Yes. Encourages multiple smaller entities distributed all across EvE, every one of them fighting with their neighbors, as opposed to a few megablobs that easily wage war at the other end of the galaxy.

And, of course, encourages, but does not confine them.

No. Create more logistical headaches for anyone who want to blob and for anyone who has blued everyone and his sister 50 jumps in any direction.

And that's Good (tm).

I like that you see the same implications from my proposal as I do.

Also, why, exactly, is having friends a bad thing?

Because you can't shoot them.

PS. Apropos, thank you for voicing your concerns.

1. It discourages going solo. Especially over long distances.

you may be trapped between hostile gates in said expensive ship.

2. It discourages going in groups smaller than a certain critical mass.

Suppose an average deep space tanker can support 25 T1 BCs for the duration of a roam.

3. Malcanis' Law. Anything that tries to reduce the penalties on small gangs would benefit larger gangs much more, thus defeating the purpose of introducing "warp fuel" in the first place.

It does not discourage going solo more than it discourages going in blobs. In fact it indirectly encourages going solo - you don't have to wait for gang members to come (slowly) from across the region and your targets are slow to get reinforcements.

I don't understand. How you can be trapped in a way that you can't be trapped now?

Perhaps it would have such effect, perhaps not. It's not really interesting and I won't discuss it, because I have never proposed a deep space tanker to be able to support 25 T1 BCs for 5000AU.

If you ask Malcanis, you may find that he has very similar attitude regarding slowing down ship movement across EVE.

A well trained blob can simply bring a fuel tanker along as if it is bringing another fleet command ship.
Solo pilots can't do that, by definition.

A hostile and well fueled blob, warping at 3~3.6 AU/s (Interceptors at 9~16 AU/s, and in case of 0.0, Interdictors at 6 AU/s), outmaneuvering the empty solo pilot/gang crawling at 0.2~0.5 AU/s.
The only way not to go down in this case would be to keep running rolling safes until the next DT comes.

Numbers are just numbers in this stage. I simply used it to make the analysis more quantitative.
(Your numbers are severely limiting as others have stated before, but that's not important either.)

Still, small gangs of less than 10 have to pay an arm to bring a tanker because each member counts,
while larger groups can keep their combat effectiveness by delegating fuel hauling duties to
non-combatants / less experienced pilots.

Can you explain how this trend encourages small gang activities?

Crappy idea. Wormholers regularly travel what would seem like insane distances to many simply to get stuff to market and bring needed items back. This just adds added and unnecessary cost to us.

Would you care to elaborate? Because in this form it's a crappy opinion.

What is "insane distance" and what ships do you use to travel?

Well, let's put it this way... when I enter K-space and find a hole 20 from Jita, that's a good day depending on how many lows are between me and high. I've gone 30 or more simply because the opportunity to do so was there.

A hole 6 from Jita... that's a party waiting to happen!

I will have to repeat: What is "insane distance" and what ships do you use to travel?

Perhaps you shouldn't go to Jita? WIth my proposal, it's likely more market hubs to develop - the harder to travel, the more likely people to buy and sell locally.

Also, I have specifically addressed the issue of logistics - the transport ships retain their current mobility for the most part. It should be rather obvious for anyone that cares to read the proposal and the discussion thread, that the proposed changes are directed mostly to combat ships.

Even considering that you escort your cargo ships through lowsec, still the movement of the fleet will be limited by the movement speed of the cargo ships, which would be the same as now.

It's added expenses for no benefits whatsoever.

No, the proportion of required fuel support is the same regardless of gang size.

The small gang is encouraged, respectively, that blob is discouraged at the stage before and at
forming, not that my proposal somehow allows you to solo pwn a blob, once the said blob is
formed.

Forget the current situation, when pilots idle in a single capital system. This is due to the ease
of movement - people can quickly assemble from their usualratting/mining/whatever grounds to the
capital and can also quickly disperse to their usual places for making money from the capital.

Instead, consider - you have 20 pilots in 20 systems ratting, 10 miners in this system, 10 more in
that system, 5 people exploring in random places, 5 doing a plex here, 7 doing a plex there, 2
following an escallation somewhere, 10 hauling stuff from empire, 20 fueling POSes and bridges, 10
camping a gate over there ...

If you're gonna wait for all of them to assemble ... well good luck.

On the other hand, the same applies to your red neighbours, they aren't likely to form a defence
blob very quickly, so why don't go with whatever you can assemble, instead of waiting a hour for the
blob to form?

And there's a second aspect, it's not only numbers, but also power. In my proposal, forming a
heavier blob is discouraged by limiting its range, compared to a lighter blob.

Go rant elsewhere if you ain't got anything constructive to say.

We already know that you don't like the proposal.

And we already know that you outright refuse to listen to anyone pointing out it's obvious deficiencies, so let's both shitpost together :)

Yes and the well fueled solo pilot/gang outmaneuvering a hostile and empty blob. It works both ways.

Then please explain how you would properly fuel yourself, when you are in hostile territory, while using only one account.

Ships require fuel to warp, industrial and T1 frigs require very little fuel, battleships require lots of fuel.

*stuff follows*

I like the idea of fuel, but not as a restrictive measure. Ships use fuel so i would be more of a fuel bay and a industrial item that could be harvested. Fuel would be cheap and abundant. Small isk sink.