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prime time should be set and should not be able to be changed just like that With only 96 hours. should be a whole week at least personally a month

You can't own large regions on the basis of capital might anymore. Even if we reverted the travel changes, the existing capital/supercap dominance doesn't work when you have to capture 10 or 20 nodes across a constellation. For each group of systems you want to control, everywhere, all at roughly the same time. Every day, because anyone can flip them on a moment's notice if you weren't actually there to defensive E-link to prevent the timer.

What, exactly, are you going to hot drop your caps on? What is the deterrent your supercap fleet provides when the nullfiied cloaky T3 fleet can just go around you and capture sov control nodes in every other system around your big giant fleet?

This isn't to say that strategically critical systems won't still escalate into giant cap battles. But large alliances simply won't be able to lock down "loads of regions" for any length of time without committing significant fleet ops to defend every timer in every single one. And there will be timers, because anyone in an inty can start the timer and anyone with a few T3 cruisers can then cap 10 or 20 control nodes on a whim. And the large groups cannot stop any of this unless they commit an actual fleet to stopping them or out-capping them. In every. single. constellation that they want to control.

In short, if you don't have live, active pilots in that area on a regular, daily basis, you will be at a fatal disadvantage to almost any reasonably sized/funded group that IS willing to live there on a regular, daily basis.

Any system that large groups are willing to live in and "staff" with reasonably sized defense/E-link/counter-control-node fleets, those large groups can own. The entire point is that we're all pretty sure the number of systems that will be is going to be considerably less than the number they own right now.

Make the Entosis module unable to be fit to all frigates and unable to be remote boosted. Otherwise, also make moar null space on the map so that if this becomes an experiment in the absurd it will be even a bigger mistake. Change for improvement is welcome; change for changes sake is not, it is a slippery slope.

Seriously, if it works that way, I'll be thrilled. I enjoy all sorts of fights, small to massive tidi-fests. I also fly a lot of logi, so I always have stuff to do. But really, let's look at another model that was supposed to do exactly that: generate small-scale fights over localized points of control - one that some of the same people who are saying 'this will lead to trollceptors and not actual fighting' were saying would lead to interceptor antics and no real fighting:

How are those ESSs working out for inciting small-scale PVP while improving the value of null-space? I mean, they were supposed to get added for w-space and empire, right? Did they ever? Why would such a successful system not get the interative expansion that was planned?

Maybe... cuz it didn't work?

Similar mechanic is involved here: you can't warp away for X time.

Similar results will occur.

That's a better reply even with the play on the 300, I always found that rather cool that people called the defenders Spartans and then the number of people on that special SBU killmail was exactly 300, fate and all that.

Like many people I have no problem taking risk, and will at times expect to lose big time, the previous system was just no chance, of course I am realistic about you guys coming in with a big hammer, that's what big entities with lots of resources do, but when you have a chance you do, if you have 0 chance you don't...

Since every single ship will be able to attack hostile Sov, every roam will be duncked as soon as it enters intel covered space. Sov holders won't tolerate any non-blue to fly around their space.

To be honest, I think this will kill casual (and most fun) pvp. There needs to be a way to identify a fleet as a sov tread or just a roam. Maybe introduce a specialised ship?

Recon ships might do (those which don't have a sov bonus), or HIC's ...

ESS is an embarassment. is it seriously still possible to put it inside an anomaly? why wasn't that fixed on the day of release?

my body is ready for maledictions online

So many nullbear tears, not enough buckets.

Yeah. Did you read the dev blog? Explain how NA.'s 9000 members will defend 500 systems every day during prime time? All the titan bridges and caps in the world will not allow NA. to project all 9000 members to every constellation that requires defense during every 4 hour window every single day. Supercap fleets will lock down one or two constellations at best. OR supercaps will be spread around to raise the cost/barrier to flip a constellation, while at the same time isolating them and making them vulnerable to anyone willing to commit to that cost.

And if NA. CAN, then power to them. They should be rewarded for their military effort with control over a lot of systems.