I agree it looks awesome.

*edit: Removed non-appropriate quote. - DEV Zoom

I agree with almost all of this!

Did the acronym start with W and ended with an R?

itt, I am very *very* "excited".

Remember the end of the DoW2 intro? Where the Eldar witch is dying and pointing towards the oncoming Tyranid hive fleet?

I feel that a certain island will find the look on the Space Marine's face captures how they feel about this change.

Man we just went from beta in a few months to "we are coming" all in the space of one amazing change. And the best part? We ain't the only corp that feels that way.

It is soooo on.

Edit: FOOM duder is right that it will be a pain in the nuts getting value out of it, and that logi will be miserable. But the thing is this change makes it possible for us to take something without really needin allies or heavies or any of that. We can just go out and do what we love doing and win. That right there? That tight.

That also is exactly what people have been begging for in eve for years.

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Also, the mechanic probably ought to turn the outpost over to whoever captured the most once 0 is hit. Otherwise the owner can ignore sap fights until the last day, have a bunch of allies show and cap it to zero and then take the next that pops while covering the gates.

That's how I'd exploit it, personally.

For the record I accidently reported this post. I thought I was writing a reply, yet ended up writing a report instead. Hooray for the effects of long work days! Lol

Anyway, what I was generally saying ( as my brain has pretty much already forgotten ) however many OP's that are vacant right now is really a moot point. If you want to make a point to enforcing OP's being appealing at the moment you'd have to look at how many have actually changed hands due to people contending for them. Sitting on an OP because no one else cares to fight you for it and the actual contention of the land for beneficial perks are two very different situations... and I'm leaning on our situation as being the former.

No bro, you misread. I said exploit, not use. Example: a tiny group holds an outpost they cannot possibly protect on one island purely to prevent another corp from grabbing it. Buuuuut they have a big protector on the other side of the map. They can't stop the saps, but they don't have to because no one really lives there anyway.

When the outpost gets to near zero their distant protector calls a cta and puts a bunch of toys inside while keeping a couple people out looking for saps. One gets found, they lock the island and do it.

Repeat ad nauseum.

Remember you can stop a snowball by showing up and interrupting one cap. Just one.

Would it be difficult? No doubt. Also for the attacker. Can you imagine it happening in the near future? I can think of a spot where it would. And in the future when perp grows? Definitely.

I really like these changes.

Will make owning an outpost mean you've been able to defend it and you are actively inhabiting the area... great change.

This also creates the opportunities for ad-hoc small scale objective based pvp engagements with meaning.

Digging it... Great job Devs.

Hopefully these changes will provide certain allainces sufficient reason to reset some or all of it's parts. I'm still seeing alot of reasons for wanting to be friendly with people because at some point you might need their help. This will give them less incentive as now you don't have to have so many friends you'll be protected at a certian time, every 3 days.

Best thing about this system is the room for growth. New players and corporations will be able to move in. I don't currently think there's a corp around that could manage to consistently control the area around 2 outposts, all the time, espically if they're under attack at either outpost, on seperate islands. I'd certainly enjoy watching someone try to prove me wrong about that

This seems like a good change. Hopefully ego will do what ego does best and piss someone off soon, or people realize that with this change they don't have to follow egos orders anymore...

I don't know about that Arga. ATM there are advantages to letting neutrals use your territory (not that anyone has realised or is taking advantage of that, but it's beside the point). Post changes, if you're anywhere near someones outpost, you're automatically a hostile (again, this is currently the case, but through player behaviour, not game mechanics).

Agree to use their facilities, as that will bring profit, and will be an incentive for the owning corp to keep stability high, ensuring maximum benefit and reassuring that you are safe in operating there.

ownership appeal is likley to be dictated by this 'relationship benefit'

Currently having high relations only actually benefits production by a small percentage.  If that improves substantially with the new system then outposts could be way more appealing.

if indeed the new system generates a lot more pvp, then its going to become a battle of resources and those production benefits will be really important.

But if 'maximum benefit from relations' is still only a few % then it probably wont effect appeal that much at all.  Just go alpha.