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A couple of questions that I didn't see any clarification.

• As Command Nodes are generated, will they be evenly spread through the constellation? Or will it be a weighted distribution with an extra 20% chance of being in the disputed system?


• If more than one system/structure is generating Command Nodes in the constellation, will the Command Nodes be marked as to which system/structure they are part of the 10 count?


• If the defenders eliminate all offensive entosis links, does the timer immediately reset? Or does it work like a control timer like in an FW plex?

A suggestion, since not all structures are equal, have larger structures have a longer base time or create more command nodes.

So much violence going on RIGHT now... The horror... They're they own renters! RENTERS! Stations are changing hands every 36 hours. The fight is to the LAST Titan, LAST! No one can afford to commit any more assets into this bloodbath... So much horror.

I have seen ATTACK ships on fire, off the shoulder of RFY-QB... Judgment day TRULY approcheath... Unseen VIOLENCE ERUPTIN-OHGOD!..

...radio comms silence...

*STATIC*

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DEKLEIN HAS FALLEN.

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My 20 cents: (before rant)

From playing in Null (Provi, CVA), high-sec (missions/trade) and FW since 2009 (+actually some mining too, though now I know it gets too boring for me quickly, but I were mining in Amarr with Bestower and one laser at very beginning without a clue, when a Bro from CVA came to recruit me, and ensured I kept playing after that terrible start).

If you (CCP) are gonna go this route you have planned, better make it so that high sec is also drawn into a (FW?) war (or optionally risk wardecs of other corps), between empires after 30 days rookie corp, because violence, ganking, griefing, cheating, betrayal, human driven politics+social interaction and mutual wars with hope of flying BIG ships eventually etc. are actually blood EvE lives on, compared to other games like (new) Elite (E:D).

That (ED) I have enjoyed as much as EvE, as both are masters in their own territory, and as both are keeping focus on their own "strong-areas" (mentioning this because I have actually recently spent more time with ED than EvE, that I found troublesome, because I want BOTH games, for different reasons) .

That high-sec war would force players to really consider their options after beginning at EvE, either be it joining high-sec corp (risking war decks) instead of FW, or forming their own single corp (risking war decks). All these scenarios would bring null more appealing for new players, and old like me. Adapt, get on a group (where newbies can actually learn something). Dont become voluntary target (alone). Punish+hunt (any+enemy FW) gankers killing (then now FW) miners in high sec severely through the Empire(s).

RANT:

Why cant I be allowed to get, as ordinary half-time warrior, decent living (and isk for PLEX) in null, as before (yeah changes during year(s) have been so frequent I´m still not clear how much it´s different year or 2 ago)?
You forced me to go into FW orbiting beacon-timers with warp stabbed (cheap FAST frigs, earlier even with a cloak) ships to carry on playing with PLEX (yeah, think I have payed enough in EURO´s during the years).

Now you WANT me to re-do that failure of a design, in null, but this time without LP? Really? I moved to FW (mostly) because it payed more, what I actually needed with much less risk. And it is **** boring! What is this change gonna benefit me now in null?

Not just that, you nerfed+changed some certain smaller ships I had fits and ready in null with recommended/doctrine fits, and now cant even fly them!
And when I were skilling for "BIG ships", carriers etc. already bought, aiming for some (easy) fun I had dreamed (for years), you hit them with these nerfs (next June, too)?

Really? It is like promising "Super Titan" for players in next few years, but then after all skilling cancelling them!

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And then there is this 4 hour window... Aussies are not only ones to get hit by it.

Just think of me, unregular provi+CVA-casual warrior, from Eastern European TZ (from here at Finland, but just as for example Poland´s too), what would you guess CVA is gonna make their prime time? Western Europe and/or USA-prime time, pretty much forcing me to either be only in offence (with CVA?), or joining Russians, that we dont share any language, ideology or view of the world with, together (just joking here, but be glad we are not in war yet, again, lol).

Maybe make it 4 hours (I see reasoning behind it), but divided to 2x 2 hours periods (so both EU and USA players get on in it at their prime times as an example), and make those enthosis links work twice as fast (believe me, max. 20 minutes in FW is already enough in EVERY sense for orbiting something, even getting ganked while on it, and should be enough for defenders to react (if not, make them have immediate information they are under attack).

I see lots of good here, but THE BIG PICTURE need to be balanced so that this could work.
Just my opinion, dont hate 0bama for it!

That whack-a-mole game that was dumped on eve exploration... why stop there?

Seriously, its uses know no bounds. With a little work, im sure it can be implemented in the game of sov as well.

Just wish some of these Dev's would actually play EVE from a players perspective and witness the effects of the changes they have so far spewed into the game these past few months.

Truth is currently there is little incentive to play the game at all for players, the overall results of the travel Nerf has cut into players actual ability to complete fleets before having to log off on many occasions in hostile space the inevitable results of which when they do log back in again is loosing there ships and getting podded back, nice for the hostiles, not much incentive for the poor sod it happens to though, overall result is players get less content satisfaction, are less inclined to join fleets and are more inclined to simply give up playing EVE or at the very least leave Null Sec space.

Large areas of many Alliances Space are currently a deserted wasteland more utilized by neutrals than Alliance members who have little or no incentive to move from there current systems which have become heavily over populated and over farmed, results of that are there is less and less inclination to log in at all when you know that all the resources have been farmed out by players with more available game time than you have

The proposed Sov changes headline that they will provide additional content for players, but with no incentive to move why would they care to chase after silly little modules and timers when they can simply wait and then take back the lost systems at there leisure, The more likely outcome will be that they simply dock up and wait out the problem, then find they have less inclination to log in at all, result that leave the game or leave Null Sec

The effects of that silly blue timer icon have had far reaching and undesirable effects way beyond those required to simply Nerf power projection.

New sovereignty system for stations should include capture of player assets in hangars by new owners.

This will provide motivation for small alliances to try capturing stations which they will not be able to hold long once alliances large enough to apply pressure 24x7 go to work. Viking raid and pirate prize crews taking new fleet assets.

Stations are what allows sustained force projection into a system. Particularly for small alliances needing to recycle pilots quickly after they get killed. TCU are gonna just be Epeen flagpoles without any material effect except to allow skipping the intel process for determining who is most willing to fight in a given null system. Infrastructure hubs only matter if you do industry and that is directly proportionate to your confidence in holding a system.

Disclaimer : I am not affiliated with any power bloc therefore this is not a biased post. Also this is my main and not an alt Smile However I have been playing eve for many years and have spent a silly amount of time in nullsec. Just thought i would get that in there before the alt, troll, grr goons, grrr n3, grrr whatever posts come....

Anyway, I have been thinking about the fozziesov thing for sometime, much like many others i guess. The recent changes with jump fatigue etc have been good, and i support that, it was needed. The lets hold lots of space, make billions renting lots of regions and not even living in it, just because you could throw 100 supers at someone in minutes was becoming a joke. I still don't think one alliance should be able to hold one full region to be honest and i would like to see the verite map changed to be sov only map not a influence map as it can wrongly give information about how much space one owns. But i digress...Sorry...

On to fozziesov, great idea as a concept, will make more fights local, will make people think a little more about the space they want to own and defend, especially for the larger alliances. Now i assumed (and maybe wrongly) that this was also to let the little guys get a chance to harass and even hold sov. Which would be great! However my concern is how really easy it is, meaning the time it takes to cause disruption.

We seem to have gone from one extreme to the other. Now again you may thing hey well that helps the little guys, but does it? My worry is the purposeful setting up of large newbie alliances to effectively cause havoc in nullsec just to create content. This isn't just about PL horde, although its convienient that a group that was so elitist all of a sudden decided to create a newb alliance, but also the likes of Brave and Goons. Which can effectively sum up 100,200,300+ gangs just to roam nullsec and disrupt lots of systems in a night, then go back again the next night and the next. The smaller alliances have literally no chance at all, they can compete with that may pilots 'constantly' roaming about, disrupting everything in 20 minutes. Surely fozzie must of thought of this and again just as the high sec poco debacle, they create a game that obviously favours Goons, and Brave and now PL Horde. I worry this will just have the complete opposite effect where no one dares live, or invest in nullsec because of the constant harassment. For example you think about increasing mining yield but who in the right mind is going to have mining sessions with 300+ people coming about constantly? I think this could actually end up destroying nullsec
I always wonder if CCP every look at the bigger picture rather than this inward thinking...

Well, but my point there were that it is just ridiculous to make null sec, but not high sec, new low sec FW arena (without LP)...

This system should be executed (maybe even shot) at high sec, between Factions.

Well, it is factional warfare. There are factions, and there's warfare. I've often thought it would be cool to allow sov holding alliances to award LP and set up LP stores.

High sec will probably change--"the empires are losing their grip on power"--but I don't see why it should change first. Null sec residents have been crying for a sov revamp for years, more so since the Incarna flare-up postponed CCP's first attempt at post-Dominion sov (in the release originally planned to follow Incarna, which was scrapped for Crucible).

if they are doing this to you every night then you know when their space is empty. do it back. and they will have more area to disrupt.