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After reading the dev blog three times and reading the forum posts for the first 100 pages, here are my inputs. Before the inputs I'll throw in some facts, why my words should have any effect at all.
- I have been playing the 0.0 game for pretty much my entire eve life as the small guy
- I have been grinding and defending dominion sov for several times in several entities (yes, also with 30 odd drakes)

The primetime
While this changes a little to nothing, compared to the present system, I still feel that it should be tweaked to individual structure basis. Gives bigger window to human error. Human error drives conflicts (b-r, Asakai etc). Conflicts are good.

The sov itself
We get way too little reasons to own sov. I haveto admit I have no answers to what those reasons could be, but as it is and as it will be, pretty much only reason to own sov is for epeen. The saved fuel costs are pretty irrelevant. Granted that it makes some reactions and low end moon minerals worth to do, but in bigger picture it has no place in planning of "should we get sov?".
Also loosing sov doesn't mean anything at all. We EvE players are used to the fact, that we put assets in risk. We need the destroyable stations. If you, Deat CCP, cannot figure out a way to deal with the "dead" assets on a station to be destroyed, then just create a wreck with the same rules a ship does. This would propably generate so much content just beacause ppl want to kill stations to get their hands on the assets.

The occupancy of the system
We have had the military, strategic and industry occupancy in the dominion sov. Everyone with sov knows, that the industry is next to impossible to get and to keep at lvl 5. Need to fix that, so that market pvp, manufacturing, moon mining and researching are involved in the industry meter.
However there is a bigger concern I have on this occupancy. As presented the occupancy is purely based on amount of PvE in the system. Propably about 90% of all 0.0 systems are unable to provide solid enough PvE activities for the upgrading to kick in. PvP HAVETO be involved to military index. Any entry system for example, are strategically super important systems that cannot support PvE at all, but there is a lot of PvP happening. Even worse I think is the fundamental flaw in the design, that PvE is the key in here and PvP has zero to no effect at all.
What I would like to see on the occupancy is, that any kind of activity and actual living in the system will be able to lift the system defences to maximum. There are hundreds of alliances and corporations who have no desire to PvE, but would love to PvP in their own sov space. Now alliances like mine are practically forced to mine to keep systems. I kind of like the fact, that this could encourage ppl to do alliances that does lilbit of everything, not just focused on pure pvp or pure pve. However we have seen it many a times, that pilots in this game are mainly focused on one over the other. PvP'ers like myself dislike PvE, beacause its boring. PvE'rs dislike the PvP, beacause the risk. Yes, I know generification.
Also staging systems are rarely used to anything, but lots of ppl in local + market and contracts. There are no ratting, no mining. Yet the staging systems are one of the most important systems to any alliances.

Reinforce times
One of the biggest problems in both dominion sov and the presented sov 3.0 I see is, that there is absolutely no penalties whatsoever to get your system reinforced for the first time. In dominion there is no penalty to get it reinforced for second time either. Maybe revert back to SBU's but make it so, that when SBU's are online, you loose all system upgrades, until the fortification is taken down. That would stop defencive SBU's. it would give a significant penalty to getting your system reinforced and thus it would force the defenders to actually defend. Loosing jump bridges, CSAA's, cynogens etc. would actually hurt. This would also give a reason to have 24/7 alliances timezonewise. Ofc the SBU mechanics would need to be tweaked to stop troll SBU's to be dropped everywhere.

Capitals and Supercapitals
The new system will invalidate quite a lot of capital and supercapital usage. That is a problem again. Mainly beacause every time a capital / supercapital is used, it has the possibility of generating content. Content is good. If you look back to killed supercapitals/capitals we can divide the deaths to three general cathegories (in k-space, not WH space):
- Moving a supercapital gone wrong (and yeah, I used to have a rag)
- Supercapitals are bashing structures with low / none support
- Dreads/carriers reinforcing structures or repairing structures/ships.
The new sov idea will take away quite a lot of those. So we would need a new reason to field those ships. Not that I would love supercapitals gamebalancywise, but the more they are used, the more they keep exploding. Explosions are good mmm'kay.

The change as whole
I like it way more than the dominion sov. Command nodes and freeporting is a awesome idea. I like the fact, that a non used system is super easy to take. Even the usage is based on flawed meters, but anyways. But with the all proposed changes at their stage I feel like Sov is more of a burden than anything else. I feel that this will create a environement, where sov may indeed change lot of hands, but just "beacause we can". Noone, but megacoalitions can afford to actually live in a sovspace, beacause the risk is too big to loose everything during your eastern holidays/xmas etc. I like the Entosis link gameplay. Even it is the same grinding that it has always been but without killmails, it still is way easier to do.

I like the way you are headed CCP. Tweak stuff and it will end up being the best thing that ever happened to EvE. So make Sov actually beneficial, wantable and useful to have.

Ugly Eric has spoken o7

I have seen claims masquerading as data, saying HIsec is worth fortunes, and Null is bad.

That hardly counts as data, I am talking about anomoly regen, isk available in anomolies for loot and salvage, (which we know has dropped) and bounties, officer and faction drops, and escalations over for a period of a week or two. For each class of truesec.

This is data, what I have seen so far is give me more statements 'cause incursions are OP.
You cannot expect CCP to work with this. Or the wider playerbase to support and campaign for the request

Spawning defense timers because just because of a single person

for a POS it is currently:

- you want to reinforce it alone? Go grab your dread and stay ~60min on the POS and risk your ship
- you and your corporation want to reinforce a POS? Go grab multiple dreads and stay ~5min

and that should be for the Entosis link too

- you want to reinforce the system alone? Do it and stay on the TCU/I-hub/station for 1hour
- you want to reinforce the system with you corporation? Do it and put multiple links on it and stay for 15min

for example 10ppl could reinforce it in 15min but 1 person alone had to stay min. 1h (for sure there should be a cap that like 15ppl reach the max. timer bonus - so that there is no difference between 15ppl putting the link on or 200ppl putting the link on)

So after a few days of this... I'm just disappointed and my motivation and hopes for this game are like the new wormholes... shattered.

Maybe I was expecting too much, some sort of miracle to get away from the blobs and grinds. But this system isn't it, the grind will just be in a different kind of way but still as time consuming as it was before, now it's not about HP but time spent hitting certain structures in a trololol ceptor. You always claim you want people to play as a team, making Eve something to experience with your friends and members, but how is this system doing this? You can just go RF everything in a frig or cruiser, on your own? But then the prime time thing kicks in? You RF a constellation and then you have to clear 100+ nodes? How is this going to be faster than sitting on a stupid SBU or TCU? This won't change the current layout of 0.0 - sure, the major empires are going to lose space they don't need, but it's still a numbers game. This will hurt N3 and PL even more than any other entity - don't get me wrong, I've never been a fan of them and their "elite" attitude, but this will just crush them. CFC is going to have a fun time annoying the **** out of n3 with marauding squadrons until they just stop playing the game. Well done CCP, so much is going to change...not.

Why couldn't you just come up with a system that promotes smaller entities that fight local wars, that encourages to deploy your capitals and supercapitals in a fight over a constellation - something that makes people put assets on the line, not dumb down the fight to even more ceptor ****. Sorry but you're not "reanimating" 0.0 with these changes, it's not supposed to be another big FW zone. There's a reason why each security area has its own meta and lure. I've supported you on Phoebe because I thought it was a step in the right direction or at least a necessary step to implement a totally new system, which makes it possible to soften fatigue afterwards again. But you're just crippling the long term motivation for a lot of people.

I do own a supercarrier but I don't have much love for it right now, after these changes it's even more just a symbol of luxury. Yes, call these tears or whatever - but these are no "omg losing space or whatever" tears, but this is the wrong direction we're heading to. I love Eve because of the diversity of depth of the ship tiers, the different things you can do and find your own niche. But you're killing off niches and diversity, you're dumbing down the game to frigs and cruisers online for the sake of new players but losing your long term paying members on the way.

I love to fly AFs, but I also love my recons, my battleships and my dread. I can't fly my battleships because a few nerds in bombers make them go pop, I can't fly my dread because there'll be no reason to. I can't move it to where the action is happening and even if I could, there's no action to be had after these changes. You think tweaking a few percents of damage on the Ishtar is the solution for its OPness, disregarding or not even answering to hundreds of useful comments by people who face them every day. This sucks and unfortunately I think you give a rat's ass about what we think or what the CSM says, I'm not even sure we're playing the same game here sometimes.

You've been on a good road, don't ruin it.

Just one?

Still that means that a fleet of 15 people cant defend a station from a fleet of 30 people without fitting a link on every ship. 1 link at a time is the only way this system works. Any more than that and it fails its entire premise.

being in a non sov holding alliance im really looking forward to those changes. it opens up a lot of possibilities to cause havoc and grief and probably generates a lot of small scale content!

After Reading a lot of this stuff, i came to a conclusion.


1. Sov linki mod should be fited only to Battlecruisers or bigger ships.

2. you should be able to anchor pos modules on sov structures.
Not as much as large tower, but how about we give sov structures PG/CPU of a small POS?

Than the atacker must bring sme thing more than just single ship and blanket he whole sov.
They need to bring an actual small working fleet, but it will still be easy to take the sov.



I think it's very reasonable to give Sov sructures option to have POS mods on it.

4 small guns 1 scram and 1 web are easy to tank, come on :)

You could tank it in a single BS but you need to bring a BS, not an interceptor!




It would kill the problems we have now, and you could not blaket whole region risking nothing.
You would have to bring some small force to reinforce sov, not a bloody frigate

And if the attacker speeds away? Contest won. GF.

Perhaps after the window ends. Maybe. It's only 10 minutes - nothing compared to a current structure repair.

But then, I think occupancy should be not system limited, perhaps a combination of adjacent systems values, or the sum thereof or similar.