Nullsec is inaccessible to most players, and CCP keep making it worse by putting even more resources into the hands of those who make it their business to shut the rest of us out.

I hope null sec is as boring as it sounds, people deserve the government they get.

On the other site, you can find an article devoted to power projection myths. It argues that Titans, Dreads, also have a jumpdrive, do not seem to be responsible for so-called "nullsec stagnation". That is because they are pretty weak against sub-caps and at the same time can be killed by sub-caps. Further, it suggests that what we're dealing with here is merely another case of overpowered ship doctrine - slowcats. Cases of overpowered ships happened a lot of times in EVE: drakes, hurricanes, tracking titans, motherships with drones - to name a few. A fact that capital and supercapital ships did not undergo a balancing pass by Fozzie, adds a strong argument for the hypothesis put forward by The Mittani.

I think occupancy or user based sov is a step in the right direction, but how does that stop any large group from imposing protection fees on another smaller group?

Let's say this change happens and alliances own the regions they actually operate in. Wouldn't a group like CFC or N3/PL just tell the little guys that they can keep their space so long as they pay protection fees and grant R64s to their overlords. They can't actually take the sov from them, but they can harass the smaller alliances enough that they aren't willing to live in nullsec anymore. Then we have smaller alliances holding sov, but in essence the system is still the same except it is harder to keep track of the various groups since the renters aren't under a large Alliance like PBLRD or B0T.

As long as there is functionally no cost for large groups to throw their capitals across the cluster the system will remain the same in function regardless of how it is delineated through in game alliances. We saw how easy it was for CFC to take out those titans that were incubating in their region.

While moons are a source of income, they are not a source of fabulous wealth. A good R64 will net about 5 Bil. a month, for an alliance, the same can be generated by a single, good truesec, fully upgraded rating system at a tax rate of 15%. Also they will be good to fight over.

not PI because it can't be touched then...
make it a moon mining array .. that acts like a POS .. so you have too take out the moon goo with hauler .. can be taxed . and ofc can be attacked put into reinforced mode and destroyed ... making it raidable would be great also ... so 60% can be stolen and the rest is discarded then its put into reinforced mode

Nerfing jump range doesn't nerf boot fleet/wreckingball.

Just nerfing fleet mobility does not solve the problem if the EHP of the targets DEMAND a large capital fleet anyway. People will just hate more, but still move the said capital fleet.


The most effective way to make something not overused, is not to make harder to use it.... it is to make it not needed!

Remote Repair:

One of the biggest issues with fighting in nullsec is that smaller fleets cannot hurt large ones thanks to RR support. There is no point in attacking if you cant hurt your enemy so the only answer is to stand down. This problem only gets worse when you start dropping capitals which are now all but immortal vs subcaps. The answer here is to implement diminishing returns on RR so that past a point more reps add nothing.

This will result in much more bloody fights and smaller fleets can stand a chance to at the very least cause some damage.

Capitals, supers and titans:

A pain to everyone including the people that fly them.

Wreckingball/boot fleet needs to die. Carriers should at the very least lose the ability to drop sentries, probably even just be able to launch fighters. This combined with the RR nerf would end the near immortal deathballs.

Supers meanwhile need two things. First they should lose their Ewar immunity, then in return they and titans gain the ability to dock in stations. This solves the long standing problem of high skilled player leaving due to being stuck in these space coffins and getting bored with life.