Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'd like the ability for Alliances to be able to bribe NPC 0.0 corps (ie Serpentis, Guristas etc) with LP so we can dictate their docking rights.

Similar to faction warfare where opposing militia cannot dock, with enough LP paid each month we become their militia and no one else can dock.

like I said in my post on the topic in this thread take away jump bridges and non covert Cynos and the large alliances will dissolve into cannibalism leaving room for smaller entities to fill the subsequent voids.

don't believe the hype.

you make ask for some stuff but just bare in mind 'they don't do change by committee'

so if they come up with some B>S that nobody wants, just remember they wont do a thing to change it.

OF COURSE THE WILL, ITS NULL, THEY BEND OVER BACKWARDS FOR YOU LOT!

I think you will also have to limit the head count of Alliances and remove Alliance to Alliance standings. Then let the cannibalism begin! Sauce with that?

Nullsec will be balanced and fixed when Fozzie and Rise can answer this question: How do you counter 250 Archons without the node crashing, and also how do you counter 250 Archons sitting on a cyno-jammer.

Smallholding (Dev Blog) is my little dream in this big pond.

I have a few more tangential ideas on Sov..

The Grind, as it stands now, no one likes. It's a pain in the ass for both the attacking and defending fleets, anything that can be done to fix or lessen that should be.. but what that is? I don't know.

So, on to the tangential parts :)

Incursions.. They are finally viable in Nullsec, that's great, but still half the time are only going to be run to clear the Cynojammer.. My suggestion is it's a Sansha Invasion, they should be attacking Sov. The Outposts, the POS's, the POCO's, the PI equipment on the ground.. everything. And unopposed Incursion should withdraw with the space being listed as Sansha, and with nothing left.
It gives them a reason to run it, it also opens a chance for other Alliances to attack when they know much of their forces are occupied elsewhere.


Outpost Defences.. Anything else think it's silly that I can have guns for a small POS, but not for an Outpost? Outposts should by default able to have POS Guns.. ideally with upgrades, I'd like to see new lines of Anti-Capital/Super weapons.. "Doomsday" turrets, ECM that would be able to Jam a Mom or Titan, etc.. Something to make taking them a fight..


Gate Guns.. You own the system, why can't you put guns on them?


Gonna make a link to Incursions here again.. There are pirate NPC's in your space, and in some cases, pirate Sov bordering your space.. Seems kinda lame that all they do is just sit around in belts and gates.. Why not have them get a little smarter? Rogue Drones if I remember right will camp on JB's.. Expand this to the rest.. hell have they camp, and even randomly engage targets in your sov.. POS's.. Safespots.. Outposts.. The lower the sec, the stronger the NPC presence would be. And make it like belts, the longer they are ignored, the stronger they get.. One day maybe it's just a few ships.. ignored for few weeks it might turn into a strong NPC fleet.


I've intentionally avoided what to do about timers, and how much grinding you all are doing.. I'll let people who do far more of that than I go into that.. cause honestly, while I have some ideas, nothing I've thought out really jumps out to me as being a real solution, or even an improvement.. more of a just moving the pain around lol.

The answer to that is simple... GO AROUND!

Sure you can slam your light infantry into an entrenched spartan phalanx formation, or you can not be an idiot and attack somewhere else!

- Change the Titan bridge mechanic from a "push" to a "pull" so that you actually have to put the ship at risk. That would still allow power projection but make it much more risky.

- Remove the immunity of Titans to conventional Warpdisruption and give them a Warpstrength of 25 instead.

- Limit Alliance-to-Alliance blue standing to 2-3 entitys.

I think we all agree that EHP-based sov objectives generally suck. If we're going to have any EHP-based sov grinding things, it would be good if they encouraged fleets that arrived when the timer ticks over to fight, while minimizing the amount of boring shooting or repairing to be done if the other side doesn't show up. Somebody else has noted that these big EHP walls are a particularly strong example of "you must be this tall, or very, very stubborn, to ride."
My personal hobby-horse idea to make EHP at timer exit bigger than EHP long after timer exit is a slowly decaying resist profile on structures, instead of the current binary situation.

That said, timers encourage cramming as many warm bodies as possible into a system at a single moment, which is where I'd point my finger if asked why there are all these huge coalitions. The EHP walls are obnoxious but can be dealt with if you have sufficient tenacity. The fear that the other side will come up with more and scarier warm bodies is what produces the current cold-war-style clumping of alliances.