Astria Tiphareth
Caldari
24th Imperial Crusade
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Posted - 2009.08.19 15:11:00 -
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Edited by: Astria Tiphareth on 19/08/2009 15:12:37
I really like where this idea is going. I think a lot of nuts'n'bolts details would change over time until the system actually worked well, and it'd take a lot of testing, but it seems vastly superior to the gate concept that was mooted a while ago.
How precisely the NPCs work, how precisely the charges scale, these really are details. The core principles of system ownership and how it expands seems far more rooted in actually owning and using space, which is how it should be (interesting that CCP have mentioned planetary ownership for systems for future plans). In addition, it breaks up existing strangeholds over space that is mostly just empty unused space used for holding POSes for sovereignty.
Sovereignty should be as natural as possible, rather than arbitrary mechanics that you end up playing the game just to do. You should own space by owning space, by being there, by doing things there, not how many stations you plonked down, or how many gates you orbited for hours. We should play the game, rather than the game play us.
I agree with Cailais about existing outposts; I'm not convinced they are the right choice for this mechanic. You'd be better off having a custom new approach that really suits what you're trying to do, which can be tailored to scale to allow multiple types of combat and numerous goals. 'Death by a thousand cuts' does indeed seem an appropriate metaphor. In particular I like Cailais' suggestion that there should be multiple routes to sov levels, which allow you to bring different approaches in play to the game, and different approaches in trying to interdict that. Variety is important; ideally every activity that you do in 0.0 should contribute to sov in some way.
In addition, by picking some new approach (e.g. orbital stations at planets, to pick something topical), you have complete flexibility in determining their lifetime, how they are controlled and so on.
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