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I believe it does force you to be there till the cycle ends like a cyno.

Love most of these changes however this Prime Time Timer needs to go away. Its going to make Multi TZ alliance be useless since the timers will only come out at one time.
Entosis link needs to be a siege No reps, No moving, No ability to triage or siege. As well as make it very easy to see which ship is running the mod on the structure maybe even have it yell in local the name of the person like the ESS.

Prime Time Timer is a bad idea Its going to make diverse TZ alliances to be pointless

On the docking games in a Freeport. Honestly I would charge a docking fee but keep the fee in escrow. So people get billed for docking (100,000 for a frigate, up to 10 million for a freighter/dread/carrier). Whoever wins over the Freeport in total, gets that escrow cash.

A little bit of a bonus incentive to claiming and winning the station. I'd give 5% of that escrow to the person who locks it down as a individual capture bonus, the other 95% to that persons corporation to do as sees fit.

Basically a capture corp could make billions by sniping the station and taking it's escrow. Basically if you have a person doing undock games, they pay for it. And then everybody pays for it to whoever claims the station.

OK look, CCP, I like where you tried to go with this, but there are some major problems you need to fix.

1) The 4 hour vulnerability window is way too short; doing what one of the other commenters suggested and turning it around into an 8 to 12 hour "safe" window would be a much better idea.

2) Instead of having *all* an alliance's timers set for a single window, why not allow different timers to be set depending on the region? With the jump fatigue mechanic now in place and jump clone timers at a minimum of 19 hours, alliances still wouldn't be able to jump back and forth across their space very easily and this might be a good way to allow different time zones to still participate if you decide to keep the 4 hour vulnerable idea. Have different time zones defending different regions.

3) The T2 Entosis link range is insane and the fact that ships can move while using one is even more so. The T2 Entosis link range should be brought down to double the T1 and both of them should immobilize the ship using it like a triage, siege, or bastion module does. I don't particularly like that it's a highslot either.

4) I've played FW heavily on another account and so I know firsthand how PvP anomalies can generate PvP. So while I like the idea of command nodes, I hate the fact that they're scattered across an entire constellation. My corp owns a single system, and that's all we want. We don't want to have to fly around an entire constellation to protect our single system. The best FW combat is always based on contesting of a single system in PvP anoms in that system, and nullsec command nodes should follow the same model. You say the goal of these changes is to allow smaller entities a shot at sov, but what you're really doing is telling us is that we either need to be big enough to take an entire constellation or we should just go home.

5) These sov changes make it a lot easier to lose your Sov without giving any matching value to owning sov. Like one of the other commenters said, make Sov indexes give bonuses to mining yields and rat bounties or something, anything, that adds more value to owning a crappy nullsec system over highsec missioning.

6) Sov warfare is a huge part of what makes capital ships useful. I'm really glad that you're trying to produce a sov model where owning capital ships isn't required, but eliminating their use entirely is a slap in the face to those of us who spent half a year training into them and billions of ISK buying them. They need to have some function. I'm not saying they should be an "I Win" button as they currently are, but there should be some advantage to having them vs not having them.

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7) Also, please please please make iHubs and level 5 sov upgrades 300K m3, so that they can fit into a jump freighter. The little guys are the ones without titans to bridge their freighters around.

only 4 hours vulnerable, even a filthy casual can maintain that

This section of the blog does not actually exist. You may want to go back and, you know, make holding sov give you something.

How, while still having it fair to the defender?


You can stop that interceptor efforts by hitting the IHUB with your own Entosis link.

Edit: We have yet to see what is being considered for the power grid, CPU and cap needs of the Entosis link. There could be adjusted to limit their use on smaller ships.

Of course it is, what you are going to get is alliances with a massive single TZ in which it would then be impossible to fight and they will never loose sov.

Also worth noting is that ceptor can't do anything for those 10 minutes so it's a matter or burning to it with your own ceptor where the offender either has to flee beyond the 250km limit or die, either way the defender wins.

However much easier is to just use lachesis to damp that sucker (lach has a native 170km range), however a rook works even better since it has a 187km range.

However your e-war range is only 75 +48 for ecm and 56 + 90 for damps even with boosts so you still might have to chase that ceptor a bit.
Then again it might be easier to just haul that sniper Rokh from the days of yore to pop that ceptor.