Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Couple points on your points:
1. The Dragoon is a drone dessie. It needs no ECM mods. The rigs aren't there to affect the drones, they allow the Dragoon to target out to 124km.
2. EC-300 drones on the Dragoon can travel up to 5k/s so more than fast enough to catch the magicsovwandingceptors after Galatea.







As an aside - the b|tching and moaning taking place in the first 9 pages is already increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease in the playerbase.

Ease up folks. Ease up. This set of changes isn't the "sky is falling" moment either. FFS.

Why are we removing mass addition ?

Keep both addition of mass and 4 k speed limit .

Yup, they could do that. And exactly this would happen. Till they would quit. Then you and some other useless imbeciles would have to quit too, because if there are no ratters left, and there's no easy prey for you, handed over by CCP by mechanics.
There's some real pvp-ers in this game. Saw noone of them whinning about invincible mechanics being removed. About risk. About no ****. Ratters find content. Others rely on CCP to offer them content by exposing others. Hilarious, but who looks more stupid?

Decent changes. 6/10. Would rate higher if you took the situation more seriously. Slow and steady won't win the race when the clock is ticking its final beats.

I'd like to see something done about junk sovereignty. With the new Entosis system, it will certainly be changing hands now, but I'd like to see it possible to lose unused sovereignty even without player intervention. There's not enough life in nullsec to have sovereignty everywhere, there should be areas with just plain unclaimed space.

http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility
...this can be seen by the enormous number of new accounts created, isn't it? (presuming i won't consider that there's a 8/2 ratio of alts/new players in that statistic ;) )

I'm bad with big speeches but here goes...

I like how your spinning your narrative directly blaming the N3 coalition for the stagnation of Dominion Sov. It was not the 40k+ coalition on the other side of the walls fault at all. In reality, the N3 coalition was a smaller, much less organized group than The Imperium (CFC). They didn't have the income sources of moons, taxes, etc.. so they leveraged what they had plenty of, which was sov. This allowed N3 to be more competitive against its much larger rival, though it could never truly win a extended campaign against the Imps due to the N+1 complex that Dominion sov drove.

Anyways... we have plenty of reddit discussions, so you know I generally don't agree with much of what you say. I utterly respect you opinions, but I think the mega-coalition play style of mega-blobs and abusing mechanics to bore/crush their opponents is more flawed than most anything that fozzie sov has rolled out. Sure the system isn't perfect, but I'm willing to give it a real shot... I believe you mega-coalition is living in the past, a overly large collection of old bitter vets that doesn't want to evolve because they are afraid of what the future has in store. The most fun way to play the game now isn't to hide by a giant blue list, but to live in smaller groups, taking the good fight to your borders and slaying your foes. The new big fights are more managble and generally more enjoyable for the people involved (see below) The utterly unfun play style of 2k vs 2k in 10 percent tidi is gone, and a large portion of the community happy about it, except for the one group that can still swing those ridiculously insane numbers!

Just look at Catch, or Insmother, or Immensea. Fozzie haters may try to ignore it, but there is plenty of quality content going on. Amazing pitch battles that have plenty of loss and enjoyment for BOTH sides (using battleships!!!). Just the other day my bros over at GCLUB had a great fight against Imperium foes INIT and Razor. Excellent fight that revolved around defending a station timer in Northern Immensea. Hell, Tri is fighting RED for various moon and land resources... each battle costing billions of isk and using hundreds of pilots. As we have discussed, I understand that this isn't the kind of content you crave... but with the system that is in place now and the political environment that has evolved since the dismantling of N3 by your own hands, mega-collation warfare is now a thing of the past and your group needs to accept that. Huge groups that despise you and want to go after the assets of a mega-coalition that wants to destroy you using every tool in their arsenal, inside and out of the game is NOT FUN and is utterly bull that it existed in the first place.

In the end of that day, my point is perhaps give it a shot? Try some crazy things, maybe you'll end up liking the game a whole lot more. After all... isn't that what Endie wanted? To ultimately shrink the last great empire and to have top quality content (content = large battles) in great North?

Oh Mukk, you eloquent pirate you. Constructive and positive as always!

Good changes Fozzie. CCP genuinely now needs to answer the question - 'Why'

- Why should an alliance hold Sov in a system. It's obvious for the first system, which as your Capital is easy to increase ADM of, easy for sov alliances to use/defend/live-in (relatively). Why should anyone own the next system?

- Why should an alliance defend Sov, again defending your capital/heavily used/station systems is somewhat clear, why the edge systems?

- Why should an alliance Attack another's sov system. Again, attacking a capital/heavily used/station system is somewhat clear, why should we bother about attacking the majority of unused space that fills nullsec.

The number of unclaimed systems, undefended nodes, 50% 'campaigns' no one is bothering to contest, this data should be easily available and point to a core problem - the reason to own/defend/invade sov isn't strong and clear enough.

Personally speaking, CCP needs to adhere to the core principle of 'the owner of the land, gets the bounty off the land', and that just isn't true currently. Moon income, PI income along with the ratting/mining/industrial income needs to be coupled to Sov. Do that and give people a reason to want to own x+1 systems, and you will create content for many more.

Something like benefits for holding a Constellation, needs to be explored. Both carrot and stick. 7 years of playing eve and I've never bothered about the constellation. With node battles you made constellations very intrinsic to the game of sov. Take it further. Something like the board game Risk. You need a reason to conquer, Attack and defend a system/territory - here it is. Constellations.

Reasonable.

Nah, 4k is plenty to make speed kite doctrines still work. Just keep a bit closer to the entostis bait.