EVE General Discussion

You are thinking small to be honest.

You have to be in an alliance to hold sovereignty. Most of the alliances are part of different coalitions (think groups of alliances).

The biggest coalition has upwards of 40,000 members and can field hundreds of capital ships at a time. The last battle big battle for sov had over 6,000 people duking it out.

Each corporation may be able to field maybe one or two dozen capitals at most, but sovereignty is done at a higher level.

To hold sov, you need at least three to four hundred VERY active people. No one is going to give up their space without a good fight and any major space grabs will be met with fierce resistance.

Also - the money for all the POS's PLUS an active fleet can run into the trillions. A titan can run upwards of 100 billion pretty easily and most major coalitions will have more than ten of them.

Q: "How much military strength is required to hold sovereignty?"

A: About half

you will be taken seriously by the big players in the sov game if you can bring 250 dudes in pretty much any subcap doctrine under your own FC. don't expect to be treated with respect or like them, but you will be taken seriously

To get an idea of the kind of military might being thrown around think of this:

In a battle like 6VDT which was the largest in terms of sheer number of pilots in one system the CFC fielded 1000 megathrons + 1000 support/ logistics/ other stuff and then dropped 150 dreads.

I have seen TEST alliance (not as part of a coalition) put over 1300 pilots on the field.

In the battle for HED-GP the CFC & Russians dropped 500 dreads and had 200 more ready to go in.

The capital counts waxed and waned in B-R because the battle raged for a whole day but afterwards when the CFC went home- 100 Titans and 200 supercarriers were observed leaving the south.

Individual corporations contribute their resources- whether it be pilots, builders, BPOs, combat assets, etc. to their alliance and the alliance contributes to a coalition with a vision and direction they believe in.

Throughout the recent southern war, N3 and Pandemic Legion regularly fielded 300+ Archon carrier groups

Is any of this necessary to hold sov? Not really but if any of these guys want what you have and you dont have any relations with any of them- then dont expect your sandcastle to stand for very long

Or just "declare" you own large sections of highsec and charge for permits to rent it out :D

Saves a lot of investment in caps and supers that way :D

Its not really that easy to summarise. Its much more about what friends you've made, favours you've asked for or pulled in and who you've annoyed. No single corporation by itself would be able to hold sov right now, each corp has to be in an alliance and that alliance within a larger coalition. Providence is probably an exception but they've not been kicked out because no one can be bothered to grind their space - but they exist purely because they're allowed too, not because they could defend themselves against either power bloc. Its a sad state of affairs but true.

Look at the latest addition to SOV: HERO coalition with 14k members and have taken 1 station system. Despite having financial help from established groups, they can't field anything but T1 cruiser fleets, under equipped battleship fleets and have no way to escalate with capitals or use them for grinding structures and not have them die. The guys they took the station from were extremely weak but now HERO is held in check by a vastly smaller number of players. Unfortunately for HERO that numerically inferior force - although bad at EVE - have well oiled doctrines and great FCs. HERO has neither. That all said, EVE sov holding now is nothing like several years ago when a 1000 man alliance could take and hold sov without sucking up to a space Hitler/Stalin.

*edit* Odd how one mass murdering dictator is starred out while another isn't.

here i fixed it for you. There are currently Two null coalitions CFC and N3-PL. Each of them can field 100+ supercaps, seweral hundreds of normal capitals and countles subcaps in single engagement. Only exception is provi block which is let alone by those two because its funny. Otherwise there is snowflakes chance in hell to any corporation to hold its own sov.

Short answer? At least 1% more than everyone else who wants to take the system from you.

It all depends on how desirable your corner of space is, who your neighbors are, and what they can/will bring against you. If you're in some low end system that no one wants, there may be little contest over it. However, if you hold a strategic or economic lynchpin, you had better be ready to defend it.

Right now, all of it.

Seriously.

No troll.