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you do aroud 20-30 mil with one aacount runing lvl 4's in hi sec. You do 80+ mil with one account runing anoms in null sec.

What else would you like?

From my experience:
You THINK you would do that. You will try it one or two times.
Then you will see that all you will get from spreading the vulnerability timers is 24/7 CTA with no chance of defending ALL the timers because fleet morale and participation quickly goes down.
(remember: you probably need a fleet on standby to keep space clean while an attacker in your off time might attack with single troll ships)

Then you will be scrambling to get all timers within a time window as small as possible. In your prime time.
And people will be happy to (hopefully) get a well-dosed amount of action and fights each day before they enjoy their off time doing other stuff.

You will NOT change the time window any time a new neighbor appears or a potential threat shows up on D-Scan, because any change takes 4 days to become effective.

Guaranteering military superiority for 4 consecutive hours in your space every day is not a small thing.

and so begins the subbing of accounts.. month to month screw paying you guys months upfront.. EVER AGAIN.
take your plex and stick it.

Classic eve community dev blog rage.

Still no way you can put these changes in like that.

Groups like reavers will literally take regions in intie gangs while having like 0 risk.

RIP AU TZ / RUS aswell.

So I wonder what its gonna look like when you reinforce the entire const instead of just one system aswell .. gonna be like 50 beacons to claim and groups like the CFC can still just steamroll all beacons at once .. dunno how thats gonna split them apart.

and so on ...

CCP pls fix these changes.

tyvm

Nullsec will remain terrible until the answer to "What is the best way to make money in Eve Online?" is not "highsec incursions."

I guess what's most disappointing isn't what is in this proposal, rather what is absent from it:

- Any mention of being able to upgrade your space to encourage occupancy or conquest? Nope. The same old crap anomalies with the same old flaws and limitations, encouraging nullsec players to just log into their highsec incursion alts to make money like so many do now.

- Anything that either side can do to affect the battle in between reinforcement and the capture event? Any sign of secondary objectives or side-goals to carry out while the clock ticks down? Nope. Hurry up and wait, scrubs, no fun allowed for 48 hours and god forbid you have any alliance members outside the defender's chosen timezone, they're just deadweight.

- Any suggestion of nuance or strategic decision making in attacking sov? More than one way to storm the castle? Nope. Spam ento-ceptors to get timers, wait 48 hours, alarm clock for your opponent's primetime and then derp around the constellation capturing Sov Nodes whilst Yakkity Sax plays in the background.

- Any suggestion of nuance or strategic decision making in establishing or defending sov? Nope. Grind out your indexes as best you can to get the defensive bonus, CTA for your primetime and then derp around the constellation securing Sov Nodes whilst Yakkity Sax plays in the background.

- Any real new mechanics? Nope. You've pretty much grafted FacWar onto 0.0 and called it done. You're even recycling the IHubs and TCUs and sov indeces and fixed reinforcement phase from the system we have now. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Let's not call this a new sov system, it's effectively Dominion 1.2 with the EHP grind removed.

On the bright side, this can't have taken you much more than 10 minutes for you to throw together so it won't take long to rewrite something much better!

(1) TCU can be within 50 km of a POS
(2) Entosis Link (T2) has a range of 250 km
(3) Jammers and Large POS weapons can reach out > 300km
(4) Entosis ship cannot warp or be repped; the can presumably speed tank or burn off grid.

Post #35 discussed ceptor swarms with Entosis modules; I'm thinking at least pretty suicidal for the TCU.
In fact, this could be quite difficult for many ships, and maybe even impossible for a dickstar with gunners to manage the jams (assuming Entosis requires maintenance of lock, and assuming it is possible to tell who is activating one if you are a defender.)

Perhaps it would be best to require that no TCU can be anchored in range of any POS module, and vice versa?

have 5 smaller groups, don't engage, make them rush to a single point while you capture 4 others. profit?

I'd like to propose an amendment to the system. The revamp overall has me very excited, but I'm worried about the effect on off-timezone players of the declared "primetime" and the weakness of the occupancy bonuses.

Goals:

1. Allow off-timezone players to participate in sovereignty warfare.
2. Make the occupancy bonus more meaningful.

Let the multiplier on capture difficulty, already defined by the changes, be O (for occupancy, ranges between 1 and 4).

• Allow defenders to pick, per system, but not per structure, a (24 / O) hour window of vulnerability.
• Allow defenders to select floor(O) different 4 hour slices as reinforcement zones.
• When a structure goes into reinforce, executor corp directors have the opportunity to select one of the different slices for the structure within some number of hours of the reinforce. That timezone will have the reinforcement timer randomly rolled within it.

It's possible I've missed some obvious flaw in this plan, but it seems like this would allow off-timezone players to be able to participate without making it easy to just flip around timezones to random values, since each additional potential timezone comes with an occupancy cost. It also allows occupancy to define the battlefield rather than just giving structures the equivalent of more hitpoints.

CCP Nicely done, very very nice.

I like it.

The only thing I have is if you make it this far through the 800 whatever comments, one more vote for a bigger prime time window. At least 6 but 8 or 12 hours for any big alliance shouldn't be an issue.

Massive applause.