I understand the allure of hyperbole related to the death of the small gang versus the blob - but this change should definitely be considered in the context of a game where a gang with some standard cruisers and BCs with a couple skirmish links can engage at almost any ratio of friend to foe.

Its fun to engage outnumbered (I've heard), but expecting a few extremely strong mods to do a large portion of the work for you seems a bit over the top.

It also seems important to me that since speed isn't actually being effected here, fast moving skirmish engagements will likely look very similar except that during critical moments there will be a slightly higher tendency to commit. This could mean more vulnerability for the awesome small gang of nano pilots, or it could also mean that your prey now has to venture closer to actually apply dps.

I like writing posts but I'm not sure its doing any good

Haha, man, this thread is great, i think more people should ask CCP Fozzie and CCP Rise if they've ever played the game, or flown minnie ships, or kiting ships.

You couldn't script this if you tried.

Yea so if you read they've already stated that this is being looked at

SiSi isn't for testing, its for familiarizing yourself with impending changes :\

Also most fighting on SiSi just isn't useful for evaluation unless you put together your own group of players for testing. Otherwise its just faggots sitting on the combat beacons with their faction battleships / gimmick fits waiting for you to engage them so they can warp in a a few carriers and kill you.