Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You can report these if the entity that owns them no longer exists and CCP will remove them. Otherwise just war-dec the guys and shoot their stuff.

Surely you're joking. Either you don't understand the importance of system control in contested space, or you are just being ignorant for the sake of being ignorant.

There is not an entity in this game that is going to cede control to an attacker for an exit window during a contested timer unless they are pants on head ********.

Your synopsis is bang on for the instigation phase...but when the real event kicks off, your method will result in a loss the majority of the time, ceding control of a contested grid is ******* ******** if you actually plan on defending it...much like ceding control of a contested grid is ******* ******** if you actually plan on taking it.

For example...remember 6VDT when TEST decided they had tons of time, and CFC just said **** it we will sit in the system all day and wait for the timer because then TEST will have to fight through us just to get to the grid to defend against us. Remember how that scenario played out.

Scratch DPSing **** replace it with Entosis linking ****, and you will get the same outcome every time.

Putting a few things together from different posts, it seems like there is a good deal of concern over interceptors w/ the entosis thingy just making a mess of things.

What's the range on the entosis thinger? I was looking at the new structure fitting picture and saw 2 smartbombs in the structure high slot fittings. I would imagine that if the structure smartbomb range was enough to cover the range of an inty using the entosis thinger, then it may not be that much of a problem.

Is entosis thinger range fixed or based on the ship using it??

Am I mixing apples and oranges here?

Yes you would be able to do that.

Which is the best update this game has made in years to Null Sec, hence the plethora of Null Sec posters bitter posting about having to actively defend their space apart from just showing up to a predetermined timer fight.

Here are just some thoughts. unrefined. and in no particular order

@(1)&(2):If defender has at least same "control" of the grid, no capture progress should be made. The defender is winning, if he manages to hold a stalemate. Who holds the Fortress after Battles and Sieges in human history? Thedefender owns it until they are starved out (logisitc interuption). Or the attacker breaks the defence. Therefore i think there needs to be an option to not have to chase and kill the attacker all the time if he runs pillaging though your lands and is faster (stinky pete, trollceptor,.....). The defender should just have to errect walls.
Therefore its on the attacker to break the stalemate. He has the initiative and can decide time and place. He can gather intel first of what "walls" needed to break.
hint: there are battering rams and other siege stuff available to smash the walls (see ECM, damps(some extend), big alpha dmg). If they would not be there, bad choice options then. But this should be balanced by other means than balancing just a single module.

"(2)=>(4)" is very well true out of a attacker perspective. Therefore if the attacker is lame and does not provide content, he should not be rewarded by any progress. If the defender is already commited (structure value etc.). The attacker needs to commit something to a fight also or its just trolling and should not be rewarded as much.
As stated above a defender cant hunt all the other parties in the game all the time just to defend one structure. Grand scale "stalemates" are essential to diplomacy.

Logistic and Ewar is very interesting teamplay and newbro friendly. imho please incentivice the use of it.
Please introduce more active option to counter ewar. just fit eccm is lame. remote eccm is great teamplay. also when being jammed, the "nothing can do"-awefulness for 20seconds needs to change. If lock is lost during active entosis link, the progress of cycle is lost anyway. Therefore some suggestion on ecm about reduction of cycletime and "just loose lock like ecmburst" might be viable again. Also no ewar immunity anywhere (there would be ways to buff your capital against ecm, right?).

Stalemate encourage excalation, right? If no OR looking at tactics how to outplay your opponent while fighting is boring, then go home!
@(4): if "indefinite Stalemates" are a possibity, something else is broken. not just one module!!

TLDR:
Therefore i vote for remote assist still possible on active entosers.
+1 for electronic warfare use to counter logi.
After all i'd like to fly small-scale and attack whatever is undefended. Or outtank a siege for 4hours of vulnerable primetime in active logi and support battles (i would jsut have to undock and fight. And do nothing else like lots of traveling or staying awake throughout the night. therefore being "sieged" wont wear me out as a human. my capsuleer would starve on ships at some point though. but thats fine.).

Additional feature to help (2) ("status reflects control"):
If two entosis links are active (stalemate), move progress slowly to the "middle"(50%). speed affected by capture speed of both parties. move it faster, the more the progress is away from middle and vice versa. or shift the middle to anything 0-100%, depending on if system has an activity index modifier thing (0 for lvl5. 100% for inactive).

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You can always cancel remote assist possibility in future patches, when you see that its not good. vice versa is no so possible, is it?

CULTURAL VICTORY!

If these new structures let you dial-a-yield on the sec status of your systems then it's likely the bad areas will fade or be rented off (depending on the level of customization). The alternative is anything that's not locked down getting the crap harassed out of it because 15 minute timers and "lol goons".

I think if this system doesn't at least make it significantly harder to hold large chunks of space, "for completeness" or otherwise, then it's failed at least one of its objectives. If you can actually hold it, or its being worked by the members, then great whatever, but un-used space should be hard to defend.

A wasteland would definitely be a shakeup of sov.

But there's other ways to make a wasteland, that also make you cry.

Just make the Laser pointer things range scale to what ship its fitted to so frigs get a 10-15 km range destroyers have 15-20 cruisers get 25-35 battle cruisers something like 40-60 BS get 75-100 and caps can be 100-125 carriers dreads 150 supers 200 and titans 250