Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So far I have thoroughly enjoyed the changes offered and I know I am in the vocal minority here. Some simple points to note that completely counter the constant nerd rage of all these people crying about troll ceptors.

First of all, you must maintain a lock on the target, for the link to work. so if anything any EWAR sensor damping ship will completely, and entirely **** on this strat. Lock range damped to 20k, how to run now. T2 Light drones can also move at speeds greater than 5k with incredible ease. Missle boats that have increased velocity over time can counter this with relative easy.

If you are not creative enough to work with the rules given, you are not deserving of the easy isk that comes with SOV. This system is designed to keep people active in the systems they control. Every is so worried about the first phase of SOV flipping I have heard little to no discussion about the second and third phases. ( excluding that free porting and 3rd partying are a bit silly )

Regardless speculation is what makes Eve great, and it really is what defines the great from the mediocre in regards to planning. But if you can't see past the first five seconds of conflict, you will always remain blind to opportunity for advancement.

Something I do want to chime in about is the fact that most people are talking about SOV not even worth holding and as much as I love the concept of holding SOV I have to agree. If this new system is designed to make us more active in the systems we hold, and condense the population, then something really must be done to make SOV worth holding. I wish I had a reasonable idea of how this could be done without just teetering to my biased desires, but this is something I have full confidence other members of the community and the staff at CCP are fully capable of addressing and hopefully fixing.

You are probably trying to fit an oversized prop mod to an interceptor. You want to fit a 1MN Microwarp Drive. Every interceptor can fit a 1mn mwd without fitting issues.

Also, train power grid management to 5. It's a rank 1 skill.

Entosis link prevents remote boosts.

But yeah a 2x sebo inty can do 100 something km.

...with no tank and no utility and no dps.

It doesn't need these things to survive or be effective.

Add the same effects as an active HIC bubble to ships running active Entosis links:

-90% velocity
+sig bloom

it is actually that easy to fix the trollceptor and make the attacker actually expose their ship to getting tackled/shot by a defender.

A disturbing trend by the balance team has been to "over-buff" things and then tone them down (years later) if media attention shames them into it. Have you considered, conversely, to risk a thing being underpowered at the start, then boosting its effectiveness?

not sure if this was brought up yet.

But to like counter these trollinterceptors, how about you allow alliances to anchor pos guns/ewar on their sov structures, doesnt have to be dickstarish, just enough CPU for 5 small guns and a web or something.
Problem solved, no more troll interceptors.

Simples, only can be used by a rorq or an orca. If you can not defend, you should not own sov. Committment to taking sov then assured.

The single Trolletto or whatever the hell you want to call it doesn't bother me - A single meta 4 fitted Maulus can damp it down below 40km with a pair of damps and a Sebo to boost its own range. If the ceptor decides to trade speed for locking range, then simply fit signal amps - 3 signal amps + leadership bonus gives you nearly max targeting range. Add in to the fact you have plenty of room to fit your own Entosis Link (fitting room is even greater than the ceptor) so you can actively reverse the cap process. Ceptor is either forced to close to kill you or pisses off.

The problem comes, as always in EVE, in scalability. The troll ceptor fit is easily able to run in massive numbers, so I could see a gang of 50 of them running into a constellation and reinforcing everything at once. This comes with little risk to the ceptors themselves. You might lose a couple, but in the end it'd be far too many to deal with at once and some structures would have to go into reinforce (or be offlined for station services). This happening day in and day out I think would be pretty crushing to any group. Not sure how to resolve that issue, or even if it isn't by design.

I didn't said that.

if the defender entity to defend a constellation has to leave all their other space at risk of reinforce and without protection then it owns to much space.