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true but has hardly any impact upon the actual sov warfare mechanic itself, i.e. ustz attacks sov au tz attacks pos and pocos and makes timers for the defender to chose wether to defend or not (again depends on the stront timer, which any decent allaince/corp will be able to change on the fly during an attack) which leads back to the main tz usually

You clearly haven't logged into the client ina while; every single window changes colour when you activate or deactivate them.

ED needs to get rid of the hackers first as open play is dying a bit atm.

I trully love this change, I can tell how much dynamic and activity it ill bring to eve.

Obviously not everyone can understand it, especially old vets that are accostumed to an easier way of eve.

I'm not sure CCP has ever had to deal with IHhub logistics first-hand. Being easy to destroy may or may not be a good thing, but IHubs are a HUGE pain to place and upgrade right now. Bigger upgrades AND the IHubs themselves can only be transported in a freighter right now. There's no way a little alliance has the logistics capacity to regularly replace IHubs that roaming gangs will be destroying just for the lulz unless that changes.

If you want to stick with the "but sov logistics should be hard" mantra, then at least resizing them for jump freighters would be better than nothing. Ideally, making IHubs and their upgrades Blockade Runner size would open up a lot of options for the little guy.

Another change related to IHubs I would suggest is allowing IHubs to be placed on moons (so you can place them next to POSes). This gives an alliance the OPTION to have a VERY LOW barrier to messing with system upgrades. A POS isn't particularly difficult to defang even with a small group, but gives an IHub some level of protection against marauders that are just trying to salt the fields.



Also the premise that defenders will regularly use jump bridges during capture events has to be a joke, right? Have the CCP employees that live in null sec ever tried chaining jump bridges since the fatigue changes went through? Let us know how that worked out for them for the subsequent two weeks.

I'm currently a FW pilot and haven't been in null since 2008, so take this comment with that in mind. What I currently love about FW sov is the ability to make progress towards the goal across all time zones. The 4 hour "primetime" goes against this concept (ie farms and fields), as if you are not in that prime time you are not capable of attacking your enemy in any way or defending your own assets in any way. I would highly suggest that you change the prime time window in some way.

For example, instead of defining a single 4 hour block, each alliance is required to pick three 2-hour blocks that cannot be adjacent (ie 15:00-17:00, 18:00-20:00, and 21:00-23:00). This will force the fights to be spread across more time zones with a minimum of a 8 hour span.

Another example would be to keep the 4 hour "primetime", but force setting a different value for each of the IHUB, TCU, and station such that there can never be a one hour period of time where all three overlap. This would result in a minimum of a 9 hour window where SOMETHING was vulnerable.

Another example would be to introduce a "random" hour to each structure individually. In this example, each structure would have a random 1 hour window (calculated at downtime) each day where it was vulnerable. When a structure becomes vulnerable, it picks a random time somewhere within the the 4 hour window plus that days random hour (not the random hour when it was reinforced as that would benefit the attacker too greatly). As an optional enhancement, let the structure owner specify 8 unique 1-hour blocks (disjoint from the prime time) which restricts the times where the "random" hour can be.

EDIT: Another example I stole from another post here is to force setting a disjoint (non-overlapping) "primetime" per constellation. A smaller entity can force everything into their primetime if they hold a small amount of space. However,the larger the amount of space you hold, the more timezone you have to defend against.

I think the current system will drive alliance to form around dense 4-hour timezones. If that happens, those alliances will only be effectively fighting other alliances in the same blocks while just staring at alliances outside their 4-hour primetime with zero ability to impact them in any meaningful way.

Suggestions for addressing the timezone issues:

1) Expand the window to 8 hours
2) If you pick a 4 hour window, you also get a 2 hour window 10 hours from the end of your chosen window. This would mean that a US TZ window would have an opposite time that would be RUS friendly and an EU window would have AUS friendly times.

I've been posting about the old CCP coming back...still not convinced? Fail a few more game projects and keep wasting time making half-assed nullsec changes....let me know how that works out for you.

what is the reason to ever own a titan or super in this meta?

If they proceed this update in the summer the game will die. (good for economy then, people get out more, finally we all see some sun and get some Vitamine D, instead of EvE stars and suns on our screens) Or most people who dont want to be in a big alliance, they go gank Hisec.

CCP proceed this and your core gamers will be gone, congratz! So instead of being different and original then other MMORPG's they will just be the same as WoW or other popular mindnumbing MMORPG's for people who don't want to use their brain and start complaining when the game gets harder.

- NRDS will be killed with this update (bye bye NRDS as we know it) since carebears won't protect their space, they go Hisec
- alliances (big or small) will be even more awesome, the hard work, hours and hours of boring grinding in Bashfleets, the billions of isk that goes into infrastructure and what more, can be taken over in 10 mins, WOOT WOOT got to love that

and more stuff that will make it more dumb to get new players in

So next step in August will be pay for your system or your officer modules! Pay to win EVE, is what they are building towards!

Glad that i paid till June, see u guys after June in another game

gg CCP