EVE General Discussion

It must be. It's made quite a bit of money.

Edit: Ive been trying to figure out just what the OP is complaining about. I think its:

"We showed up for a timer with a big fleet. But the enemy did not show, so our big fleet had nothing to do, and just sat in a POS while our interceptors flew about and did the capture task. Yes, we could fly around, following our interceptors, watching them do their job, but that is hardly content."

If the enemy does not show up, ANY sov system will be boring.

OP: You want a fight? Knock over someone's sov who really wants to keep it.

Eh...

So, big battles did in fact lead to big spikes. However, you can't really praise those spikes as being all that more healthy for the game than a massive sugar high is for a person - sure it feels great then, but it's not part of a healthy lifestyle. Lots of people sub, lots of people buy the game, plex goes down, everyone's happy....but it's not a lasting thing. A large portion of the people who sub after, say Asakai or BR, end up quitting when they realize just how distant what they play is from what they saw, or how disconnected the average play session is from hype and excitement felt by the people in those fights.

In defence of FozzieSov, it has the potential to be closer to what it is advertised; people could actually get involved in the span of a few months - it could actually slowly add on subs rather than just getting a bunch of people disillusioned. What it needs more than anything is a way to have and incorporate those punctuated moments where history is made to actually hook people, rather than just day-to-day defence. I completely see where the epic feel is gone from New Eden - reduced to world of interceptors where everything feels terribly episodic and static rather than a flowing narrative of cause and effect.

With every batch of players that come in, some stay. However small that percentage is, it is better than nothing.
You think Fozzie SOV will result in a slow gain. I think with time it will have the opposite result.

Better than the stagnation that defined the previous sov system.

Admittedly I think fozziesov was not the best option on the table; a better choice would have been to drop sov entirely.

With player numbers and revenue in decline, CCP has to roll the dice now. Maybe they get it right. Maybe not. Time will tell. So far, fozziesov looks pretty interesting to me and has generated content (and fun) for me and mine.

I didn't make any predictions there, nor did I directly compliment nor disparage FozzeSov; plenty of threads already cover this in depth, back to the surface, and in depth again. I'm just pointing out that one shouldn't expect the same sorts of growth patterns. I.E. there was no spike, therefore failure, is not the best most thought out analysis.

If you want to toss around words like failed, you need to demonstrate it. Personally, I'd wager that the average newer player in Karmafleet, Pandemic Horde, et al., has a much higher retention rate than people who saw Asakai on YouTube and burnt themselves out on L4s. Rather, its harder to get people interested in one of those corps, or any other corporation, if they weren't already interested in the game itself; Asakai level events get a lot of people interested in the game.

I have yet to find a way to get a mega up to the speeds to catch one.

Whack a mole is fun once or twice then you move on. Usually its little kids that play whack a mole and they age out of it. The game makes money because there are always more little kids being born. CCP on the other hand has to attract players for long term to be successful. Making folk engage in an endless game of whack a mole is not likely to engender long term success, as it is just not that interesting or entertaining; after all, whether you win or lose - what have you done of merit? maybe killed an inty? as for sov, the cycle is just going to repeat itself ad nausem.

Maybe don't chase it, and snipe it? Not a lot of transversal at >100km as the troll-ceptor tries to leave grid.

The Rokh is made for sniping.

How'd the capture event get generated in the first place? Why not just kill the Interceptor when it attempts to reinforce the TCU, IHub or Outpost in the first place, rather than wait for the command node spawn even to happen? Undock a Stabber or RLML Caracal, blap the Inty, go back to whatever else you were going. Just a few seconds worth of work.

i htink its way too soon to tell what fozzie sov will actually do.

With the above said, ccp is suppose to be able to make tweeks to it quicker and easier, so if they make tweeks it might get better...

With THAT above said... CCP tends to not make tweeks