It's very simple - "they", parties involved in blobs, will loose numbers. That will limit coalitions influence. Actually it's coalitions pressure...

Now half of the coalitions member have no way to go. Actual wars are forced to being their "own" wars.

How I know that ? Becouse coalitions are not monolitic - look what happens when cascading is starting: "some" members evacuate. If we have free space to explore then not core corps/aliances will go there. Same as with WH space. They will go and create new corps, new aliances and new coalitions but smaller this time. Ppls will scatter, capitals will scatter and blobs will get smaller.

Sov change is needed to prevent new territoris from being afk-collected (and prevented from habitating) by old coalitions. Here is nerf you want. Or you arguing that current sov mechanic is... OK ? Capitals, oh yes, capitals ! need ! to ! be ! changed !!! ;)

At the moment creation of new aliances senseless - there is no point in that becouse there is nothing new parties can achieve. New parties are insta-borged into current entities. THAT is what require a change.



That's not true. Corporations living long, long from conflict zone will ignore not-their conflicts.



Excuse me, but you arguing against yourself.

"Endeavor" part grows as range grow. And probability of such massive "comeback" trip falls (with range too). More, it is quite impossible that all forces will be back on some not-anymore-important-for-us timer. You see, you fly to timers to your enemies - usually to your neightbours ;) If that relationship is changed there is no reason to be "back anyway".

And more power on corporation level prevents creating gigantic coalitions, like 3 per whole Universe...

Space is very effective in dividing ppls :) Even mariages brakes thanks to different space and time. Some time in isolation
and there will be no reason to join current coalitions.

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They do "nothing" for hours on end in soul crushing lag for the "I was there" feeling.

Just to point out, there was a time when corps and alliances were not able to blue eachother. CCP added the ability to add blue and red standing because we were forming coalitions.

So any call to make corps the sov holders and to abolish alliances and blues will not work.

To achieve this, CCP will have to truly radically reduce capital and supercapital movement. I'm talking about changes on the order of a 24 hour cooldown on capital jumps, requiring consumables for gate jumps, burning jump bridges to the ground, eliminating titan bridging and so on.

I have a very serious question:

How exactly do you limit the movement of players throughout space without seriously undermining the current game.

For example: I like small gang warfare, and routinely roam about nullsec looking for fights. This currently involves 20-system trips around Syndicate looking for other gangs to fight many fleet types (frigates to BS's with triage support). This involves 40-system trips through Sov-space, often in frigate & cruiser hulls. Either you changes limit this game-style to be non existent, or an entity like the CFC can use that same fleet comp to move from VFK to highsec, refuel, move to Berta, Refuel, and move to HED-GP. The only thing that changes is they now need two fleets of ships (one in VFK for home defense as insurance, and one in their forward staging base to Blob VFK). Now, supercaps would be inhibited, as pilots are stuck to the ship, but capital pilots just need two dreads/carriers (one in VFK, one in the FOP) to provide the same damage projection they do today.

What I'm trying to get at, is that moving around the universe by standard gate travel is quick and easy in the games current environment, and unless you somehow make it impractical for gatetravel to move from VFK to Jita within a day (28 systems), then large coalitions can ALWAYS move back and forward between opposite sides of the map to defend their Sov.

From UJY-HE in Deklein to Y-1918 in Branch its 1 jump. Without those regional jumps its 60 jumps through low and NPC Venal.

From HB-5L3 in Cobalt Edge to SF-XJS in Tenal its 1 jump, without regional bridges its something like 100 through multiple low, npc space, and non friendly null.

That's a huge difference.

So you are suggesting limiting/removing the cross-regional gates?

So you could travel Lonetrek -> Pureblind -> Fade -> Deklein and Lonetreck -> Tribute -> Venal -> Branch, but you couldn't travel Fade to Branch or Deklein to Venal, thereby dramatically increasing the efforts to move to the outer ring of nullsec?

This could be interesting. Although it also means that an invasion into Branch would have penetrate Tribute first, thereby making any Coalition that owns Tribute and Branch only have to defend Tribute to secure all that space. Again, then as long as the majority of combat pilots can fly from their FOB to the Tribute Staging system in a timely fashion, they can go fight where-ever they want.

You do realize HB- to SF- is actually too far for capitals to jump. There are many other jumps like that.

You do realize HB- to SF- is actually too far for capitals to jump. There are many other jumps like that.

So basically it's being suggested that capitals become Region Locked (or rather just their jump drives? isn't that the same thing)

Or something similar to that.

Not really sure if it's a good idea or bad tbh - just trying to get to the gist of it.

(if you're suggesting a universal padlock for gates that could stop ANYBODY -- that's a terrible idea)

Yeah I do but you guys do pretty well with subcaps. If Failcon decided they didn't like you anymore or you decied you wanted new puppets in Branch you could easily squish them with the regional bridges. Which is a very good incentive for Failcon to stay in your coalition.

Without those regional bridges they could tell you to go feck yourself with some decent safety :)

Which was arguably a bad idea.

You do realize HB- to SF- is actually too far for capitals to jump. There are many other jumps like that.

Maybe, but it is simply a matter of a coder changing one value on a database and suddenly it is in range.

Maybe, but it is simply a matter of a coder changing one value on a database and suddenly it is in range.

Why would they do that, though? I'm not sure it's quite so simple as that, either.

They have been keeping pretty hush hush on anything related to HED-GP so far. Don't blame them though, with the reaction they would receive.

Well, on a technical level, I strongly doubt they would hardcode the distance between regions/systems into multiple lines of code. That would break so many rules of coding, I just can't see it happening.

Now, on how it changes the game, that is a non-trivial issue.
But if the concept of altering the capabilities of power projection is being discussed, that in and of itself is non-trivial, so yeah, I think messing with the ranges between regions / systems is certainly a valid discussion.

Who the **** is Failcon? Do you mean FCon? What does this have to do with the Tenal-CE jump?

Timers don't cause blobbing, its the huge amounts of HP.

I find the lack of CCP communication on the matter, highly disheartening.

What exactly do you want CCP to say?

Apart from the numerous tweets during the fight regarding server performance, the many dev blogs over the years describing how TiDi works, the technical details of the servers and how they are configured, what work they are currently doing in regards to reducing lag and improving TiDi for the future, and a number of presentations during fanfest each year.

Seriously, what more can CCP say that already hasn't been said?

The only thing they could say is that it was a bad decision to try and bridge in 700 dreads on a node that already had approx 2500 guys fighting it out, a plague of drones, a mass of bubbles and server already maxed at 10% TiDi.

It was a great achievement by CCP that the server did not crash, unless of course you know of any other game that can have this many people blowing the crap out of each with zero lag or some magical piece of technology that will allow a unlimited amount of players to fight with no lag and that will keep CCP as a profitable company?

Didn't think so

So you don't think they should communicate with their playerbase after an event like HED?

So you don't think they should communicate with their playerbase after an event like HED?
Half the populace couldn't do ****, the other had a turkey shoot.
Apart from the mentally challenged sheep, players from both side can see and have said how utter crap the system is