Valleria Darkmoon
Convicts and Savages
Shadow Cartel
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Posted - 2015.08.14 04:09:22 -
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Ok, so I won't pretend to really understand what's going on here as I don't care much for Sov and have been out of game for the last 6 months. After reading the first page though and seeing how everyone was so tired of old sov and don't like new sov etc., etc. Can't we just drop sov as a thing?
I understand some people want to put their name on things so fine, let the entity with the most online towers in the system have their name on it or some sort of grading systems like 3 points for a large, 2 for med and 1 for small tower, highest points gets to plant the flag. Allow people to build supers at any tower with the capability of doing so whether you hold sov or not, if the residents don't like it let THEM handle it, not the game mechanics. Allow conquered stations to have their access restricted by the owner. Otherwise null sec is effectively just low sec without gate/station guns and with allowances for bubbles/bombs and the like and distinctly lacking in FW plexes. EDIT: By all means include any other null sec mechanics other than sov I may have missed the list was not necessarily exhaustive.
Whether structure bashing or PVE content is required for the maintenance of sov and while sov is a big deal the game will feel like a second job because no matter what the requirement is, the simple act of REQUIRING it will make people not want to continue in the long term. You may enjoy plexing or you may enjoy orbiting a gate if you're very strange but when you are forced to do it, it loses its appeal. If you normally PVE in null and log in feeling like you want to pick a fight tonight nothing is going to make you want to log off more than your CEO threatening to boot you from corp if you don't get into the plex op because if you go out looking for trouble you might cost the alliance sov. (Trust me something like this was attempted when I was in Heretic Army which I will not go into detail on here but it resulted in the ousting of the CEO among other things). Conversely players should not be worried that their larger scale operation might be threatened if they have to take a night off.
I could be way off base here because as I said I've been away but this is just how the situation is striking me at first impressions. Never forget that the primary drive for people to log in is the content created by alliance FCs, not by forcing people to log in every day for one purpose or another. CCPs job is to throw toys into the sandbox now and then, not to tell us which toys have a minimum usage quota. The effort to keep people subscribed by forcing them to do X activity WILL get old very fast, people need to be able to log in to do what they feel like doing or they will simply lose interest.
Reality has an almost infinite capacity to resist oversimplification.
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