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Have the corporation declare one held system the capital system. The capital system would declare the prime time and once the capital system moves to level two any system connected to it by a gate could be taken and upgraded to level one. Each level the capital increased would allow the connected system to upgrade one level and every system connected to level two or higher systems could be claimed and upgraded to one level below the connected claimed system.

Each sov level would increase the true sec level and allow for better wealth generation. Each Sov level increase would decrease the prime time window by one hour. Level one sov would have a 5 hour prime time and L2 would have a 4 PT and so on with L5 having a 1 hour PT window.

Having the sov level increase true sec level would give residents a reason to live in the space and upgrade their system. The ISK income still needs to be looked at but at least it would give all sov null the ability to have the highest rewards for being active in the system. As the group grows they could spread out organically out from their capital system.

The leveling system would ensure that used systems became better ISK generators and harder to take but wouldn't allow groups to just take buffer regions without living there. Active occupancy would determine how much ISK could be generated in that system.

All the E-link stuff is good, tweak the values so that some ships can't disengage easily and run away but the system as a whole is good.

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Now that I think about it, using the Strategic Index won't work because each structure has to be capturable independently in the new system. Using the Strategic Index as the maximum ownership score could work, but then you would only have 1 point in a system you don't have a strategic index in and that's not really enough warning. Each structure will definitely need to have its own independent capture score.

Here's what it looks like is going on(and is going on) the number of long term players that aren't playing right now is silly, subscriptions may be up now due to an unusual influx of new players, but how long they will be with the game is dubious.
Phase 1, remove the ability for people to play the game
Phase 2, remove their will to play the game
Phase 3, maybe attempt to give them some kind of a cookie with some other thing?

I've disagreed with the direction of these changes since it started. You're doing a lot of things to de-sandbox the sandbox in a very bad way. First you make it so its really hard to get anywhere and do anything with capitals, then you propose basically making them useless until you've repurposed them in some way that you aren't sure about yet. It appears you're trying to get the playerbase to break into smaller groups in an attempt to bring back small gang pvp on a more regular scale, this is futile because there will not be any de-blobbing or disbanding of any player organization as long is there's other large organizations.

Problems that need to be addressed
sov nullsec being stagnant, with vast amounts of unused space. The entosis link is a nice thought and all to change how the space is fought over, the initial proposal is riddled with holes and lack of details. The worst thing to come out is the primetime mechanic, this is a really bad thing that will further decay timezones outside of the prime area, where-ever it lands, there's nothing worse than logging in and missing a fight because it wasn't in your timezone, what you're proposing is potentially making that a permanent thing.

SOV PVE Content being boring, repetitive, and can support a very finite number of players, im not saying allow us agents, preferably there would be something better, but if it comes down to it ill take it, Sov nullsec is the only space that cannot support an infinite number of PVE content, npc nullsec can, lowsec can, and highsec can through agents. Sov nullsec pvp shouldn't be based around having a staging system that everyone sits around in and does nothing while their alts farm isk. The player experience should be a more complete for a single account with pvp and pve content available locally for all.

AFK CLOAKY CAMPING.
This has been largely weakened by the force projection changes, the ability to bait with warp core stabs after being dropped is hilarious, space herpies. It still is a very tired boring mechanic with no real counter. I went through a wormhole with an alt to somewhere in drone space that was really out in the middle of nowhere, it was an xxdeathxx renter system, anyway my entertainment for the day was giggled while chatting with these renters in local that hid in their pos from my scout cheetah, for 8 hours they did nothing while i did nothing, they hid from an invisible threat that wasn't even there, they cried in local about why i was there and to please leave them alone, i was briefly tempted to offer them a price to leave, and a higher price to leave and collapse the wormhole, but i figured they probably wouldn't pay me anyway and didnt want to lower myself to that level, instead i just commented on whatever they were doing / flying and it was hilarious when one of them was flying around the pos in an interceptor attempting to decloak me. Anyway moral of the story, its a troll mechanic that serves nothing but tears and sadness so you can bully someone whether you have the intention of doing something or not while not putting yourself at any risk.

Botting is still very much a thing in many places, the proposed local delay could have some effect there, but realistically if there is a delay put on local of even 30 seconds sov nullsec will need some kind of a cookie to balance it out, either the removal of the intercepters interdiction nullification or some kind of PVE bonus as previously stated. Right now nullsec is basically just a farming ground for people farming isk through the most boring methods possible, or people attmepting to kill the people farming isk through the most boring methods possible.

SOV PVP being all about very important timers that get blobbed, in some ways i really wish we could go back to the tower spamming, that really made war hell back in the day. 24/7 content with a reason, it was hell, it burned people out, people hated it, but it was constant content. and provided every form of warfare. The arbitrary timer system that was implemented in Dominion was one of the worst possible things and is the reason we have constantly blobbed up to 1000, 2000 then 4000 people in single fights, the force projection change that aimed to remove our ability to transverse is one of the biggest mistakes ever done, changing the reason everyone is going to fight over one system is the real key to fixing it.

Renters being renters, Not sure which is worse, the fact that there's people with the ability to hold large amounts of space to rent, or that there are people that actually agree to pay the rent. Its a disease on the game and should be snuffed out by whatever means needed. And again back to botting renter empires allow people to do botting and RMT via third parties with some degree of safety.

Anyway I'm going back to playing minecraft and watching TV, hopefully by June there's something to do in this terrible game.

Where are the younger players? If PCU is going steadily down, then people are leaving faster than they are joining. Any Eve player should want more people around, not less. More people: more targets.

Scrap the strategic indices. Keep the current decay mechanic for the military and industrial indices. If they are at zero, all sov structures go into permanent vulnerable mode. As long as the indices stay above zero, prime time mechanic applies.

Ought to quickly weed out absentee landlords. It also ought to quickly flag those systems that actually are "worthless" in terms of being viable for folks to live in; those systems could then be buffed over time to make it worth people's time to go occupy and hold them.

Unfortunately, highsec and nullsec are not the only two choices available.

What CCP needs to do is buff nullsec for a change. Give people an actual reason to want to fight for their space besides moons and epeen. It's basically the same problem with highsec wardecs, on a grander scale.

I still don't understand why alliance would fight over sov in the first place?

There is no actual value in owning sov for alliances, the incomes from upgraded rattingsystems, combat complex systems and mining systems goes mosty to the individuals, not the alliances. And the incomes from ratting/mining/plexing are so small compared to the incomes from the R64 moons - for alliances.

And with Entosis-links any sov will be easy to take (which is good).

But why protect something that has no value and that is easy for others to take? I just don't get it?

No alliance will fight for sov in nullsec, because there are no incomes for alliances connected to sov!
Every alliance will fight for the R64 moons in nullsec. Because that's where the incomes are for alliances.

So tie the incomes from R64 moons to sov, somehow let sov and upgrades regulate the incomes from the R64 moons:
* R64 moon without sov -> bad yield from that moon
* R64 moon with sov -> better yield from that moon
* R64 with sov and upgrades -> really good yield from that moon

This gives a reason for alliances to own sov. Sov is still easier to take using the Entosis links, but now alliances will have strong incitaments to protect their sov. The incitament to protect R64 moons is allready there.

Now there will be fights over both moons and sov between alliances. Owning sov is necessary and important. Owning sov affects the incomes of alliances, not of individuals. Attacking your enemies sov weakens them, it's a viable and important strategic target. Content is generated.

Working on the CCP assumption that a) Nullsec is a-okay and does not need any further "increases" to income generation and by extension b) Null is the ultimate risk to reward and as such should be the upper limit on potential income for a capsuleer.

Starting from those two givens, it is obvious that to make null sec truly attractive you must balance the income within the less risky areas, as it currently stands there is the dichotomy that high sec is both the safest space to operate AND the most lucrative individually. Until that is addressed, null sec will only remain truly attractive to those who want to plant towers and live off moon goo.

** Clarification, in "risk" I am also factoring in the cost of maintaining the space, in both ingame isk and player time plus the ever soul destroying maintenance of alliance functions. **

Only CCP has hard numbers about those things, and they probably should publish them to end that debate. I very seriously doubt that if you averaged out income per player per hour for high sec, low sec, and null sec dwellers, that null sec would come out on the short end. Income inequality is probably greatest in null sec. The rich get richer while most players just get by and are in fact probably no better off than if they were playing in high-sec or low-sec.

CCP probably should publish some numbers about that. They have an economist on staff. It shouldn't be too hard. Of all the income being generated in null, how is it being distributed? Is there massive income inequality, similar to the real-world? If so, it would account for the perception that null income is bad, when it's actually not.