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Not emptying quoting.

it's continuing the slow push towards the "don't ship everything to high, and don't import everything from high" mantra, which primarily is only lacking because of t2 materials (which may yet be solved)

so, this is a nice highsec sov system

but where is the nullsec system?

CCP pls pls don't make me cry.

ok enough QQ

i think the idea of having an event to capture something is good in it self, but BUT the mindnuming bordom we had while we grided down our first few systems was & still is needed. you allways knew when someone attacked your TCU for lols he couldn'T do that much alone. or any structure for that matter, now a single person can come in and troll the living **** out of you.

we have some ppl roaming our systems who would fit into that role quite well. but i don't want to check on **** every 10 minutes just to avoid a stupid dragged out node capturing event.

can't we just all agree that null is together with incursions w-space one of the most profitable areas to be around. now getting new players there without much effort isn't gonna help anyone except those looking for easy kills. maybe make lowsec more entertaining for pve purposes, flood some ppl out & leave null for those who want to play longer than 4 hours a day.

if you go through with this then i hope it brings the goldenfleet times back, but probably unlikely since powerplayers can still drop a few caps on each node there is to capture.

Here's my Idea: Use those capture events for something more fun, more engaging, not life threatening, maybe make it somekind of pvp anomaly spawning in a constellation similar to incrusions giving defenders a bonus (small one). when someone wins the event:

Defender wins = no upkeep until next event spawns
Attacker wins = upkeep is doubled & the doubled part payed to the Winner

when no one engages in this at all (talking far out systems) upkeep stays normal. (by not at all i mean no hostile actions taken after reinforcement ends)


BUT (again i know):

if you want to use the node event for sov:

make lets say 1 cap & below node 2 BS and below node 1 BC or cruiser and below (no T3) & 1 destroyer frigat only node.
that way alot more ships get used & even expierenced frigat FWers can find a place in an alliance, that is not tackle.

It's a game. Artificial mechanics are a necessity.

I'm actually happy to see CCP finally taking a more pragmatic approach to this and loosening their historically obsessive ties to lore and realism. We don't actually live in space, we aren't in the military, and defending small pieces of EVE should not require players to maintain 24/7 vigilance or 12 hours of AFK structure grinding. Some form of artificial/gimmicky mechanic is a simple reality in the face of this fact.

And this doesn't really do anything to negate the advantages large blocs gain from being able to behave like no-lifers in aggregate, it just allows some smaller niche stuff.

That said, I agree with other comments made so far... the real key will still hinges on providing benefits to occupancy that allow higher-density life in nullsec. Larger blocs must be able to maintain their member base in smaller/denser regions of space, and in theory reward occupancy/defense/large bloc behavior with the ability to concentrate more members into fewer systems in a manner that cannot be gamed/manipulated by smaller groups (and therefore not break/allow for abuse of ISK/hr/player/system).

In particular these benefits should be roughly on par with the income/player of smaller alliances in backwater constellations. The idea should be to neither encourage nor discourage large OR small alliance sov. If you want to be a large alliance you should be able to scale up your space roughly linearly with your membership so you don't NEED to sprawl in order to maintain pilot income levels. But likewise your system income/player shouldn't be harshly punished for NOT being a massive bloc, or else we just end up with the pressures to blue we have today.

EDIT: which pretty much all comes back to carrier ratting and anomaly distrubtions, since moon goo is not a line member income stream.

everyone keeps saying 10 minutes, ITS ONLY 10 MINUTES IF YOU HAVE 0 INDICES. so yes they can take the systems you have but don't use, if you use them no it's more like 30-40 minutes. which you should be able to kill him in.

Could I suggest that the 'prime time' setting is optional?

Forcing some alliances who may be comfortable with defending across all time zones into a form of TZ apartheid seems a little counter productive in a social game.

I understand the logic behind the TZ setting but don't think making it optional, providing more choices, whilst retaining the overall aim of allowing smaller groups to hold space wouldn't be a problem.

I have finally read all of that blog and so far the proposed system seems like a solid proposal for replacing the current sov system.

The important metric regarding the success of a sovereighty mechanics change was the amount of goon tears.

This looks like an awesome change.

systems with mining indexes are few and far between so you're looking at systems with mil5 and sov5 as your best-case scenario, and most important systems actually have too many people in local to effectively watch local while ratting so their mildex is not at 5