Player Features and Ideas Discussion

People seem to be concerned about the new Phoebe changes, and argue that it will only further entrench coalitions, where they just need to get a travel raptor and quickly move people across the galaxy to acces their capital cache.

So, my suggestion is to prevent half of the galaxy being taken *cough* CFC *cough*

Perhaps a system where if an alliance holds 50 systems, there will be a 1-hour delay in which notifications are sent? And 100 systems, 2 hour delay, etc.

Notifications in any form need to be removed, not delayed.

Notifications are arguably the most powerful tool the coalitions have to keeping their vast afk empires. Why? Because they tell you the second something is attacked, what was attacked, and who attacked it. Without putting in any work they know everything. It is an incredibly powerful free effortless intel source that the game already has a work around for. Most SOV/POS/POCOs have a RF timer. The RF timer was designed to give you time to respond to attack. By removing notifications you allow the RF timer to give the defender enough time to notice and respond to the attack.

Why do notifications need to be removed from in-game and through the API? Because if you care about an asset (SOV, POS, POCO, etc) then you will put in effort to keep it. If it doesn't matter, or matters less than another asset, then you won't put in any effort. It is obviously easier to put in effort if you live nearby the asset, and harder to put in effort if it is a region or three away. The bottom line is that if you do not care enough about an asset then it should go to someone who cares more and is willing to put in more effort than you to own that asset.

So what happens if notifications are removed? The probability of a vast afk empire checking every system/POSPOCO everyday to see if it is in RF is very low. This will be particularly true in areas that are more distant from where the group is basing out of. Smaller, more local entities knowing this have a greater likelihood of RFing and talking SOV, POS or POCO from them. Is this bad? Not at all! It means someone who is actually going to put in effort to take and maintain that asset will now own that asset and likely put it to better use than the vast afk empire will/did.

Now the vast afk empire will likely argue "but removing notifications means we need to check on every single system, POS, and POCO we own every single day to see if is in RF if you remove notifications. That is so much work!" Yes. That is exactly what removing notifications means. If the asset is worth it to you then you will find that one of your thousands of members logging on an alt is trivial effort. If the asset is not worth that trivial effort then you deserve to lose that asset to someone who will.

I always chuckle when the CFC is held up as being so evil because they control a lot of space. Last I checked, The big eastern blue block was a lot bigger than the western blue block. Could've been mh imagination thou, but I doubt it.

Getting rid of those notifications would fit well with the other changes so far.
When you hold so many systems that you don't even notice that someone has reinforced your stuff without the "instant free intel notification system" then you obviously hold waaaay too many unused systems.