The #1 goal of fozziesov was to make the act of fighting over sov entertaining for all.

Can confirm.

CCP just gotta phase out the "sov trolling" tactics and fozzysov is golden.

I see that Northern Coalition. has made some bad choices in recent history.

Initiative have always been a special (and kinda weird) case...

Perhaps SMA should invade Initiative. It would provide some clarity in this discussion.

Oh yeah, you're absolutely right. I can count on one hand, the number of fleets I have been on where there wasn't at least one blue that I wanted to primary and then try to have kicked from comms. Unfortunately, sometimes, that someone is also the FC. Truth be told, there are only about five FCs who's fleets I will go on. Not because the others are bad at spaceships, but because they are bad about letting loud retards ruin everyone else's evening. Yes yes, I know: no chatter channel. Unfortunately when one needs to be able to listen to input from scouts, they're also stuck listening to every mouthbreathing, unfunny shitler who thinks that "tell your wife to make me a sandwich" is the height of comedy.

I like where you decided to cut that quote off. For the record, I am not talking about GSF line members unsubbing because "can't rat safely" or whatever drivel you like to tell yourself. I am talking about major content creators bailing out of nullsec, and not just bloc level FCs either.
As a prime example, go read wheniaminspace's reasons for leaving Eve, that he posted on Reddit. Hint: Aegis.

That's not the point. People bring overwhelming numbers because people show up. The way a fleet like that is formed is pretty simple. Things to shoot shows up > Call goes out > People join fleet, depending on the amount of stuff and what kind of stuff needs shooting, those fleets become quite large quite quickly.

If it is about shooting a bunch of interceptors that are applying sovlasers to things, there will likely be a smaller turnout than when somebody comes rolling through with a group of battlecruisers (bad example, nobody flies those anymore, but an example nonetheless)

The main complaint from big evil sov holders is that the current iteration of sov warfare is more boring than what we previously had in place and this is ridiculous, considering what we previously had in place involved shooting massive hitpoint pools which is probably the most stupid and boring gameplay design in the history of grinds. Someone has managed to iterate on that and make something more boring!

They said we'll give you a sov system that's fun for everyone.

I am seeing none of that and I wont for one second believe that the small gang types are enjoying what is happening. They might enjoy 'us' whining about it because they have been drilled to enjoy that, just like we have been drilled to enjoy it when they mess up and get 3 cruisers killed.

Oh and yes, sov 0.0 is largley full of carebears, if that's what you want to call them. They organise and they band together to keep their space home they have made for themselves from falling apart and they'll continue to do so. They/We/Whatever are actually quite good at it.

In the meantime, the tiny numbers this new 'style' of warfare requires, causes one thing in particular (or that I can see anyways)
People stop logging in, particularly people (or alts) that are specialised into flying larger, bigger, heavier (and largely unneeded) ships. You might argue that this is all fine and dandy and given enough time, this trend will cause the evil sov holders to lose people while nothing actually changes.

So yay, now there are fewer people playing the same game as before (with less reloading and cycling guns) and nothing has really changed anything and don't get me wrong, I am not saying that dominion sov was any better but at least it brought more 'people' 'together' and made the whole thing feel more alive than it has since the dawn of the sovlaser.