Topic: Intrusion 2.0 issues and feedback
So it's a few days into Intrusion 2.0 and already the strain is starting to show on some peoples faces.
To put it simply I don't think the system is quite what many had hoped for or expected.
All of these issues can be addressed easily with minor changes and a few rethinks.
It's simple enough to say that outpost won't be held at 100% but then requiring 60% just to have them back to how they were before is a pretty tall order. Not unfair just unexpected.
Each SAP opens for 60 minutes but every SAP can be completed in around 2 minutes. Defenders aren't able to block SAPs unless they have more numbers. Even then PVP moves around so much the defender only needs to step away from the SAP or stop killing anyone attempting to complete them for 1 minute to lose the event.
I disliked Intrusions before but now honestly I can't be bothered with the entire system. Honestly anything that makes me miss EVE mechanics is worrying.
I had the idea of setting peak activity times per corporation (And making them public) and then every event would falls 3 hours before and after this time. Currently trying to maintain 10 people for 24 hours with the average player able to give 2 hours a day (And this is saying that we can cover all time zones evenly) will require ~120 people. Granted that the minimum time between events is 8 hours but that just means at the moment we're STILL alarm clocking defences. And not only that we're doing it for possibly nothing.
The old system was expensive and unrewarding. It meant alarm clocking a set time but at least you got a few hours warning. Now the new system is more hard work for very little reward for the amount of assets requires to maintain an outpost. Alliances that can have many corps attack or defend a single outpost are far more in favour and when we already have ~50% of the population in a single alliance I thought we should be moving away from Alliance encouraging mechanics.
Just my thoughts on it all. Take them as opinion and please don't troll. If you love the new system then please explain why. I am sure I can be convinced it's a good system but unless something happens soon I'll be just another attack with no desire to be part of an alliance. It's getting to the point where those who have left are not encouraging people to go back to EVE-Online. That can't be a good sign. People will go where the people are.