Nullsec: discussed many tweaks to nullsec to promote conflict, including possibility of destructible stations and changes to drone loot and moons.

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Nullsec: discussed many tweaks to nullsec to promote conflict, including possibility of destructible stations and changes to drone loot and moons.

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That's lowsec/nullsec business as usual, where novelties are split between any of these two cathegories:

- things that favor big corps
- things that harm small corps

Huh. Quoting myself, talking about POCOs:



'nuff said.

Malcanis' Law applies to small corps in 0.0 as much as it does to new players in EVE. I have never yet seen a change to sov 0.0 suggested "to help small corps/alliances" that would not in fact be hugely to the advantage of large strong alliances.

In fact I challenge you to produce a workable one.

I caution you, don't hold your breath.

Thanks for the update. I can't say I feel good about that list though.

Since the changes your hard work have produced haven't directly and significantly improved everything I, and only I, want, the CSM is obviously a total failure.

Fixed those :words: of yours there.

Thanks for the update. I can't say I feel good about that list though.

More stuff to be destroyed by the east/west block and drive out the small and even larger independant alliances from null. Actually, those types of alliances in null will be pretty much extinct next year, so I guess it really doesn't matter. Why is it you think people will go to null again?

There aren't any independant alliances in sov 0.0 now, and I don't think there have been for at least a year (discounting the occasional temporary station-snatch) and perhaps more, depending on your exact definition of "independant".

Furthermore, unless CCP radically alter the way space works, there aren't ever likely to be any either. The place for small independent corps/alliances is W-space, where that radical alteration has already taken place and numerous small entities are quietly going about their business as you read this.

Malcanis' Law applies to small corps in 0.0 as much as it does to new players in EVE. I have never yet seen a change to sov 0.0 suggested "to help small corps/alliances" that would not in fact be hugely to the advantage of large strong alliances.

In fact I challenge you to produce a workable one.

Malcanis' Law applies to small corps in 0.0 as much as it does to new players in EVE. I have never yet seen a change to sov 0.0 suggested "to help small corps/alliances" that would not in fact be hugely to the advantage of large strong alliances.

In fact I challenge you to produce a workable one.

FAI, NPC uber-fleets wreaking havoc on player-owned assets, depending on how big is the owner corporation/alliance as measured by sovereignty, member count, blued players, and so. And I mean wreak havoc, drop whatever it takes to annihilate a structure within minutes and do so without warning. Preferably when most of the alliance is asleep. Also, NPC won't drop anything but garbage when blown out. Let the universe predate on the bigger fishes for a change...

Or, FAI 2, something I already suggested in the past, a stacking penalty for fleets based on both raw and differential EHP & DPS, dynamically adapting, and fit with various safeguards to prevent cheating the system with partial drops, retreats and reinforcements.

Being big should have shortcomings and handicaps, being small shud allow escape, evasion and surgical capability. Being big is a win-win because CCP wanted to brag about thousands of ships in a battle, but they're killing the game to themselves and everyone...

Yeah pretty much what I expected.

1.Spend hours setting up a POS and shipping stuff.
NPC supercap fleet hotdrops and alpha strikes it in a cycle.
Get 2000 friends together, beat it back.
No salvage or drops.

Yeah, perfect idea.

2. My fleet is big so our armor magically gros thinner and our guns shoot wet tissue instead of tungsten rounds. People just wouldn't form fleets.


This is beyond dumb, I hope you're trolling.

I would love LOS issues in game. Frigate PVP in an asteroid belt would be awesome! Also, ship explosions as an area effect plus electronic interferance from large numbers or electronically intensive ships being bunched (slower targeting and such).

Stay little. Let the Big Man look for a bigger one to crush.



No. Your LOS is blocked by your own ships, spreading your fleet opens gaps, wider formations take longer to assemble and maneuver, supply lines become critical, the more field you control the thinner are your resources in any certain point... those are Real World drawbacks to being big which EVE simply ignores by making ships that magically hit each other no matter what's in between nor where in 360-¦ it's located, that don't need refueling, that can instantly jump where they want, and so and so.

Crimewatch: Greyscale presented a proposal for rewriting Crimewatch, the system that handles aggression, criminal flags, and so on. It's basically a big ball of tangled code, and CCP wants to streamline and move the various functions into independent units of code. We really liked the new concept.

Is this a purely technical proposal aimed at making the system easier to maintain/adjust and increasing its performance, or were there any proposed changes to the game mechanics this code handles?