Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It would be impossible to actually defend any assets.

Especially if you don't have full TZ coverage.

Why would you think that only the biggest groups should even be able to put up a POS?

I'm thinking more along the lines of assets per capita, and simply shrinking the number (which appears to be the goal of sovereignty mechanics changes). The "more" would have more, as usual.

The difference being that rather than adding another layer of mechanics, we simply allow EvE to do what it does best.

Additionally, the goals are ultimately the same:



If you win the fight, you keep your stuff. Same same.



Deploy or destroy. This is what I consider simple.

Given our current style of play, you are correct. Player tactics would have to change, yes.

"I woke up Saturday morning and... I have no more things."

I understand. Consider this:

About a year ago I was moving all my things in an Orca. I decided to make a pit stop in Jita. "Burn Jita"? Whatever, I said.


I learned a lot that day. Needless to say, nothing is impossible for the players who put their minds to it.

Recruit Australians.


Whenever I think about what can and can't be accomplished in EvE, I ask myself "What would GoonSwarm do?"

They would make a plan, and follow through.

It's not, it's only good for the POS bashers.

If you are a small group, then you time your stuff to exit reinforcement at a time you are actually going to be online to defend it. How, exactly, does that hurt you when compared with just flat out losing it with no chance at all of fighting back?

If you have no experience with timers, why are you proposing their removal?

Brief military superiority should not mean that you can immediately steamroll everything.

Russian groups would both be able to kill anything they want while everyone else is sleeping, and be unable to hold onto anything while they are sleeping.

Mid sized WH groups would wake up one morning floating in space after someone came in and smashed everything before they knew they were even under attack.

Staging POS's in warzones would be useless since the enemy could bubblecage the tower, kill it, then put in a hellpbubbled death star where it was if the peopel tried to safe log in the tower before it died.

This is a terrible idea.


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With 7 dreds and 10 battleships you can knock over an small POS (with no strontium in it) in less than 15-20 minutes.

Get 20 dreds (not an unreasonable number) and a small POS will die in one siege cycle (5 minutes).


Now... you COULD increase small POS hitpoints to give more time for the defenders to summon up the force necessary to counter the attack... assuming that you are attacking during the defender's timezone...

but this would not work out too well.

Why?
- it won't scale well. The attacker will simply bring more people (if they have the bodies available).
- increasing the HP levels of POSs can make the POS unreasonably difficult for smaller groups to kill them.
- it still doesn't address the issue of certain groups existing only in certain timezones.


OP... your idea smacks of someone who either...

- hates timers and wants them removed... regardless of the consequences to the rest of the game

- doesn't care about "smaller" groups. In your eyes, if you want anything nice then you need to be a massive alliance with all timezones covered. And you don't care if that is an unreasonable "mandate."

Reinforced mode is actually a conflict driver. It forces parties to show up at the same spot at the same time. Removing it will result in more PVP avoidance.