Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was there and I'm looking forwards to once again forcing CCP to deal with a broken mechanic by using said mechanic to put another region to the torch.

One guy alone sure, a dozen, two dozen small gangs attacking at the same time is a lot more challenging.

Our space isn't unassailable, just when there's an alliance consisting of 3 people they can't do much. You want them to be able to, and I get it, they want to attack the big bad, but they have to understand they need to bring something to the field to be a threat.

Except of course that the majority of null sov players, big and small, have claimed that the new system is boring. The only people going "YAY" are people with no intention of holding sov. That's pretty telling in itself.

The point being that it's even more boring for the attacker. And it's entirely the attacker's prerogative to go the trollceptor route. To a certain extent it's like mining to make ISK. Not the most exciting, but if you keep doing it you've got nobody to blame but yourself.

On the other hand, what if the attacker brings an actual fleet to start the Entosis? I think the 60 minute timer is actually pretty reasonable if you find yourself needing to counter a 100 person attacking force. I don't think we're going to see these types of attacks become common until all of the low index space has been "trolled" away, but it's not like the option isn't there.

So while I'm generally not in favor of boring game mechanics, the boring parts of the sov system are either minimal, or outright optional.
- Attacking trollceptors spend far more time bored than defenders.
- Defenders have the option of multiboxing a defending ship to pre-empt the troll.
- The lack of killmaill for a ship that runs away is a completely uncompelling argument.
- Even if the troll is successful, an uncontested defence now only take 12 minutes. That's barely longer than defending against the troll, and gives you a few days troll immunity to boot.

See my last post about trollceptors.

How long are alliances of real life players (who could be playing something fun) going to continue logging in to defend their space from nothing but interceptors? You've said in your posts if it's not worth holding the space then don't do it; what kind of sov system do we have where the best thing to do is not hold sov?

Meh, when you have a 40k coalition, it is not hard to make anything look broken. I'm just looking forward to more cry post six months from now about lack of content because of that one mega-coalition can't find any sustainable conflict drivers since the remnants of null sec are a bunch of small groups like CCP planned. Maybe at some point the Imperium will cease because the only targets will be themselves... or yeah, perhaps not. Will be fun to watch as the lack of content generation continues to take its toll. But hey, at least there is a week in Providence, amirite?

http://rischwa.net/coalitions/

Another resource for you, amigo. Shows known alliances within each "relevant" null sec coaltion currently in the game. I'd say it is a lot better than the 3 we had during the height of the cold war of 2014. I'd say that coalition map looks pretty good. I just hope for it to have even more colors at some point instead of it restructuring back to 3 or 4. Because those times sucked.

There there.

Let me clarify: we have almost 2/5 of EVE's ratting alts.

Biggest fish in the pond? I was not aware that our 300 people were bigger than the

• then CFC's 400 men Black Omega Security department (Who, back then, alone could field more people than Noway and Usurper combined) combined with
• the then Psychotic Tendencies,
• Cynosural Field theory,
• Suddenly Spaceships (at some point),
• Nova Prime and
• your 200 people.
• Count in the then EVOKE an VEGA's from outer Syndi (with whom we sometimes were semi-blue to fight CFC)
• and IRED's, 404's and Sons of Bane hordes from central Syndi.
• And let us not forget that the neutral Eve University also was constantly present, playing Whack-A-Mole.

It was basically NOWAY and Usurper against the rest of Syndicate. Our Noway fleets rarely exceeded 50 people and we were constantly up against odds, and people regularly resorted to call Psychotic or BOS for help, while we had little help in Low sec fights from Escalated Quickly. Even back then, you were bad at twisting numbers. Your skills there clearly have not improved

I am not quite following what I decry, but what we did back then was healthy medium scale warfare in a local area around our home. We held moons in a limited area, we staged in a limited area, we fought in a limited area and we did not quench or quell opposition, which, considering our numbers was not quite possible anyways. We surely kept some of it at bay on our side of Syndicate as much as we could, but at no point in time was Noway able to remove any entity from Syndicate.

Accusations of this nature from a then CFC pet and entity dealing with 50 tones of shady Roses (I still have that screenshot somewhere ) is more than tragic.