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Drethon Gallente Lutin Group Acheron Federation	Posted - 2007.12.19 20:02:00 - [1] Originally by: Adunh Slavy .... This kind of gave me an idea, pardon me if its been listed but there is too much to read right now. What is the problem right now? You can drop POSes all over and only do something with them when they come under attack. Otherwise the POS is almost "free". When someone wants to take over the system they get stuck attacking POS after POS until they have killed off enough. Pretty boring. My thoughts, give the 0.0 systems a population, similar to the above post. Now instead of spamming POSes you need to convert or conquer the population. A population can be most easily converted to your side via ISKs. Pay them enough every month and they will do anything you want. An alternative is trade. Haul away the stuff they have too much of and haul in the stuff they want. This can range from a minor profit to a minor expense depending on the system. The other option of course being conquering them. Until we have the ability to land on planets, I see land wars this way. Ships with large or capital guns can attack the surface to weaken defenses and industrials or cruiser and smaller ships can unload marines onto the planets surface. Once enough marines have been landed, they take over the planet. Once you own a system, there is maintenance. The simplest maintenance is paying off the population. This requires little work by the owner of the systems but is VERY expensive. This should be the sort of thing where paying off a number of good systems would break an alliance like BOB. You only want to be doing this with a couple systems at most for short term. Additional maintenance can be equipment. If the owner is not paying for the system, they need to bring the equipment required to maintain the system. This would be soldiers, weapon equipment and possibly basic trade goods as well. How does this make taking over systems less boring? Part of the idea behind this system is it is very difficult to maintain. Likely you would need a good size corporation just to keep up a single system. Now taking over a system is a major thing. Additionally it would not just be take down a POS any more. The system would be populated by NPCs based on how the owner is maintaining the system. Now a conquering force will need to contend with waves of NPC defenders trying to protect the system. NPC defenders would only be in systems not under military control of the owner however. If the owner has the system under military control instead of friendly control, the defenders might actually have NPCs fighting for them when they try to take over the system. This idea isn't fully thought out but I thought I'd throw it out there as an idea for making 0.0 wars more interesting because its more work to maintain the system as opposed to more work to conquer it. "I may not believe in what you believe in but I will fight to the death to protect your right to believe."
Drethon Gallente Selinir	Posted - 2008.04.16 13:12:00 - [2] Something that seems interesting to me is have gate control be a hacking type of thing. Any ship equipped with a hacking device can take control of a gate after say an hour. Once control is gained the corporation that now controls it can make the gate accessible or inaccessible based on standings, war, etc. Meaning a corporation can leave the gate as a public gate or lock down the gate as desired. When unlocking the gate it can be made publicly accessible in a half an hour but another hour after that is required for the new corporation to lock down the gate for themselves. When a corporation has control of enough gates that they can lock down a system/constellation/region jump ships start to become useful. Of course the gate can still be unlocked from the "free" side of the gate blockade but a ship can also jump into the locked down space an unlock a gate from inside. This will require a change to perhaps the covert ops frigate to allow them the ability to sneak through locked down gates or possibly use a mini jump drive that can jump between locked down gates. What I envision is a large alliance locking down an entire region. An attacking corporation sends a scout into the region to locate a quiet system. A Black Ops battleship is jumped into the system and uses a Jump Portal to bring the fleet into the system. While the fleet works to defend the gates in the system the scout ship sneaks off into another system. As the battle continues the scout ship locks down all of the gates into another system. The fleet then jumps in to defend the newly controlled system. This is only a half thought out idea but I really like the idea of working the sovereignty system like castles. Once the wall is built it is difficult to knock down but there are different options ranging from all out siege assault down to covert attacks they may not even be detectable until they are over. ____ "I may not believe in what you believe in but I will fight to the death to protect your right to believe."

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