Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have written a rather lengthy number of proposals into a google doc, which can be viewed here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PVRVLHlqq1GpgpPsaKgGVK1MoBokAP84VGChcc5SAXQ/edit?usp=sharing

I realize this discussion is regarding an ends to justify the means, but, something CCP might want to keep in mind is, when they do eventually 'fix' sov in the way that it should be fixed, it will not take long before they will know if they did it right. Before the 'new era' of sov stabilizes, we should be seeing the biggest war ever. And not just in one system, but spread all over.

These won't fix any of the issues with null and all of these ideas will make it worse.

Idea is good.
You will lose only clone with implants & all assets on that station.
Simple rule: play hard, or live in high-sec.

What needs to be done is very simple. Give more power to a small group of players.
How you can do that without making the big group of player more powerful?
Well is simple! What are the cons of having a huge fleet/s to command.
* Time to organize
* Time to move
* TiDi, on undock on jumping gate on taking the titan bridge.
* And the best for last Grouping all in place!
Yes the biggest advantage of the big group is its biggest disadvantage.

So what to do?
REMOVE THE REINFORCEMENT TIMERS!
If you are there to defend it, do so! If you happen to be somewhere else you lose it.

The huge reinforcement timers are what kills null sec. No small group can get a system anymore, because to do so you have to kill millions of HP just to get a timer 3 days later and if you are lucky and have the opportunity to kill another x million of HP, you get another timer and 3 more days.

So all this nonsense about power projection, how it should be nerf etc... WELL nerf it to hell if you want, if the big group has a week to organize there force to defend a system they do not use anyway, what is the point?

What eve needs is simple change, that gives more opportunities to players. Not some major reshaping and nerfing. You are not making new game! CCP does not make the game, the players does!

lol blob of supers :)
let them come and take it, when they leave you take it back

Thats the hole point of things, if you there you can owned it, if you are not you lose it.
IF they chose to stay in the area and try to defend it then you go and attack there home system :)
NULL IS BIG and empty... Not because people wont take it, its because people wont bother spending hours in girding when the defender has a week to defend it.
There is 0 dynamic in null sec SOV.

here's my bet. The 20 guys doing the meta thing will be infuriated and drop their subs. The other thousands will log in and continue on w/out them.

Every time one of these big shots says their will be massive unsubbing you need to remember they can say that and they can certainly unsub, but realistically are are their minions are more likely to rejoice and go play the game they want. So the whole "my 4000 guys are going to unsub because I'm no longer in charge" is more funny to me than a credible end to eve.

I dont need it given just how bad these ideas are. I would advise you to go moon scanning to see why scouting an entire region of moons is hated by everyone.

I'm here to throw a few crazy idea's at CCP. Hopefully they'll at least think about my crazy ideas.

- Remove jump freighters completely and replace them with covert ops freighters that cannot enter high sec. This would force regular freighters to go into low sec to get assets into a covert ops freighter which is then flown to null sec. Smaller alliances and corps might have an easier time moving stuff because they have less demand for certain assets than a large entity does.

- What if titans couldn't bridge from POS's? What if they had to warp to a safe to bridge? If a titan is bridging a fleet to another system, that fleet is obviously looking to get some reward. A rather large reward, otherwise they wouldn't bother bridging. A titan bridging from a POS with it's hooter sticking out isn't exactly what I call high risk.

- Player made stargates? Might be a bad idea. Might be a good idea.

- Revamp the whole process of losing/gaining sovereignty. Remove SBU's and IHUBS. Keep TCUs, but revamp them as well. What if system upgrades were applied directly to the TCU? No timers on the TCU. There should be 2 states of a system: secure and vulnerable.

Introducing a whole new concept: TCU nodes. What are nodes? They're essentially power banks (batteries) that power the entire TCU. These nodes can be hacked just like any ordinary bank in a data/relic site. All these nodes are inside the TCU itself and can be accessed using a hacking module. There should be 3 nodes that can be hacked. In order to hack node 2, you must first hack node 1. In order to hack node 3, you must first hack node 2. All nodes are secure until somebody starts hacking a node. You need to hack node 1, then 2, then 3. Node 2 is immune or invulnerable until node 1 is successfully hacked (same for 3). When hacking commences, that node becomes vulnerable. These nodes must also have a "power supply" to keep anti virus security up and to recharge the adjacent node. Node 3 recharges node 2. Node 2 recharges node 1. Node 1 recharges node 3. A successful hack on a node drains the power of the node to 0%, making the next node vulnerable. If the adjacent node still has 100% power, that node will regenerate the hacked node. If a node is in the process of being hacked, it does not regenerate the power of the adjacent node. Power is deposited from node to node every 5 minutes. When all nodes are hacked and depleted of power, the TCU can be shot at, which can then flip the system.

As soon as hacking of the first node commences, a notification is sent to the CEOs and directors of the corps in the alliance. It should only take 1 guy in a frigate (or ship of your choice) to hack the nodes, meaning a small response team can be sent out to defend the system. That could either escalate to a grand fight or simply drive the hacker out of the system. Only a corp/alliance member with the proper permissions can hack TCUs (for example, only directors and CEOs).

Nodes can be upgraded to increase security measures which in turn would raise the cost of holding sov in that system.

- What if corporations (not in an alliance) could claim sov in null?

That's all I can think of for now.

You also should go do it. The only people who think scanning moons isn't a soul sapping, mind numbing activity are people who have never done it.