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I have a suggestion to prevent griefing for griefing's sake:

Scale up the capture timer ALOT if any side is outnumbered. Scale it in real time. Empty systems (no occupants online) work at the minimal 10 min per capture level. Let the capture time scale up directly with the ratio, so if one side is outnumbered 3:1 the capture time goes up by a factor x3.

This way, a lone ceptor would need a 100 min to capture anything from under the nose of say 10 members in local. The defenders could easily finish up whatever they were doing, switch to a more appropriate ship, decide on a fitting, go get some snacks and then finally go and scare him off.

If the defenders are outnumbered, the same holds true: Instead of steamrolling a small group with superior forces, you give the underdog time to gather allies. And if the attacker doesn't like the long timer, he can withdraw forces to speed it up. Which in turn, would give the defenders at least a series of nice appripriately sizes fights. Of course the big guys will always have more reinforcements, but initially it would be the best tactic to give the occupants a "fair" fight, at least in terms of number of active pilots...

That way fighting at a numerical balance would always be a good tactic to capture. And as a side effect, caps would be pretty useful, people with more capitals would be at an advantage, because they can bring more DPS/EHP per pilot and can still keep the optimal 1:1 ratio...

It would be hard for the losing side to drag out the fight as well, because the winning side would just move unneeded forces elsewhere...

I'll be happier with caps after the change, since they won't be usable to require the escalation to B-R levels over a single system's fate, without being able to hurt the other guy even more for his hubris.

Of course you will be hotdropped in an empty system 30 jump away from civilization (which is a typical renter system).
Cool story bro.

3 suggestions.

Suggestion: Limit the use of entosis links to valid squad commander/ wing commander/ Fleet command positions.

Sorry to the solo people who want to go out and screw with sov, but sov shouldn't be pingable by a solo troll inty. Requiring people in fleet leadership positions limits the amount of Entosis links you can bring with you and incentivises multiple fleets.



Suggestion: Allow alliances to name 1 Capital system that receives full RF times automatically.

As it stands the system i spend the most time in has a relatively low level of ratting and PvE occuring, primarily because it's 1 jump out of high sec, however it is where i PVP a lot and so does my alliance, it is by far the most active of all of our systems with a strong market and where we spend most of our time in game. That our staging/ capital/ most iconic system can be RFed with a ~17 minute timer is a bit of a joke and incredibly anti-climatic, it takes longer to RF a ratting system then an alliance staging? Give us a chance to defend pre-timer, heaven forbid we might want to do something other than sit in our home base every time we log in.

Suggestion: limit amount of timers that can occur in a constellation at once.

Probably the most striking thing about this proposed system is that you can spend a couple of hours RFing stuff with a couple of fleets, come back in 2 days and take an entire constellation in one night. I want sov to be more fluid but an entire constellation in 3 days is pretty OP. Is there such a thing as too fluid sov CCP?

question alliance A attack the tcu of the alliance B and succefully destroys it but allaince B has like 100 tcu in system and start onlining the 2nd tcu what will be in that case?

I have no idea about sov and null, haven't really involved myself in the game much yet. But to me it seems capital ships will find themselves without a role. Also, it seems to easy too reinforce structures.

And the prime time is not a clever feature. Remove it completely.

You think these semantic talking points will stop CFC from flipping all renter sov in NA., and you think NA. renters will keep paying fees to N3 when they are being daily harassed by CFC and Brave and any other ragtag cruiser fleet that comes their way, because suddenly NC.'s supers have no ability to prevent this just by existing?

It doesn't matter how you spin it, the NA. renter income will vanish from N3 coffers because rental income is, for all intents and purposes, a supercap fleet lease. And no one will need a supercap fleet lease in a nullsec with E-links.

This doesn't mean the concept of renting will suddenly disappear, or that arrangements won't be made, extortions, protection rackets, etc. But the days of controlling 4 or 5 regions by virtue of simply being able to -- when needed and once in a bluemoon -- CTA login a bunch of supercaps all at once, is gone once this change goes out. System control will first and foremost be dependent on local, active members capable of forming subcaps fleets during primetime vulnerability windows. This doesn't magically make large groups suddenly more vulnerable to small groups as far as regular subcap fleet battles go. But daily sov conflict, border skirmishes, and system flips will become the norm.

Further, alliance blue donut agreements become meaningless when the power to flip sov is put in the hands of every line member with a T1 subcap and not just the privileged supercap pilots. Again, ask yourself... why would Brave NOT take 50 cruisers and go flip CFC sov? They don't need command approval for this. They don't need to wait for a CTA or an approved FC. They aren't about to go lose supercaps. They probably don't even care about SRP.

All they need is a dozen bored people to raid the newbie hangar for T1 cruisers and go flip a quiet system, and if CFC doesn't bring a fleet to defend, welp, there goes that system. You think giant blue agreements at alliance command levels will have a chance of stopping bored line members from doing this every single day? Hell no. Alliance leaders will either have to acknowledge that they are at open war with their enemies and allow line members to do this kind of daily skirmishing, or else they are going to have to kick out half of their active line members.

No one playing EVE is NOT going to take 50 T1 cruisers to try and flip an enemy system from under the nose of their evil antagonist just because their alliance command says "don't do that". Take away my SRP, I don't care, I'll fund the T1 fleet myself. It's not like I'm losing dreads here. Take away my approved FC's, don't care, 10 bored guys with a convenient wormhole and lolfits can flip sov if we happen to find a particularly vulnerable/out of the way spot. Kick me out of the alliance? Sure, fine, only you'll be booting 50% of your active line members after a month in a system which rewards sov to anyone that can fly a subcap locally/at home during their primetime hours. Probably not a wise strategic move...

Here is a suggestion: CCP needs to actually listen to the nullsec CSM representatives (they are largely disregarding input from CSM reps with Sov changes). Or hire someone that is well versed in nullsec to actually work at CCP.

Have you seen the lengths people go to to get supercap kills? Are you shitting me? The only reason you'd NOT get hotdropped is if 1) they think it's a trap or 2) you managed perfect intel/opsec and no one knew it was going down.

If you boys cannot be arsed to defend your TCU from an interceptor gang, then don't take sov. Just plant your POS, plex / rat all day log and get into POS shields when danger come your way, like you always do. If you want the 25% bonus for fuel reduction, then fight for it. Do a bit of math and if "estimated ship loss > ISK saved from having a TCU", don't plant the thing. And stop complaining, think more of what you can do.