Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What's in it for the rest of the players in high-sec?

I would repeat this question only with a twist.
What is in it for the 90% or so of high sec players that DO NOT run Incursions?
Your proposal would simply extend the period of time that they cannot do the things they want to do. Or it forces them to ppick up and move to another system. If anything I say they need to shorten the duration of the average Incursion but increase the number of Incursions that are active at any given time.

It also has enough rancid drama to suffocate an elephant. Why do I want to associate with that?

Anyway, there's no such thing as completing the Kundalini site "early". Once it spawns, it's available for anyone to kill with no timetable attached. Killing it sooner rather than later just means that you don't get to farm it for a week and inconvenience the people who live there with your unchecked greed.

Other people knocking over your sandcastle. Emergent gameplay. Cry moar about it. You know, the way you tell the non-incursioners to cry moar about you taking your sweet time to farm every last ISK cent out of an incursion before ending it.

Incursions are the only real PvE content that requires social cooperation and the use of fleets. That's a lot more engaging than soloing missions or mining, and people who run incursions are a lot more likely to become enmeshed in the game and to keep subscribing. The current game mechanics (arbitrarily instituted) allow for any group of pilots to close the incursion within a few hours, for any reason, with minimal consequences. This makes the diplomatic avoidance of the that eventuality a nearly herculean task. And in fact such has been occuring (through multiple groups, and to the detriment of the vast majority of capsuleers, for months, and perhaps for years). It is also inconsistent with the existence of different stages of the the incursion (established, mobilized, and withdrawing - how does it make sense to be able to headshot the incursion 2 hours after being established?). To the extent that incursions can be made more compelling (and perhaps attract some of those 90 of pilots not running them) by a simple change in the mothership spawn timer (and indeed CCP recently cut the respawn times) that seems like a no-brainer.

Stop asking for a dev solution to a player-created problem which isn't really a problem.

I know I've been linking this a lot lately, but it is literally the only way to respond to this thread.

Seriously though, if this were to happen then incursion income would need to be nerfed again to balance it all out.

OP says: "The devs need to change the game mechanics because a group of players is popping the mothership and affecting how I want to play the game."

Compare to the usual "nerf ganking" post:

"The devs need to change the game mechanics because a group of players is popping my ship in highsec and affecting how I want to play the game."

See the difference? Neither do I.

Early...
"You keep using this word, I do not think it means what you think it means."

The reason highsec Incursions have (in the past) lasted for long enough that you are currently noticing a difference is entirely a player agreement not to complete.
Prior to that agreement highsec Incursions cycled quickly and subsequent to that agreement's end highsec Incursions cycle quickly.
There has been no change to the way Incursions work so either the communities will have to put their drama aside and allow Incursions to persist again, enabling newbros to join in, or Incursions will return to their "very high end/endgame content" status and very shiney contest fleets with pilots with hundreds of millions of SPs will have to duke it out over the spoils.

You would be better off with a few incursions lasting for 4-5 days than with new incursions constantly popping up lasting 1-2 days. For the former you can just relocate for few days, while the latter will constantly impede your activities. And Eve is meant to be a group game - solo play just isn't that compelling.