Everyone wants sov to be revamped, but no one has a good idea how.

Some have ideas but they would be highly impopular with the current dominating alliances.

Null sec needs to be a lively mosaic of smaller blocs warring each other with less juggernaut fleets else it'll forever be an out of scale engagement where power projection makes distances too small, structures need zillions of hit points to withstand gargantuan fleets, servers can't keep up with the ever growing blob sizes.

Not really

Instead of complaining about it, why not offer solutions that could actually work? CCP is just a stumped about it as you guys and are looking for a proper way to do it.

never sov overhaul

Easy way to fix the Sov situation in 0.0 is to have the systems slowly start to increase in security rating as long as they are claimed by the same alliance. .

Have you even been to null?

Yes.

But not on terms you would understand.

Hint: the gates and wormholes work even if you are not in an alliance.

Don't presume to know what I would and wouldn't understand.

Don't presume to know where I have been, or have not, and where I'm going.

Deal?

I can though, because it's pretty clear that you have almost no experience with nullsec.

I say almost because I just looked at your killboard and... lol.

At which point he began bankrolling Harry Forever's misadventures. Well, that and Harry's scamming the already beleaguered victims of the Goons.

I judge a man by the company he keeps. And the first time I ever heard of Herzog is when he was hand in hand with Harry, arguably the biggest idiot and biggest jackass in the last few years of the forums.

Why is anyone surprised by this announcement?
What did you truly expect?
What did you really want?

CCP has built a construct that benefits a tiny amount of players at the top, who enjoy vast income streams, while these same players at the top assure CCP that they will provide subs as the blue blanket grows.

It is a very nice symbiotic relationship, one that benefits both parties quite richly.

So why on earth would you expect CCP to rock the steady gravy train by creating a new null sec environment that might appeal to more people in the long run, while risking a substantial short term drop in subs if the existing null sec construct was dismantled. Business these days, at least in North America, is all about immediate profits, not profits 5 years from now. No CEO thinks "you know, if I do this action, my stock options will take a hit tomorrow, but 5 years from now, long after I have been fired by the board of directors for giving them a loss this past quarter, the company will flourish".

No, it all about immediate gain. And given the vast amount of money we are talking about, the cartel leaders will do their utmost to shut down any dev who as the temerity to threaten these income streams with changes to the null sec construct. Eve, for a certain group of players, evolved past "just a game" a long time ago. And that group will do everything to maintain the status quo, or even enhance their position, like they just did with high sec PoCo's.

So, Dinsdale, how do you reconcile that assertion you just made with the fact that the people most loudly pushing for a change in sov are the Goons themselves?

Or do you just ignore that minor inconvenience?

I can though, because it's pretty clear that you have almost no experience with nullsec.

I say almost because I just looked at your killboard and... lol.

At which point he began bankrolling Harry Forever's misadventures. Well, that and Harry's scamming the already beleaguered victims of the Goons.

I judge a man by the company he keeps. And the first time I ever heard of Herzog is when he was hand in hand with Harry, arguably the biggest idiot and biggest jackass in the last few years of the forums.

Harry's only problem is that's he's a little obsessed with goons - and joining in on a T3 KM already peeled by the very goons he was hunting was a bit much. The entertainment was worth the trouble.

But any endeavor to get people out of highsec in an independent manner I am for, no matter who it comes from. I'm sorry you are too tied up in a kind of statist mentality to grasp this. Free thinkers must really bother you. They do it because they can.

And that's why suggesting people should just go out and roam null and do whatever they hell they want garners almost as much hate as popping highsec Sansha motherships within the hour they appear.

Exploration is my main nullsec activity, and that means using intel so I achieve my goal without padding someone else's killboards. You see, not everybody just blobs and engages in stupid ship loss. I care as much for your precious killboard as much as I care for ISK (not much really). I don't have enough Ritalin in my system to obsess over "stats". I enjoy solo exploration and since I am not going to out-tank and out-DPS a 10 to 1 bubble camp I... avoid them.

Since you don't see a lot of losses on my board, you can tell I am pretty good at getting past people who would kill me. Unfortunately the whole concept of the stats is by and for the aspergers crowd who just gotta alpha it over everybody else so my playstyle is not tracked by any means.


So you can continue to cling to red and green and all that and I'm going to be using the new exploration ships in the near future. Maybe you'll see me in local and you'll probably bring some friends and outnumber me, and I'll be cloaked because my goal is to get loot and not engage any hostiles. I'm very good at that. And I am thankful that CCP gives us such a sandbox that I don't have to play the game like this was Modern Warfare. But best of all, I don't have to play it like you.

No, not really. You just lost any respect I might have had for you by throwing your lot with the biggest idiot I have ever encountered. I literally have more respect for the people I scam than Harry Forever.


If people say they're striking a blow for freedom by doing relic sites in Deklein, or killing cyno alts, whatever. To me that's just self important fluffing.

I don't give a rat's ass about efficiency or whether you've lost anything stupidly. My point was that you didn't seem to be doing much of anything.

Um... you show your sense of self importance by thinking your respect matters, then attempt to call out self importance.


Maybe you are a little tired. I understand.