Kazuma Saruwatari
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Posted - 2009.07.04 19:14:00 -
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I'm sorry but...
 Originally by: Trent Nichols
Outposts will act as small colonies or seed colonies for the planets they orbit.
That just sounds like a cop-out to shifting the fire from the POS to the Outpost instead. Even with OP weaponry to deal with BS-level podpilot targets, what decides how this'll affect how people deploy capitals to siege an alliance? All they have to do is basically tank the OP-ed outpost (unless its SO OP that it oneshots capitals, then you'll just get massive whinage) and blast it apart, causing the colonies to pack up and leave en-masse.
You also did not account for the server load of NPC generation in 0.0. Most of what you're suggesting requires more work from TQ to generate the targettable NPC's of the alliance taking care of the space to be protected from rats and actual enemy podpilots.
Coupled with this, how do these NPC's call for help when no one's on? It doesnt help when on off-peak another alliance can field numbers to attack these NPC's in 50man groups when the tending alliance only has 20-30 members on. You forget that not everyone plays in the same timezone as you on EVE. This just sounds like a massive nerf to the defending alliance, who MUST have the numbers to protect their slice of 0.0 from small 5-10man groups to 50-100man ganktrains. Whilst this will be a true test for larger alliances, smaller ones will just fade back into empire, unable to keep up the guard duty.
You also did not specify even rough mechanics for colonies on planets. Considering EVE, you could technically have colonies on all the planets in a system regardless of terraform viability. Ever heard of dome/underground cities? Another copout would just be looking for a system with the most amount of planets and roid belts to support them and sacrificing the sec status in that for sov.
Colony management sounds like more skills and thus SP sinkage. More alts?
just my 0.02isk. Sorry for being rough, but considering how Sov works ingame (and how bloody broken/boring it can be), if someone is going to suggest a better sov system, I'd rather they have a bloody good idea and cover all the bases so as not to get shot down.
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