Jenn aSide wrote:I'm not nearly as doom and gloom about, well, anything going on with the game right now as some of you are. That's not to say I don't have serious concerns. But at the end of the day, CCP isn't doing anything on the scale of "monoclegate/incarna" bad.
What is happening I think (as an outside observer that not only doesn't have the same information CCP has, but also as a guy who doesn't depend on EVE for food, shelter and clothing like a CCP employee does) is that sometimes people on the inside forget how to see things like people on the outside do. Developers may have been (and may still be) players, but actually working for a company changes all perspectives.
Anyways, yes, the "FozzieSov" idea is terrible. Not because it isn't well designed. Not because Fozzie and Co. are stupid (they are very smart). No, it's bad because it demonstrates that those guys don't understand the people they are developing for. They seem to think "pvp is pvp" without understanding that individual people and groups that like pvp like different forms of it.
The pvp that happens in low sec and FW is fundamentally different from what happens in null (and what happens in null is different from wormholes, what happens in wormholes is different from high sec, etc). "FozzieSov" is more like FW than anything else, and FW is small gang/solo style pvp. While plenty of null players like that kind of stuff, if they wanted that full time they'd have just gone to or stayed in FW.
Null sec attracts 'big fleets and big ships' types (the so called F1 monkeys, of which I am a proud member) and this Sov system creates an environment directly counter to what sov null dwellers are there for. Putting FozzieSov in null is like wiping away the current FW system in low sec and replacing it with Dominion Sov.. FW people would have just gone to null if they wanted to play that way.
Most of the pvp in EVE is actually small gang and solo. High sec, low sec and FW low sec, npc null, wormhole space, all of these are small gang territory (99% of the time, if there is a big fight in low sec or npc null, it's Sov null coalitions fighting lol). EVE has one real fleet fight (and capital fight) arena (Sov null) and CCPs brilliant idea here is to impose a small gang Sov system on it....
This is why CCP gets complaints, because sometimes they demonstrate breath-taking short sightedness.