EVE General Discussion

Since sov isn't an area of the game I have anything to do with, I won't comment on the merits of your proposal.

However, this thread should have been posted in Features and Ideas Discussion.

i'm trying to figure out why a dread would need an SMA if it can't jump, and sov systems only have 1 station each, so...

Very true indeed. A corp member and myself just returned from -0.3 Thrukker Tribe Space after running a Class 6 Level 3 Site in destroyers.

On the way back we came across a few bubbled gates with no one on them.

If protecting null space is nothing more than throwing a bubble or two up then how much involvement and fun is that?

Read my proposed idea in the Features and Idea Section titled - Protecting Null Space the Fun Way.

.....that made my brain hurt. it took me several seconds to realize that you meant a null sec site.

I spent a little while trying to figure out how the hell you'd managed to run a C6 site in destroyers.


But, OP, what you are proposing actually exist (just not for supercaps).

Except they're all in Wspace. C1-3 any caps built cannot be removed (in C1s BS+ can't be removed). C4-6 caps can move in and out but only like 6 max if it's a virgin Wormhole.

You are under the mistaken impression that nullsec empires care about random neuts flying around

I thought the same thing when I saw his post.

PS: SFB has been my favorite space shoot'em up game for decades. Love me some Kzinti.

Perhaps CCP should create dead zones in space where Alliances have to build their system gates and manage them similar to how a POS is managed.

An alliance could put up their own gate set a password for it that would only allow alliance members to pass through.

In order for anyone else to pass through the system using the gate they would have to use a cloaked hacking ship specifically designed to hack the gate.

How the gate would be hacked would be similar to the Sansha Incursion site where you have to hack several remote repair towers in order to finish the site.

Each alliance placed gate would have four security towers that would have to be placed within 3 AU of the gate either at a planet, moon, belt, or space. The security tower would anchor just like a Mobile Depot would so placing it would be rather easy to achieve so as to not establish definite points of location.

Each security tower would require 5 units of Security Tower fuel per hour to operate at a cost of 25k per block. If the fuel runs out of a tower then the towers ability to keep the gate locked would be reduced by 25% giving the hacker a 25% chance to hack the gate at the gate itself. Each time a security tower goes down after the first tower is either hacked or runs out of fuel would reduce the gates security locking mechanism by 15%, 10% and 5% for a 55% chance that the gate could be hacked and opened by a hacker ship hacking the gate.

The security towers would be placed in the system where the gate was located as the ships would jump into the system that is being locked down. This means that the gate could not be placed in security space above 0.0.

Hacking the gate itself with all four security towers online would take some time to achieve even if the pilots skills were all level five and they had the best hacking modules on their ship.

...but a 25% chance to hack the gate without taking the towers down would still be present due to human error in computer network programming and security protocol not covering every aspect of protecting the network from hackers.

The complexity of the gate security system would be dependent upon the type of towers that the alliance uses to secure their gate with.

Based on the Hacking Mini-Game seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9HZJzxU8sw is how the actual hacking of a tower or gate would take place.

Security Tower -There would be three types of security towers that an alliance could put up to protect their gates with.

Security Tower I - 300 miIISK : would have two security breach response systems if the hacker trips the wrong node
Response System I: Broadcasts a system wide message that someone is attempting to hack a Security Tower located at X location. Response System II: Emits a field similar to that of a Smart Bomb at a radius of 10km from the tower to de-cloak the hacking ship. Five fuel blocks consumed per hour.

Security Tower II - 450 milISK: would have three security breach response systems if the hacker trips the wrong node
Response System I: Broadcasts a system wide message that someone is attempting to hack a Security Tower located at X location. Response System II: Emits a field similar to that of a Smart Bomb at a radius of 15km from the tower to de-cloak the hacking ship. Response System III:The size of the weapon systems would be small or medium with medium weapon security towers costing an additional 150 milIsk per tower. One of the four types of weapon systems based on POS weapon batteries would activate on the tower that would then either drive the hacker away or destroy the hacker ship within a range of 5km for small and 10km for medium weapons. Ten fuel blocks consumed per hour as well as medium or large ammo needing to be placed within the 75 m3 ammo bay.

Security Tower III - 550 milISK : would have five security breach response systems if the hacker trips the wrong node
Response System I: Broadcasts a system wide message that someone is attempting to hack a Security Tower located at X location. Response System II: Emits a field similar to that of a Smart Bomb at a radius of 20km from the tower to de-cloak the hacking ship. Response System III: The size of the weapon systems would be small or medium with medium weapon security towers costing an additional 250 milIsk per tower.One of the four types of weapon systems based on POS weapon batteries would activate on the tower that would then either drive the hacker away or destroy the hacker ship within a range of 10km for small and 15km for medium weapons. Response System IV: Warp Scramble turret would lock onto the closest ship not designated as friendly which would be established using the same guidelines for POS security to scramble the ship and keep it in place until reinforcements arrived. Warp Scramble strength would be +2 and have a range of 12km. Twenty five fuel blocks consumed per hour as well as medium or large ammo needing to be placed within the 50 m3 ammo bay.

Null space has become a breeding ground for the lazy gate camper.

The reason you see specialized defenses in real life is chokepoints. There are built with the knowledge that if your enemy wants to attack you, they have to pass through or by your defenses. In eve, you could just skip by these systems and pick the rest of the empire apart piecemeal, before hitting the fortified systems.

In wormholes, when you control one or two systems, it would make sense to build these. After all, the enemy has to come to your hole to try to fight you. For nullsec empires though, locking a ship to one system when you hold hundreds of systems, just makes no sense.