No it's called upgrading Eves code. To be able to handle the stress. Devs have said as much so in the past. No it's never going to happen. No eve isn't dead or dying, BUT it is on life support.

Negative effects could be things like smaller targeting range, scan resolution, sensor strength, agility and speed.

My suggestion would be to add a new mechanic to ship interaction called interference.

So, a giant buff to Blasters and ECM in Sov fights. Neat.

So, a giant buff to Blasters and ECM in Sov fights. Neat.

And here you expose the problem with the "omg, I have a brilliant idea no one has ever thought of before" crowd. The don't even look for the downsides , even though it take other people all of 5 seconds to look at the idea and find the obvious weakness.

This is also why studies show that just reading the features and ideas forum for 5 minutes kills 1 million brain cells (look it up, it's scientific fact!) lol.

+1

Prepare to for thread to be flooded with blobbers telling us how terrible this is.

Let me list some of the "anti-blob" proposals that have been proposed over the years and the problems with them.


Idea: Damage has stacking penalties attached to it. The more people that focus fire on a single target, the more the damage from each person is limited.
Problem: Fleets will start setting up "damage chains" akin to what they do with remote repairs... but with low-dps weapons (or even high-dps weapons, just stack the ships' resistances more to neutralize the damage profile) . With enough people you will be able to mitigate a lot of incoming damage... which make high EHP ships like capitals and supercapitals nigh invulnerable because they require a ridiculous amount of damage to take down in any reasonable amount of time.


Idea: Remote repairs has stacking penalties attached to it. This prevents people from creating "repair balls" that only alpha-strikes can punch through.
Problem: This would merely push fleet tactics more towards "bring the most people" rather than "having a better plan."


Idea: Restrict the number of people in a system to something more manageable.
Problem: One group can pile all their forces into one or two systems and virtually deny all access to any opposing forces.


Idea: When massive fleets enter the same grid the server will "split them up" and create various instances for different sections of the fleets to slug it out on. As the numbers dwindle, the different instances will be recombined on to the same grid.
Problem: Besides the technical feasibility of this... fleets are rarely uniform and often rely on different hyperspecialized groups for support and effectiveness. You could have a situation where a group of logis will be stuck against battleships and/or cruisers pitted against supercarriers. Or worse... two fleets that are allied with one another get stuck in the same instance (because computers can't distinguish player intent) and can't be returned to the original grid (with all the hostiles) without killing their own forces.


Idea: (similar to yours OP) When enough ships enter the same grid then all ships will begin to take small amounts of damage (to hasten the battle).
Problem: Still favors the group that brought the most people and/or less remote repairs... also favors bringing in more massive, tanky ships.


Idea: Bring back the old Titan Area of Effect doomsday weapon the clear out blobs!
Problem: There are a lot more Titans than there used to be and multiple Titans can be brought on-grid to wipe out anything that isn't tanky enough (see: any and all sub-capitals).

EVE it's an open world sandbox, if you enforce directly or indirectly numbers cap then people will havee to exclude others to maximize the efficiency.

Over the years CCP tried to implement anti-blob weapons and mechanics, but they always faild simply becuase the "need" to blob to achive an objective was not changed.

If you want to scale down the blobbing you have to scale down and split the goals so that to achive something is not mandatory to have large numbers.

In example blobbing in FW is less common in repsect of null sov becuase in FW objectives to achive are scaled down and splitted in smaller ones. So large numbers are not strictly needed and often nor efficient.

interesting idea but what about super-capital grade smartbombs, titan only and titan gets some bonuses to its range (maybe up to 50km? might be used more then the DDD and could be used as a spearhead with energy and rep-support as id ploughs forward into the blob.

Seems like hot topic lately: The problems with nodes and blobs.

My suggestion would be to add a new mechanic to ship interaction called interference. Every ship would generate X amount of interference and every ship could also handle X amount of interference before negative effects due to excess interference apply. This would not directly affect the maximum amount of players people can get on grid, but once different ship's interference peaks start to fill up, you probably don't want more there.

Negative effects could be things like smaller targeting range, scan resolution, sensor strength, agility and speed.

It should hit everyone on grid equally, balanced only by the amount if interference different ship types can handle. The negative side-effects I proposed are just an example and of course it should have some serious discussion.

Basically what those side-effects should do is make every ship worse than it was(and I think adding locking time, reducing speed and agility does that fine)

With full interference, the locking times should be 3-5x of what they were before.

I don't have any high level math to back it off, I'm just a newbie.

Idea: Bring back the old Titan Area of Effect doomsday weapon the clear out blobs!
Problem: There are a lot more Titans than there used to be and multiple Titans can be brought on-grid to wipe out anything that isn't tanky enough (see: any and all sub-capitals).

If they introduce the tessellation tech, it becomes much easier to do as the graphics engine then automatically calculates it.