Much Love CCP

You have had me worried at times, and with star citizen and elite dangerous on the radar I was touching cloth and hoping you would pull something out of the bag......

But this is a game changer, a whole new level. YES YES YES YES YES. You have cracked it ! This will mix things up for all players in EVE. Null care bears and big alliances in general will hate it ..... everyone else should love it for the varied content it will bring to small, medium and large scale pvp. A few teaks here and there and bring on June :)


Love it or hate it much content will be had! No more blue balling small roaming gangs though :)

Cheers Will

You're right I don't have any 0.0 employment history. Didn't feel like joining one of the big power blocs and small independent corps can't exist in 0.0 space. With some adjusting this system could actually allow smaller groups to effectively claim SOV somewhere and keep it. Is what CCP proposing perfect probably not.

However, for the first time I'm actually considering 0.0 space as a viable place i would want to go to and live in for an extended period of time, and isn't that the point of all this. To get more people to want to fly out to 0.0 space?

I would like to correct the statement that it's a CTF. It is, in fact, a totally different gamemode - Domination.

Sooo uh, to provide some actual criticism instead of just saying how bad Domination was, I'll ask a few questions:

- How does the following system create an incentive to go and take sov?
- How does the following system in any way benefit "the small guy" who is "trying to carve out his own system?"

The effort to distribute one system being captured over a constellation to take advantage of its layout is a good idea, in fact - it might be the only good idea out of it. As it stands, unless I'm misinterpreting it, the entire system would reward evading a fight rather than encouraging it.

Please explain how it will negatively affect the little guy. I'm being genuinely curious here not a smart a$$. like I said it could use some adjusting but as a basis to start from it seems easier for new people to get into the game of SOV since it doesn't require several capital ships plus full support fleet to take down one system.
Again i don't think its perfect but from the outside looking in it looks like it actually has some potential after some tweaking.

Sounds awesome +1

If you hold too much space you'll be spending your whole primetime fighting off little bands all over the place annoying you with a quick Entosis link to test out your localised defences.

If you 're actually using the space then you should have a defensive fleet within range to quickly react. If not then you've now got a timer to react to.

Not sure if 4hrs is long enough for the primetime, 6-8hrs should still be coverable by most alliances and allows multi TZ cooperation more easily.

This is explicitly designed to break up coalitions not encourage them.

outside of the Sov holders primetime

what makes you say that

Generally - interesting gameplay to be had! Nice work CCP, now you just need to tweak this a bit...

Pros:
* Small gangs can take sov and will harass bigger entities empty sov-space (there is a LOT of totally empty sov-systems today!). Excellent! Using WHs to harass enemy sov will be done a lot!
* Freeport station for 48h - awsome id+¬a!
* Constellation-wide conflict - awsome! Making tactical use of the "geography" of constellations will be a key in caoturing sov - nice!
* Non-scaling of entosis-modules - nice! A fleet of 1 or 1000 doesn't matter. Power to the solo/small-gangs!

Cons:
* Small gangs will never be able to hold on to sov once they have taken it, but I guess that was never the thought with this anyway?!
* This was supposed to be simpler than the current sov-grind?! My eyes bleed after all this text! ;-)
* The "Primetime"-concept is a bit awkward - there is a big risk that certain Tz:s will never be part of any fun sov-harassment or serious sov-warfare. Also a "primetime" in a week-day is usually not the "primetime" in week-ends. Fights will always be within the Tz:s and that is a bit boring really. So rethink pls!

Questions:
* Once a structure/station has a new owner; what will the default prime-time be set to? Will changing this default prime-time the first time always induce the 96h transition period where the structure has 2 vulnerability-periods during this transition? I think this might need a bit of rethinking too...
* What determins the owning corp of a captured structure? Will it default to the executor corp of the alliance no matter what, or will it be the corp that had the "killing-entosis-cycle" or how will that work?

And the final most important question:
* What the h*ll shall I use my Super Carrier for now?! Can't shoot POSes, no need to grind structures because "entosis", power-projection-nerfs effectively killed hotdropping capitals....Unsubbing is the best option, or does CCP plan to add some new "role" instead of the role of "main structure grinder"? DPS is not king anymore...(death to all supers - I know, I know! Just didn't expect CCP to kill them in this way!)

I disagree with just about everything you said here.

I mean.... wut...

You didn't read the first devblog and look at the pretty graphs did you...

More players in nullsec since the changes.
More activity in nullsec since the changes.
More pvp in nullsec since the changes.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/where-we-stand/ < for your convenience

Consider me a high-sec carebear, and feel free to treat my opinion as worthless, but what I'm seeing is:

1. Any roaming gang will entosis whatever they can while they roam, and eventually the defender's list of sov units that must be defended will include all of them. Turning the 4 hours "prime time" into "mandatory home defense time for 4 hours." You're presenting the dev blog from the point of view of one attacker and one defender, when in reality it's more like posting something controversial in General Discussion and then having to defend your views against the entire playerbase. I wonder how fun it will be having to counter-entosis all the potshots, every day.

2. Eventually, the system will be: If you want to mine, PVE, or go roaming in enemy space, you must do it at non-prime hours, because prime time is for home defense (and besides, enemy isn't vulnerable in your prime anyway). This does give pilots from other time zones something to do.

3. Bye bye capitals.

Says the guy who is unable to find a reason to fight in null or make money without R32's or R64's.

Making it harder to hold extra space is going to force sprawled out alliances to contract, and let go of some money moons. With less income, their members will have to be more responsible about spending isk and SRP may eventually go down. On the whole I can't see that being a bad thing.

If you want your own little piece of New Eden, you have to fight for it. Pretty simple. No longer can half your alliance fool around in other parts of the universe knowing full well that all their systems are perfectly safe until almost a week of timers pass.

yea thats the idea. if you can handle a bunch of "scrub newbie alts" you didn't really deserve it in the first place. sorry you cant sit back ,rat and drop supers on anything that tries to contest you.

im glad ccp has turned null sec from a niche lag grind into something more fun and meaningful. something that is actualy worthy of the revere!