This is why Devs should have adult supervision.

To recap:

1st phase we made it impossible to project force.

2nd phase we have made it so any scrub corp or band of newbie alts can mess with sov.

Except ~~~~~~jump fatigue~~~~~ aka ~~~~~emergent gameplay~~~~~

Still little reason to actually live in the sov. Perhaps update #37 will address this.

You're not allowed to say these things unless you've actually taken sov on your own, or been able to defend sov from someone else.

Please tell me that once the Entosis link is activated on a structure it will not be dependent on maintaining a target lock on the structure. If it does, I'm certain that some entities known for blobbing will show up with 600 ecm ships for every "fight" and sov battles will be even worse than they are now.

there is no longer a reason to hold sov if this is implemented.... sov would only be held in strategic locations that cover a whole bunch of r-64's and 32's. The little guy wont be able to afford his sov bill, he will run out of money because he cant control the moon income..... then he leaves 0.0.... we have come full circle

This is a good question. If notifications continue to go out the moment someone invades/attacks another groups sov it will undermine this new system.

I agree...

And the most important one of all - epeen.

First off: great stuff, finally at least SOME way for small gangs to provoke a response.

However, there are some issues:

With these changes it is about time to implement a proper "Coalition" system.
A lot of players are complaining about the prime time issue, preventing them from taking part at huge sov battles of their alliances due to timezone restrictions. This is a valid point of course, but there is also a very easy solution (that has been mentioned here multiple times already) - splitting current alliances into timezone branches. You can still be a member of Goonswarm, Brave Collective or whatever - your alliance name simply changes to "Goonswarm EU" etc.
Of course this is still effort and does not have the greatest looks, but people are going to have to, and WILL adapt as usual, just like after Phoebe.
However, CCP should support this transition as much as possible, by adding a proper Coalition system. Alliances should be able to create and join Coalitions (Hey, you could even name your coalition Brave Collective etc so you can still 100% identify with your buddies in other timezones!). They would be visible in-game just like alliances, and provide basic management features such as a Coalition chat, an overview state ("pilot is in my coallition"), standings and, maybe, shared access to the new sovereignity overview.
This would allow the current big alliances to keep their names and identities aswell as provide sov combat to members of all timezones.

Another issue I see are Entosis links, particularly the T2 version on Frigate and (T3) Destroyer hulls.
10km/s Interceptors with lockrange mods are bad enough, but a 20+ km/s Svipul with T2 Entosis would be close to invulnerable. Therefore these links (or, at the very least, the long range T2 version) should be limited to Cruiser hulls and above - smaller ships would still play a big role in the new sov fights by scouting Command Nodes and intercepting hostile ships with Entosis links.

Not emptying quoting.

No, it's a conflict driver. Find me a war in history that was had "because it was fun". If you de-incentive the reasons to hold space, null will become pretty boring after a while. Simply having your flag in space is not enough.

/r/EVE is an anti-CFC circlejerk, so that's hardly surprising. I'm sure everyone there supports these changes out of spite.

Sure, but did they as our elected representatives stand up and say yes this is great, or did they try to punch Fozzie in the face for being so stupid?

But won't break them up at all.....

Now, we'll use GoonWaffe.....

GW becomes basically a centralized Bank/repository and station flipping force....

Current blues lock down whatever system they want to control.... still coalition friendly...

How is this different than properly stronting a timer, or a POCO timer? Defender picks his advantageous time, and everybody adjusts accordingly.

and now you effectively taken away offensive deployment away from my 'home'....

No, sov is largerly worthless already, only thing the vast majority of buffer zones allow you to do is get an early warning that a Random Legion is knocking on your door.

Then again, I'm sure Test could live in a region full of -0.05's just because it's sov.

Why? You can hold a carrier with a noob ship and a point. You can kill it with 20 interceptors.

https://zkillboard.com/kills/capitals/

Maybe CCP should just scrap this and go back to POS warfare. At least those required *effort* to both attack and defend and there were strategies involved, like kitting RF timers. You know, it was actually fun.

First reactions,
- I'm not seeing what the bonus levels 1-5 actually mean. When do you get industry level 5?

It won't. It's another myopic attempt by CCP to pacify new players and high sec bears.

Entosis link needs to be a siege No reps, No moving, No ability to triage or siege. As well as make it very easy to see which ship is running the mod on the structure maybe even have it yell in local the name of the person like the ESS.

Small gang will go around flagging up every structure an alliance owns to make them chase their own tails.

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4. Still no tactical geography. By breaking up the blobs into these little "command node" missions, CCP lost a good opportunity for fights to be varied by adding elemental or environmental effects that would only effect a particular grid. For example, a command node that spawned in a dense asteroid field that needs to be navigated, or a grid that has bonuses to shield tanks or some ****. Varied tactical environments providing varied game play and necessitating specific gang types while punishing generic "one fleet fits all mentality". If interested in this idea, check out the posts in my sig

5. Still no real reason to hold sov, though this will probably be addressed in phase 3 I would imagine.

6. Supers now nerfed into the ground and. quoting Manny apparently "will be used primarily as suitcases".

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I can think of several:

You enjoy living there
You enjoy living with the people there you live with
You enjoy fighting your neighbors nearby

If that isn't the case for you maybe you're better of in highsec. Or renting.

T2 is supposed to provide a small but noticiable bonus over T1. Not 10 TIMES the power.

Also, both types of link should be restricted to BS or higher. Possibly BC+, but no lower. Eve needs battleships returning to the fore, the recent tiericide buffed T1 cruisers, frigs, HACs, industrials, mining barges,interceptors - but gave nothing but hate to battleships (slower warp speed, no protection from inties using bubbles, far more expensive - three times the cost in the case of Phoons and Domis, no extra abilities for tier 2 BS's even though tier 2 cruisers/frigs got huge extra bonuses, no extra mid/lowslots, no extra cargobays, no extra warp strength, ect). Also dreadnoughts need a buff too, thier primary purpose was always as the main sov-capturing ship when sov depended on POS's but now they seem out on a limb.

I'd put this suggestion forward, for entosis link capture time:

Battle Ship - Standard Speed

Battlecruiser, Carrier, Super, Titan - 1/3 Speed

Dread Nought - Double Speed