Alexandre Bellenger
ANZAC ALLIANCE
Fidelas Constans
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Posted - 2015.03.04 04:36:35 -
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The biggest problem these changes fail to address is the actual need for owning sovereignty, as others have stated. With lower income rates than most other areas in the game (see https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5547866#post5547866), the only reason to own sov in the current state of the game is A) to build supercaps and B) to plant your flag in space for E-PEEN factor. Content creation is stagnant (which these changes do somewhat address), but without incentive no one in this game will want to create said content.
Aside from a needed buff to nullsec and reasons to live in it, there must also be less of a reason to own so much space. For nullsec players, the #1 staple source of income and incentive to live in null is nullsec anomalies. Missions, incursions, tower reactions, etc can all be done elsewhere, but the level of anomalies present in null can be found nowhere else.
The larger your sov nullsec alliance, the more members you have wanting this level of income. So the more members you have, the more anomalies you need to keep everyone happy and staying in your alliance. Anomalies are capped at a certain amount per system, so you can only have so many members utilizing a single system. This is the sole reason why major power blocs own entire region(s). An alliance like Goonswarm Federation can and would gladly live in 10-20 systems if the system simply allowed for it. A larger population density in individual systems would allow for greater content, less mass ownership of systems by powerblocs, and therefore greater opportunity for smaller groups to take sovereignty without being contested by said powerblocs.
How to do so? The answer has been thrown at you for months now, by anyone from random pubbies like myself to well known bloggers. Allowing mission agents in nullsec stations allows for infinite population density in a single small area. Agents implemented in the form of rented teams forces the top of the alliance to put money into providing for the members, something that must happen in more diverse ways than just SRP. But nontheless, mission agents in nullsec would solve the population density problem and allow for alliances to live in much smaller areas, with the same numbers.
If implemented, alliances would naturally find themselves drawn to central hubs, where standing fleets and safety in numbers provide a greater benefit than simply spreading out to the far corners of the region. As alliances coalesce, some constellations will find their occupancy indices tick down, and suddenly a nearby NPC null or Lowsec dwelling alliance may find themselves being able to contest these systems and, after enough harassment, able to take them. In the current eve, were most systems in CFC space are being used, the taking of such systems simply wouldn't be allowed to happen. |