Corvald Tyrska
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Posted - 2016.04.25 09:40:29 -
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Kitsune Rei wrote:Why not just make sec status a dynamic value? If a certain threshold of destruction is met, the sec status of a system drops by 0.1 at the next downtime. Imagine Jita as a 0.4 system.
EDIT: If the threshold isn't met, it gains 0.1 sec status until it reaches it's original value.
There are a lot of reasons this wouldn't work. In practice, the most organised and co-ordinated groups are not HiSec players which means the co-ordinated ganking groups have a huge advantage. On top of that with the alpha available through certain ships there is no way a group could actually prevent the destruction of a targeted ship even with co-ordinated logistics to try and protect it. The alpha will overcome any repping and kill the ship regardless. Have a look at the history of N+1 Nullsec doctrines to see this in action as fleets moved through Maelstrom, Slowcat and Dreadnaught blobs to overcome grouped up triage logistics with massive alphas. Even if groups did co-ordinate to protect the freighters, pirate groups could just sit on the Jita undock and smartbomb hundreds of frigates to help drop the sec status with no way to stop it other than counter ganking (which would also drop the sec status). It would definitely be worth suiciding a bunch of battleship fleets just to drop the sec status of trade hubs and even if you don't want to go that far it is easy enough to burn through a few thousand cheap thrashers.
Worse, you are essentially forcing thousands of HiSec players who only want to mine, mission run, rat, or do indy/PI to abandon their chosen activities for a period of time each day and co-ordinate to defend the sec status of their system. To prevent that you would have to allow all those activities to help raise the sec status of the system at which point you have nearly recreated Sov Null.
Finally, the sec status represents the Concord response time for the system. Logically, why would Concord respond less quickly to known trouble spots. Realistically, heavy ganking should raise the sec status temporarily as Concord are going be watching the area more closely and be more ready to respond. |