The problem, the real problem and the biggest problem that anyone has with this new system is that it was supposed to help stagnation in 0.0 and encourage fights.

Theres a few fights happening in the east but thats about it. Nobody in a troll ceptor is looking for a fight, they are looking to troll and be annoying, thats fine.

Trolling and being annoying is cool ingame but it has no place in a robust, fun and rewarding sovereignty system.

People that support the game becoming more boring are hardly the types of people CCP should listen to when making development decisions.

Sure, we'll snag one or three ever so often with a lucky smartbomb, but that's about the best you can hope for.

You want to screw with sov, you should have to come prepared for a fight.

I am still behind these things. It is not the sov system I have as much of a problem with, as it is the meta of "ohgodruuuuun". That was a problem before the nano nerfs, it's been a problem since nullified interceptors and the Mordus ships became a thing, and this sov system has just highlighted that problem.

Few people are asking for a rollback, most are just asking for action to be taken to make this system actually work.

And how is the old system more stale? We used to have fights most of the time.

Now, even the russian blocks have called a cease fire to their unending war. Nobody wants a serious fight with anybody, and the only people bothering to play with the new sov system would rather run away than actually fight for it because even they don't want the sov.

If you legitimately think this system is working and you're not just thinking "grr goons" then there's no helping you.

With links, you can make a ceptor uncatchable (under 2 sec warp) even with a fitted entosis module fitted and online. The fun part is you can also have your links uncloaked just when you need an fast warp and the cloak it so it can't be probed.

Pretty sure it work even with ghetto level (T1 CBC + T1 link) of links.

not actually participate in sov warfare.

Unless you think unwillingness to babysit structures for hours at a time (you know, in lieu of actually using your space, playing the game, or having fun) counts as "lazy".

No one uses a mission alt to web a freighter. Hell, you just need to lose one alt slot instead of a station trader, then have it follow your guy around. You need less than a week worth of skillpoints to do it.

I doubt that.

When a guy in a disposable ship sees that you've had to come out and chase him away, he's having even more fun.

Remember the problem here is they don't want to sov, so stopping them from entosising isn't a bad thing, it simply means they've wasted your time like they aimed to.

failing to generate conflict

Because the bar for suicide ganking is so low, we have to scout and web or lose the hauler, even for just a shitfit destroyer.

the old system generated conflict

Fights pretty much stopped when power projection did because nobody can be bothered to slowboat 40 jumps to get dropped on by the local defense fleet with no chance of escalation. Fozziesov smashed the final nail into the coffin with the end of the russian war.

You would expect people to be shifting for conflict if it was being planned. But there's none of that. Sure, there's some minor fights occurring as there always has and always will be, but nothing really substantial. There's certainly nothing newsworthy coming out of it as of yet.

It's not so much the space, it's what happens if you are deployed and a small group shows up in your home. Large scale wars are not so simple to split attention from, so a large war wit h a large opponent leaves them open to attack from behind. Under the old system that wasn't so bad, the attackers had to commit quite heavily and you could pick the important battles. Under the new system attackers need 1 interceptor to attack a capture point. That's all. 1 interceptor. It's a much better plan to simply stop fighting with the other big guy and focus on preventing the little ones doing any serious damage. If the bar were higher there would be less threat of getting simultaneously hit at 100 different places if you deploy, so deployment would seem like a viable option.

Its time.

These are nodes out of their reinforcement periods, where they can attack them and claim them for themselves. And they are not doing it because it's not worth their time. Similarly, the Imperium does not defend them because by doing so it will enable MoA to launch trollceptors once more.

The first attack on a node with Entosis link puts the structure in reinforced mode. After that period ends, a second attack either blow up the structure (IHUB, TCU) or captures it (Station). Or obviously puts it back to the defender's hands.

There are structures in Pure blink right now that are on their second capture circle for days. MoA doesn't want to destroy them because they will lose their trolling targets and the Imperium doesn't want to flip them back to secured because it will give new targets to MoA's campaign.

That's what people complain about. There there is nothing going on, which was exactly what was the status quo during DominionSov.

We can't risk serious resources without being able to escalate if needed, and we can't risk move escalation forces near the target if there is nothing that we really need in that area.

Peacetime fleets for "Fun" go out almost every hour. You can be sure that they won't spend ~40 minutes looking at a node simply to reinforce a structure.

You said " large scale campaign against another target". I was thinking that you mean a real campaign against a real target . You know, the ones where capital ships are required.

You were obviously talking about trollceptors, so the answer is: Why would we have our members do something tedious without strategic value that will not even result in combat? If one of our members wants to go troll sov he can do it, it's up to him. Although, I would suggest a medical examinations afterwards.

Well, we're all too busy living in our space to deploy elsewhere.

It's a way of saying that if a group flies away from their own space to attack someone else, they are weak on home defence.

Spent months grinding structures back when they could escalate to fights.

Aegis did help. And bomber fleets are different than trollceptors.

Why would we (or should we for that matter) risk our space to go deploying elsewhere when we can just live in our space spreading out the painfully boring structure mining and frigate chase over more people? If attackers don't have to commit anything to nullsec conflict, why should we?