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Can't wait to see how the little guy is going to even get to his space when the power blocs mass in all the 0.0 ingress points.

you want to be on csm cause you felt hats are more important

I don't support you or this sov change.

wormholes ?

The only real functions of the CSM these days are to buffer community responses so there's no more summers of rage, to streamline feedback on what devs pick up up from player ideas and to endorse what comes out of CCP in exchange for some minor tidbits of niche concepts which CCP would have done anyway.

Meh. Not what I had hoped. I had hoped for my activity based and less pointless modules and minigames. Also, 4 hour window gives major bonuses to large coalitions which can span all timezones and makes it nigh impossible for people with lives and work schedules.

However, I am pretty stokked about the activity in a system making it harder to take......except that yall gave essentially infinitely more power to AFK campers. Not the ones which actually attack people and things, but the ones who login a DT and dont' log off until the server kicks them off the next day. The entire time the character does nothing.

Two questions:
1) I did not see how the tug-of-war actually works. You gave one example of what happens if only one side shows up (10 captures and you win). What is required to win when there are two sides fighting? When there are several sides fighting? Just what is the tug-of war mechanic?

2) "Anyone is free to deploy a TCU". OK, if 5 alliances all drop a TCU right at the moment the old one explodes, who gets the system? The fastest fingers? The alliance with the best internet connection to the servers?

The idea that people with disparate identities, goals, and histories will smash together their alliances at the level that current blue coalitions exist today is invalid. It's why shifting the focus back to alliance level control is key to curbing bloc creep. People happily and willingly blue up to any and all coalitions on a moment's notice because there is really no disadvantage. You don't give up your identity, your command/control structure, or put your alliance in ANY kind of risk. And yet you get huge advantages because the existing mechanics fundamentally reward large blue coalition structure grinding fleets (EDIT: or more accurately, rewards supercap blob deterrents to large structure grinding fleets).

By refocusing this mechanic to alliance level control ONLY and removing the benefit of belonging to a blue coalition, suddenly there is much less benefit to hitching your wagon to a large blue group. More importantly, the idea that the disparate alliances of, say, CFC, would all suddenly join GSF alliance to consolidate is insane. There are many and varied reasons why those alliances aren't part of GSF already, and forcing them to actually put on the GSF tag if they want to benefit GSF sov is going to be a HUGE negative pressure on growing bloc sizes. A lot of people in blue coalitions don't actually like each other very much and only the overwhelming advantages to structure grinding (or deterrent to such) are sufficient to get them to willingly identify with a coalition; force them to adopt an actual alliance mantle while removing the scale of the benefit and rivalries will flare up.

CCP in all their might.. still never even mentions on how they will deal with AFK CLOAKY CAMPING in null sec

as I previously mentioned "we'll all end up AFK CLOAKING left and right"


therefore with this plan.

A- Cloaky Camper begins camping a system.. dropping its indexes allowing for easy take over with frigate fleets

this is what CCP wants and calls it active gameplay


thanks for the direction to another game and company ill spend with them instead of you ccp..

congrats on losing money

I like the idea of primetime in concept as it allows a group of pilots who play during a certain time a window where they can manage their time and play maybe 7-11pm. It will keep people engaged.

I love the fact that things are changing, and the changes seem interesting. If CCP commits to continuous review and balance and changes going forward then I think it is a good start. There are some parts which may prove to alienate certain TZs inside of alliances but the only way to see is to play out the changes.

Now can we start distributing some carrots that make 0.0 more liveable, AKA player stations, alliance income, higher player density, DUST / legion / Valkerie kickbacks, mining, industry, multiple stations per system, etc?

Never stop releasing.

Essentially what I thought. Unless sov was monopolised by a certain TZ (unlikely to be possible with the new system) there should always be targets in your TZ.