EVE General Discussion

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Following the release of the new sov system, are there any plans to remove or otherwise change local intel as it currently stands in null, and are there plans to allow cloaked ships to be scanned down?

You know there are many people wanting to know from CCP the answers to those.

Thanks ... Will add to the doc

Ask Fozzie some pointed questions please:

- Will the new SOV mechanics favour griefers that do not want the SOV?
- What happens when random roamers start a whole region of timers and then a huge third part(ies) comes to exploit those timers with mass deployment and making the defenders run everywhere trying to hold onto their space?
- What happens when defenders grow bored of trying to hold on and deploy from Low Sec and NPC Null holding onto moons and wiping out anyone that tries to "take their space" as Null then becomes a honey trap?
- How is waving a magic wand more satisfying than shooting a structure?
- Why not make a Middle Sec where alliances can really grow to then take over Null Sec space?
- Is he thinking from the perspective of a Pandemic Legion fanboy?

I didn't ask about a timeline, I asked if they had any goals for them or any ideas that were promising yet. Fanfest was a month ago, things change. Important questions that go unanswered deserve to be asked again.

Yeah, I don't expect them to have concrete plans either. I just hope that keeping the question coming at them will keep it closer to the front of their minds than the back, and that they might have an idea or set of goals or limitations or something that might spark discussion.

They're definitely not thinking like people who actually want to live in this kind of space lol. It does seem like they are missing the point about null (for many of us) with this faction warfare like system.

I'm a pve player. I pvp only to support my alliance and because only pvp that results in gains of space (or successful defenses of space, whether my own or our allies) is fun for me. I only occasionally participate in things like Blopsing, I rarely roam, and I haven't had a solo 1 v 1 kill since I was in Atlas when we removed Red alliance from C-J6MT lol.

Nowadays, null is hard to get good pve ships into, harder to change pve ships or fits and harder to get loot out of to a market where people will buy it because of the jump changes. With this new Sov system, the PVE "null farmer" type who plays in his alliance's "prime time" may be too busy defending against the coming hordes of Entosis toting cruisers and destroyer gangs. The PVe farmer who plays outside of his Alliance prime time will sometimes log on to find everything reinforced whole he was offline (because his group got stomped by a bigger "screw with you" group like "imperium" lol). In other words, null will probably be made unlivable to the very people (PVe players) who create the ecosystem null needs to survive (farmers are targets and content).

Personally, I've already adapted. I moved my 2 null PVE alts to high sec, one is semi-afking SOE lvl 4 missions in an auto target missile raven(making 45-60 mil per hour after converting LP to probes and probe launchers, just like using an AFKTAR only way safer), the other runs incursions (I run missions while my incursion alt sits on an automated out of game waitlist, I even get a horn to blow when I get a fleet invite lol, so slick).

The most ironic thing is that I make more isk per hour doing that (even calculating waitlist time) than farming anoms in null sec. You can all bet that after June lots of other null PVE players are going to wake up to this fact as well, and it will be a repeat of the PVE exodus from null that happened after this brilliant change as well.

Where did the idea for 'fozziesov' originate?

What were some other SOV ecosystems that were considered?

CCP has said they plan to monitor and adjust the SOV mechanics to make sure it is meeting their goals. Have they thought about initially having the SOV favoring the defensive strength of active system to begin with, instead of favoring marauders/reavers?

It's called low sec, isn't it

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