The thing that worries me here is that the Navy wouldn't be a big deterrent for a prepared fleet of ships. They just pop it, or rotate tackle, while the target dies. Something like this could hurt the time honored tradition of Solo PvP, something I hold near and dear to my heart.

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I really like the idea. I am a child of Microsofts Freelancer and I liked the immersion of being a part of a much greater thing. I dont believe in the idea, that only players can be the foundation of lore, you need a foundation to start your story. NPC interactions can bring the foundation to a great story! Because it is a sandbox, escorting an NPC freighter and then being attacked by players could be real fun for instance. Loki Feith's idea is not only a nonsence-content, it adds an other way of playing the game and having fun. PvP will not be excluded, it will add another connection between PvE- and PvP-Players.

You can read the OPs post it is too long to repost here.

Superb +1

All ideas have pros and cons which can be balanced but I choose not to attempt that in a thread of concepts, that is for the developers to worry about should they choose to implement anything into their game. I only wish to put the ideas out there to community and hopefully get a few devs thinking about making eve a more interesting and interactive galaxy to live in for all playstyles.

Ps there are no small non affiliated sov entities and sov nullsec is already a farmers paradise, my attempt at ideas for nullsec are merely to give sov entities more ways to spend their isk on meaningful upgrades while giving the empire builders among them more ways to make their sov feel like an empire.

edit : the more i think about it the more I feel Eve sov could also work more like some of the rts games where there could be multiple ways of disrupting your opponents instead of structure grind, pvp missions could be set up as a conflict driver

Contradictions.

I'm sorry, you seem to be confused, this isnt a thread about sov or logistics, its about PvE and how ideas could be brought into Eve to make it more interesting but while we're here lets talk about this so called 'logistical' nightmare, for a start why on earth would you WANT to move ore from nullsec when you can just mine in shallow wh's? also, there are such things as jumpfreighters.

SOV have no problems with logistics, they have problems with idiots who don't pay attention to intel channels and don't use scouts, its a bit like people who comment on threads without reading them through properly I suppose.

Also, I bump every time the thread gets a like, as some people do not leave comments.

-Dealing of mineral rights to NPC corporations from SOV holding alliances.

- Sovereignty outposts able to hire and support NPC Agents tied into SOV upgrade costs. (Missions against local rat type, alliance/corporation owned Loyalty point stores?)

Im sorry you seem confused about what you, yourself are speaking about, so I'll help out....

I can only assume from how bad your ideas are and that you dont remember mentioning SOV twice in your original post that you must have been asleep when you made this piece of garbage post.