Warfare & Tactics

With all due respect, you know not of what you speak.

Firstly, AU TZ is actually a 4 hour block of timezones if you include the Kiwis. The vast majority (80%) of Aussies live on the east coast (AEST). During summertime down here the east coast AU has daylight savings, pushing DT later into the night, and also pushing the west and east coast apart. I live west side and at ~10:00 p.m. WST we get what i call RUS Hour, when the Russians sign on. Summertime, that's 1 a.m. east side, and midnight during autumn and winter.

So, best case scenario, RUS Hour for nullsec starts a structure grind midnight AEST. Or 2 a.m. in New Zealand. Worst case scenario, it starts at 1 a.m.. We are talking the difference between 3 p.m. in Moscow and nearly 1 a.m. in Sydney. Who's going to win that battle when it becomes a warm bodies and entosis alts battle?

You also display a grand ignorance of nullsec. AU TZ at the moment does OK because of the way timers are structured - you start sov attacks midweek (thursday latest) and usually around downtime or before. This gives AU TZ the dirty work but a decently cohesive AU TZ corp in, say, NC Dot or PL or wherever, is an important tool for getting an assault rolling. The EHP/DPS equation favours surprise attacks in this TZ because if you pile the DPS on you get in and out within the space of 3 siege cycles.

So even though you don't get huge battles, you get to go do some boring sov grinds for 30 minutes, then go back to ratting, waiting for a content creator to create content, or go roaming. Then, 2-3 days later you turn up for the POS, I-hub, etc when it's cooked, and if it falls into EU TZ on the weekend you stay up late and shoost a bunch of duders.

Put the Prime Time crap in, and this goes away. No point having numerical superiority in the AU TZ, you literally cannot do anything. End of story. You can stay up till insane times, midweek, but good luck explaining to your boss and wife why you are always hairy-mouthed thursdays and fridays. Try doing that for 3 years straight, see how you like it. And then the timers come out at even more ludicrous times because it might take 4-6 hours to beat down the defences, resulting in a 4 a.m. alarm clock op on a monday morning. Hah.

So yeah, that is apparently "whining" or something. I call it maths and scheduling logistics, and it's utterly arse for the AU TZ.

Sorry missed the response.

The method by which it is implemented is yes. Currently sov nullsec attracts people who are basically wanting to play "Spaceship Game of Thrones Online" and suffer through all the garbage that entails. Goonswarm is unique in that we like to actually occupy and use our Sov, you've heard the "This nullsec is empty as hell" quote here on the forums many times I'm sure, and it's true. Why? It's a pain in the ass to continuously supply yourself with everything from ships to fuel to ammo just to live in your space. It gets especially bad in deep 0.0 like Tenal.

To give in an example: Goonswarm federation lives in the most densely packed nullsec in the game, we're the ideal sovholding entity if you want a vibrant and booming nullsec full of people who make money, live, eat, breath war and die in nullsec. If you want to kill ratters doing dumb stuff? Deklein is the place to be. It's packed to the gills. But there's a hidden cost that most people don't talk about, and it's the answer to "Why most people just don't bother." Logistics.

We have 3 major JF services (Privately owned companies that serve the alliance by jumping in all the garbage we need for the day to day). One very large one worked by several pilots, one medium sized service run by a single person, and a small one used mainly for inter deklein shipping.

The JF of the medium sized group was talking in his thread (where he lists prices et al) about his backbone the other day. The gist of it is this. He uses 27 characters to run his supply chain. Multiple freighter/JF pilots. Does that sound stupid to you? It sounds stupid to me. And this is just ONE of three services supplying us.

Everything we need must be shipped in, oh local production helps a little but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the sheer mass we ship in. And I should mention this is the easy way. The hard way involves pilots just flat out doing their own personal logistics which is a giant pain in the ass since the jump changes (On deployments to odd parts of the galaxy I would often redfrog/pushx stuff to a lowsec staging and go snag it with my carrier, NOT ANYMORE, guess I need a ******* JF pilot, thanks.)

Basically anyone wanting to live in nullsec has to face these challenges, and they are woefully unprepared for it. Just fully towering your own region is a headache that's a 10+ person job and involves freighters and nail biting. God forbid you want to drop a station egg.

If everyone's after the renter space, which they will be, then regardless of if the renters PvP, it will literally be impossible to hold.