Originally by: WildHope

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PvP - certainly in terms of ships Vs ships, has been quietly dying for quite a long time. For sure, the game has certainly moved on from the days where CA & SA were the only properly organised mass forces outside empire. Evolution were the first to equal this achievement on a corp scale, and over time this level of co-ordination has been replicated by most groups in-game. And for this the eve population deserves credit.

Unfortuately (in my opinion), as Eve has developed (regressed?), ship PvP has been overridden by PvE, first in the form of agent missions in Empire (which held back the growth of 0.0 for a long time), and now PvE where umpteen players shoot for hours to destroy a POS, whilst one player can set one up in a quarter of the time. Some of you may argue that this is still PvP, merely more 'subtle' in style. Maybe you have a point, maybe I am too much of a purist, longing for the Napoleonic era of Eve where two forces would line up to oppose each other across a battlefield, guns blazing and 'Charge of the Light Brigade'-esk glory.

Perhaps my style of fighting is as archaic as mounted cavalry, we have now put the days of blob wars behind us, but I would honestly take a blob war over POS wars any day. I'm sure anyone (Bob, Five, RED, Stain(s) etc) would admit in their heart of hearts that 0.0 in Eve was far more fun a year ago than it is now, let alone in the truely old days

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Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And this can be solved and must be asap

nr.1: the upcoming defence upgrades might go along way to bring fighting to the lvl it once was, when ships lasted, primarys did not travel 20-40 jumps with equipment that took a week to gathter and get blown up in 4 secs...

nr.2 Dump the conquerable stations out of the game in their entirity
replace them with npc stations and add npc stations to all that space that currently holds no value all over 0.0 cause everybody needs stations and nobody will stay or inhabit space that doesnt have stations around

This will enable ppl to place poses if they want to yes, and do whatever they wish with them and or attack them, but wont affect pvp in such a way that rivals are fighting by placing poses up and getting some sovereignity 24/7, instead it would be more focused on presence of corps, fleets, gangs etc...

this will also enable ppl to place outposts if they like or can depending on how strong a group they are and how strong a group their enemy is, again dependant on presence of said entities

i.e.. in short, dump this whole player corp sovereignity crap asap, so that ppl stop thinking about stations and sovereignity and poses and get back to good old fighting each other with all they got, which quality will be dependant on issue nr.1