Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Held your space with no effort though.

I notice GSF have lost nothing of interest and have adapted well, hurry up and teach the others.

It's funny how the organised mob always do well at something needing organisation....oh...wait.

No

do not add a number cap, but do significantly reduce the speed of ship while entosifying.

Guerilla warfare is not about conquering territories.
You simply want to prevent small groups to be able to bring guerilla tactics to your sand castle.

I do agree that the current speed of ships while entosifying needs to be looked at, and entosis ship should not be allowed to become like cyno alts ships, i.e. worthless.

It is not CCPs place to stop someone from annoying you, that is your job. either fight or move.

Guerilla warfare is not done without a purpose, it is done to weaken your opponemts resolve and to put a small army on more equal footing with a larger one. You want those 50 players to fight toe to toe with 5000 man alliances because the outcome is a foregone conclusion.

Im pretty sure the British were not fond of US guerilla tactics in our fight for independence. Also, in our fight for independence the will of the British monarchy was eventually broken and viola that small military took the land and became the most powerful military in the history of the world.

Your statement was echoed by the British in our war with them that we were cheating because war had stupid fighting rules at the time and we broke those rules at the expense of the British and to the benefit of ourselves.

You do know that 'entosis shock' would constitute an arbitrary restriction. right?

You are arbitrarily nerfing the effectiveness of certain ships to be the best at entosing. Some ships are just the best at what they do, sometimes by design, sometimes just because it works out that way.

I think they should make a small entosis link that you need 5 of to get a decent time, with less it'll take longer to cycle. Then there should be large links which you fit to a cruiser and now you only need one ship for optimum time. Not quite the same as the T1 vs T2 we have now.

But I also agree with davet517. This galaxy starts to look small when you see the sovereignty on the map. Just about everything ownable has been owned since well before I started playing, but vast amounts of that space are just empty sov costing fuel blocks and not getting used for anything beyond a barrier. Once all that excess sov falls off the map, we'll get to see how full this galaxy really is. I, for one, am eager to see that.

Sov was intend as something that measures activity and it is not.
Yes it has activity based timers but it is not a good system.
It added a artifical timers which favor the defender
It added an attack way which pretty much made all ships bigger then a cruiser useless

We had the troll attacks in the past and they will stop as soon as people get bored.
In a few month you will see how the defender willl again gain more advantage out of it.

It's annoying to say it agian but the this system does not scale and the only one that ever did was the first.
In 2008 Sieging a tower was huge work as there were not enough dread pilots later people were scared because of Supercarriers.
Today we have no fast knowing Supercarrier fleets and thousands of dread pilots
In all the time it never changed that 50dreads were able to reinforce a tower in 10minutes.
In 2008 we defended a important System with 10 Towers so a full capital fleet needs 25minutes to reinforce the system if you have the balls to bring it and the defender has not the balls to counter drop.
Yes the small alliances up to 200players will have an issue to bring 50 dreads but 25 are enough because the average response time is more than 20minutes.
So rollback to that I say.

And the "empty" space is "empty" for a reason it is a more a less a demilitarized zone, in EVE these areas can be half a region wide or somewhere between 5 and 10systems
It s claimed to monitor it and the cost of a few million isk is worth it.
Sometimes big alliances and coalitions allow other groups to live there but more as a shield.
This space is not empty it is the demilitarized zone after a war that might has lasted 6month of everyday fighting with alarmclock ops and losses of billions of isk a day.

That is also the reason why a small entity will never hold signficant space in EVE they have not the capability to fight a 6month war. Most alliances loose 25-50% of there members in such a war because they just burn out and even the biggest alliances can not compensate for 1 trillion ISK loss per month for ever. Some might say nobody looses 1 trillion ISK per month but this is only the value of 40 BS fleets or 10 titans.

You realy don't get that if a system is "empty" or without SOV it still belongs to some alliances influencesphere.
There are a 1000 PVPers who will be happy to evict anyone who tries to move in out just because they are bored.
This has nothing todo with adapt or die.

You understand that the SOV is not needed to control the system.
Loose the system and then control it by just killing everyone who wants capture it.
No SOV needed