The Captains Log 8/11
System: E1UU-3; Esoteria
Station: La Fabbrichetta del Papi
Continuing on from my last post this post is for all those people who don’t like to make their way through 61 pages of forum threads. CCP has responded to the overwhelming hate coming from the Eve-O forums and released these revised details on the new upkeep system.
- Basic sov is now going to cost 1 mill/per day (down from 20mill)
- Sov with a infrastructure hub will now be 5 mill/per day (down from 10mill)
- They want to attach significant cost for the use of jump bridges and cynojammers
Well these changes will drastically reduce the cost for any alliance wanting to hold sov as you will now effectively be able to hold a system for 30 mill a month. Personally I think this is far too trivial.
CCP has also released a few more details about the switch between the old sov system and new sov system is going to work
We also cover seeding, in the next blog or after where we talk transition between old and new. TCU’s will be seeded automatically within solar systems you are currently sovereign of and your sovereignty times will be backdated to what you have when the servers go down which will adjust the strategic index starting level as a result to effectively what level of sov you have now.
We will then give you a grace period (week or more) to choose what strategic upgrades you want to continue to have in each solar system and install those after which when the grace period has passed, any strategic structures in systems not upgraded will be oflined such as what occurs when sovereignty is lost now.
The hubs and upgrades will currently be available like starbase modules from the NPC market at Concord/DED stations
Well that sounds alright to me. Apparantly a revised blog will come out on Monday or Tuesday concerning the changes the CCP are going to make in regards to player feedback.
Tags: Dominion, Upkeep System
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Given the amount of anger I'm glad CCP made an adjustment. Even if it doesn't end up being good for the game – at this point it is more about the players. They can always adjust the numbers a few months from now if it isn't working like it should You know, like turn up the heat on the lobster slowly instead of all at once…
Yeah it is good to see that CCP has responded to what the players think of their changes. We will have to see what happans in regards to increasing the upkeep latter on but I would say that there would be another thread of pure CCP hate again : )
I agree the price should be higher but not linearly. Rather then one system is 2m a day and 2 systems is 4m per day (total) it should be something like.. 1 system is 2m per day but two systems are 6m per day and 3 are 9m a day. The formula would be cost of all systems (all upgrades added together) x 1.5 once you have more then one system. Check my blog tomorrow for a more in depth explanation of what I think should be the solution.
I defintly will check it out. Another idea on the forums was declare a capital system and the price of holding sov increased as you moved away from that system
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