Your idea is ******* awful.

We already know what needs to be fixed in null. Thanks for your terrible input though.

So if they got rid of jump bridges and cynos and titan bridges and everything was gate to gate would anyone really attack us? I mean really? Whos gonna attack us? And why would they? Somebody please invade us! But why would they? Why does anyone attack anyone? We attacked ncdot and took all their moons and space because they broke an agreement and the moons are good money and gave the space and a lot of moons to allies who it was an upgrade for.

If no one wants to invade or take our **** now why would they invade if they too along with us had to gate it everywhere?

Supers needs to get nerfed into Tier 2 Capitals in terms of price and ability. Thats it, there is no realistic alternative solution to supercap proliferation that doesnt involve a massive price hike in the form of either material cost or buildtime/accessability.

The problem with supers is the obsolesence of the idea that they are supposed to be so far above average.

Which is why I said price hikes is not the way to go. I'd prefer to see supers in the 5-10 bil range in regards to buildcost. with regular caps not far behind, Tackle and ewar immunity needs to go. Ehp needs to get knocked down to maybe 10 mil tops for titans to make stuff blow up more ofthen. Supercarrier vs Carrier DPS also needs an overhaul, if regular carriers could use Fighter bombers we'd see alot less supers out there relatively quickly.


Changes like this would make current supercap pilots pissed off though as their investment drops in value. Hell, Im in an alliance and corp that has invested conciderably into supers and we'd see alot of money flushed down the toilet if something like this is implemented. Does not make it any less necessary however.

Supers are a non-issue now.

General power projection for jump drives and titan bridges is still a big issue, but not the actual place of supers in the chain of combat escalation, which people in this thread still seem to be harping about 8-10 months too late.

The problem with nerfing power projection right now is that it is currently the only way people manage to get fights in a galaxy where there really is no reason to fight anyone else. Therefore, a power projection nerf needs to coincide with the addition of features that increase localized gameplay so people don't want to go halfway across the galaxy to drop on someone because they have their own close to home content.

First point is that NIPs are a good thing for content, not bad. NIPs allow you to engage your neighbors in low end conflict with less fear that it will lead to terrible structure bashing, so they actually increase content by allowing controlled conflict.

As to your main point, I will not disagree that it is a possibility. However, it could also not work that way, leaving an already content starved nullsec even hungrier. The point about needing power projection is that there are so few actual wars worth having that you need the range capability to find a good one. If you only have the ability to attack one region over, then you'll likely have a few hyperpowerful alliances with massive dead-zones in between them, as they can't project power to fight someone worthy, they just demolish anyone brave enough to situate beside them in a desperate need for any kind of group content.

Again, you very well could be right, but you also very well could be wrong. I think there are better ways to approaching the issue with much better odds of positive outcomes.

Absolutely. Welcome to the "holy **** it's time to properly update nullsec for the first time since the game was released" club.

20 minutes to get together a blob or two and at least 10 titans, if not more, for a supercarrier killmail?

Nice... I think Boat would be very agreeable to this.

nullsec has better PI than lowsec and highsec !

what if cynos only worked at the end of the 10 minute cycle?
Would that reduce capital?

Also what of my other suggestions?

I have an idea: let's just delete all the supercaps in the game. I've stated time and time again that I don't think the bridge mechanic is actually a problem, but honestly I could give two ***** less if the fleet battleship became the mainstay of all sov warfare.

Also reduce all structure HP by about 50% to compensate.

The supercap balancing act is just impossible.

Or, you just end up going to some place that has more belts or what ever it takes to get to get the activity rolling for the upgrades. Hint, xcbk-x is very close to several system with both ratting and mining upgrades. Those that want to chew on spod with the hope of getting another batch of ABC's already have places to do it. The biggest impediment to mining in null right now is that you can make just as much on highsec ores, and arguably more since the mining buff curtailed most of the ganking. Seriously, the biggest complaint from highsec miners is possibly gettign bumped by James315's friends, if you happen to be in a few parts of Caldari space.

Crappy systems are a reality in Eve. And most people realize that making every system totally awesome, or even upgraded to be totally awesome, would also have downsides. If sov was tied strictly to usage, you would see powerful alliances cherry pick the best systems, and just be glad to not have to pay sov bills on the others. Up and coming corps that want to pick up those "unused" systems are never going to really worry about some group like GSF dropping supers on them. They'll fail because they can only grab the crappy systems and the small-gang PvP'ers will make life miserable even without the hotdrops.

It is one thing to deal with roams and gankers and afk cloakers when you have a system with tech moons, good true-sec, crokite in the betls, plasma and storm planets, and overall easy to upgrade. It's another if the moons just pay for fuel cost, bad true-sec, few belts that are no better than highsec ores, few and lower bounty rats, and a bunch of gas and barren planets.