Player Features and Ideas Discussion

If you have a problem with that, your should be getting onto your CEO to sort it out. It's not up to CCP to fix your corp/alliance/coalition.

I say that my alliance is tiny and would get utterly kerbstomped in any such situation. We're ~1500 strong, and share deklein with goonswarm. How do you see your idea ending for us?


I also ask if you have ever engaged in a large scale SOV war. I haven't been involved in anything on the level of any potential HBC vs CFC war, but I can tell you that sov grinding (In subcaps, to avoid the inevitable hundreds of capitals on each side dying in a horrible fire thing that no FC wants on thier CV) isn't a lot of fun, and the thought of spending months or even years doing it is not a cheerful one.

Standings are better in this way as they are now.
Rats - they are simply one of the things that can be used into calculation - why - check eve ratting map - every body rat ;)

Well but this will not motivate any one to fight.
What this will change to "grate blue null?" - nothing as you get more isk from null while you don't fight.

Spies have other jobs ;)

Just to clarify;
I am not against new stuff for Nullsec. I am for it. Industry, anomolies, everything.
I am against forcing people to PvP to PvE, to PvP, to PvE...

It's a sand box. The more limitations and requirements in place, the more boring and stale the game will become. You asked if we wanted EvE to become the next WoW. I sure as hell don't, but if you put stuff like your suggestion in, it will be taking the first steps to become that.

The big blue donut is there because the sandbox is what you make it. CCP would call them Instigators, (we may call them Overlords,) but what they are is the face and voice of their Empire. It is they who have made this circle of cuddles and hand-holding(tm) because they understood that to hold onto what you have, you need friends. And who better than the very people who are the only ones who can unseat you?

That's is not to say thats it's a simple thing to micro manage tens of thousands or pilots across dozens of corporations in multiple alliances as part of one coalition. The recent HBC/CFC issues are testament to that. They have conqoured all in their path. None stand before them. The problem the now face is that the only serious enemies they have left are each other.

I have no experience or direct knowledge of exactly what it takes to control a sov empire. But this is something thats been rolling around my noggin for a while and I want to put it out there so people with the knowledge I lack can decide if it holds water or not.

It is my opinon that the only way to break the donut is to threaten the whole of it simultaneously. The coalitions can throw so much at their targets that they simply overrun any opposition with little resistance. The answer could well be to give them so many targets, that they cannot co-ordinate their defence. They probably would not be able to fight a war on many fronts, let alone give support to their allies.

A compromise to encourage less blue and more red could be found in the sov mechanics. Think of the principle of diminishing returns. (We know CCP like this concept, so it stands a good chance of being implemented.) The larger an Alliances domain, the more it requires to maintain. Combine this with unused space also becoming ever more costly to maintain, it would make holding vast amounts of unused space both draining and inefficient. If these same principals could be combined with the taking and holding of soverinty, making it easier to take a system owned by a massive alliance with a hige empire than by a small one with a few systems under its belt, could make a big difference.



TL:DR Make it easier for the little guy to get his foot on the ladder and then you will stir up the sov space pot. That will break the big blue donut.