Sensor Boosters. Signal Amplifiers. Whatever the name of the rig that boosts targeting range.

Renters are paying for the stability and protection. And like Arrendis said, there's an element of value at play. 10 billion ISK a month is worth different things to different people.

Wrong. A LOT of people love them.

Boosts them to about 150.

Countered by a sensor damp forcing them to come within bonused web ranges.

Countered by even more ceptors, or just leaving that system and spamming the ones around it.

This will not turn out how you think it will lol.

Some systems are only worth their moons meaning there are no players in them doing active things, hence most systems in null are empty.

So more ships wins in eve, wow that's a shocker.

Also an atron at 0 with a defensive link counters as many intys as you want to kite around outside of frigate gun range.

If you have empty, idle systems surrounding it during your primetime then they're not actively used space are they

Exactly, those ones are gonna get flipped every 2 days by bored roaming inty gangs, the actively used space can be defended.

Working as intended?

It's funny how people complain about AFK cloakers in null where you have the wormhole bears who can't complain about those 5 cloaky proteii (proteus...es?) watching your every move.

Solution to AFK cloaking: remove local from sov null. Done!

Exactly, those ones are gonna get flipped every 2 days by bored roaming inty gangs, the actively used space can be defended.

Working as intended?

Exactly, those ones are gonna get flipped every 2 days by bored roaming inty gangs, the actively used space can be defended.

Working as intended?

Not to mention, it rather blatantly breaks the whole concept of risk vs. reward. Ships that are contesting Sov, be they attackers or defenders, should be at risk. Trollceptors won't be.

That sounds great on paper. lets bookmark this discussion and see how it really plays out?

A multitude of the #'s are pretty wrong. By wrong I mean clearly disproportionate to how much effort defenders have to put in vs random reaver/inty gangs. This heavily favors larger alliances with squads and the ability to run 3-4 interceptor fleets at a time. It also heavily favors attackers griefing smaller alliances out of their stations through freeport/hellcamp/shutting down the entire region.

You have a scenario here where any big player can blow out a smaller alliance from an entire region inside the weekly cycle most people login. Do you really want to chain people to their space as part of an EVE job or do you want to spread it out a bit so they have time to mount an effective response? One of the good things about Dominion SOV is that it makes it take approximately a week to punt someone from a single area much less an entire region. This gives slightly more weekly/casual players the time to react and participate in their defense.

I would suggest making the freeport after a 2nd timer and in general making sure things aren't "dead" after a single reinforcement fight. This is going to make the meta just a big hammer against random parts of space and watching anyone small get obliterated as a past time.

All of the timers probably need at least a doubling as well. There is really no incentive to hold SOV for defense bonus's if we are talking about adding 20 minutes to a cap. The rest of the indexes need to matter. The fact that there is almost 0 Industry indexes ground up as a regional whole is pretty telling. Mining needing fixing is another whole blog though.

This does nothing to make those very "buffer zones" referred to in the blog any better. The reason they are buffer zones is not because they are some EHP buffer. I have no idea why Fozzie is referring to them that way but that is a dramatic misunderstanding of why they exist. They are total crap space with no real ability to be upgraded, generate income, or provide any real ability to support someone living there. They are the EVE equivalent of flyover states that you only transit to get somewhere good.

Finally, I would probably reduce the beacons to 3. Since this is tunable fairly easily, I would assume, you can start by breaking up the fights into 3 areas and seeing what impact that has. 5 is strongly biased against smaller players or those that don't want to have EVE by a job more than it already is.

Summary: This is so weighted to attacking and not the defenders I do not believe it will promote the real growth and sandcastle building you want. Instead it means anyone organized, big, and with manpower is going to grief the living crap outta smaller players. Reavers were already pretty laffo, but this is going to stick it into overdrive. Not the fight promoting overdrive either but the AFK cloaking until you have an opportunity to grief kind. You are making the same mistake you made with non-fight promoting siphons.

Summary: This is so weighted to attacking and not the defenders I do not believe it will promote the real growth and sandcastle building you want. Instead it means anyone organized, big, and with manpower is going to grief the living crap outta smaller players. Reavers were already pretty laffo, but this is going to stick it into overdrive. Not the fight promoting overdrive either but the AFK cloaking until you have an opportunity to grief kind. You are making the same mistake you made with non-fight promoting siphons

My condolences to your sanity points.

Don't know if sacrasem or not? But unless there is a quicker way to get sov lvls I say no.

Exactly, those ones are gonna get flipped every 2 days by bored roaming inty gangs, the actively used space can be defended.

Working as intended?

What "visceral brawls" have you ever had with or against Interceptors? Its tedious bug-hunting of cowards who do not want, and absolutely wont give you a fight. You form up, spend half an hour getting to them, and then they are gone in apuff of smoke. No fight, no kills, no point. It will be a miserable, soul-destroying existance.

hes doe s not get the cocnept that this is the exaclty effect that CCP wants. That huge power blocs forego the unused space.

I am thinking the Troll Laser needs to be restricted to a heavier ship such as a battle cruiser or above.

Love the tears here...great work CCP.

Definitely not. If you can't respond to a frigate fleet, you don't live locally enough.

Restricting it to larger hulls completely undermines the concept of using your space.

why should you get to contest sov without even putting a t1 battlecruiser at risk? the issue isn't being unable to respond to an interceptor fleet, it's that an interceptor fleet has no risk whatsoever to its pilots

if you're too much of a coward to even risk a single t1 battlecruiser you have no business in the big leagues