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What night time? The last wars we fought, our EU (IT, NCdot and Raiden) and US (Test) enemies had to default to timing for AUS timezone because we had everything else covered, and still all that did was slow us down. Its actually better for us if the people who we want to greif time away from our chosen Prime, since the guys having to play "defender" wont be strung out also by going on the offense, instead you'll have our fresh other timezones with literally nothing better to do.

Do you have any idea how phenomenally bad this idea is? 'Hey, null players! You only have reason to be logged in during this 4 hour window! Let's make null more empty!'

It's still just going to mean that claimed space will be utterly empty when invulnerable. That's not how you get a more dynamic nullsec with more fights.

That does not shoot far enough especially if the target move withing it's large "sapce tag" allowed range.

EDIT : My bad, missread the meaning of the quoted post.

But still, it shows how the 250km range on that link is ********.

Have you ever thought about retribution? If an alliance starts this sort of harassment, they will have to endure the same thing!

All those examples, about ceptor fleets griefing the hell out of everyone, completely ignore the fact, that as a defender you can easily threaten the attacker in just the same way. So it all boils down to mutually assured perma-harassment...?

Maybe... but only, as long as you are stretched out thin. As soon as you have like two dozens of people in every system you own, the problem goes away.

Plus an intelligent defender could easily have the lone ceptor griefer try and grief for half an hour (remember those 10 minutes are just for empty systems... everything that is even remotely inhabited will fall somewhere between 10 and 40 min), only to come in at the last three minutes, activate your own E-link, and either blab him or chase him off.

Every half-decent occupied system will take a while to conquer and sitting around alone for 20-40 minutes, hoping that the defender will not show up at the last minute, is no fun, but a cruel mind game for the attacker as well. After all its the attackers time commitment as well. Roaming around, waiting 20 minutes, being chased off or sniped off last minute and repeat; for 4h+... ? Who in their right mind, would wanna do that on a regular basis??? That's even worse than structure grinding, cause you don't even have any sense of community or any firepower to deal with defenders...

Oh and don't forget, that the defender will take back any progress you made in 12-15 minutes max, even if you needed 30+ minutes to get there... My guess is, that something like an "emergency Drake" (all mids, lows, and rigs fitted for brick tank and RMLs + T1 E-link on top) will emerge; a sturdy, cheap fit that can hold up a large swarm of pilots solo. Harassment is only long term effective, as long as it is asymmetrical in all aspects, which it isn't; time commitment is in favor of the defender.

My bet is, that after a few tries, people on both sides will get tired of meaningless games of cat-and-mouse and will choose to upgrade to bigger ships and small gangs who can actually stay, fight and get something done.

Just some quick thoughts I had on increasing space residency.

Sov needs to be made more valuable at some point to make it worth fighting over and to fill null-sec with more people using the space.
Most regions in null-sec currently have 8-10 systems at most where people use the best security systems for ratting. A new system should be introduced where the value of all systems should be worth upgrading but also with a sliding scale valuing these true security systems.

[All values used are simply there to show a way to increase value to all systems].

I propose a new system where each system can be upgradeable but persists in a cyclic system. Better true security systems rotating through the cycle in less times but still not making it better value to simply stay in these systems under the present system. A cycle would compose of the normal system npcs and their bounties, but as occupancy combined with npc kills increases, so does the value of the npc bounties and their quantity.

Cycle 0 would be the value of an unclaimed system and result in the npcs in the present system.
Cycle 1 would give npcs with bounties 20% higher and at an accelerated rate of spawn and be the start of the cycle.
Cycle 5 would be generated from destruction of so many npcs and result in npcs that have bounties twice the current value with double the spawns.
At the end of occupancy 5 where enough npcs have been killed a npc with a value of ~10m would spawn and destroying it would signal that the end of increased value npc waves has finished for this cycle. (In lore this could be explained as the npcs amassing again). It could even be made that this npc dropped a bpc for the new entosis module, tying together PvE and PvP.

The cycle length of this system returning to high value npcs would be between 4-8 days depending on the tru-sec of the system. This would give the players a reason to move onto a new system in their space to get better bounties and also they will have increased their defense of this system against outside PvP attack under the new system.

The same system would be applied to mining, but with ores that gave an increased yield when refined from 20% to 100% depending on the level of the cycle.

Occupancy would be used to determine the minimum lenght of Prime Time on a system:

Occupancy 5 - 4 hour window
Occupancy 4 - 6 hour window
Occupancy 3 - 8 hour window
Occupancy 2 - 12 hour window
Occupancy 1 - 18 hour window
Occupancy 0 - 24 hour window

Occupancy would be determined by military and industrial levels as proposed, but adding in all the factors of a system.

Example would be that military uses the numbers of npc killed, pvp kills, POS, pilots in space, and other activity in this envelope. Industrial would use any mining activity, including moon mining, all manufacturing jobs, and other relevant activities.

Military 5 and industry 5 would have the same benefits as before in system with, but the cyclic role of npcs and ore in a system should encourage greater use of other lower security systems and a better reason to build up the defensive level of these systems.

The time to get each systems defensive value up to a maximum value should reflect the ability of the holders to use the system and they should lose systems and create more space holders.
They will either have to lose systems that they do not use which is a good thing as it encourages new residents to move in and utilise this space; or recruit people to use these systems that they have no time to use.

With more people in space and using all aspects of the space, null sec dwellers would be able to reduce reliance on hi-sec even more. More PvP will be had as there is now a target rich environment which will hopefully result in more small scale roaming benefiting both the PvP orientated residents and outsiders of the region to come roam into.

I also propose a separate thread for the Entosis discussion.

Don't you dare hate on the newbros in frigates. They're awesome.

On the "Politics by Other Means: Sovereignty Phase Two":

Awesome changes, very interesting solution. Looking for the final implementation!

I don't understand why the fitting requirements for this high slot link thing was not revealed in the dev blog. If it turns out it is not possible to fit on anything smaller than a cruiser, it would have saved about 50 pages of posts in this thread.

Probably because they couldn't decide where they want to put it and just put it out there for the feedback to fret about it to see where public opinion goes. Personally, I'd make it a command link. Then again, I had a entirely different system for sovereignty in mind, so what does my opinion matter.