tiberiusric
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Posted - 2015.03.07 12:01:13 -
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I think SOV needs a complete overall rather than trying to hack and use whats there, thats my persona opinion, because it just feels rushed and far far too complicated.
The base question should be - Why would you want sov? What benefits does holding sov give me over living in nullsec npc instead?
At the moment the benefits are not much different. Infact many sov holding alliances dont even live in their homes, they live in NPC, why becuase they can farm the missions for high grade implants and the anoms etc. NPC region can actually be more profitable.
Most people want SOV not for the resources but for status, to get your name on the SOV map, to show people you matter, nothing more. Because you just dont see, especially the big alliances having mass mining ops etc. If they build anything its for a moon mining pos, or more poses for jump bridging, or another pos with a cyno jammer.
I see NOTHING of any alliance actually using any of the resources of the systems. The ones that they may do is the high sec ones that have index 5 for the anoms, which to be honest is a huge grindfest, i think i would rather farm belts with much higher bounties.
So CCP needs to make holding SOV worthwhile, but also make people be active rather than live in NPC or do nothing. Isnt nullsec space with a large alliances supposed to be a living breathing active world? Doesnt seem like that, now does it.
Some things we need to think about is, as mentioned why would any one want SOV, it needs to be profitable wthout having to constantly grinding but you have to work to get something.
Some recommendations to want SOV. I remember when i started 10 years ago, nullsec was the place to be the place you aimed for, the riches that you wanted. Now its just been nerfed to hell, being it back. I believe moon mining has caused some major issues. Make nullsec worth going to. Worth living in
 Remove moon mining, and go to belt mining for these resources. Just like every other mineral.
Reverse the index/sec status link, if you have invested in a ihub and all the upgrades then let everyone go back to having the same benefits.
Allow multiple stations to be built, every normal system can have more than one, so why not.
Make ABC ores profitable again.
Bring back more high end DED sites, they used to be fun to do in groups. But instead of having them in certain systems make them random.
Seems to me you have also nerfed faction/officer spawns to non existence. Why?
If you dont then we might as well just all move to NPC nullsec and change every sov region to npc.
 Stop trying to nerf isk making into the ground, because the more money people have the more they invest, buy more ships, more modules etc which makes better for the economy and allows people to really build an active exciting universe. Feels like we have been in austerity for years now and there is no reason for it to be. If you live in nullsec and 'prepared to do some work' then why shouldnt you get the riches?
I moved out of nullsec sov, because there is simply no reason to be there any more.
People being allowed to rent and the mooning mining has made large alliances lazy and far far too easy to make isk, that needs to stop. I do like the thoughts about making taking sov easier and quicker, but you have to have a balance that people arent just going around being annoying and griefing just for the fun of it. |
tiberiusric
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Posted - 2015.03.07 12:36:51 -
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afkalt wrote:I see every effort is still being made to stop changes that punish those who don't live in space they 'own'
Good job.
The people with something to fear here are those who do not live locally. No one else. Size is not a factor in terms of letting 'little' guys in. They could be crushed today and can be crushed tomorrow. The difference is that if you're not living in and using your own space then it's easy to take - and rightly so.
Use it or lose it is the message here.
So what about alliances that are renting regions and regions, where every system is being rented, but effectively the alliance is still holding sov, albeit it in the sister rental alliance.
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