Did you read it. The number of links is not important. 1000 links from an attacker and 1 link from a defender and the timer does not count down.

Some might do that in one constellation, but now notice how there's more than one constellation in the game.

For those who are claiming they will take over half the galaxy in 40 minutes with their swarms of interceptors; what are your plans for protecting your space while you are away? Do you honestly think no one will do the same thing to you?

You claim that any small group will be crushed by your thousand upon thousands, but you leave the rest of your territory wide open. So you will lose it just as fast as you gain it.

Your other option is to spread your blog out across your territory in order to hold it. Your so called blob to blot out the sun is now thinned out. Now instead of that small group facing thousands and thousands of you at once, they enjoy only having to fight smaller sections at a time. Thus, greatly increasing their odds of winning.

Everyone knows that without massive numbers, most large blocs do terrible in smaller scale combat compared to the average player due to how much they relied on massive numbers to do anything. I can't help but think that is the reason for all this fear mongering you all have been doing. The idea of having to fight a smaller group without bringing every single member of your coalition bloc frightens you.

It's OK to be afraid. I have faith your pilots will learn how to use more than just the F1 key.

that article is d*mb, what's the value of the "trollceptor's" speed, mobility and range if all the defender needs to do is just sit right next to the node and capture it with it's own entosis thingy to stop the "capturing event's" progress? they don't even need to attack, just tank the assault and endure it for 4 hrs...

There will still be big fights. But wars will not be a LOT of boredom waiting for failed opportunitie sof such big fights.. and then suddenly end after a single big fight.

Wars will be more interestign with several smaller engagements, until someone tries to go for a very important target when Big fight WILL happen. The only difference is that the bigh fight will not be on a single grid, but spread all over the constellation.

More tactical depth, more strategical opportunities. THe need of real fleet commanders, not people that just call targets. The need of a hierarchy of command because you will have several ' regiments" in a fleet that must spread

CCP I spoke to some ex-players about this change, most of who left due to sov being meh, and so far everyone who I spoke to were positive and were thinking about re-subbing so they can carve out their own space even if its precarious. Stick to your guns on this, its being well received by people who left because doing sov was impossible with supers on line.

Yes, I fought in 0.0 for a long time and I learned something, people will do whatever is needed to win. That coupled with understanding MATH.. leads to a simple conclusion.... if you do not split forces under this new system you will ALWAYS LOSE! IF you keep 1K people at one location and let the enemy split his 300 people in 3 groups you will LOSE the RACE!


ADAPT OR BECOME OBSOLETE! THE CHOICE IS YOURS!

The TCU will be next to a POS, burn interceptors burn...

Guess you should send those 300 into his territory and burn it instead, then.

Turns out I'm lazy AND crap at fixing quotes. Who knew.


TL/DR: you could erect 5 POSes pr day pr corp (or alliance, but I'm fairly certain it's per corp), the alliance with the most POSes of the biggest size (so if someone has 49 medium and the other guy has 1 large, the other guy wins, unless the first guy swaps 2 out for larges) for a week has sov.

There's a lot more to it than that, but it was basically a minigame there as well.

So you will after all be satisfied with shooting the odd Entosis fit ship and doing a round robin of constellation wide node shooting 4 hours a day 7 days a week for the next ?? years, to hold your sov ?

Funny I though eve was about engaging game play for the masses, not mini games for the few.

The MMO is leaving Eve, it will now be a contest of mini games for the few who have the will (and 4 hours a day to spare) to carry out the repetitive.

How ever it is packaged and presented, it is still nothing more than repetitive grinding of the same thing day after day.
If you have 12 to 14 hours a day to play eve this is a great change - Defend your space for 4 hours, go attack someone else's for 4 hours and a few hours to make isk, buy ships and modules, do logistics and all the other day to day things that allow you to do the 4 hours of protecting your space.

I find it interesting that Eve players have no life other than Eve, you are all happy to commit so much time to it. I do feel sorry for your families and anyone else you used to interact with. Once these changes hit, Eve and work will be all you have time for.

Yeah why not make stations destructible, just another notch in the pole that says, small alliance don't deserve sov.

This is quite smart from a financial point of view for CCP - Less time to make isk = more plex sold to buy ships etc.

This question is for CCP Fozzie and Team 5 O:

I want to raise a concern I have concerning current TCU mechanics that may be used to circumvent the underlying intention of the proposed new sov system and in particular with regards to the of use of the entosis module on TCUs:

The Rise of the TrollPOS

From Evelopedia:



What is to stop a defending alliance from anchoring the TCU near a Deathstar or a Dickstar POS to provide AFK sov defence for a given system?

Are there any plans to change the requirements for TCU placement such that they can only be placed (or moved for existing TCUs) to an unoccupied moon?