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Any response is bad. Back in the day, a single person coming into a system in s crappy frigate going "I'm gonna take your sov lololololololololololol" would be ignored as they are no threat. Now they are as much of a threat to sov as a solo titan is. A response is forced by the bar being so low and worse will result in no conflict in nearly every case as they'll just run away and cloak.

Which is fine (though I don't like AFK play but that's another matter) because they open a choice. You can leave, ignore them or hide until they go away. Ttrollcepors don't give that choice. Not chasing them means you get reinforced.

So under he new system, when the new style POS comes out, you're expecting them to be able to be taken out by a lone frigate too? In less time than an entire system can be?

By conflict I mean ships exploding one way or another. That's not going to happen when they can just as easily contest sov with a ship designed to run away. Those players serious about taking sov are attacking with fleets. That should be how contesting sov at al works. Sov is an alliance level activity. It should take a decent amount of investment to do and how much you are willing to put on the line should be dependent on how much you want the system.

They (plural) are running when defenders (plural) arrive. This happens in multiple locations at any one time. Yes, each one only requires one ship to respond but in all the places it happens it require multiple responses.

Do you have an idea without CCP giving the players money? Just curious.

That's actually not a terrible suggestion.
It would give us all even more reason to cheer those blessed lowsec Russians that are killing supers left and right.

You can contract your stuff to me, and I'll make sure it's put to good use blowing stuff up and being blown up.

I'm in no need for more stuff. I'm just sad thinking about your stuff not ever getting used properly.

Not need - I want you stuff, to blow it up. If you don't give it to anybody, could you please blow it all up and send screenshots of the explosions? That'd be just as good as giving it all away, and way better than having it sit in a station belonging to an unsubbed character.

Anyway, to keep this on topic, here's a reiteration of some changes I think would benefit everybody:

- An activated Entosis Link self-destructs if it is turned off without having successfully captured a node, reinforced a sov structure, or disables/enable a station service. This allows Interceptors to continue to be viable ships for an actual sov attack, and continue to be viable trolls for empty systems, but makes each "run away" sovtroll cost the troller at least 30 million ISK and requires them to refit somewhere if they want to continue.

- A slow passive defense if a particular node/structure isn't under active attack. This would allow defenders to hold sov against trolls without having to Entose multiple command nodes, yet wouldn't be any barrier to an actual attacker. Say, over two to four days the defender wins nodes by default, depending on ADM.

Wasn't that exactly what Fozziesov was hoping to achieve?

Well, guess its not working as intended, new alliances rise and fall.
This is not about pvp, what we see in eve long time ago are only ganking, and ganking is not pvp, pvpeers use to say that they do pvp, but what they do its just ganking, 10 vs 60 or more, that is not pvp, however there are some players who like to do the real pvp, thats why new sov mechanics are not working properly, new alliances can conquer systems but cant hold them, they are going to be hotdropped until they leave, so small entities its just a mirage.

My idea to fix sov trolling is two-fold:

1. Move the notification to the sov holder to earlier in the cycle (half way through, the beginning, whatever).
2. Increase the cycle time for the initial assault.

If you're going to attack someone in a trollceptor, they'll have notice and you'll be a sitting duck for longer. Problem solved.

I don't disagree that you shouldn't be able to keep your space if you aren't using it. But if you set your vulnerability to your prime time, then your solution is to what, always leave some people behind to defend your system if you want to go on roams? Make sure you have alts that can be logged in and defend against a lone interceptor?