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So, now big alliance arrogance?

As I see it small corporations like mine are an enrichment for this game. We don‘t do sovereignty warfare, this is not our league.

You are allowed to perceive us as brigands, roaming your empire‘s borders. For fun and personal gain. That‘s okay. And you don‘t have to like us for what we‘re doing. But you should really appreciate the existence of banditry in this game. It‘s an enrichment. In the end, this game is about simulated conflict, drama, and social experiments.

But we DESPERATELY NEED __something__ like ESS. We can talk about how it can be done right, but not IF it should be done at all.

Ratting is almost purely a money making exercise. If dropping an ESS gives you 10% more income over not dropping an ESS then you need 10 people ratting in a system for every 1 person defending. Space in EVE is almost completely porous so you can't reliably defend borders. This means you need at least 1 defender for every ESS you have so any system unable to support 10 or more ratters at the same time is better off without an ESS (hint: this is all of them).

the problem is your small group is trying to attack a group that by definition must be orders of magnitude larger and better coordinated than you. we don't need better ways to get tiny fights out of massive groups, we need ways for tiny groups to get lots of fights together. ideally pvp should scale up, small in high, medium in low, big in null. so you need to look at ways to get people to actually fight in highsec fleets. be it fleet duels etc. ccp tried to use war decs but that was just a mess.

The current anom system encourages not working together. If there's 20 people in a system, I choose a different system. A fully upgraded system has 3 forsaken hubs, 1 haven, 1 sanctum, rest are trash. Changing the PVE content to be group-orientated activities for null would require an expansion in itself. I see that happening very soonTM.

I understand this problem. But I think this may be a problem of corporation or alliance culture. As I know it, corp mates help each other out. I guess there is less familiar atmosphere in a large alliance than in a small scale pvp corporation with 20-50 active pilots in sum.

Don‘t confuse cause and effect. Alliance structure and culture in EVE has developed over time. Nullsec ratters even in the same system act autonomously most of the time. Cause they are doing a solo activity. Therefore they might not be in alliance comms. But if there were incursion-like anomalies in 0.0, they would have to play differently. At the same time, they would have to play differently if there were an ESS like structure, that connects them in a new way with other ratters, like never before. This would change their behaviour over time. At the same time, ratters will have to gang up not only with their mates in the same system, but also create a network with ratters in nearby system. The ratters with the best network would have the best income, because they would get the 5% income buff provided by ESS more often than ratters without this network and good friends, helping each other out.

ESS is just a module, but the idea behind ESS is a challenge of how nullsec ratters perceive their activities in nullsec, and how it relates to intruders. And that‘s a good thing. Things have to be shaken up sometimes. And small gang warfare still needs a lot more buffs.

for 1, it's not like one could use an alt.......oh wait.......

No, you won't be able to take care of #2 the same way. I can steal from the ESS for a bit and then warp off, warp to my main, jetcan tags, log off, rinse repeat.

This deployable is trying to force a square peg into a round hole.

No, you DESPERATELY WANT something which allows you to make huge isk gains while risking an whole interceptor.

it's being ages that small gang is almost dead, the odds of crossing another gang that will fight you are......well, i do FC such roams once or twice a week, and in 5 month, had only 2 fights, wich ended by the opposite gang lighting a cyno in the end, first one dropping a phoenix + chimera (yes, you read that! for a cruiser gang! and failed dying in fire ), the 2nd cyno dropped 2 triage archon and a proteus fleet of 20 ppl for a 5 cruiser + 1 BC gang.

rest of the time, your small gang will just make ratters dock up, or dodge knwon cyno roaming in the hope to give the 200+ ppl waiting on the titan something to ****.

and this is in lowsec, in null it's even worse, you cross......nothing for ages.....then eventually a bigass fleet you can't do crap against or a few ratters who are already docking / in pos by the time you hit warp / align at the gate......

I don't think you'd see much of a difference in response between 10-20m reinforced and 1h, in both cases it's going to be bored people around the area. But that's a good reason to make it the shorter time, alliance gets time to respond, attackers don't need to twiddle their thumbs for an hour.