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It is not AFK ISK generation when people have to form up and defend that rental space. Perhaps our rental program is vastly superior to the rest. I'm not a huge fan or swaths of rental empires. You would see these start to shrink if some things like structure notifications went away. It is really easy to know your losing rental space when the very moment it is attacked you are notified of it no matter where you are in the game.

Drop caps on targets closer?

You said that would stay between us.

I think Cas Mania should try harder in matching the rest of you when it comes to the family picture.

+1 for leaks and the tears it created.

What I am not a fan of is that in order for the small organization to have any meaningful participation in null requires not just the blessing of the larger ones, but having someone on staff who has an IT background. Right now it is either join or die with no room in the middle for a variety of options.

I'm not implying a large organizations have it easy, but the bar for entry into null should not require becoming part of a coalition or waiting until you have thousands of players to forcefully take a single system away from the large organization.

1 (the active small group) should qualify more than 0 (the inactive large group).

Would you qualify Goonswarm Federation as a large active or inactive group?

LNAW endorses Marlona Sky; victory is assured.

This is a really good question. At the current state of null industry in regards to gathering resources within null, it is dire. The good news is CCP recognizes that. Right now, null depends on Jita. As much as it would like to walk away, it can't. That is why industry related ships, like haulers, freighters and such have a nice -90% bonus to Jump Fatigue. It means they can still perform the necessary trips to and from Jita to supply their efforts in null.

Once CCP is able to revamp industry side of gathering local resources to a level that makes sense, then such a bonus can be removed as it is no longer needed. I know moon goo is one of those things that is shipped to high sec and sold as an export, but I feel like that needs to be expanded upon. Even parts of low sec and maybe even high sec could have some things worthy fighting for and controlling. Such things could then be shipped into null. At the same time, it should be possible to find such items in other parts of the game, but no where near the occurrence in its native region.

There is near infinite possibilities that can be done to make null space very desirable while at the same time, not making it 100% self-sufficient. Trade is very important and creates opportunity's for conflict.

As far as taking something too far, the answer of course is yes. This goes for everything in the game. You have to find that balance. For any new mechanic or revamped one, having several options as 'slider' where CCP can easily make small adjustments here and there that is capable of evolving with the meta and player population. Jump Fatigue has several sliders that can be adjusted. As I have said before, as long as we get a sov system that is occupancy based, one that is not dependent on grinding structures and immediately notifying AFK empires their system is under attack; the Jump Fatigue will feel a lot better.

Right now everyone flocks to basically one major war front because anyone outside of a major coalition trying to take anything sends out a structure notification. Instantly. The defending coalition has an insane amount of time to mount a defense and repel the non-bloc force that is trying to take just one system. If having sov meant an alliance actually had to utilize the system at some capacity outside of stabbing a tower on a R64 - then we would see blocs and alliances begin to spread out across their territory. If they didn't, then their territory would shrink due to it being nibbled away at by groups at the borders.

And very important is it should not just be profitable to be active in these systems, but should be enjoyable to do so. Players do whatever it takes to have fun. Even if it means taking gates for 7 hours with capital ships to deploy to where the content is. The strain on their Jump Fatigue is soul crushing. But if the fun was only a handful of jumps away, you would not be stressing the Jump Fatigue left and right. There simply is no reason to cross regions at a time in a couple minutes to find what you are looking for when it is simply next door.

Then, we finally have a dozen or so different brush fire wars in null. Conflict spread across many, many server clusters... which of course means far less TiDi. Of course this does not bode well for those who like to sit on a throne having 40,000 players at their beck and call. After all - why would anyone follow someone who is in no position to aid them from the other side of the map? More leaders, more blood in null, more conflict, more pew pew.

Jump Fatigue offers a huge home field advantage. While the invaders are having to slowly trudge their capital ships across systems to get to your front door, your capitals are already there. Some people complain that their capitals and supers were nerfed with Jump Fatigue, but they are looking at the glass half empty. As a defender using such toys, you can use them with the confidence that you will not be hot dropped by everyone and their brother from all four corners of the map in a couple minutes. This home field advantage scales up the larger the entity that inhabits the space obviously. Of course the more people you pack into one part of your territory, the more open you leave the rest for another group to start another front where you don't have your heavy hitters. You will need to balance your forces out between ensuring a successful defense of a system and maintaining control of the rest.

But capitals already on home defense under Jump Fatigue should not be the only thing out there that falls under "home field advantage." It could be something wild like deciding how you want a grid to function in regards to effects similar to unknown space. Perhaps the ability to lay mines because your alliance has sov? Again, near endless possibilities. But it should never be so over the top that opting to "blue ball" is the best option and you hope the invaders give up.