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Yes, quite true, using interceptors to attempt to capture a heavily defended system with active players, would not end well for the interceptor pilot. For such conquest attempts, a full support fleet will be required.

Occupied systems will be something requiring commitment.
Unoccupied and unwanted systems will be fairly simple to capture.

But of course in the main phase of the capture event, one best be prepared, as the initial lack of apparent defence may be purely bait to get you to commit to the main event, and come unprepared for the welcome you receive.

have pvp'd i just suck at it ;) but yea. I'm leanign that it will act more like a cyno, triage, seige, or even a a weapon that still fires even if the last one killed the target mid cycle.

It literally would have no reason to exist as a restriction, if it behaved any other way.
If it was released by accident, it would be corrected by the first available patch.

Isn't it so like this current playerbase to point the finger at the mod and completely overlook the greater dynamics this new SOV change will bring? Why is this? The new mod itself is little more than a pointing finger. The discussion is all about sawing off the pointing finger, or keeping the pointing finger from being sawed off, or why can just anybody point the finger? None of it is a lively discussion about how this change will affect two things that have plagued the majority of New Eden for years - blue blobs and blue donuts. Under Band of Brothers, a huge section of the map was in stasis forcing players onto a small section of null sec space. Under the Blue Donut, all that happens in null sec is people rent from other people.

The majority of items in the game just aren't being used, and in both instances of "natural" game play, the "natural" result seems to be (once again) freezing up the majority of New Eden. This certainly isn't gameplay. DIddling around with one or two elements without pulling the entirety of EVE's features into play isn't gameplay either. It's diddling around. At last with this new approach there's a significant potential to pull EVE into the game of EVE. People who are focusing on the mod, and trying to find ways to circumvent things like downtime visa vis prime time will miss the boat entirely. People, and CEOs/Alliance leaderships that focus on all the aspects of the game - the development of systems, the sovereignty panel, the many and varied skills of the group now disparagingly called "carebears" WILL WIN.

So, yes. Do continue your bogged down in minutia discussion of the module, and how someone might circumvent the intended with the clever. However, understand in so doing you're demonstrating how little you've bothered to learn about the wider game of EVE. It's like obsessing on the queen's hair-do and not developing a strong pawn game. And, as anyone who knows chess will tell you, the game is won with the pawn game, not the queen.

I look forward to seeing the hindparts of The Blue Donut as it disappears over the horizon looking for another game to smother. I'm even looking forward to seeing the departure of people whose imaginations and true strategic abilities only amount to that. I'm going to enjoy ganking becoming an annoyance (as it rightly is) and emergent gameplay suddenly becoming playing EVE again!

I appreciate everyone's effort to support our game through this forum. I only suggest those who are fixated on a module try expanding your understanding of this game we play by taking a look at the map, and the other panels that seem to never get used. They are going to be the central focus of the game now - as it should be.

"The battle is won before it is fought." -Sun Tzu's way of saying "know what you're doing."-

I generally like the upcoming changes I have two areas of reservation:

1. The Prime Timer could seriously limit sov interaction. It would make sense for pilots to migrate to the alliance who is dominant in their OP time. It also makes sense for alliances to ensure their neighbours have polar opposite prime times.

2. Where is the incentive for a regular Joe in a small corp to join the sovereignty game: Outside of the major blocs risk vs reward is askew.

Hear hear.

Question here is, will this change the meta? Is this something that will break the power of coalitions like the CFC? I doubt it. I really do. CFC for example is using marauding squadrons themselves to put certain regions under pressure to aid "friendlies" or the enemy of the enemy. PL, N3 and CFC do have the resources and the isks to get enough mercs going around and rf'ing regions, then put in a major force to secure an area.

I'm not sure there's even a change that could bring down a well organized medium business like the CFC, people who think that entities like Mordu's Angels (which I love btw., keep it up) can take down the CFC are dreaming. This new mechanic still promotes numbers, the first weeks might be a bit of a chaos until people figure out how to use it / defend it, as usual.

Is it so much of a change not to have CTA for a 1h structure grind or to hop 5x systems and secure nodes? The focus on the mod is due to the fact that the entire sov mechanic is based on that mod. The way it works and what's needed to fit it / the effects of that mod are crucial in the way people are going to use it. And guys like you who dumb down 140 pages of discussion to "trololol you only focus on the mod" are as ignorant as they claim the people to be in here. I think it's almost as clever as dumbing down sov to a highslot module (presumably able to be fitted on a frig). On the brightside, CCP can save some workload on the supercapital rebalance, nobody is going to use them anymore after this and the lack of fighter assign. Well, maybe for a thunderdome.

The idea is, you're not going to sit on a majority of the map all week, then show up on Saturday all puffed up like Henry VIII. It means you'll only be able to hold what you can actively defend and operate. Yes, some people's inflated holdings are going to shrink to real tiny and boy are they gonna sob.

It'll not be, "But we were holding more than we could manage!"

It'll be "Waaaaaah! The "change" is OP!"

There isnt anything extreme about it.

Right now we have several sigs out attacking all across eve while running a highsec organisation, WH sigs and a large home defence force. We can deploy several thousand pilots to the task of attacking targets without reducing home defence.

I'm sure CFC and all the other large coalitions will adapt and survive. This change will make them reconsider their holdings and condense and retract releasing idle space for new hands to grab at. New hands that won't need to own OR risk a supercap fleet to do so - but they'll need to be damn tenacious to put up with the constant kerb stomping the big kids are gonna want to do to them for having the audacity to steal food from their tables.

And once the renter alliances see someone with some balls doing this, maybe even nibbling at their little bit of space to do so, then...?