How to break Constellation Sovereignty
When Full Constellation Sovereignty is in effect the capital solar system POSs cannot be destroyed, this is important to remember. You can however deploy POSs in the capital solarsystem to take control if you have sufficient number of moons to be able to out-number the controlling alliances POSs.
So to break constellation sovereignty, you as an attacker must:
- Hold sovereignty in the majority of solarsystems in the constellation OR
- Take sovereignty in one of the Outpost systems and then take the Outpost OR
- Take the Capital Outpost (same as the option above really)
After revisiting the blog over and over and reading LeMousse's FAQ it's evident something is incorrect :) let me explain further. When a Capital Outpost system has Sovereignty Level 4 (constellation sovereignty) in effect you cannot get control of this system until constellation sovereignty is broken, as any control towers anchored in the Capital will NOT claim sovereignty..... you have to break constellation sovereignty first and claim a solarsystem without the Capital Outpost in.
When you contest Constellation sovereignty it kind of works differently, here's a quote from LeMousse (CCP) blog on the issue
Constellation Sovereignty
Unlike system sovereignty, Constellation Sovereignty does not drop back to zero the next day; it rather goes into a contested mode for 7 days, which is called the grace period.
During this grace period, Constellation Sovereignty remains in effect, as do its bonuses; the defender then has the opportunity to recover that which he has lost, or expand further in the constellation to meet the recovery conditions.
The recovery conditions that the defender has to fulfill are;
- Sovereignty over the majority of the systems in the constellation, and
- Control of 3 stations (Conquerable or Outposts) in the constellation, and
- One of the outposts set as Capital (if none of the controlled systems have Sovereignty 4)
At the end of the grace period, if the defender is meeting all of the recovery conditions, his claim to Constellation Sovereignty remains intact. If the conditions are not met, Constellation Sovereignty is lost but the individual system sovereignty claims in the constellation remain in effect, except for Sovereignty 4 in the Capital system which is downgraded to 3.
It is worth noting that the grace period cannot be reset or extended; the 7 days are fixed and any sovereignty or influence shifts during that time is not taken into account; only the evaluation (last) day is taken into account.
It is also important to note that the days are counted from downtime to downtime rather than from 00:00 (midnight) to 00:00.
Now from that you can ascertain there's a "grace period" of 7 days, to me this grace period is the time it takes for a newly erected POS towers to take sovereignty so I read that as no different really to the current system.
Now I bet your are confused so here are 2 handy little guides from CCPs website that explain How to claim and How to conquer Constellation Sovereignty.
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