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This may be a completely crazy idea, but what if any index-boosting activity in a system set a starting index for that person's alliance whether or not they owned the space? Then, if that alliance took the system, their starting index would be (some percentage of) what it would be if they had already owned the system? Maybe 50%, to keep it from being silly?

So you'd have to drive off neutral ratters and explorers and miners because they might be an advance force designed to make the system more secure after a flip. If you neglect the system then a new group can move in, use the system before capturing it, and get some reward for having lived in the system immediately.

Its calld provistan

Daily bump, could we have a answer for this critical issue ?

Thank you for clarifying just how much the new mechanics favour existing groups.
Eve sov - mini games designed for blob fleets.

A simple fix for newly conquered systems could be to apply a +2 or +3 index bonus (like the alliance capital bonus) for the first week. This would cut the window significantly, giving time to earn Strategic Level 1 plus carry out other activities like ratting and mining. Sov ping-pong due to huge vulnerability windows isn't a great thing, and only encourages stagnation in a drawn-out conflict.

With that in mind however, the Strategic Index should probably be reviewed. It currently builds at a linear rate and is little more than a metric of how long an alliance has held a system, it doesn't reflect any player activity beyond "not losing sov".

What if the rate this index accumulated was based on other factors, such as adjacent systems owned by the same alliance? That would put a little more pressure on invaders taking an initial beachhead, but make it easier to sustain an established invasion or re-take recently lost territory.

This new s-h-i-t is making me think too hard to be any fun. I think I'm gonna skip it and hope that something more interesting pops up in Eve in the near future.

Good luck

You're actually quoting a fantastically irrelevant real-life analogy commonly made here. The defenders of Afghanistan would not have held off a militarily superior invader that was willing to kill them all and destroy everything that they ever built. The US could do so, easily. We choose not to, for moral reasons. There are no such moral strictures in Eve.

It's not likely that you are going to create "terrain" in Eve that will hold off a completely amoral and determined superior force, regardless of how much imagination you apply.

Sorry but your wrong.
You can't sit in station and do anything with hostiles around.

Post June, you won't just be able to sit in station and manufacture things or buy anything off the market. See with Fozziesov, station services can be Turned OFF. Presuming of course "disabled" means what it says, once a station service has had an entosis link run on it, it no longer works until the owners run an entosis link on it. All manufacturing jobs would stop, all research jobs would pause, switching clones in station would not be allowed. Effectively, if you don't undock with hostiles outside - you can sit in your station for as long as you like and nothing will change, except you will lose your sov much faster.

Allowing groups to use things other than the normal avenues to raise indexes does in some small way help new groups wanting to take territory. The ease with which the large groups can defend even unoccupied sov is just another barrier for new groups wanting to stake their claim. Every detail of sov available to every player in eve via the API and 48 hours to respond - Devs aren't looking to change the balance of power in sov nul, just trying to provide the existing groups with content.
It is likely to work too, until new groups work out that is all the new sov mechanics are about and give up trying.

If you believe sov nul is in a good place, by all means make it as hard as possible for new groups to get established.
You don't really need to though, CCP have done an excellent job of that already.

PS; Read the blog, look at how vulnerability and invulnerability work. It is actually the opposite of what you seem to think. Nobody but the established entrenched groups will get 20 hours per day of invulnerability. Even unoccupied space held by the blobs will have better indexes, lower vulnerability and be easier to defend, than a new group entering the sov game trying to take their 1st system could hope for.
CCP's idea of balance at work

Go back and re-read the blog. Station services are vulnerable to DPS 23.5/7.

The vulnerability window is for entosis links, and even then, they're just windows in which something can be made vulnerable. The structure remains vulnerable until the attempt is successfully countered or the structure is flipped or destroyed. So in fact, with a sustained effort you can cripple a station's services before the vulnerability window, and as long as you get a toehold during that window and hold it, you can force a defense well beyond the end of the window.