ps i've shot like ten structures ever and i hate it already

how do you people do this on a regular basis

yeah..but suddenly it became really really really boring, that the most awesome war was slipped away.

A related issue, which some have touched on, is the ease of power projection. It is impossible to contest any part of the HBC or CFC without having to fight the entirety of said coalition at once. There is no attacking some system in the far north without having to consider the fact that in the far south, everyone can be there within a few minutes.

Remember, crossing the entirety of the map from one extreme to the other is trivial if you have the cynos and fuel already staged and even setting those up is easy.

Okay let me put it simply why your idea is dumb, nerfing power projection will hurt these big coalitions you hate the least and the small fledgeling alliances trying to take space the most. We have the resources to make up for the nerfs, we have the people to make up for any other nerfs, we can cut our holding corps/alliances into smaller alliances to make up for any stupid tax. Those small alliances have none of the above and will struggle more to defend their space.

All nerfing power projection will do is make nullsec less fun to play in. Making something arduous and unfun is one of the contributing reasons to an HBC+CFC war being averted. Your idea is dumb and bad, try again, this time with something relevant to sov warfare.

Okay let me put it simply why your idea is dumb, nerfing power projection will hurt these big coalitions you hate the least and the small fledgeling alliances trying to take space the most. We have the resources to make up for the nerfs, we have the people to make up for any other nerfs, we can cut our holding corps/alliances into smaller alliances to make up for any stupid tax. Those small alliances have none of the above and will struggle more to defend their space.

All nerfing power projection will do is make nullsec less fun to play in. Making something arduous and unfun is one of the contributing reasons to an HBC+CFC war being averted. Your idea is dumb and bad, try again, this time with something relevant to sov warfare.

Okay let me put it simply why your idea is dumb, nerfing power projection will hurt these big coalitions you hate the least and the small fledgeling alliances trying to take space the most. We have the resources to make up for the nerfs, we have the people to make up for any other nerfs, we can cut our holding corps/alliances into smaller alliances to make up for any stupid tax. Those small alliances have none of the above and will struggle more to defend their space.

You do what's known as the Ninja AFK.

You simply take the risk of getting your ship popped and podded whilst you do ironing / exercise / cook your breakfast / shower / get 40 winks (with your headphones on, of course).

You'll be surprised how often you get away with it.

The force with the greater numbers will still have the numerical advantage, but the home team will have the shortest distance to send their reinforcements.

The home team already has an amazing advantage. Short formups, fast reships/reinforces and if you prepack the system with a capfleet and cynojam it, you pretty much just pressed the "I win" button. Sure a determined enemy can get past it, but they are going to pay for it in a lot of dead spaceships.

The thing that you don't understand is that 95% of the coalitions kicked out of space in Eve were killed through demoralization tactics. Not killing spaceships.

Psychological warfare is the best type of warfare.

Currently a small alliance when attacking a close neighbor has to worry about every blue they have no matter where they happen to be on the map. How could that be any worse if power projection was nerfed?

Guess what the small alliance's friends have a much harder time than the large alliance because they have less resources with which to cope with the power projection nerf. Power project would let said small alliance get friends from farther away.

But what if they don't want to have any friends, for example they are a ~solo player~

As demonstrated by the averted war between the CFC and the HBC, two coalitions who have been itching to shoot at each other for months, sov mechanics need to be fixed. We want battles, exploding ships, and goodfights, but these are becoming increasingly rare as more people get tired of the current sov mechanics.

Kill the blue donut napfest.

Watch battles break out.

Just saying.

Guess what the small alliance's friends have a much harder time than the large alliance because they have less resources with which to cope with the power projection nerf. Power project would let said small alliance get friends from farther away.

Look how weak and transparent your argument is.

Enough with pretending like you care about the little guy. You don't. What you do care about is saying anything you possibly can to keep power projection exactly the way it is.

Anyways, enjoy the current sov system. You made it this way.

Marlona Sky once again ignoring the fact that defense has nothing to do with power projection seeing as you have a space of usually about a day in which to move ships, in other words more than enough time to move any kind of ship capital or otherwise across the map with any reasonable nerf.

let's take a look at a "time bottleneck" which, i assume means adding some kind of delay between each jump a capital ship makes?

let's assume a 6 hour cooldown for the sake of having a cooldown.
well the large entities can send say, 5 caps to do something, the small entity sends 5 caps to counter it. now for the next 6 hours the large entity can move their other 95 caps around with impuny as all of the small entity's ships are on "cooldown".

this just means that large entities waste a few cap ships to distract the small entity, then for the next 6 hours are able to steamroll them as the small entity ends up having to defend itself from cap ships, without cap ship support.

remind me how this benefits small entities?

I think moving a coalitions entire fleet to one pocket of space to fight off a small alliance carving out a section of space for themselves would be a grave mistake. Leaving borders unprotected? Territory unchecked? That would be asking for everyone to take kidney shots at you if your guard was down focusing entirely on one thing.

Remember, you would not be able to zip back and forth all over the map in minutes.

Look how weak and transparent your argument is.

Enough with pretending like you care about the little guy. You don't. What you do care about is saying anything you possibly can to nerf power projection in what you think will hurt the large alliances, even if it hurts the small alliances more.

And what about the space those 95 caps came from? Who is guarding that while they are gone?

*snip*

failing that, if people are unwilling to deploy cap ships for fear of leaving their home undefended then nobody will attack each other for fear of being invaded and lead to a more obscene and risk averse 0.0 which is a situation nobody wants.

the other 100 cap ships the large entity has. they are a large entity, they have more ships and people and stuff.

or if you don't buy that, then leave 50 of the 95 ships at home and just buttfuck the small entity with 45 cap ships. surely 45 is enough to wipe out a group of players that can only field 5 caps, right?