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Why not just make Entosis Links>> Command (Warfare) links? That limits them to enough ship types: T3 Cruisers, BC, Command Ships.

Even if this works like the developers think it's going to. The game mechanic is just changed to the winner being whoever is willing to waste the most time(or the full 4 hours) to force one side or the other to be there... Because links.

They sound like things that would be used by players that don't want to actively use and defend their space...

May be, but isn't it a piece of information useful to make up our mind ?

Yup that was me who was hoping to find a niche for the forgotten command ships who are sexy but never used.
This will give these ships a reason to show their face on the field again.
And they arent cheap so the attacker needs to commit to their objective instead of sending in fast disposable ships to cause a fcton of work for the defenders and giving no fights.

Because it was asked several times i will try to estimate a value of claimable systems.
My original intention was to prove why many systems are empty but that didn't work out.

Claimable systems are divided in security classes ranging from 0 to 7, as shown on dotlan.
In median the numbers are following (taken from SDE):

Class Count Security Range
0 1422 -0.01 -0.23
1 397 -0.23 -0.32
2 324 -0.32 -0.41
3 274 -0.41 -0.51
4 276 -0.51 -0.62
5 227 -0.62 -0.72
6 186 -0.72 -0.83
7 182 -0.83 -1.00
Sum
1-7 1866
All 3288

What i see at a glance is, that the systems with a rating of 0 have nearly the same count as all other systems.
Leads me to the conclusion that half the systems are kind of worthless by design.

I could not do the maths about moongoo (lack of data) but what i know is that a better system index has a better chance for moons that actually earn something.
In addition we can't take R64 moons into account because they are not connected in any way to sov except for some fuel blocks and are never owned by the inhabitants and i doubt that this will change in future but i hope so.

Now to mining. If you compare the payout between PvE and Mining (same for highsec) you notice that you need multi accounts to earn isk that comes anywhere near PvE.
Because of the latest jump nerf and the announced capital nerf the industrials/miner tend to only supply their region regarding nullsec.
They just ship some nullsec only and therefore more expansive minerals to highsec. The jump and capital nerf made that ice mining is rarely needed anymore.
Just 1 iceminer in a corp of 30 ppl. is enough. This effect will lower the industrial index and with that the capture time for all systems.
Open the map and compare industrial index with military index (PvE/Mining) you will see that only some systems have industrial index greater than 3.

Now i got only the military index left to predict the value of a system and the reason for living there.
I will do that with the drone region as example.
With the lack of numbers but flying through the systems i found out that even the lowest systems have some kind of worth though personally i would never go live there.

Estimating your system has military upgrade 5 the system can operate following simultaneous PvE ships:
A class 0 system is just good for 7 T1 cruiser, a T1 BS and marauder like or carrier. My guess for the cruiser is that 2 of them are flown by 1 person.
A class 7 system is good for 9 marauder like or carrier and about 2 BS/T3. Noone there is flying smaller ships other than to prepare for bigger ships.

So we got active PvE ships ranging from 5 to 11 member.
Now we have to add the miner but my best guess is that these are just alt's and therefore don't count to members.
We need logistic, booster and administrative things as well which sums up to let's say 4 member.
Because the member are not doing all the things at the same time this sums up only like 8 to 15 online member.
These member may be online the prime time for 4h everyday but i don't think this will happen every day.

The earned isk ranges from pour to pretty well scaling with the system class.
Still would never go into a system lower than 4 which is just 24% of all null systems left but that's personnel.

I see that ppl. really (but rarely) live in these 50% low isk systems and i know that noone will live or stay there if their ihub with the upgrades explodes once a month because this exceeds by far the renting fee and cant be calculated.
You need to be a hardcoreplayer for living in these low value systems and i think these 1422 systems will stay empty.

Now i will go deeper into the empty low value null systems. As some other stated that most of these systems are to rent at 500m per month which is in fact true.

Minimum requirements to be able to live in a null system:

TCU 85m with upkeep cost 180m per month.
IHUB 390m

Staging pos 600m equip and 350m fuel per month.
Pos for PvP ships and spare Arrays and IHUB 600m equip and 350m per month.

Only to buy in highsec!
Ore Prospecting Array 1 50m 5000m³
Ore Prospecting Array 2 75m 10000m³
Ore Prospecting Array 3 100m 100000m³
Pirate Detection Array 1 50m 5000m³
Pirate Detection Array 2 100m 10000m³
Pirate Detection Array 3 150m 100000m³
Pirate Detection Array 4 200m 250000m³
Pirate Detection Array 5 250m 500000m³

Note that Array 3 and 4 can only be brought to you with a jumpfreighter.
Pirate Detection Array 5 can only be transported with a standard freighter and therefore needs one of these rare big highsec wormhole connetions, you may catch one in 2 weeks if you have luck.

Initial cost sum for the first month: 3390m including a spare IHUB and the highest upgrades without the additional costs.
Note that you have to farm your system to be able to install these upgrades which takes time. Development index=0; isk=0;

If you have luck and only your IHUB goes boom, you have replacement costs of 750m without the additional costs.
Add your regularly lost PvP ships to that (imagine a number)m.

As i am still looking at the low value null systems that are nearly all empty and i suspect that the income from a class 0 system is lower than lvl4 missions. Besides there are many reasons why better systems are empty aswell.
Noone will take the burden of that investment with an unpredictable risk of loosing all investment for having an income lower than highsec.

Well a new use to expand their value would of course be good, and command ships on the field, during the capture phase, might be a good benefit, that is an idea that they might have a cycle time reduction, but for the initial phase, it certainly would not be ideal for an uncontested system, but could have value in a true furball scenario.
But if no one is defending the system, no one deserves to keep it, anything should be able to start reinforcement if no one can be bothered to undock.

This new world being offered by CCP is one where if you are involved, and active the stars are yours.
If you wait for someone else to tell you what to do, not so much.

New ad by CCP.... "Do you want to hold the stars in the palm of your hand, and the future of Empires, decided by your efforts?"
CCP 2015 ™

Everyone should be asking themselves, does this make you excited? ^^^^^^^^^^ Isnt this deep down, the hope of why we came into this game?

https://soundcloud.com/eve-down-under/eve-down-under-episode-97-060315 is the link of Fozzie being interviewed on Eve Down Under. You may want to skip the first 5 min of introductions.

He addresses interceptors @ 11 minute mark

'If gameplay devolves into people orbiting at 250 km . . . then we would make sure that that doesn't happen"

Prime Time window will be the first 'breakout thread.

Look, go listen for yourself . . . or wait for the next thread. Greygal voiced a good idea of linking prime window to the indices of the alliance. One that is not active would see their window widen, making them more vulnerable.

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Oh sure, lets make it even harder by taking the ONE interation the defender controls and allow the famous "codemonkeys" decide when it is. That is like allowing the Mafia to decide who gets prosecuted by the IRS.

Other than that, CCP is in FULL turtle mode, fingers in ears chanting "Greed is Good."

he'll ignore it just like he's ignored cloaky camping which also has an impact on system indexes.. he's just trying to keep heat off his behind.. he's lying his behind off..

gameplay has became cloaky afk camping and nothing has been done about it. he pretends there isn't an issue, but if there's hundreds of threads about it.. why not someone from ccp deal with it..

oh that's right .. AFK CLOAKY CAMPING is active gameplay....psssssssssssssssht