I asked the question to some people on coms tonight, I want to ask you all the same question;

If we all want the same thing, small/medium sized fleet roaming and good fights, why not make an agreement with the good fight in mind. Declare a deployment zone/Hunting ground (like catch right now) and put some loose mechanics in play to make it interesting.

NIP across the region, no towers to be placed from any external entities. Let HERO keep their space.

No fleets larger than 50, multiple independent fleets are ok. Hell you could even run NPSI (not purple shoot instantly).

Agreement to not use Meta-gaming such as the use of spies, keep it fun and spontaneous.

Anyone that decides to try and screw up the fun and break the rules will have the entire CFC and N3 to deal with.

Each entity would declare a staging system on the fringe of the deployment zone, players for all factions would be welcome to come and pvp in a setting created by the players for the players.

Set our fictional differences aside, trust each other to turn EvE back into a playable game by working together to produce an environment/deployment that we can all enjoy without having to grind endless amounts of sov space and/or fight in heavy TIDI.

What an experience that would be.

Well this was working, at least partially.
Until both coalitions didn't get their numbers so high that there is no way to brake them on the timer.
Because :
- they will put enough people in the contested system just before timer , that putting your , will crash the node OR you will get TIDI 1% and this fight will be for next 20hours , until DT
- they will put enough capitals and supers , that will block you from any thing, as DPS needed to BRAKE their spider tank is so big that again node will die , or TIDI will make this fight till the DT without ability to achieve any thing

Is there something we should know?

I'm leaning towards letting Caps move around as they do now because lets face it, we stare at our screens enough in EVE why make it so we are doing it for longer...

Instead of slowing down Cap movement, which seems to focus around the cap group being able to get across the map quickly, why not focus on their destination having a door that can be closed before they get there?

CCP can probably just make a portable cyno jammer that is system wide, takes 5 minutes to anchor (or whatever 10 min etc), burns out in 1 hour time or so, and has a crap load of HP so peeps are more apt to leave it alone to burn out rather than try and take it down so the SC fleet coming from 5 regions away can get in when they are 1 jump out.

EVE is boring enough, I'm not sure why people want to slow it down even more...
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To break up monolithic sov, like seems to be the general consensus on what the game needs, there must be limits on how large fleets can travel.

Any way to do this will have significant side effects. They can also be mitigated.

Before I make my suggestions my intent is to make large fleets travel separately, not to effect anything about the final destination. Moving a fleet will force them to consider how an enemy might disrupt their jumping as well as current considerations. Everything I say will have an appropriate number that is not decided by me. The numbers that are appropriate should be the subject of debate not the concept itself. My intent is for only the largest fleets to be effected at all though there will always be manipulation of mechanics that will spread the effects elsewhere.

Limited charge on gates/bridges:
Know that regular travel will be effected by the recharge time and large fleet travel will be effected by the capacity. These are entirely separate numbers and can be balanced accordingly.

Limited system jump drive stability:
Putting a solid cap on the number of jumps to a cyno just means more cynos are put in the same place. The effect needs to be system wide. That will then however make the fleet that jumps in first unassailable. I suggest putting the jump in and out limit on the same counter/recharge. This means that while the fleet might be unassailable it also can't move again until the system is fully stabilized. It also means the fleet can't come back to save the stragglers. An attacker can also force the otherwise unbeatable fleet to have stragglers. It can also be held there by single enemies jumping in and out.

A fleet in its final destination could use the same mechanics to keep someone from responding to them while they destroy sov structures. At the same time that fleet will be unable to respond to considerably smaller attackers hitting their own sov. Over all this should contribute to destruction of sov on significant scale.

The exact effects of this are not easily predictable but most of them allow a smaller well timed and placed fleet to do significant damage to a larger one. If they don't time it well the smaller fleet will simply be annihilated, like they would be anyway under current mechanics.

Naturally, letting supers and titans dock would be near last if not the very last thing on the list of null fixes.

WHat part of NA/BOT space will BL take?

You will finally get revenge on NC and PL for wiping out your super fleet.

I already have a dread fit that can roam with cruiser gangs