Assembly Hall

Proposal - Part 2

Nearby Systems Boosting, NSB

“What is happening next door” has always influenced things, Eve shouldn't be any different. We will call this Nearby System Boosting, NSB for short.

At the end of the 7 day time period all the influence points are added up for the alliances competing in a system, this is the Base Influence Point Number, BIPN.

Alliances competing in the solar system will have 20% of the BIPN for all systems 1 system away added to their total. (assuming the alliance also has influence points generated in those systems.)

Then Solar systems 2 systems away will have 10% of the BIPN added to the tally, once again assuming the alliance also has influence points generated in those systems.

This final influence total for competing alliances in a system determines the iSOV ownership for the next week.

Note: If there is more than one way to get to a nearby system the shortest number of jumps is used to consider if its a system that is one, two, or more systems away.


What happens to the Entosis Link?

It survives by allowing small numbers of attackers to disable structure functions for 24 hours, potentially causing major disruption to things like production, and hence influence point generation.

Structure functions can also be destroyed by typical grinding, when a station function goes into reinforce mode then the 24 hours of the reinforce mode is also the 24 hours of disruption to that function.

Can the Entosis Link still flip a station? Yes, but only once all the functions of a station have been disabled/destroyed. Once the station has exited its reinforced timer without being fixed it will enter freeport mode and no longer be owned by anyone. It can however be taken over from freeport mode by the existing system owner, or the original owner simply by fueling it – its up for grabs! After fueling it then the rest of the station functions will become available to the new system. This allows large station structures that were once owned by others to forcefully change hands. Naturally fighting for ones station, repairing/restarting reinforced functions and station is naturally the way to stop a station being pirated.

This is also a way for an alliance to take over abandoned structures.



Expected Game Play from iSOV changes.

Influence will be amplified and spread greatly within clusters of nearby cross connected systems; conversely a bridge/chain of systems will be more susceptible to influence changes. This will create islands/castles of power based around a central system that has the greatest influence, reflected by its greater occupancy, use, development and fighting ability.

Outer regions / borderlands between iSOV holders may fall to those who do not even hold a TCU in that system! (Domino Effect and influence in action). This effect may also allow an alliance to hold more systems than the number of TCU's it is allowed to deploy!

Guerrilla Warfare to rise!

Structures can be deployed anywhere! In your territory or others! This also means structures intruding on 'your territory' is naturally fair game to be attacked by either disabling functions on the the structure, and/or by destroying its functions, and lastly the structure itself. You might consider the next system over as your territory too, have at it! Pew Pew!

Large Scale Engagements.

Large Fleets comprising several alliances in a power block will naturally still occur, potentially leaving huge damage in their wake. Will the battles make them the ultimate pinnacle, generating so many influence points that the devastated system becomes the attackers new province, or, will those regions rebuild, gain back control, then fight back to show the intruders who is boss?

By Stealth

Industrial Power is not just in the ships built and isk earned but by the reputation and influence generated. (How can one not watch in awe as 50 dreadnoughts roll off the production line?) Under iSOV it is possible that industrial supremacy could flip system ownership as easily as a big fleet battle. Or like modern corporations asserting their influence around the world today. Naturally Industry and Large fleet pew pew go together, like peas in a pod. Under iSOV they are now two equal peas.

Planting A Flag

And yet iSOV does not stop small alliances from gaining a foothold on the edges of a partners space, or in the void that a contested system might create, or along one of the stringy star system paths linking great power houses together.

Flip – Flop Systems

A Flip-Flop system might also arise on the edges of two or more power blocks. These may simply flip-flop between the two or more neighbouring alliance iSOV holders. This can naturally be stopped by an alliance occupying the system and putting its own stamp on it!

Viking Roaming!

This is where a PVP fleet causes so much damage in a system that they win iSOV for seven days, and taxes the residents for the privileged of being in their new province! Damn you Vikings!



Also, something for CCP.

CCP dont be worried that TCU's are limited, and that some systems may not even have a TCU in it! Be content that some systems, especially contested ones, could have several TCU's in it! The overall TCU count could in fact be more than today.

The benefits of iSOV ownership.

When an alliance has iSOV of a system then a global tax rate will be applied by that alliance to all transactions, PI, etc, across all systems that the alliance has iSOV control over. This can be particularly profitable in a system that has multiple alliances vying for control of it.


Lastly, the devil is in the details! The above is simply an overview of a general direction and mechanic that I believe will suit everyone in EVE, including CCP.

I will be sending it to CCP, the forum, and several CSM's to nut out if this is indeed something that can work for all.

Cheers

CoreVamore Bolmara.

Hi Root

CCP has in the past retracted features that it believed was not being used, or not in the spirit of what was intended.

My suggestions build upon most of what they have done, re the Entosis Link attacks, which for the most part have been left in place in this proposal. So development man hours are not being wasted.

I believe CCP will look at any idea that enhances gameplay for EVE residents. So assuming they believe, and feedback here believes, that the changes are worthwhile, then I think they have a good chance of going ahead.

Cheers

Core

Hi Thanatos,

Look at the Viking Roaming side effect, seems to be a decent isk earner for a week of heavy pillaging ;)

Hi Josef

To answer your questions.

Step by step to overtake a system, which can be done in a variety of ways, one would:

* Launch attacks into system to disable/destroy structures
* Destroy/disable production facilities
* Disrupt Supply Lines which both stops sales and gives you more Influence Points via the kill
* Build up influence in surrounding systems - this has a flow through effect.
* Install your own structures in system (Yes it can be done in hostile systems)
* Attack and destroy enemy ships
* Destroy/Disable the enemie(s) TCU
* Rat in the system
* Mine in the system
* If possible manufacture/research/sales in the system (this would be a later step as hostile forces are forced back)

So there is no 'point by point' way to do it, as it will be a combination of things, though not necessarily every point above.

I have left the Entosis link in the proposal as a way to disable functions, which can also be attacked in a traditional way as well, on structures and to keep CCP's coding investment in the Entosis based system. It is just another way in my proposal of attacking someone. You will notice that in my proposal one must disable all structure functions by entosis before the structure can be attacked with it - perhaps the structure should be ground down as per traditional SOV - so this is something that can be looked at.

As the proposal outlines several ways that Influence Points are generated, each of which could be conceived/shown into an index to make things easier to understand.

The above shows how it works. There are no hard and fast step by step rules on how one would take over a system - that will be up to how the attacker wants to do it. It is an extremely flexible system in that respect.

And no, a system probably cant be taken over in a single day, unless perhaps every enemy structure and huge numbers of pilot and freighter kills occurred in the day before the iSOV calculation is made, and the system is possibly surrounded by your systems. Then it could conceivably flip in a day. But generally a system wont flip in single a day.

Note: Putting a whole system/region on fire in a day does not have anything to do with SOV in this proposal, except that it would generate lots of Influence Points - whether thats enough to effect the iSOV standings for that 7 day period is another matter.

Second Note: This proposal is for nullsec only.

Lastly, I dont know what you are talking about bridges/supercaps etc as it has little to do with my proposal.

Cheers

Core