Letting vagrants dock up in every station completely destroys the concept of sovereign space. No, it isn't quite lowsec, instead you seem to be asking to turn everything into NPC Null with anom upgrades.. which seems like an incredibly narrow proposal.

I think your desired end would be better achieved with anomaly attachments on POSes in .04 and below, and a general update to their ability to function as a base of operations. This would allow people to squat in any system they can maintain a stick(including neglected sovnull), and receive the basic benefits of holding sov.

People who can field massive fleets still get cozy stations with fancy upgrades that aren't available to their enemies, jump bridges, and myriad other benefits. But they also have to maintain it. Meanwhile smaller players can just slap down a stick and play without having to jump through hoops meant for groups in the tens of thousands.

so you want to take away sov itself and replace it with npc nullsec?

I'm confident the cfc can blob anyone even without timers. But why should your arses dock in our stations?

.... Add a little goonie diplomacy in there and we got the human centipede we see circling null sec. If you want to throw a statement at it like Gǣturn it into NPC Null secGǥ without reading the rest of the ideas that differ it from NPC Null sec then my effortless answer back to you would be GǣnoGǥGǪ......

If you havenGÇÖt noticed yet, CCP is planning on changing null sec mechanics. Furthermore, if you havenGÇÖt noticed, SOV mechanics are **** and have in part produced the circle jerk weGÇÖve got going on today. Add a little goonie diplomacy in there and we got the human centipede we see circling null sec. If you want to throw a statement at it like GÇ£turn it into NPC Null secGÇ¥ without reading the rest of the ideas that differ it from NPC Null sec then my effortless answer back to you would be GÇ£noGÇ¥GǪ.

As far as you being GÇ£confidentGÇ¥ that CFC could blob without timers goesGǪGǪ.good for you. From your employment history it looks like youGÇÖve been kicked about this game worse than most toons IGÇÖve seen so that explains why you would be heated about my idea. You finally GÇ£make itGÇ¥ by giving up on being good at the game and join the wannabe goon blob brigadeGǪGǪ.gfGǪ

GǣBut why should your arses dock in our stationsGǥGǪGǪGǪ..Yah know what would be hilarious? If CCP implemented the mechanic where you could only doc in a Null Sec station if your character was part of the Corp who anchored it at the time it was anchored. That would keep followers like you from crying about losing or not having access to assets you never had anything to do with in the first placeGǪGǪ..

AnywhooGǪGǪ.thanks for the bump and should be fun to hear what CSM and CCP hammer out this week at the summitGǪ
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If you havenGÇÖt noticed yet, CCP is planning on changing null sec mechanics. Furthermore, if you havenGÇÖt noticed, SOV mechanics are **** and have in part produced the circle jerk weGÇÖve got going on today. Add a little goonie diplomacy in there and we got the human centipede we see circling null sec. If you want to throw a statement at it like GÇ£turn it into NPC Null secGÇ¥ without reading the rest of the ideas that differ it from NPC Null sec then my effortless answer back to you would be GÇ£noGÇ¥GǪ.

As far as you being GÇ£confidentGÇ¥ that CFC could blob without timers goesGǪGǪ.good for you. From your employment history it looks like youGÇÖve been kicked about this game worse than most toons IGÇÖve seen so that explains why you would be heated about my idea. You finally GÇ£make itGÇ¥ by giving up on being good at the game and join the wannabe goon blob brigadeGǪGǪ.gfGǪ

GǣBut why should your arses dock in our stationsGǥGǪGǪGǪ..Yah know what would be hilarious? If CCP implemented the mechanic where you could only doc in a Null Sec station if your character was part of the Corp who anchored it at the time it was anchored. That would keep followers like you from crying about losing or not having access to assets you never had anything to do with in the first placeGǪGǪ..

AnywhooGǪGǪ.thanks for the bump and should be fun to hear what CSM and CCP hammer out this week at the summitGǪ
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Have fun keeping that if you are not in the system(s) all the time. Without the current sov mechanic, you can only enforce your claimes in areas where you are actually present. Where nothing happens from your side, you don't "own" the space.

Have fun keeping that if you are not in the system(s) all the time. Without the current sov mechanic, you can only enforce your claimes in areas where you are actually present. Where nothing happens from your side, you don't "own" the space.

There are other areas of space where the mechanics encourage small-gang work.

There are other areas of space where the mechanics encourage small-gang work.

If you havenGÇÖt noticed yet, CCP is planning on changing null sec mechanics. Furthermore, if you havenGÇÖt noticed, SOV mechanics are **** and have in part produced the circle jerk weGÇÖve got going on today. Add a little goonie diplomacy in there and we got the human centipede we see circling null sec. If you want to throw a statement at it like GÇ£turn it into NPC Null secGÇ¥ without reading the rest of the ideas that differ it from NPC Null sec then my effortless answer back to you would be GÇ£noGÇ¥GǪ.

As far as you being GÇ£confidentGÇ¥ that CFC could blob without timers goesGǪGǪ.good for you. From your employment history it looks like youGÇÖve been kicked about this game worse than most toons IGÇÖve seen so that explains why you would be heated about my idea. You finally GÇ£make itGÇ¥ by giving up on being good at the game and join the wannabe goon blob brigadeGǪGǪ.gfGǪ

GǣBut why should your arses dock in our stationsGǥGǪGǪGǪ..Yah know what would be hilarious? If CCP implemented the mechanic where you could only doc in a Null Sec station if your character was part of the Corp who anchored it at the time it was anchored. That would keep followers like you from crying about losing or not having access to assets you never had anything to do with in the first placeGǪGǪ..

AnywhooGǪGǪ.thanks for the bump and should be fun to hear what CSM and CCP hammer out this week at the summitGǪ
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If you havenGÇÖt noticed yet, CCP is planning on changing null sec mechanics. Furthermore, if you havenGÇÖt noticed, SOV mechanics are **** and have in part produced the circle jerk weGÇÖve got going on today. Add a little goonie diplomacy in there and we got the human centipede we see circling null sec. If you want to throw a statement at it like GÇ£turn it into NPC Null secGÇ¥ without reading the rest of the ideas that differ it from NPC Null sec then my effortless answer back to you would be GÇ£noGÇ¥GǪ.

As far as you being GÇ£confidentGÇ¥ that CFC could blob without timers goesGǪGǪ.good for you. From your employment history it looks like youGÇÖve been kicked about this game worse than most toons IGÇÖve seen so that explains why you would be heated about my idea. You finally GÇ£make itGÇ¥ by giving up on being good at the game and join the wannabe goon blob brigadeGǪGǪ.gfGǪ

GǣBut why should your arses dock in our stationsGǥGǪGǪGǪ..Yah know what would be hilarious? If CCP implemented the mechanic where you could only doc in a Null Sec station if your character was part of the Corp who anchored it at the time it was anchored. That would keep followers like you from crying about losing or not having access to assets you never had anything to do with in the first placeGǪGǪ..

AnywhooGǪGǪ.thanks for the bump and should be fun to hear what CSM and CCP hammer out this week at the summitGǪ
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Although, if you control/built a station you should certainly be allowed to block access to whoever you want. But, they could just toss up a POS and live out of there. And if you don't do anything to prevent them...its obviously not under your control.

Although, if you control/built a station you should certainly be allowed to block access to whoever you want. But, they could just toss up a POS and live out of there. And if you don't do anything to prevent them...its obviously not under your control.

Access to stations allows space to be contested on a granular and real time level between entities. You can only bat phone your buddies so many times from 3 regions away before they will tell you to GÇ£deal with itGÇ¥ since the hostiles can just dock up if you bring friends to fight them, wait you out, and undock when your friends have left to continue working the space etc.

If you want to GÇ£ownGÇ¥ the space then you need to be able to defend it at all times. Tossing up a POS to live out of just allows one side to blob out the other etc.

IGÇÖd like to see CCP focus their efforts not on creating some insanely intricate math formula for keeping SOV etc, and focus on developing new aspects of the game related to the reasons why players want that space over another location etc.
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Access to stations allows space to be contested on a granular and real time level between entities. You can only bat phone your buddies so many times from 3 regions away before they will tell you to GÇ£deal with itGÇ¥ since the hostiles can just dock up if you bring friends to fight them, wait you out, and undock when your friends have left to continue working the space etc.

If you want to GÇ£ownGÇ¥ the space then you need to be able to defend it at all times. Tossing up a POS to live out of just allows one side to blob out the other etc.

IGÇÖd like to see CCP focus their efforts not on creating some insanely intricate math formula for keeping SOV etc, and focus on developing new aspects of the game related to the reasons why players want that space over another location etc.
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I am sure these have been said before in this thread, I don't have enough interest to read it all but I will say it for the sake of reiterating it:

1) Some systems are kept not to be used but to keep the spice flowing. They are pretty much just there for blue space to fly through and with the recent jump changes that will become more important.
2) There are time holes in every alliance. Without timers they will not gather and will not defend, so you will see a lot of explosions for awhile then a very empty null sec as the cost of building up systems out weighs the gains.

Edit:

An interesting thing might be acknowledging coalitions in the mechanics. Allow different alliances to build stations in each other's systems. This might cause coalitions to contract into smaller areas that are more easily defended. Those defense fleets would see more combat. Instead of a few blues hiding and waiting for the horde to pass through a few systems.