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On July 14 we are going to see the first culmination of the sovereignty changes aka "Summer of Sov". Traditional sov warfare as we know it will be replaced by a new system as outlined in previous blogs.

With the new system approaching fast, we would like to inform everyone about the transition from the old to the new system and how the new sov system is going to be deployed.

Check out CCP Fozzie's latest blog Summer of Sov - Transition and Deployment for the all the details and information!

Please note that two more sov related blogs will get published in the near future.

Grammar police! Leave out a word there? "We HAVE two more"

How under these new mechanics will you transfer sov between alliances?

For this release you'll have to capture it normally. We are investigating some options for formal sov transfer mechanics in the future.

would not the more appropriate step be rather than things magically exploding in space they get delivered to the owning corporations hq office deliveries. You are inherently forcing us to take time + adding risk into the equation for game mechanics changes.

It seems a bit punative.

additionally CCP are the ones changing the game mechanics why should we the players have to move our SBUS to empire in order to sell them back? This should be like the planteary command center changes where the amount was automatically deposited in our wallets.

Additionally the conversion is unequal 1 sbu is inherently more expensive material wise and isk wise than a tcu. Either do upconversion or forced buyback where the amount is the market cost of the materials which make up the product.

do ihubs/tcus block pocos, and vice versa?

Why is there no reimbursement of all the TCU/s and IHUBS? It seems simple enough to cause the script to deposit ISK or the TCUs and IHUBS into a station?

It wasn't an uncommon practice to have peace and wartime hubs afterall.

After the phase out, the plan is for researched SBU blueprints will become TCU blueprints while preserving their research level.


This was chosen to keep the deployment day as simple and smooth as possible, avoiding potential issues that could come from moving the TCUs. Due to the ability to use entosis links at very long range, and the fact that TCUs are much less important than IHubs mechanically, we decided that allowing grandfathered TCU locations would not be too overpowered.


Yes, IHubs are now globally viewable and warpable in the new system.


This is an area where we will be watching closely to see how the gameplay emerges. If such sniping becomes oppressive we have some plans in place to hopefully solve such problems. Your suggestion has a lot of merit, and has parallels with some of the prototypes we're working on for new structures that might be migrated to Sov structures.


We'll be doing what we can to ease the transition period for old structures. At the very least you can expect buy orders in NPC nullsec as well as empire space. We are also definitely open to modifying the final conversion plan, as there's still plenty of time.


This change was actually in the first dev blog about the new system, which stated that;



If the TCU or IHub finds that its first choice of deployment location is blocked, it will automatically move over one grid and try again until it finds an appropriate location. So a POCO in the right spot can force a TCU or IHub to deploy farther away but it can't block deployment.
POCOs will simply need to be anchored in a location that doesn't overlap with existing structures.


The large isk injection is something we would like to avoid at this time, and history has proven that reimbursing ISK for player-manufacturable items is extremely dangerous.

Ok, but by defining it as large you can see how problematic that is to be deleting 100's of billions in assets around the galaxy with no compensation or refund. If ISK is a problem why not just place the assets (including the upgrades inside) inside the headquarters of the owning corp, or the nearest lowsec system, or any other place accessable. Even Jita if you like.

I know just us it is 10s of billions easily. There should never be a time CCP is deleting large amounts of player assets with no compensation. That is way too far inside the sandbox. I hope you agree on that point.

If you are looking to transfer sov or sell it... Do it now