Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think several entosis link sizes Woudl indeed do the trick.

Make the small ones... be SLOWish ( so you can affects things with a few frigates, but you will get bored as well and think about bringing somethign more serious)

make medium ones be average (cruisers) ( very used ship size needs no extra help to be used, but they are easier to accept as an attack force)

make large ones be the fastest (battleships) (these ones are basically used only as cannon fooder, so this would be a nice role for battleships (and OMG would be a buff to the tempest with the spare high slot!!!!)

make the huge ones be very slow (capitals). (need to be slow for obvious reasons)

That is your problem... not ccp's

I was bored this weekend and went belt ratting in a hisec .45-49 system (sec status is rounded to the nearest tenth). Got a faction spawn. It didn't even drop faction ammo. Just a copper tag. Really? Not even faction ammo? They used to drop BPCs.

FW lowsec is a completely different story, and consistently the most regularly violent area of space in the game. I would absolutely love to see Nullsec more like that.

To folks complaining about us not needing to defend sov, you're wrong, we do it day in and day out. Having that flag on the map - and keeping it there - is what my alliance is about. We get assets locked in stations, and while we can Black Frog it out, with the new Freeport mechanic those options would be available to nullbears as well.

As I mentioned, we operate under no illusions that we can lock folks out of our space, or out of space we conquer. We conquer Caldari space, and they can be right back hitting it the very next day. In general, that leads to a much more fluid and dynamic warzone than the stagnation that grips sov nullsec so often.

In addition, if any of you had actually bothered to research my post history, you'd know that I consistently oppose FW being used as an LP / isk ATM by bored nullbears and others with no commitment to living and fighting inside the warzones. I'd much prefer for the top end FW income to be reduced and missions to be made far more difficult for the 3 factions who can currently AFK them in bombers.

I'd also support a revamp of sov nullsec economics, and if any of you had bothered to read the CSM comments from folks like Xander, you'd know that those things are already in train for Phase 3. You'd also know that CCP saw that if they did the nullsec income revamp first, that'd make entrenched parties far far richer than would be healthy for the game.

So shake up the sov map, then increase the incentives to live there. If you're smart, you'll tough out the Phase 2 changes and hold the line, since Phase 3 will probably make it very very worthwhile indeed.

And I don't think you're getting that you can only do it to a sov holder. Those who live in NPC space don't really care how well you can do it, only that while you're out there doing it, they can do it to you.

This change does not favor top-down monolithic entities with a lot of territory, and fixed infrastructure. It favors guerrillas. A long time ago, when you lived in Syndicate and had nothing to lose, that was you, but, that was a long time ago.

I lived in Venal for a year, did a lot of belt ratting - never saw a single dread Gurista in all that time. Lived in Providence and Stain for a couple of years, and only saw a True Sansha a couple of times.

Nullsec ratting income is shite, no wonder hardly anyone does it any more.

It has been explained for all to see that the counters exist, you folks just don't want to put forth the effort to use them.

Eh, the officer spawns should be left alone. It used to be exciting when you nabbed a deadspace fitted thing, but thanks to the escalation changes, they have lost the better part of their value. Let officer mods maintain their mystique.

Because the goal is to force you to be present and active in ALL the space you claim, not just the borders and chokepoints. To force you to move about and be active in space, not to let a small minority "guard the walls" against the rampaging hordes while everyone else AFKtars in peace.

Nullbears have been whining about Interceptor bubble immunity since it was introduced; the fact that you all want to ensure they can't use Entosis Links to disrupt your home is just another verse in the same old song.

Interceptors should, and indeed must, be allowed to use Entosis Links for that very reason.

I'm well aware of what game i'm playing, well aware that people have differing play styles, etc etc etc. I'm well aware that null is about building empires and planting your flag. I've been in nullsec, I've built empires, I've planted flags. Been there, done that, have the t-shirt.

What I object to - and what nullsec players seem to have a hard time understanding - is that you shouldn't be able to build nice, high walls and not have to worry about the barbarians at the gate anymore. Interceptors, with their bubble immunity and ability to instantly align, provide a way to cross that impenetrable border to screw with the sheep in the interior. Do wormholes offer an option to jump that wall as well? Sure. But - and this is very important - once you're inside the walls, if you're not in something that's interdiction immune, you can still be bubbleinstalockcamped into whatever corner of sov nullspace you've been able to penetrate. You can, in short, be easily contained.

The threat of roaming Interceptors - ones that can't simply be be bubbleinstalockcamped into irrelevance - is what forces folks to be aware, to react, rather than simply sit around in perfect safety. Giving those same Interceptors the ability to impact sov - to literally set the bar so low for sov influence that ANYONE can screw with it, given the desire - means you can't rely on a supercap umbrella plus reputation tank plus bubbleinstalockcamps to keep your sov. You need to be willing to respond to threats quickly and decisively, all throughout your space.

Given that CCP has not yet given in to the nullbear demands to nerf Interceptor interdiction immunity, and given the fact that CCP Fozzie's design goal was to not restrict the Entosis Link from being used on any ship platform, I think we can take it as a given that part of CCP's design goals are specifically to prevent bubbleinstalockcamps from being a viable way to secure your sov. That they want the ninja marauding hordes of SovCeptors screwing with sov. That they want to force people to move, to react, to undock, to chase and to fight - or to risk losing their sov due to inaction.

In my opinion, that requirement to react is going to force empires to shrink to sizes where they are willing and able to respond quickly and effectively. How that impetus will shape the nullsec sovreignty map over time is something that is totally up in the air, but I'm reasonably confident it won't look like it does today.

And that's a good thing.