Ugly Eric
Fistful of Finns
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2014.07.06 07:32:00 -
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I dont know Manny my friend. I agree 100% that something needs to be done. Somehow I just cant believe the changes you suggested would make it any better. Quite the controverse.
As I am and have pretty much always been on the smaller guys alliance, I have some experience on that. However I am so new to this game, that I have not seen the days w/o jumping ships and w/o the JF logistic backbone. Somehow I see it nearly impossible to think this game could have any fun in it anymore without said logistics tools.
But so frustrated I am in the current state of eve, that I will back you up anyway, beacause this is after all the best thought thru plan I have seen so far. I will throw few smaller change ideas to the soup as addition to your ideas though, as the points I am about to represent are something that I as the small guy have been forced to fight constantly against.
- If system has online SBU's on more than 50% of the gates, IHUB goes to anchored mode and thus will stop all sov upgrades from system. Once SBU's are destroyed it takes the 3 hours to online the IHUB again and everything will go back to normal again. Also, if system have a anchored SBU, anyone should be able to pick it up.
--- This would stop the retardation of defencive SBU's, this would force the sov owner to actually defend their system from the getgo of an invasion. Yes, this would be abused by roaming gangs, but then again the current system is abused by sov owners. Maybe increase the SBU price by tenfold or something to lessen the abuse factor.
- To your idea of sov cost limit, I had an idea, that every next system you have sov in doubles the price from the previous system. So first system could be the current 84m/2weeks if I remember correctly. Next would be 168m/2weeks, then next 336m/2weeks, etc. This would ofc divide us into even more smaller alliances, who each hold 1-2 systems. However, it would leave a LOT of space w/o sov. And all those sovless systems would be on the plate for the small guy. Yes, as soon as someone notices the small guy got sov, the big guy comes and cleans it up again, but if the small dudes does this much enough / often enough, the big guy eventually is forced to a) take sov there or b) just leave the small guy to be. With time this would I believe lessen renting aswell, as the small guy actually have a chanche to gain sov on their own.
- Jump bridges could IMO excist, but only to owning alliance usage. No standings usage to JB. Also they should be IHUB upgrade, not pos module. Thus jumping into them blindly would create a lot more content, as you could not use them blindly and safely by deafault, but need to scout them, or have a ship, that can handle the possible unknown threat on other side.
- Finally the stations. Make the destructable. When a station pops, it leaves a indestroyable wreck, that has loot in it. This would give the sov owners an actual reason to fight for their assets. This would create a lot of conflict in form of "lets see if that station is a loot pinata".
However, I am in a state in eve, where something needs to be done and needs to be done FAST. The game is broken atm. The game I love so much is nearly unplayable.
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