EVE General Discussion

During a previous fanfest, CCP spoke about changes to low sec and faction warfare mechanics. Those changes have now been implemented in some form of another but there is one feature that did not make it into the game - Allow faction warfare people to cyno jam systems.

Some players claimed that allowing players to do this would effect the moon mining/farming activities of null sec entities and as a result, null sec groups would try to take over faction warfare.

My question is "so what?"... If more people got involved with faction warfare, wouldn't that be a good thing? Shouldn't low sec be a place where smaller groups can thrive and also take advantage of the potential profits in that space?

Thoughts?

Mobile Cynosural Inhibitor ?

The difference being a mobile jammer only works within a certain radius for a limited amount of time, not throughout the entire system indefinately.

... And bombs and SOV warfare and player owned stations and super production.

If anything, i think the ability to have a system wide cyno jam in low sec would make that area of space even more unique. The situation right now is that big alliances can use their caps to steam roll the moons in a few systems and then leave never to return. Then, the only activities these alliance perform in those low sec systems is maintain their pos and occasionally bridging fuel in.

So, is this really how you feel FW should work?

FW is very sov-like, i suspect its more a design issue of implementing it rather than some idea that it shouldn't be allowed just cuz its FW. The stumbling block being that there is no player-king of FW to make the decision to jam or not jam.

I remember there was talk of being able to cyno jam a system for short period of time if the faction controlled the system.

Lore-wise, and extremely simplified, the Jove basicly allow the factions to fight each other with smaller militias in border regions. Should the factions up the ante too much, the Jove will basicly step in and slap them back into the stone age. It basicly prevents all out war, which already happened at some point in New Eden's history, and was quite an unpleasant affair. That's basicly the validation for the whole small-scale thing and why it's not intended for cap warfare. Probably also explains why moons are not tied to FW mechanics, despite being quite impressive military structures.

If you'd want to incorporate moons into actual FW, why not cynojam all FW systems permanently and allow only further anchorage of small and medium sized POS? Or is that too radical?

I'm not sure about the whole cyno jam in low sec thing. But something does need to happen in regards to all the null sec entities owning all the R32/64 moons in low. At the moment their power projection is just rediculous considering how fast they can travel around anywhere via the jump bridge.

Excluding womholes, all this game seems to be about is the big null sec blocks CFC/RUS and N3PL. It's doesn't matter if you are in NPC Null Sec, Sov Null, Low Sec, Faction Warefare Low Sec or even High Sec, these large Null Sec blocks have their hands in everything. As someone who regularly roams through Sov null sec quiet often, it's pathetic how much owned and unused space there is.

CCP needs to give these null sec entities more to worry about in null sec where they simply can't afford the time/work/isk/effort to even worry about hogging all the decent moons in low sec.

Also lol at people who think low sec entities dont own a lot of the infrastructure in the areas we live in, try actually paying attention next time you fly through.

Nobody here is denying the low sec entities own infrastructure in low sec. But go around and survey how many R32/64 moons there are in low sec and let me know how many low sec entities own them versus the null sec blocks who own them. I can 100% assure you most of them are owned by the null sec blocks.

Go to high sec, null sec blocks are taking over the POCOS.....
Go to low sec, null sec blocks own most of the R32/64 moons...
Go to SOV null, and find all the wasted empty space the null sec entities own... (blue ring anyone?)
Go to some of the C1/C2 wormholes and many null sec entities have their industry POS's in there...
Go to Faction Warfare space and find many of the plex farming alts are null sec entity alts...

My point is, clearly there isn't much going on with Null Sec. Well not enough to keep these guys occupied in their own space. Doesn't leave too much to the smaller corps now does it?

In my opinion, CCP needs to give the smaller guy something to grasp on which can project some kind of power that puts these null sec blocks on the back foot (currently siphon units are a joke). Either that, or somehow penalise such expansion from those guys. If not, is Eve Online about blobbing and simply having larger numbers CCP? If it is, well so be it. But I'd bet we would have a more diverse game if this wasn't the case.

Blue Doughnut and renter space here we come! Okay, okay I don't want to exaggerate.... maybe we will see some big F1 blob/drone assist AFK fights every couple of months. So much to look forward to guyths!

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