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I'd rather have POS sov than a literally useless mechanic that encourages fleeing as soon as enemies appear and reinforcing things elsewhere than it does combat. Let alone making supers/caps near worthless in nullsec, encouraging horrid mono-tz borefests where US Nulli and RUTZ Stainwagon will literally never fight again.

And to all the retards arguing that you just entosis link a gang of 30 with your own, what do you do when that gang splits into 2-3? And roams reinforcing and shutting down systems for the 4hr primetime they have?

Question though: Will reinforcing the industry service with the entosis link cause jobs to be canceled? Because that'd be hilariously broken.

Kudos though, I thought that a change that more encouraged stagnation/defending wouldn't be possible after phoebe and the introduction of jump fatigay, clearly I was incorrect.

How about someone removes security from hisec so u have to pay attention to the hisec miner fuelling your afk camper? Oh, the tears, the tears...

Just so we're clear, this is a perfect illustration of why using the development indexes as they are today is so hilariously stupid:

http://i.imgur.com/n84nWAH.png

Sure is a lotta mining happening in that there nullsec, yep


Edit: theta squad, sov backbone of the goonswarm federation

lol you honestly think fozzie was going to communicate on this epic thread right now?? you remember when greyscale tried it and was countered left and right.. he left the building claiming he was sick...(and went home to hide in his cave)

Excessive suicide ganking is symptomatic of a stagnant null. No matter what the system is, how people actually fight, you aren't going to get much fighting if there's nothing to actually fight over. There's plenty of empty regions where you could fight purely for the sake of a fight, but some people, or some political structures, evidently need a narrative or purpose to do so.

I see you and CCP are of like mind.
Both of you just want to make sov warfare as "dynamic" and "engaging" as possible, and knowingly place the emphasis in this new system under the attacking force, rather than the defending force. And yet you fail to address the reasons why someone might want to hold that sov in the first place.

EVE is risk AND reward. The balance is currently too far skewed towards risk in nullsec, and this expansion does little to really address rewards as it increases risks even further.

That and it is 6 am fozzie time right now. He may be a legend. But even legends need a bit of sleep.

Also null is not lower income. That's always been laughable and the nerf high sec crowd always pull the world's best high sec figures while using mediocre null figures to try and 'prove' their points. (And insist on playing for perfect safety in Null. Docking whenever a neut enters local which biases risk towards high sec). Rather than comparing apples and apples. Everyone sensible knows null generates more income overall.

However as I said earlier. Doesn't mean population density is good. Density in a good system should look like Osmon.

If your alliance cannot be bothered to have one person put one E-link on a structure in their HOME SYSTEM for, AT MOST, 4 hours during your PRIMARY PLAYTIME then you have no business owning sov anywhere. The whole point of this system is to make AFK, sprawling sov a thing of the past.

There are only two fixes to the TZ problem.

Turn sov into "turn-based" gameplay. That is basically what we have today. Timers go uncontested. Fleets are moved en-mass to overwhelmingly capture an objective. It's like playing civ.. you stack your units until you have overwhelming force to take a city, then move in at once and take it in an all-or-nothing move. Any competent defending player simply removes their units so as not to waste losses on an unwinnable defensive fight (defense fleet never shows up to defend timer). Or they amass sufficient defense that the attacker removes THEIR army and doesn't even bother on the attempt (attack fleet never shows up to finish timer). This is the state of things today.

Or, sov can be real-time gameplay, requiring actual interaction with other humans flying other spaceships. Real-time interactions result in escalating fleet situations that aren't all-or-nothing predetermined outcomes. Unfortunately, CCP cannot fix the reality that real-time interactions can only happen between people that are online at roughly the same times without inventing time-travel. As a result, sov interactions will be gated by TZ by the laws of reality. Accept and adapt.

1) Show me a fit for an inty with 250km lock range.

2) Show me the same fit that doesn't die in one or two vollies to a sniper fit eagle.