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uiuiuiuiui, .... took some time too read through all of it.
its amazingly easy and provides lots of opportunity to fight. Now i even consider going there.

One question for now (more tomorrow) :
What happens, if a ship that has applied the link, dies? is its progress deleted? can its progress be continued by friend? does this friend have to have a secondary link already active to be able to continue? If it is like the timer in FW atm, where the timer stops if nothing is active and can even be continued later in these 4 hours, then +1 for this point.

We had the same question. I think it makes sense for any broken link's progress to be saved and either restarted by an ally or undone by an enemy, regardless of why the link was broken.

Bit late but here's my counter for 56 of those Ares (assuming you put light neutrons in the two remaining highslots not taken by the link)

http://i.imgur.com/3iy4TtX.jpg

come at me brah


:D

first off, plz bring a 100 of those in my space. its pretty easy to just kill them all without a scratch on my naga. or has noone heard of tracking enhancers on sniper ships? and that nice align time isn't gonne help you since you got a module on which blocks you from warping and has a quite long cicle time.


Only thing i think is going to be a problem is the Ihub. An Ihub cost around 350 mil which isn't that big of a deal but the upgrades in there are. At the moment a fully upgraded Ihub costs around 6.5 bil without taking in consideration that you have to move a lot of the upgrades in by fraigter instead of JF couz of the size. And with the new changes you can blow these things up in around 40 min. Looking at the ease of how you can blow one of these up and how mutch they cost, i think the Ihubs need to be rebalanced. Basicly make them less m3 including the upgrades and make them around the 1 bil total cost. Else it will not be worth it hanging something so easely distroyed up in 0.0 , but without them, its not even worth living anywhere in 0.0

at least, thats my vieuw on it.

You mean the part where people have to actually defend their space when people start reinforcing things? The part where interceptors can't actually hold a field in a real SOV fight? Where exactly should I fear the interceptor?

Is this not a huge buff to solo PVP. Now one dude with halitosis can pick all the fights they want

You're on the right track, but it's very incomplete.


Suggestion 1)

There should be cruiser-specific objectives, battleship-specific objectives, and capital-specific objectives. These objective would require the use of that specific sized Entosis module.

Command Nodes should be for cruiser entosis Modules.
'X' (TBD) Nodes should be for battleship Entosis Modules.
Stations/Ihubs should be for capitals Entosis Modules. (or some other arrangement)

Reasoning:

All shiptypes should be included in sov. I can't get capital fleet combat anywhere else reliably, but this design kills capital combat by not requiring their use and forcing mobility (plus penalizing capital entosis modules). Using a design practice as shown above will ensure that all players get to participate in their favorite playstyle without causing it t be detrimental to other playstyles.



Suggestion 2)

When a station service is "captured" or "incapped" There should be a 24-48 hour timer before it can be reactivated.

Reasoning:
Consequences. If I can just "repair" or re-capture a service 5 minutes after a hostile gang captures it, there really isn't a consequence and it'll just be a carry over of design failures of the dominion system. Consequences like this make sense.


I like a ton of what you've done, but you have to really just go that extra step now.

Dear CCP Fozzie, I suggest making the tosser module a default warpable item in overview like cynos.

Can you also make the tosser module eject pods from their ship? Ship sov contests would be fun.

Ha! Tosser module. And like the model T ford....

Dispersed conflict: People are underestimating how spread out conflict will be - "just" 5 command nodes will only happen if attacking a single station on its second timer. If you reinforce every structure in a constellation you get dozens of command nodes. The strategic choices will be interesting, and conflicts could have mixed results, with attackers picking up a few structures but failing to get others.

Occupancy: More metrics need to be included in defensive bonus calculation. The 3 current indices are just length of time held, rats killed, and ore mined. PI, PVP activity, market activity, and many other activities should get rolled into the system, or else you'll see min/maxing to the indices (which will mean unironic mining ops that will bore people to death).

Supers: The size of your super fleet will now determine the quality of space you can hold, not the quantity of it you can hold. This started to be true in Phoebe, but these changes will really cement it. That's probably healthier for the game, but realistically supers are going to become more valuable than sov, so one wonders how willing people will be to commit them.

Prime time: I like 4 hours of prime time. It's a violent change and will cause huge strife to existing social structures, but that pain will result in an EVE where groups of pilots who actually log on at the same time are playing with (and against!) one another. That shuffle is also likely to see some coalitions fragment (at least initially), because your alliance only needs to beef up a single timezone for defense.

Sov structure placement: I may have missed this in the blog, but what will be require to place a TCU, ihub, or station? If the answer is "nothing" then TCU races after big sov battles and dropping caldari research stations in other people's sov could become a thing...

Armor caps: Just a funny thought, but with no more final armor timers, that's one less reason to focus on an armor/super doctrine.