So, Basically the tittle says it all for me.

I know that CCP has known that no one is really happy with the current Sov System in Null.

I know that there are other parts to the game aside from null. And I do enjoy/like the current additions and fixes they've done to null as a whole. However;

Wouldn't it have been a more sound idea to fix Sov FIRST? Instead of doing these other things? I mean Sov is why we live in null really. Now more than ever its evident the system isn't a good one. NO ONE wants fight for Sov, It's boring, tedious and favors the defender enough that they can just make the game unbearable.

Just a curious question is all, I'd love to hear what CCP says. Not raging or ranting, Just wanting to know the reasoning behind why and if/when it will be fixed.


-Fox

Could someone point me in the direction of said thread/answer?

Because no-one can come up with a better Sov system really.

Doubtful. For many reasons.

I understand very little of the Sov situation, but it would seem to me that when most of space is held by one alliance, there is going to be a very great deal of resistance to any potential change from that same signficant majority.

Whatever the problems might be, they are clearly currently working to the advantage of that majority.

In that, you are very much wrong. All sides of nullsec might disagree over preferred solutions, but all the main group and land-holders solidly agree something needs to be done.

But whatever is done, is likely to erode the control of that main group and landholders.
If it does not erode it, it reinforces their control, and the last vestiges of space can be mopped up.

So it is in the interest of said group, to agree something must be done, but then stonewall all suggestions which undermine their own status quo, in favor of those which would allow them to take the remaining areas of space.

Do you see what I mean?

But the disagreement over preferred solutiins, is fundamentally between the larger group preferring solutions which would allow them to take the remaining space, and the smaller resisting groups preferring solutions which allow them to enlarge their holdings from the larger group.

Tippia, I understamd what you mean, and this was evidenced in Aralyns sentiment, and I dont think it was duplicitous at all. It is a sincere position.

I fully appreciate that many of the misguided suggestions made by the small guys fail to recognise that they would infact be enabling the large guy to stomp them even harder. So they have to be protected from their own ignorance, as Goons et al themsleves already no doubt have contingencies already considered that these small guys cant even dream of, let alone have the resources to enact.

And so it falls to the big guy to make a concessive proposal that ultimately erodes their own control.

Maybe its time to make the supreme sacrifice, for the good of all and the game, including yourselves. Pragmatically, youve managed to leverage your position so well, that youve eliminated the realistic potential of worthy adversaries to rise up and provide you with challenge and content.

That is a sad reward for what basically amounts to "winning the game".

I know that CCP has known that no one is really happy with the current Sov System in Null.

Perhaps expanding the sandbox itself is the solution. CfC already have their hands full controlling the current donut. I think even their resources would be strained to simultaneously dominate a geographically remote new area with potentially different sov mechanics.

Im a big fan of Frank Herbert, and Im reminded by the above of the threat the Honored Matres posed upon their return from the fringes of space.

Perhaps expanding the sandbox itself is the solution. CfC already have their hands full controlling the current donut. I think even their resources would be strained to simultaneously dominate a geographically remote new area with potentially different sov mechanics.

So, Basically the tittle says it all for me.

I know that CCP has known that no one is really happy with the current Sov System in Null.

I know that there are other parts to the game aside from null. And I do enjoy/like the current additions and fixes they've done to null as a whole. However;

Wouldn't it have been a more sound idea to fix Sov FIRST? Instead of doing these other things? I mean Sov is why we live in null really. Now more than ever its evident the system isn't a good one. NO ONE wants fight for Sov, It's boring, tedious and favors the defender enough that they can just make the game unbearable.

Just a curious question is all, I'd love to hear what CCP says. Not raging or ranting, Just wanting to know the reasoning behind why and if/when it will be fixed.


-Fox

Well the main problem is that the new sov system should obviously benefit and suit proper EVE players like me who play the game correctly, and penalise bad EVE players like that other guy who plays the game wrong.

In the past, CCP have been looking for such a system on the basis that as sov is something that can only be looked at once every 5 years or so*, they need to have a system that will last 5 years or so before committing to the work. In short, there's no sense in committing a 6 month development cycle to a new system unless they're sure it will improve the game, not when there are many other gameplay mechanics equally deserving of attention.

How close to completing that assessment do you, speculatively, think they are now?