can be in an Alliance
-tweak fleet size restrictions

No one can stop 10 or 200 or 4000 people wanting to work together. NOR SHOULD THEY

No one ever said it should be just as easy to hold space as a 50 person entity as a 5000 person entity.

I would challenge anyone that would suggest it's to the long-term betterment of the game to facilitate increase in organizational size to the infinite.

Make alliances the upper level of organization, but to facilitate a coalition of entities and nothing more
some more top of the head

-only corporations can own anything. towers, stations... anything

what does all this do? Do I hate size? Do I not understand Eve?

to the contrary. I love conflict.

And when the umbrellas become smaller.... that's just where the fun begins.

I think it should be as important to facilitate competition and conflict in eve as it has been to facilitate organization.

In fact... if one were to look at the history of Eve, they might notice that perhaps we've been too supportive of massive blobs and rather negligent of conflict-driving mechanics.

Give people both the opportunity and the motivation to turn on their "friend" or "allies" and you'll find your way to fit the little guy into the big guy's game.
Make everyone a little guy and make being a big guy (past a certain point) an inevitable harbinger of massive conflict cascade.

This would require a new look at ownership, rights, roles.. etc. But think of the possibilities.

Or we can just keep on with the "everyone is blued to another" idiocy ,

pretending we have this awesome espionage and sabotage aspect when all the farther that goes is getting an alt on TS or drunkenly getting someone to give you rights so you can click a button.

Show me corporations vying for control of an alliance IN SPACE.
Show me corporations turning on an alliance member for their assets and control sphere (you might find an instance, but very rare)

I'm sure many would hate this idea.

But then again if gang organization didn't go any further than one squad unlimited in size, and someone came along and suggested it might be otherwise... that would also be met with disdain by those with less imagination (or more selfish motivations)

Take it from a girl. Size matters.
And too large is even more of a problem than too small.

@Nineteen Seventy-Nine:

What you're asking for is basically wormhole space.

Artificial limits on capacity included. With a considerably more inventive method than "don't let them blue more than X".

Check out some of the NPC regions in the south. Stain and Curse, Great Wildlands, and for all I know, Syndicate.

Fountain is pretty bloccy though.