Maybe iHubs and/or TCUs should be service modules in Citadels. Give people the option of anchoring them independently as at present. In structures, they consume fuel but are are protected by the structure defenses. Anchored independently, no fuel required but easy to kill.

Good read, thank you for posting.
Can you please write one about the change and current state of warp bubbles ?

I see what you’re saying but you have no frame of reference or analysis of the history of the game here.

The whole point of changing the Dominion mechanics was that a single point of conflict leads to blue doughnutting.

Why? Because when there is a single thing to fight over with timers what matters is who can bring the most powerful fleet to that timer. This means big, well organised, alliances almost always beat smaller, less well organised, ones.

Therefore the natural strategy is to grow your alliance as big as you can to try and win more of these single point conflicts.

Moreover it promotes a kind of gameplay based on “only showing up when you are sure you will win.” So if your enemy has a more powerful fleet than you it’s not even worth showing up at all because you’re just throwing ships away for nothing.

Wars become stale and cold because it’s just one big alliance steam rolling another which doesn’t even bother to show up and the smaller alliance then has to choose who to integrate into to continue to play in null.

And we know all this because when building Fozzie sov there was a huge amount of discussion around these exact issues.

So what you’re suggesting here is that we just jump back to the broken system we had before. I disagree with that.

I know Fozzie sov is not working properly and I think it’s one of the big problems at CCP that they aren’t willing to go back and actually fix systems which they half built but it’s reasonably obvious at this point that if you can argue for your solution in 2 paragraphs then it’s not been thought through enough.

First of all i like citadels bit i think ccp went the Wrong way with them i likes there initial Idea. that Its your Housing. Now if The size of a citadel was truely dynamic and I could add as Mutch to one as I wanted. So I want 1000 lines of research ok cost 1000 times more to fuel.

I want to add more guns to my Death Star. More guns cost more ammo.

Then add a mini game how to fit it all.
Where you can get bonuses/penalty for how you stack items.

Now that would allow a small group to band together and build a small fortress while the major alliances would create literal death traps that could alpha off titans.

Tie in the sov to those structures as you have to entosis a Death Star to even make the system vulnerable and we get bigger fights just to make important system vulnerable.

Add in a Star drive module so you could move the Death Star and we got a nice invasion beachhead

If system is unclaimed the system can be held by a small citadel. If claimed the biggest citadel holds it (untill over a threshold). If several xl exist in system of opposing forces system is under attack. And loses Indexes

>This means that for the cost of a few billion isk, a group can almost guarantee themselves a sub-cap beachfront.

Possible autocorrect error; this final word ought to be “beachhead”. Unless of course the Astrahus has been deployed in a spot which provides a gorgeous view of the adjacent nebula 🙂

GO BACK TO POS WARFARE.

Fuck, how many times do I have to say it?

I started playing before we had Sov mechanics and Alliance Mechanics. We had about 6 corps numbering about 60 real life players and their alts who wanted to mine Crokite in Lower Syndicate. The sole purpose of banding together was to maximize income in the face of a pirate menace. We defended space as a group because we needed the ISK to build battleships to mine in (it was 2004).

Back then our “fame” came from pilots who made maps by flying around the galaxy and seeing who lived there, or being told that space had been taken. So, we appeared on a map to salve our ePeen and we became rich because we defended our space. THERE WAS NO SOV MECHANIC

We could not achieve our goals without the ISK from the Crokite and that was impossible without a bigger group. What happened to this “Alliance”? We got steamrollered by a group called Supremacy who kicked us out of Syndicate because they needed the Crokite. We ended up forming RAZOR, up in Deklein using the new Alliance system introduced by CCP,

Citadels are a throw back to that time, no-one cares about the game sov other than to be able to appear on a sov map. The problem is that there is too much money in the game, people aren’t hungry enough and everywhere is becoming the same. Supremacy didn’t stay in Syndicate long, they hated mining as much as they enjoyed kicking over our sandcastle and they went off to find other sandcastles. When they left a group called Goons showed up …. to mine crokite, so they could afford to get out of rifters.

Somehow, folk with more brains than me need to figure out how to capture the energy and enthusiasm of those days, Eve online should not go quietly into the night.

So, basically, the idea is to revert FossieSov, with a few tweaks.

I LOVE IT no sarc.