Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Yes, although confirmation bias means they can be intentionally or unintentionally selective about who they listen too and what they take away from that discussion.

"Thanks you for your feedback, one of our service team will review and collate your feedback soon" = "Bwahahha thanks for coming dupe, this feedback looks good printed on rolls of toilet paper!"

If you cant be bothered protecting it, then you shan't be allowed to keep it

To be fair, when we asked for a RLML bonus on the Rook in the Combat Recon thread, we actually did get one, even if it was an indirect and limited one.

When people cried about the jump fatigue changes for Jump Freighters, CCP dialed it back, giving a 90% reduction to fatigue on jump freighters.

So its not fair to say CCP never listens.

edit: There was no place to indicate what I actually thought of the time zone mechanic as proposed. So here goes.

The mechanic is extremely limiting and benefits the defender in the extreme. Set vulnerability timer to some really strange time frame like central pacific / very late US / Alaska TZ and just lol as no one can ever take your space.

It also takes no advantage of indexes to make it better. For example, what about starting with a very wide vulnerability time, and narrowing it as the strategic index grows? Or something.

My 0.02 isk

Current time-zone system proposes multiple unfair defensive advantages
1. Attackers cannot attack defenders in any other time than defender's "free attack" time. It is almost surely that attacking window is defender's prime time window so they come prepared.
2. Attackers will come prepared only if their time zones match with defender time zone. In case when time zones doesn't match attackers will have disadvantages
3. In any other time defenders are guaranteed to be completely invulnerable regardless of attacker's will

However random timer is bad as well and does not really fit any of the sides

I'm proposing a mixed approach of "controlled randomness" over time zone
1. Defenders still pick their desired time zone say 4 hours from say 5:00 to 9:00
2. There is only 50% chance that actual "free attack" timer occurs within this timer
3. If that's not the case
a) there's a chance that timer will be shifted by 1 hour back or forward
b) there's lesser chance that timer will be stretched by 1 hour back or forward
c) there's much higher chance that timer stays the same
4. Timer shifting/stretching may occur once again infinitely many times with less and less chance

Examples (assume default time zone for defenders is 5:00AM to 9:00AM)
1. Everything goes as it should so the next day timer will remain untoched
2. RNGod wasn't smiling on defenders this day so their timer is shifted by 1 hour forward and now is 6:00AM to 10:00AM
3. RNGod was angry at the defenders so their timer is shifted by 2 hours back and streched by 1 hour forward and now is 3:00AM to 8:00AM
4. There was 0.01% (say) chance of timer going completely nutz and that has happened: now they have to defend their system within 5:00PM to 9:00PM

What this solution will achieve and why is it better than both newly proposed and old (attack at any time) options
1. It elimitates "double invulnerability" windows like alliance A living closer to alliance B but they can't do anything to each other because of completely different time zones. More action as a result
2. It keeps relative freedom in planning what to do and when whether this is ingame or not.
3. It gives a rare opportunity to do something really devastating to another alliance in case that timer favours attackers but not defenders

having some poor guy run around every week adjusting timers is fun for nobody, especially the guy who has to go around and change a bunch of timers.

it serves no purpose than to annoy people and won't promote any content what so ever.

I can't be bothered to read about this but I'd want to only see active systems have an invulnerability period. I know flying around with Razor that there were only 5 systems that could be called active and those should be VERY hard to take but they had a pile of systems where the only activity was the occasional patrolling prober(blue closer to active systems, usually neutral further away) and that space should be able to be flipped EXTREMELY quickly.

Agreed. I'm very excited for the new sov changes. I bet CCP will be watching closely to see that those systems that should be flipped quickly do in fact flip. Or, the ultimate goal of forcing inhabitants to change, and actively defend their space on the new meta.

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Weaponized boredom 0

lol.

Simple proposition:

Make Enthosis Link use different kinds of ammo. Not just stront, but something else too:

Ammo type 1: Work as it is now (contest structure), can only be used when structure is in vulnerable TZ.

Ammo type 2: Adjust vulnerability time. Can be used any time, on any structure. Will adjust vulnerability window for the next day to the current time, so attacker can try to capture things in his own TZ tomorrow. COUNTER: defender can use same ammo type on same structure again, anytime, to restore vulnerability TZ back to his own.

Possible other types of ammo effects:
- temporarily lower SOV indexes (next 24h);
- make a protection layer (next Enthosis link activated on this structure next 24h will burn out, like from overheat, at the end of "warm up" cycle, doesnt matter if its structure owner's link or not);
- other nice temporary buffs/debuffs. Not too many (will be too complex), but mild complexity would add some variation, for the small scale assaults at least.