Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Going to edit this with the new ideas since it seems a combination of a few could help the Null Sec situation:

1 - Cap the size of an Alliance to 1,000 pilots.

2- Allow access to stations, jump bridges, and POS's by only the controlling Alliance.

3 - Remove standings from the game so only your Alliance or Fleet show as friendly.

4 - Remove "SOV" entirely.............let the sand box flow again as intended. Only thing you need to shoot is the station to take it.



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Has CCP ever looked at removing “Standings” as a way to break things up a bit in null sec?

Just throwing it out there since you need standings to dock in null sec stations, use jump bridges, and not get shot by other Alliances POS’s.

With the above items being owned by one but allowed use by any with standings, if this was restricted making the logistics tougher (living out of individual POS’s, Stations many jumps apart etc) would it slow down the herding we see by many of the null sec coalitions today?

From an overview point they would need to fight as single fleets as the other fleets would show as neutral and create friendly fire situations etc.

Just a thought, didn’t know if this was discussed somewhere before that I missed and what were the down sides to doing this?
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Yeah! No-one should be allowed to have friends in an MMO!

Standings add the dynamic of "Non-Pew-Pew" game play styles. Such as using diplomacy as a tool between people. It facilitates this, why should they remove a perfectly good system in order to cause chaos and have people slaughter each-other on mass?

I use standings for people who I have flown with, to mark 'dangerous' people and to provide intelligence on a greater scale to the battlefield.

How about building diplomatic relations throughout your own friends, corps and alliances in order to build an army and fight these nullseccers? How about trying to infiltrate their corps and AWOX them, steal from them. There are plenty of ways to bring chaos to null sec that doesn't involve removing a good mechanic.

Standings aren't the problem.

The horribly thought out Dominion Sov changes and absurdly low amount of ISK made in 0.0 belts/anoms compared to other avenues (save plexes) are why people glob up into massive coalitions.

Essentially, Dominion did the exact opposite of what they said it would do, allow for smaller alliances to hold sov. It actually makes it harder now that it's hilariously easy for a large coalition to hold vast swaths of space due to the asinine timing system all while being able to rent those systems out to generate ISk while milking Tech.

Being a slumlord is the best and easiest way to make ISK in this game and Dominion made it easier for larger coalitions to hold the space so do the math.

So cap the size of Alliances, how many stations they can hold in conjunction with removal of standings.

I’m sure CCP didn’t expect so many stations to be dropped in Null Sec at this point or the fact that Out-of-Game Communities would congregate inside EVE to take over large portions of the game play. So they have the right to make drastic adjustments such as this to balance the ability for null sec to blossom again.

Removing standings, cap Alliance sizes, and cap how many stations an Alliance can hold. This would also introduce another layer of diplomacy/politics as you would now have many more “Alliance Leaders” who may not be as eager to be puppets etc.

As for the SOV issue……….why not do away with SOV entirely? Since it’s the “excuse” everyone uses these days for herding together, why not do away with it and bring Null Sec back to being the sandbox it was supposed to be before SOV turned it into a few concrete blocks.

Thoughts?

Add a new corp managment skill:

Faction Control

Each level adds five corp capacity to an alliance. Alliances should have five by default, so max of thirty at lvl V

this is not going to do what you hope it will do.

large alliances will simply enable the stations to free-dock, or create mega sized alliances. There's practically no real limit on how many people you can have in an alliance, since teh corperate management skill can support more people in one corp, than most alliances have. I was in a corp once which could support over 1000 members.

People keep crying about the big null-sec blocs, but nullsec blocs have a lifespan of maybe MAYBE 4 years. No one thought that BoB would EVER go away, but now new players never hear about BoB now do they? No one remembers NORAD or Pheonix allaince. Why? because nullsec is more volitile than you think it is. At the time those alliances were around, no one thought they'd disappear ever. They're now so obscure, the only people who know and talk about them are the bitter vets.

One day Gooonswarm and CFC will disband too. Please stop looking at them as if they were some kind of immovable object. They're still a pretty young alliance relative to the history of the game. One day there will be an alliance (or a coalition of alliances) that will defeat them.

I agree with this, remove standings.

I could use another 15,000 people in my alliance. Plus it'd be amazing for my ego, having my space warriors stretch across the entire map.

BoB, NORAD, and any of the other Alliance which no one thought would die were "In-Game" based groups. As even The Martini himself has mentioned, TEST and Goons are all large "Out-of-Game" based groups who have decided to capitalize on current game mechanics in order to control most of it.

I doubt CCP saw that one coming and with the "Out-of-Game" communities keeping the flow of pilots coming in this is unlikely to "fall apart" any time soon never mind waiting 4 years to see if you're right...
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I already run three, nbd.