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Give us possibility to choose version before production changes :D You'll see that all your 'features' are a piece of s***

I honestly wouldn't mind seeing Entosis Links restricted to BS hulls, and simply make this a fundamental part of the role for the struggling BS platforms. BS's are slow and hard to troll with, which would significantly reduce the roaming troll fleets that will be a reality of entosis link life. And expensive enough to not be purely throwaway. But BS's are still much more affordable than dreads and can be fielded in reasonable numbers as part of mixed-fleet compositions by small groups looking to take sov in backwater constellations.

IF this mechanic was extended to lowsec FW ihub flips, it would also potentially give a reason for BS hulls to exist in FW again.

Lastly, it would give a reason for dreads to continue to exist, since dropping a dread on an Entosis Link BS to blap it would still be a viable defensive tactic. In the current iteration, the ships fielding Entosis Links will be, for the most part, unhittable by caps. (EDIT: in particular, outside of troll fleets, I would expect serious use of Entosis Links to be almost entirely HACs/T3's, which SERIOUSLY don't need yet another reason to be even more popular).

Why would you take a tiny island in hostile territory you cant build the indices in and probably cant even pay the upkeep on. Thats the primary problem this whole system does not address. Why have sov? It turns the current system into a giant game of whack-a-mole and makes systems flip constantly for no benefit other than to grief and troll somebody.

this part of the plan to lock vulnerability timers to a certain timezone is fundamentally flawed.

This will only create more strife, discontent and fragment the nullsec playerbase as entire major regions of eve's active timezones will be excluded from participating in content.

Think from the perspective of an attacker wanting to capture alliance held space that is only vulnerable during EUtz.

UStz and AUtz will be completely excluded from any ability to be useful or participate. the same scenario would apply for defenders as well.

If this happened alliances recruiting standards could end up being locked into highly prejudicial preferences that could become heavily reliant on preferring certain active timezones. New players dont need any adfditional challenges to finding corporations that are a good ft for them .

Finding the right corp for you is already enough of a challenge.

Perhaps ccp should take a long hard look at implementing alliance wide recruiting tools as only corp level recruiting currently exists if they are in fact going to end up with prejudicial recruiting due to content exclusions from alliance or coalition wide vulnerability timers.

Additionally with the way that major coalitions blacklist players who allied with enemy coalitions (think CFC vs N3) entire timezones will be unable to find active content for they're active playtime due to being blacklisted for recruiting.

Noted a player generally doesn't get blacklisted unless they have done some really badstuff but this could make overcoming the allegiance factor much more of a challenge.

i'm all for change but excluding subscribers from content has far wider implications beyond just fragmenting the blue doughnut.

what makes you say that

Amateur opinion (I haven't done null-sec since the Second Catch War)

I like the system for what it's worth as it breaks up a lot of the blob game-play which gets really annoying, but only to a certain extent.. I think it illustrates a lot more opportunity for 'Wing' fights instead of 'Fleet' fights what with the command node mechanics. A few things that do worry me however are the exploding I-HUB... TCU is just fluff at this point to show who's name owns the system (rental turf is going to be interesting) but the exploding I-HUB with a potential for such a light amount of effort looks like it could get costly in a hurry. Especially when you consider how much effort actually goes into just getting those things functional.

Another thing that sort of gets me is the dependence on new high-slot modules and how they take longer on Capital Ships. While this is good for lessening the constant necessity of capital ships for sovereignty, it's sort of a major kicker for ships with utility highs and lessens the overall functionality for ships that don't. As expensive as they are (20m/80m if I read that correctly) it effectively means that whatever you fit them onto better have enough brick tank to be worth the effort. I see it changing fleet composition for the worse in that we're now going to have a lot of pressure to field other things by mandatory within a fleet doctrine.

T1 Frigates/Destroyers/Cruisers are going to pop way too easy to use them and the Entosis Links are far too expensive to even want to fit on those ships anyway. These ships are primarily the 'heart' of a small roaming gang as they're inexpensive and there's not much inherent risk in losing them. I think that the dependence on mandatory use of the Entosis Links are going to make small roams with the intent on damaging sov have more risk as a result but even still they're not going to be doing any real damage without a support fleet as they can only really attack station services without triggering command node gameplay.

It seems that what this boils down to is one large fleet filled to the brim with some players being shoe-horned into using a mandatory Entosis fit and that large fleet winds up having to split off to attack command nodes at some point. The blob-warfare is still there, just now the only difference is they have to break apart at some point. This gameplay mechanic doesn't do much to encourage small gang activity, just the dispersion of larger fleets.

But won't break them up at all.....

Now, we'll use GoonWaffe.....

GW becomes basically a centralized Bank/repository and station flipping force....

Current blues lock down whatever system they want to control.... still coalition friendly...

What's the locking range on one of those again? And what's to stop you just parking an atron at 0 and running a defensive link.

Generally - interesting gameplay to be had! Nice work CCP, now you just need to tweak this a bit...

Pros:
* Small gangs can take sov and will harass bigger entities empty sov-space (there is a LOT of totally empty sov-systems today!). Excellent! Using WHs to harass enemy sov will be done a lot!
* Freeport station for 48h - awsome idéa!
* Constellation-wide conflict - awsome! Making tactical use of the "geography" of constellations will be a key in caoturing sov - nice!
* Non-scaling of entosis-modules - nice! A fleet of 1 or 1000 doesn't matter. Power to the solo/small-gangs!

Cons:
* Small gangs will never be able to hold on to sov once they have taken it, but I guess that was never the thought with this anyway?!
* This was supposed to be simpler than the current sov-grind?! My eyes bleed after all this text! ;-)
* The "Primetime"-concept is a bit awkward - there is a big risk that certain Tz:s will never be part of any fun sov-harassment or serious sov-warfare. Also a "primetime" in a week-day is usually not the "primetime" in week-ends. Fights will always be within the Tz:s and that is a bit boring really. So rethink pls!

Questions:
* Once a structure/station has a new owner; what will the default prime-time be set to? Will changing this default prime-time the first time always induce the 96h transition period where the structure has 2 vulnerability-periods during this transition? I think this might need a bit of rethinking too...
* What determins the owning corp of a captured structure? Will it default to the executor corp of the alliance no matter what, or will it be the corp that had the "killing-entosis-cycle" or how will that work?

And the final most important question:
* What the h*ll shall I use my Super Carrier for now?! Can't shoot POSes, no need to grind structures because "entosis", power-projection-nerfs effectively killed hotdropping capitals....Unsubbing is the best option, or does CCP plan to add some new "role" instead of the role of "main structure grinder"? DPS is not king anymore...(death to all supers - I know, I know! Just didn't expect CCP to kill them in this way!)

At first I thought the 4 hour window thing was janky and a terrible idea.

But then I realized, as a former hardcore but now casual eve player, it really opens up the possibility of me getting more into 0.0 sov warfare, which I like.