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Yes, we are. Now try think of all the ways that we do that aren't mining or ratting.
Give you a hint to start you off; there are other infrastructure hub upgrades.

Yes, it's very obvious that a larger entity with supers can evict a smaller one. Aegis Sov wasn't meant to alter that. The question is whether you'll be able to handle, mentally, the challenges to your unoccupied areas (see the earlier post by Emma Kado on CORVOS's tactics.) If you enjoy the process of capturing command nodes and can avoid getting burned out from it, more power to ya! o7

So. I saw two of the most frequent opinions: 1) you crying about your rent/RMT empire 2) you doing it wrong, adapt.

Well, let's see in facts.

Fact #1. Only one who can say "they doing RMT". This is CCP. If it says someone else, it's just unsubstantiated allegations. As coCEO I spend for my alliance 200$ per month for characters, hosting, licences and other stuff. I have good job and I don't need RMT.

Fact #2. In last half of year we gave 45% of space for friends, allies and small alliances who wants to try themself as sov-nullsec players. Space for free. For free, Carl! And process continues. Year ago all this space was under rent. When I read that the petition is aimed for preservation rent empire I laugh (like Philip Philipovich in novel "Heart of a Dog"). This is absolutly wrong. Fozziesov just boring and exhausting mechanics - that a point.

About adaptation. We (I mean GemiCo first) had two weeks of new Sov War. I wrote full and detailed report about one of them on Russian forum few days ago. Translation can be found here. We prepared doctrine, plan and changed fleet behaviour. What we got? Hours of rat race. In summary of two weeks we spent 22 hours, got 3 fights hit-a-run rat races. I was coordinator and for myself I got at least 15 of files with information about nodes, patrols and etc (like this). Eve always been a game of routine. But now amount of routine is max that I ever seen in last 7.5 years of my game in Eve. Fortunately I'm a programmer and I can try to help myself. Me and another guy from XIX made prototype in 2 days. Idk, why CCP didn't same thing. Maybe they just lazy. They happy cos their players not lazy.

Conclusion

We are not against Fozziesov at all. New mechanics can be enteresting. Really. Small groups, coordination, all pilots must be much more clever and etc. All it is good. But mechanics have too much bad parts right now. They must be fixed.

You guy is stuck in young age and can't into text.

Goonswarm Federation: 103 systems, ~14k members. Very few systems being sovlazored. Fozzie sov is okay.

Legion of xXDEATHXx: 96 systems, ~1.7k members. OMG IT'S ALL ON FIRE FOZZIESOV SUX!!!1!1!!1!one

Shadow of xXDEATHXx: 253 systems, ~2k members. OMG FOZZIESOV SUX!!! CCP CHANGE IT!!!!1!!1!!!!111!one

I'm beginning to see a pattern here.

only thing i see here is russians crying that everything is on fire and they cant run their RMT empire anymore, because they dont have enough people to properly hold the sov they have, hell as much as i hate cfc they actually make smart decisions, such as downsizing their sov count to properly accomidate their entire memberbase

So the answer is we should recruit everyone with a pulse and carebear till then end of eve.

Why fight when you can shoot rats and rocks all day?

Are targets going to be belt-ratting in unoccupied systems? At least there is something to engage in sov, and the owning alliance gets a mail to say 'turn up for fight'.

If the launcher explains that there are 20-40k players online any given time, and picturing that people log in / out every minute, it makes more sense for people online for more than an hour to own more systems than 1:100players, so they can co-ordinate fights.

Log-in, sit in system, wait for ratter. On the other side of the coin is 'log-in, wait to defend'. This is the reason interceptor entosis is not enjoyable, there is no fight, it's literally 'turn up here to see an interceptor'. The aggressing alliance should already have enough sov for their 1:100 pilot ratio, 14k pilots gives 140 systems? 828 empty systems? What about hi-sec/low-sec/wh players?

Null-sec sov holders want to own more sov than they can manage to have an abundance of possible fights.

600bil isk is 50 years of subscription if you aren't losing ships. Last I saw CCP had an e-mail address for plex purchases over 300.

I don't care if you halve capital ship DPS and tank, give them a damn role already.

1. Reduce number of nodes to 5.

2. Leave entosis fitting requirements alone but reduce the time required to complete one-sided events (e.g. no defence or no offence). Maybe #1 is adequate for this but if not they should degrade over time.

3. Reduce the effect of the Sovereignty index - it should be less tedious to take space that is held but not used.

4. There should also be some sort of depletion mechanic to encourage resource competition. Moons? Or convert R32 and below to depleting mining sigs.