Player Features and Ideas Discussion

seems legit, +1

So.....let me get this straight: Instead of having thirty thousand renters spread over a dozen regions, the blocs can now fit all of them into a couple of systems (or constellations)? Geee, that isn't broken at all.

Currently, lowsec/npc entities can and have harassed renter alliances to the point where they lose thousands of members. Put them all in a single constellation, and it becomes trivial for the blocs to defend them against harassment. I have a great idea guys: Let's buff renter empires!

+1

As a non-nullsec small gang PVP pilot, these are the kind of changes that would make me interested in fighting over 0.0 territory.

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That is treating the symptom, not the cause. Look at your current situation in Catch. CVA and Hero are just being toyed with to provide fun for PL and NCDOT because that's all there is to be had right now. A wargame between two strategic allies. This war is a complete farce.

100% goon scam.

The proposal is simply good common sense for the most part, and occupancy-based sov and higher economic density are inarguable. I unreservedly support that part of the "Null Deal".

But I can't help noticing the hook in the bait: the requested NPC stations in each region. The coalition use for this is blindingly obvious: invulnerable staging points and cache stores. They will be of limited use for attackers, but extremely useful for imperial defenders, and the reason they've been asked for is to allow the existing blocs to maintain domination and influence, albeit not direct ownership, over their existing territories.

No secret has been made of the plans to set up large caches of ships in order to work around curbs on power projection: these stations are wanted for exactly this strategy.

By all means lets ask CCP to add more NPC space - that's a drum I've been banging for a long time now - but the way to do this is not to gift the powerblocks with free indestructible staging points in every region, but to add 2-3 more Curse/Stain style regions to the map, especially the east and north, with plenty of medical stations (Venal only has 2 IIRC) and pirate agents so that it's not trivial to hellcamp NPC based groups who become more than a nuisance. Place these regions such that those 0.0 regions which are currently far from any NPC space are now within range. That will accomplish the stated goal of "generate platforms for small-scale PVP content and launching points for smaller alliances. "

A full sized region has the resources to maintain a group that can be a realistic threat, not just harass hapless miners every now and then.

You want content ? reset your big blue donut. - want big fights move to provi - oh wait most of the big colitions have because they cannot risk loosing there space

Who do I talk to about renting NPC nullsec systems in the middle of SOV holding alliances?

I'll go against the anti-MOA propaganda and state that NPC stations in nullsec do make a difference. While Mordus Angels (MOA) are too small on their own to threaten CFC SOV they are trying (often successfully unless we actively camp them in) to harass the surrounding area. They are not totally unsuccessful and I think that opening up more places like this would make it possible for other groups to live in the midst of the SOV holders and cause havoc.

I know that I love shooting random dudes basing out of NPC nullsec (though I most often end up as a lossmail). I prefer having reds/neuts going through our systems opposed to it being totally dead (like when my old CFC alliance was living in Branch).