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i hope your not serious i cant tell anymore here

I can confirm this statement I'm like one of of 25 goons that mine so it is hard to keep that index up.

I like everything but the 4 hour window. You're really punishing people who play at offpeak hours with this one. The entire Aus TZ is going to be basically struck from sov warfare through no fault of their own. Double or triple the window at the very least. If you're actively using your sov you should be able to defend it or gain it back without issue.

My only complaints:

- 4 hr window is too short, and it can really **** over multi-tz alliances (which are most sov nullsec alliances) in terms of content for members. Although prime time is effectively already a de facto mechanic, this just makes it official. It either needs to be 6+ hours or looked at again.

- Frigates with etosis links will be a problem, the range on t2 links will be a problem. Either make it so ships with links activated are immobile or 90% speed reduction like hictors, reduce the range from the absurd 250km, or just ban frigate hulls with them altogether. Or some combination of those three. It's good that a small group or even solo player can create timed content, but it is far too easy and risk-free to do it. Interceptor with sebos and overdrives will be nearly uncatchable.

I like the idea of the future exploding stations **** YEAH.

Obviously, you just put a couple shield extenders on it. They'll go well with the istabs and sensor boosters. Plus whatever hacks you're using to make it all cap stable. Also discounting that the elink makes you unable to warp away for 10-40 minutes.

Yes, the interceptor will be unstoppable by anything not counting pretty much everything.

There is no need to be upset.

I'm not a null-sec player at all, but I have to say this blog made me seriously want to try going into null-sec once this goes live. In other words, I love this.

Having said that, there are some things that made me frown.

1. Only being able to attack in the defender's prime time. I can see the reasons for this, but this will effectively mean that alliances from different time zones will have a hard time getting into fights. Only during weekends when people have the ability to stay up late will they be able to fight in the defender's timezone. How is an EU prime time going to attack a AU prime time during a weekday for example. There's hardly enough EU people on during that time to make a serious dent. Either the prime time hours need to be expanded (6 to 8 hours) or it needs to go entirely. In fact, wasn't the entire concept of reinforcement designed to deal with time zone differences? This creates two mechanics that do the same thing. Either reinforce, or prime time. Not both.

2. Unless you care about having your alliance name plastered all over the map, TCU's now become the least targeted objective since capturing them does absolutely no benefit (unless you plan on putting up a new station). In fact, it would theoretically be possible to own and lock down an entirely constellation of systems, get their I-Hub indices to max, but still have the system claimed by your enemy. Though I suppose the 25% fuel bonus is a good incentive to attack something that is most likely not going to be defended anyway after the station and I-Hub have already been taken.

3. "Maximum range of 25km for Tech One, 250km for Tech Two."

The f*ck? That's probably the widest difference for any module found in the game. And a 60m isk difference is not enough to cover that gap. At the very least the T2 version should be much more expensive with a range like that, maybe even make it restricted to battleships and capitals.

Other than that I think these changes are absolutely amazing. We'll have to see how much the 'smaller guy' is able to get in on the action in practice, but it can only get better than what we have. If the plans get a little refined, I might have to seriously consider joining a null-sec alliance again. Awesome work!

It sounds to me like all the folks complaining about the change simply don't want to fight.

If someone puts a thingy on your station to reinforce it and you put your own thingy on it then the progress is paused. So now you have a battle. Kill their guy and they have to put another one on it. To me it doesn't seem like ceptors will cut it and i think you're overreacting.

This change promotes smaller skirmish fights. Don't be such a whiney bunch of bears.

Real attempts to take sov will still escalate to epic cap fleets and t3 fleets.

I zoned out like 20 times reading this and had forgotten 60% of it when I reached the end.