Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My apologies if this is posted in the wrong area or if my spelling and grammar are appalling.


My alliance (Lethal intent) were one of many who seized and maintained Sov after Dominion sov was retired and while many of the early issues we found hard to deal with have been addressed i believe the underlying problem with the new sov system is the lack of risk associated by the aggressers compared to the defender.

The problem i see with the current Entosis mechanic is that no matter how high your ADM's are kept a time period of a few hours and a lone player can reinforce that system. Players in Eve don't wish to swat down t1 frigates and destroyers they wish to form fleets and have a fight and my propasal i hope addresses this:



The number of active Entosis ships on a single system should be increased based on the current ADM Eg. Level 1 requires one Entosis ship, level 2 requires 3 ships level 3 is 5 ships level 4 is 10 and 5 is 20. These are roughs numbers and could change but the idea is if you are owning sov and taking all the risks of living in Null the aggressor should have to commit to the system they wish to enforce.

This idea could be changed as well by perhaps as the ADMs go up the class of ship required to entosis can increase EG. level 1 frigates and destroyers with 5 being some form of capitals.


Sov is and has always been about working together with many different players to reap the rewards of owning Sov


Thanks for reading
Gunny


TL:Dr

Change current Entosis mechanics to a scaling amount of entosis links depending on the level of ADMs

Well you don't need a fleet to stop a single ship but then again a single ship shouldn't be able to make a high ADM system vunerable, the idea is that the higher the ADMs the more ships the Aggressor should have to commit

ADM six gives a one hour cycle and a window of three hours.

5 is 3.5/50mins

4 is 4.5/40mins


If you can't put one random guy in another t1 frigate into a system in this time, after everyone gets the ping about the attack, then frankly you don't deserve the sov. Yes, it's an absolute ballache to deal with, but the fact that one guy can do it isn'r -really- the issue here.

Hell. If you can't stop one solo t1 frigate in an hour, how would you have stopped one solo nyx from smashing an old style ihub?

But if nobody is even checking the ping out to see what is hitting your sov, then you wouldn't have known it was a solo nyx either.

If someone IS checking it out, then why are they not dealing with the t1 frigate? Do your lot not fit guns to your interceptors?

One guy in an interceptor, or even a svipul, is hardly everyone dropping everything. You peaked at SEVEN systems according to dotlan, so you guys were basically the kind of group fozziesov was designed for.

If no-one can be bothered to check out an alliance wide notification in the space of an entire hour, then the problem is with the aliance, not the system. I've defended against these kinds of thing myself, solo, and it really isn't hard to get rid of one guy.

Yet no-one has come up with a better system that doesn't mean the old groups with hundreds of titans auto win.

Personally, I think the current entosis mechanic is fine, however the current mindset of some alliances may have not adapted to deal with it yet. If the mindset is that PvP = FCs organizing fleets, complete with scouts, interdictors, logi, command dessies, DPS and maybe even some links and EWAR, the alliance may struggle. Good defense of sov may look more like a newbro noticing that someone is entosising something and trying to solo it in a Tristan, or a group of 5-6 miners who didn't want to be a part of that big fleet docking up, and bringing whatever PvP stuff they have sitting around because someone's got to defend the sov. It was designed specifically to encourage leadership and initiative at a lower level than a mainline FC.

The question is, are individual players willing to take the risk of getting in fight, and potentially getting dunked, without an experienced FC leading them?

Mindset kills more PvP than mechanics ever will.