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Use your space, and only have a three hour window of vulnerability where attackers have to entosis for almost an hour, or run around putting out sov fires for 18 hours a day while an attacker can just take ten minutes to F*** your s*** up, your choice.

It seems to me that you have gone with THIS third option.

Caps aren't in the world best position right now. I don't think anyone is disagreeing there.

Exactly what role they should have, that's the interesting question. If you have any thoughts, I'd certainly like to hear them

Your issue here is that you are equating sov with fights.
The two are only tangentially related, not a direct correlation.

Try doing other things to get fights.
Also, who cares if there are empty systems? That's systems you then don't have to waste time with if you are searching for a large scale fight against another null alliance. Just go direct to their active systems with a Battleship fleet, wait for them to escalate, then drop your own cyno's. Hey presto, massive fight.
Or just jump a titan in with said BS fleet, and watch the server go crazy.

If you want a big cap fight, look at the actual reasons big cap fights have happened. Nothing to do with nibbling away at unimportant sov and troll roams. Those happened under the old sov mechanics as well, cloaky roams almost never escalated to titan fights. It was form ups over critical hub systems, or a tackled titan (who may have pressed jump not bridge) that made the big fights. So use those reasons, not sov for the sake of sov.

That's rich. The alliance I'm in rents from Tri and they seem to be ok with hassle free income from us renters.

I disagree with the limitations suggested on entosing.
Based on my observations is the majority of this large alliances althought they are very powerfull they all have the same issue.
The issue is vast amount of unused space. Every second system its empty. As a result large amount of jumps have to be perfomed. This is specially true in the Drone region, CFC space and Catch. The drone region been the worst where only 3 out of 10 systems are actually in use. I think its time they adjust the amount of sov systems the occupy from the ones they dont really occupy. If you drop those unused space you dont have to defend it. Why keep sov if you dont use it?

We see this all the time with the CFC. We got people coming from all the corners of the globe for a 20 man fleet and they show up in 80+ minimum. They even bring supers and carriers. The amount of jumps they are doing is too much and all because they want to keep vast amount of empty space which they clearly are having difficulty defending. Drop sov systems and get your numbers into the core system. If you look at the systems that are been attacked, the vast majority are insignificant systems cos no one lives in them aka empty.

I believe the worst idea is to give zero m/s speed to entosis ships. Why would anybody bother entosing if all you have to do is jump a titan and snipe it. After all CFC has tried to do this many times already.

I can tell you this with all sincerity. We have been waiting for this changes forever. Now that they are here we are trully enjoying it. We finally can actually herass a larger entity and pick a fight when we want and disapear into the jungle when we dont want to fight them. I think now gorilla warfare has a great future in eve at the momment. We have forced the CFC to reevalute their possition and hire lots of renters to keep the indexes of their systems up. This is what a 1000 man alliance has been able to archive vs a 50k coalition of alliances.

I only ask CCP to look at the sov systems and see how many are actually have presence or used effectively. The truth is right there! You are keeping systems you can not defend and expanded way too much and therefore you spend most of the night jumping way too much.

Those are not problems they are features.

The "CFC" actually has one of the highest player per system densities in sov null.

Before the Aegis expansion, Pure Blind was really not good space. Most of what we have of Pure Blind has really bad truesec, none of the "good" anomalies would spawn even if we ratted it up to level 5, and even then Pure Blind was not "ours" to rat in. Then six days before Aegis hits BAM! Fozzie drops that on us. Suddenly all that cruddy space no one really wanted, or could use unless it had a money moon or jump bridge, had a lot less suck attached to it. Hell, people are going to be able to actually make some money in them running the anomalies, not as great as with "good" truesec systems, but decent ISK none the less. That last minute change caught us off guard, and a few of us are trying to rectify that. Talk to a Goonswarm rental agent today. (Certain terms and conditions apply.)

PROBLEM: nullsec got all buddy-buddy, made non-aggression pacts and wouldnt fight except one staged fight per year to ensure that CCP was nullsecs b**ch, since CCP needed that one fight for advertising purposes.

SOLUTION: introduce new game mechanics so that smaller groups that are not part of the buddy-buddy system can stir up nullsec and get them to actually defend their holdings.

We can check this one off and look at nullsecs thread which should have been titled, "pout, stomp our feet and cry like a two year old", as proof of effectiveness.

PROBLEM: nullsec apparently cannot combat low skill pilots.

SOLUTION: everyone that has every been ganked by a nullsec 3 week old pilot laughs their collective asses off and decries nullsecs attitude on the subject as seriously hypocritical.

PROBLEM: Nullsec that has long held that CCP shouldnt be holding players hands suddenly wants theirs held.

SOLUTION: stand agape at the criminal levels of hypocrisy nullsec is showing on the issue, and of course laugh our asses off some more.

PROBLEM: seeming exploit allows entosing attacker to move the defense window.

SOLUTION: hotfix the issue because unlike the rest of this pout-fest this is actually a real problem that needs addressing.

PROBLEM: nullsec doesnt like being annoyed, while spending more than a decade doing this to the rest of EVE.

SOLUTION: I have to use the word hypocrisy yet again, seriously, WTF ???

PROBLEM: nullsec is so accustomed to sitting on their collective asses they cant be bothered to go collect intel on an agressor.

SOLUTION: DO NOTHING but at the same time wonder out loud why the f*** were game mecahnics in place that would allow these lazy asses to hold SOV for so long when it has become abundantly clear that they dont deserve their holdings ?

PROBLEM: Alliances want to work together in close knit cooperative groups again like the, 'Good Ol Days".

SOLUTION: Repeat oft used nullsec mantra frequently heard when highsec didnt want some change put into the game, adapt and HTFU !

Death Star is a good start for a role.