Why not remove sovereignty completely and also remove standings. ? (not NPC standings)

Would EVE not be much better if your overview could only sort wartargets, neutrals and corp/ally? Perhaps even no corp/ally tickers in overview.?

As goes for sovereignty. An alliance should still be able to anchor bridges and jammes as long as they had the only posses anchored in a system. But there would be no signs of what alliance owned a system making the borders harder to make out.
If an alliance wanted a sign/flag of them owning space they can anchor cans at the gates warning people off.

The result would be more chaos, "blues" shooting "blues", grudges beeing born and wars starting.

What do you think?

Why not remove sovereignty completely and also remove standings. ? (not NPC standings)

Would EVE not be much better if your overview could only sort wartargets, neutrals and corp/ally? Perhaps even no corp/ally tickers in overview.?

As goes for sovereignty. An alliance should still be able to anchor bridges and jammes as long as they had the only posses anchored in a system. But there would be no signs of what alliance owned a system making the borders harder to make out.
If an alliance wanted a sign/flag of them owning space they can anchor cans at the gates warning people off.

The result would be more chaos, "blues" shooting "blues", grudges beeing born and wars starting.

What do you think?

For all the criticism the OP is taking, EVE did actually "work" completely for quite some time and it didnt stop alliances from having fun at the time. Even without moons.

What do you think?

How much chaos and havoc would ensue if SOV was eliminated and anyone was allowed to anchor or attack any structure in any system at any time?

An opposing alliance member makes it into your home system and anchors a cyno jammer or jump bridge or anchores a POS or station in your backyard.

Sov and standing aren't the problem. The core of the problem is the structure grind and indirectly the weird distribution of resource moons.

Would EVE not be much better if your overview could only sort wartargets, neutrals and corp/ally? Perhaps even no corp/ally tickers in overview.?

Why not remove sovereignty completely and also remove standings. ? (not NPC standings)

Would EVE not be much better if your overview could only sort wartargets, neutrals and corp/ally? Perhaps even no corp/ally tickers in overview.?

As goes for sovereignty. An alliance should still be able to anchor bridges and jammes as long as they had the only posses anchored in a system. But there would be no signs of what alliance owned a system making the borders harder to make out.
If an alliance wanted a sign/flag of them owning space they can anchor cans at the gates warning people off.

The result would be more chaos, "blues" shooting "blues", grudges beeing born and wars starting.

What do you think?

Why not remove sovereignty completely and also remove standings. ? (not NPC standings)

Would EVE not be much better if your overview could only sort wartargets, neutrals and corp/ally? Perhaps even no corp/ally tickers in overview.?

As goes for sovereignty. An alliance should still be able to anchor bridges and jammes as long as they had the only posses anchored in a system. But there would be no signs of what alliance owned a system making the borders harder to make out.
If an alliance wanted a sign/flag of them owning space they can anchor cans at the gates warning people off.

The result would be more chaos, "blues" shooting "blues", grudges beeing born and wars starting.

What do you think?

People would keep long lists in Excel/Google Docs of friendly pilots/corps, updated daily, which you have to check each time you see someone in local

sounds fun

You might call that "target discrimination". It's one of the things that separates competent militaries from incompetent ones. It's one of the things that makes policing so hard. It's one of the things that make communication tools such a vital component of modern life, from ATM machines to guided missiles to little drawings of lions or tigers or bears on your favorite sports teams' jerseys. You know; you could always just ask the target and gauge whether he was hostile based on his response. (No, not just his written or verbal response, his OVERALL response.) I guess you couldn't shoot first and ask questions second, then, though.

I wouldn't say introducing the need to learn to do this "target discriminating" is "dumbing down" the game.

certainly makes for a ****** afternoon

you know just because something is necessary in real life does not make it good gameplay in makebelieve

and taking away a functional tool just to make people's gameplay require they have a ****** time doing it the hard way doesn't stop them having blues and doesn't make for entertaining gameplay

I can understand how having to deal with such tedium (We might call it "metagaming".) on a regular basis would be a pain in the a** for you.

But, can you understand my perspective? People like myself, who think such things are actually entertaining and who can maybe do them a little more efficiently than you, have our real-world advantage virtually erased by algorithms and resources dedicated to doing just that, making you and me equal. To me, it's like playing a first-person shooter with a perfect auto-aiming function or playing a chess program that never lets me make a bad move.

An interesting question about this game and generally any game is: Which traits/abilities/capacities does it reward and which does it negate or even punish?

BTW, a simple solution to the discrimination problem would be:

[18:11:32]Player_1 > flash
[18:11:45]Player_2 > thunder

Remember that from "Saving Private Ryan" or "Band Of Brothers"?

Now tell everyone just how many people were in null when it was "working" then.

So you are saying null has grown by choice and thus is being healthy?

Personally I say standings set should assume an unless fail > pass.
So in otherwords you have to set bad standings to anyone you dont want in rather than setting standing for those you want.
Then at least we could complain of the reddening of hisec and how horrid it is that all those soon to be itty vs and orcas going into your nullsec and using all the stuff will be.