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Except while this fleet is duking it out over system A, the attacker sends 4 other fleets to flip sov in B thru E. Because they don't need DPS fleets and don't need to commit supers to these probes, they just need something that can fit an E-link and defend it. So now defender has to send smaller fleets to defend B thru E. And each of those fights has a chance of escalating too. And eventually attacker and defender run out of pilots and escalating forces and instead of one fight with 4000 people in system A, it's 5 fights with 800 people in each of system A thru E.

True, it will turn into giant TiDi cap blob if the attacker is trying to take the LAST and ONLY sov system from the defender. But otherwise it drastically encourages the attacker to make multi-pronged assaults because they DON'T need to commit caps and supers to each prong until and unless things begin to escalate in order to have a realistic chance of succeeding (since overwhelming DPS is not required).

This likewise forces the defender to actually defend these multi-prong assaults NOW, not later. You can't just ignore it because you know the HP on the defending structure will buy you hours and hours of time. No longer true with E-links. And you can't just let the structures fall and say "meh when these come out of reinforce we'll just drop our overwhelming super fleet to defend it later", since that will no longer be a viable defense either due to the command node CTF game that will then occur.

lol, that's what they said...right before Dominion.

I've got a spare 100 mil lying around, who wants to bet that this overly convoluted new Sov system with too many moving parts ends up making things worse rather than better in the same way Dominon did (remember ,Dominion was 'supposed to give people a reason to fight' and give people 'small gang objectives' but resulted in more blobbing)?

IMHO The problem isn't the sov system, it's the existence of and the very idea of sov in the 1st place.

I'm not sure why people think interceptors or tactical destroyers will be untouchable with an oversized MWD ...as it is, it's impossible to fit a 10mn MWD on a inty at all without a full rack of APUs and an oversized AB doesn't do anything spectacular to their speed....plus, even with a rack of sensor boosters and amps you can't even get close to 200km lock range even with max skills.

The svipul you can get close, but not close enough to avoid being blapped by a well-timed shot from someone who can predict your orbit pattern.

Its already like that.

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I see your point.

I love these changes as a whole, coming from a small/mid sized alliance point of view these changes should make holding sov an attainable goal for a group like us, which is very cool.

I agree with a few issues that have been pointed out though, the 4 hour window of activity is very narrow which could limit the action that off-peak timezones will be able to take part in. Could we set vulnerability windows to be unique per constellation? Or increase the window if we so decide?

I also like the idea of controlling what can actually use the Entosis Links, perhaps through high fitting requirements/role requirements. I think sov holders could be trolled hard by random frigs who put themselves in little to no danger while reinforcing your sov structures. While i do think a group that controls sov should be able to handle a single frig I also think the attacker should have some risk involved. Yes we can halt the attackers progression with a single frig of our own but that sounds like more of a headache than interesting gameplay.

ZOMG I NEED TO LOG TO PROTECT MY SOV !!!!

OMG CCP I ******* LOVE YOU AND YOUR FU... BAT, WE WILL BURN THEM TO THE GROUUUUUUND

I think thats part of the goal. Doesn't 5 800man fights running simultaneously provides a higher degree of difficulty and fun. New tactics will be employed, new fits probably with warp speed rigs will become mainstream ... this is combat evolution right here! The 4000man blob fight is the way of the bittervet. Times are changing and I'm looking forward to it!

You are asking CCP to fix an unfixable problem.

Alliances in different TZs cannot meaningfully interact with each other because they aren't online at the same time, not because of anything CCP is or is not doing. Period.

In a game where fun boils down to "interacting with other people in real time", there is basically no way around this. CCP is finally just introducing a mechanic that accepts this basic reality. They cannot magically make AI proxies for the other alliance to play in your TZ to enable your fun. Find people to have fun with that are online roughly when you are.

The new simpler system that everyone can understand and apparently automatically knows what they should be doing and when takes 20 pages to explain?

There are good ideas here and some bad ones.

Why make the T2 module 10 times better than the T1 module.
Surely this is the opposite of what your trying to achieve with tiericide.
Why would anyone use the T1?

I suppose if the super-fast, super-agile, super-long-target-range ships of legend ever became an issue, it would be possible to make three versions of the Entropic module, with the battleship-sized module taking the least time, then doubling as it went down to the medium ships, and doubling again into the small ships, with a lore reason being that "more electronics can be fit into the larger modules to do the job" or some such.

Even so, small ships scooting along at distant ranges have low angular, and would be quite vulnerable to sniping ships sitting at zero on the structure, one of whom will probably have a link of their own, thus negating the entire effort of the attacker.

Regardless, as a resident of Thera, I look forward to causing a bit of chaos with the many backwater nullsec connections we get. Wormholes in general will probably become a thing of terror for a lot of nullsec entities as they open up behind their lines, where their intel may be a bit more lax.