Player Features and Ideas Discussion

To be fair, we in the community shoulder part of the burden here -- most of the outcry against interceptors was based on the assumption that they'd be able to fit T2 entosis links. Once that became too punitive to work well, we were content to rest on our laurels.

In the future, it's probably important to keep the pressure on in this regard.

Honestly, I'd like to hear some rationalization for interdiction nullification existing at all in TYOOL 2015 from CCP. However, as it would constitute taking a position on something, I doubt this will happen.

The group most responsible for popularizing the use of 'weaponized boredom' disapproves en masse? To me, that implies that CCP is on the right track.

Posting on an alt because I'm ashamed of (almost) all of you - don't want my main(s) tainted with the stench from this thread. Lately, the EVE Online community has been setting new lows for behavior - stop it.

If you only base your opinion on the system on who is or is not against it, then you don't really have an opinion at all. You're just a lemming with huge blinders on, like most anyone who defines themselves solely in opposition to something.

Also, I would like to reiterate the old idea of banning NPC corp posters from every forum but New Citizens. Just throwing it out there.

I'm not talking about risk, I'm talking about one particular demographic that is most commonly used for trolling. NPC corp alts.

Anyway, regarding the sov system. Does anyone else think that a full rebalance of the Dreadnaught class is in order at this point? With the incoming rollout of citadel structures to replace POSes, all of which will also require the jesus laser to contest, the Dreadnaught has just had it's one and only role in the game very literally removed.

They'll still be unable to warp, and attackers can feast on their 4k/ms souls. Any reasonably fit ceptor/T3dessi should catch them.

There is a difference between using a strategy in a sandbox game and a mechanic which doesn't suit it's intended purpose. Many in the Imperium like the underlying concepts of Fozziesov, however can't get round the whole why is the trollceptor still a thing. It's not like the Imperium couldn't abuse the **** out of it as well. Just imagine if Mittens decrees that every Imperium member must be bought a trollceptor and we should go forth and sovlaser every node in every system just to prove the point that trollceptors is a terrible idea.

I guess you'll still think they are a good idea because you simply can't agree with the in-game bad guys. I guess money moons were a good idea as well and that Ishtars were balanced a year ago too?

So in the spirit of limiting things, why not limit the amount of people a defender can bring to a SoV system fight.

50 would be a good starting point.

If you think speed for a single pilot is a problem then corp, alliance, and coalition power certainly is.

So after thinking about it a bit, why do nodes spawn constellation wide? How does this make sense? I think a better solution would be to have nodes spawn in the system attacked and the directly adjacent systems. This would keep the action close to the contested system but still spread it out enough to allow for the multiple front fight this system was supposed to deliver. There also needs to be EHP events still in game, I hope that they go back and look at the Citadels and change how the capture evens on these happen.

I am still very much not happy with the way this new system works because it has turned null sec into mining and ratting online just to make your space somewhat safe then after you do that all day you don't even want to experience the rest of eve. Slow the decay of mining and ratting. I am leaning to the side of buffer systems are a bad thing and alliances that can live in these systems shouldn't try to hold on to these. Maybe it is from the old way of thinking but there still need to be more carrots in Sov Null for the players and Alliance to want to hold onto the space you have.

I did have a thought about system generating a daily isk payout that would be paid to the Alliance/Corp owning that system at DT to give a reason to hold space. I know everyone and their brother are against passive free isk but there needs to be something unique to Sov Null that no other area of space has and right now we just do not have it. I think that is the biggest problem right now is besides super cap production which is cool but is not all that meaningful in the new system null has nothing to call its own, WH have T3 material, LS has FW LP Hi Sec and NPC Null has Mission agents, what does null have right now that is special for us. Maybe what could be done is a material that can only be sourced in null for the production of new deployables a gas or new material that needs to be harvested by players at first or a deployable structure made with (PI and this new material) placed there to mine the material like a giant vacuum cleaner. Have this site spawn in different systems as it is depleted but always 1 to 2 per constellation but only despawn if it is completely mined. This is then both a carrot for the members/alliance but also a clear content generation point as if you want to go the unmanned route in your fringe areas you might lose your structure and your potential income.

I'll take - what is the smallest length subscription for 1000 Alex.

Wrong, have you heard about grid mechanics? Have you even noticed that in the amount of time for the hostile to enter system and land on the sov structure grid, the trollceptor is either very close to breaking grid and disappearing or has already disappeared from the grid?

Yeah.