Nevyn Auscent
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Posted - 2015.08.01 23:10:27 -
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Borascus wrote:
Are targets going to be belt-ratting in unoccupied systems? At least there is something to engage in sov, and the owning alliance gets a mail to say 'turn up for fight'.
If the launcher explains that there are 20-40k players online any given time, and picturing that people log in / out every minute, it makes more sense for people online for more than an hour to own more systems than 1:100players, so they can co-ordinate fights.
Log-in, sit in system, wait for ratter. On the other side of the coin is 'log-in, wait to defend'. This is the reason interceptor entosis is not enjoyable, there is no fight, it's literally 'turn up here to see an interceptor'. The aggressing alliance should already have enough sov for their 1:100 pilot ratio, 14k pilots gives 140 systems? 828 empty systems? What about hi-sec/low-sec/wh players?
Null-sec sov holders want to own more sov than they can manage to have an abundance of possible fights.
600bil isk is 50 years of subscription if you aren't losing ships. Last I saw CCP had an e-mail address for plex purchases over 300.
Your issue here is that you are equating sov with fights.
The two are only tangentially related, not a direct correlation.
Try doing other things to get fights.
Also, who cares if there are empty systems? That's systems you then don't have to waste time with if you are searching for a large scale fight against another null alliance. Just go direct to their active systems with a Battleship fleet, wait for them to escalate, then drop your own cyno's. Hey presto, massive fight.
Or just jump a titan in with said BS fleet, and watch the server go crazy.
If you want a big cap fight, look at the actual reasons big cap fights have happened. Nothing to do with nibbling away at unimportant sov and troll roams. Those happened under the old sov mechanics as well, cloaky roams almost never escalated to titan fights. It was form ups over critical hub systems, or a tackled titan (who may have pressed jump not bridge) that made the big fights. So use those reasons, not sov for the sake of sov. |