You make that sound like it's a bad thing.

Providing benefits for robust in-space activity has been one of the key drivers of many of the economic changes to Nullsec over the past few years, and those changes have been quite successful in shifting the focus of Nullsec economic activity from static assets to bottom-up gameplay. ItGÇÖs now time to begin linking this same bottom-up economic activity more strongly with the world of strategic Sovereignty warfare.

OK look, CCP, I like where you tried to go with this, but there are some major problems you need to fix.

1) The 4 hour vulnerability window is way too short; doing what one of the other commenters suggested and turning it around into an 8 to 12 hour "safe" window would be a much better idea.

2) Instead of having *all* an alliance's timers set for a single window, why not allow different timers to be set depending on the region? With the jump fatigue mechanic now in place and jump clone timers at a minimum of 19 hours, alliances still wouldn't be able to jump back and forth across their space very easily and this might be a good way to allow different time zones to still participate if you decide to keep the 4 hour vulnerable idea. Have different time zones defending different regions.

3) The T2 Entosis link range is insane and the fact that ships can move while using one is even more so. The T2 Entosis link range should be brought down to double the T1 and both of them should immobilize the ship using it like a triage, siege, or bastion module does. I don't particularly like that it's a highslot either.

4) I've played FW heavily on another account and so I know firsthand how PvP anomalies can generate PvP. So while I like the idea of command nodes, I hate the fact that they're scattered across an entire constellation. My corp owns a single system, and that's all we want. We don't want to have to fly around an entire constellation to protect our single system. The best FW combat is always based on contesting of a single system in PvP anoms in that system, and nullsec command nodes should follow the same model. You say the goal of these changes is to allow smaller entities a shot at sov, but what you're really doing is telling us is that we either need to be big enough to take an entire constellation or we should just go home.

5) These sov changes make it a lot easier to lose your Sov without giving any matching value to owning sov. Like one of the other commenters said, make Sov indexes give bonuses to mining yields and rat bounties or something, anything, that adds more value to owning a crappy nullsec system over highsec missioning.

6) Sov warfare is a huge part of what makes capital ships useful. I'm really glad that you're trying to produce a sov model where owning capital ships isn't required, but eliminating their use entirely is a slap in the face to those of us who spent half a year training into them and billions of ISK buying them. They need to have some function. I'm not saying they should be an "I Win" button as they currently are, but there should be some advantage to having them vs not having them

But, based on what the devblog said, it doesn't force you to come to a stop, unlike a cyno, triage, or siege module.

Another good suggestion for industrial index.

To reiterate:

Industrial index as a function of mining only discounts a significant portion of Occupancy activities that should meaningfully be derived into defense. Allow manufacturing, research, POS reactors, PI, and exploration mini-games to increase a system's industrial index in addition to mining.

Yes. If the prime-time window could be set differently for each system or structure, rather than one time across the whole alliance then alliances with multiple TZs would naturally set primes-times, proportionally, according to the number of members they have in each TZ, not only to provide content for each TZ but to eliminate the need to protect ALL its space during one prime-time. Is this not a very obvious solution? I can't claim to be an authority on the current system but for the proposed changes this would seem to make sense. Am I missing something?

"Defenders will also often enjoy the benefits of jump bridges,"

Best line in the whole thing lol

Its going to make Multi TZ alliance be useless since the timers will only come out at one time...

How far can an interceptor target anyway? I doubt there is any fit that gets it to 250 km.

That one did give me a giggle too. I'm wondering if the author was deliberately putting gags in the text to see if people were paying attension.

great work CCP.
welcome to new MOBA EVE \o/

How far can an interceptor target anyway? I doubt there is any fit that gets it to 250 km.

CCP, can you please address the point to living in null sec? I mean my logic is that because there is more risk to living in null sec there should be more reward, but as it stands this is not the case. Do you have any plans to address the gaping goatse-sized hole in the risk vs. reward proprotion of nullsec vs say high sec?

Thanks.

Yours in christ,

Aryndel Vyst
Director of Personnel Operations and Logistics
Goonswarm Federation

If each structure has its own prime time, prime times will be evenly spread out in order to minimize the occurrence of multiple capture events at the same time.

Choice of prime time will not be a realistic reflection of when most people are online, but it will be a purely strategic decision, geared towards annoyance and attrition; at least that's what I would do.

Alliance:Northern Associates.
From:MissMary Thornbush
Sent:2015-03-03 21:16:00

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/politics-by-other-means/


So with sov changes comeing N3 will be makeing plans to adjsut how we do things - Now before everyone has a hart attack the patch isnt till June but we have to make adjustments prior too. With this said somethings you need to be prepaird to do.

1. If you are a CAP BUILDER all building needs to stop no lator then march 30th this means finished done nothing more going into build till after we send you a update when this can be done.

why- there will be some re adjusting of space and you may or may not be able to build where you currently are and or sov will change to a new alliance as we re orgnize.

2. Some renters will be asked to relocate to new rental alliances as they are formed as we re work how this is done.


Atmo you have no need to stress your renter managers for your regions will contact you when and if you are effected how ever the most important part is being ready for adjustments

anyone who puts a build in after this mail is fked if we decide your region is being transferd to a new alliance. So do not do it !!!


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