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also what happens when a character in an NPC corp tries to use this module? does it count and can they actually take anything?

a small part of my wonders if CCP get liek ultra hard nipples when they release these major change blogs, rarely are they filled with OMG amazing, its 85% WTF and 15% lol i love the tears these guys are generating.

CCP = the cable company in that south park episode.

Problem: SOV vaule
Ok, you made sov taking and harassing sov holders easier. Where are the bufss for actually holding the space? Why to hold SOV at all when you can just live in npc null and troll residents of nearby regions. I'm expecting major buffs to nullsec so that it's worth going through all that defensive activity to keep space.

Problem: Supercaps
With proposed changes supercaps lose their role pretty much. Expecting a major re-purpose of supers (and maybe dreads) to make them viable or we can just selfdestruct them for lolz.

Problem: Timezones
If your goal is to have 3-4 parts of space with exclusive EU/US/RUS/AU timezone sov holders then your idea is good. If not, CHANGE TIMEZONE IDEA.

Problem: Interceptors
Having "uncatchable" fleets of interceptors troll reinforcing everything in the region (or two) during one evening every single time that some structure is out of RF just for the heck of it (and to make sov holders form up for def all the time) is not what I would call a good mechanics. CHANGE INTERCEPTORS to make them catchable or give them inability of RFing.

Problem: Cloaky AFKers
SOV activitiy directly tied to defending sov is cool. But first wave of invading someones SOV will be having 3-4 AFK cloaked "l33t pvpers" in every system of one constellation for a few days to drop their mining/ratting activities. It is not really what I would call interesting and fair mechanic. CHANGE AFK CLOAKING.

Confirming I both hate goons and think that the 4 hour zone is a terrible idea, as a US player in an EU alliance.

That single guy won't do **** if you have any defensive bonus. He won't show up for the timer, and if you can't kill a single guy out of your thousand+ alliance in your prime time than I don't know what to say...

They know about this

Your heathen logic has no place here! Begone foul witch!

Still mulling over a number of things on how they wil pan out, but overall I like it, its a shake up mechanism, a pretty big one at that.

People should not get too hung up over TZ, you will get fights when you attack other people which are not in your alliances main TZ, you will be defending your structures during your TZ against people putting it into RF and doing so in small gang combat.

I need to read it through a couple of times more in certain areas and work it through, but a lot more small fights will be generated from this and hard nosed players that want to muck around with poor systems can carve those out.

Just make sure to remove POS reporting please...

Just from the first glance:
With Tidi we are talking about 4-5 hours per commandnode for an attacker, while the defenders have way less plus the advantage of being able to avoid the enemy fleet via titan- and jumpbridge. Just keep throwing suicidesquads at the attacker to keep the Tidi up.

Also this system favors alliances over both corps and coalitions. While now a defensivefleet consisting of 5 different alliances is viable after these changes you could just target the one sovholding alliance and then they can´t use capture anything. It will probably kill coalitions but not because they split into smaller groups but because f.e. the entire CFC could just join GSF. Just for safety and sharing of the defensive workload.

I see a problem with with the primetime thing as there is no actual way to make real coalitions in game.

For alliances with mixed timezones, like brave collective, there is no way of splitting up into timezones and splitting up the sovereignty. If the split would happen, nothing in the game ties the coalition together. It would not be one brave any more, it would be multiple. It would all have to be handled by standings. No common chat channels (has to be created and managed manually).

I think they should change sov warfare to be done on a corporation level, or add the ability for us to create actual coalitions.