
Unforgiven Storm
Eternity INC. Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.10.09 08:45:00 -
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CCP Fozzie wrote:And now a quick note on freighters. We knew that we wanted to expand the spread between the slowest warping ships and the fastest, and we didn't want to take the tempting but potentially damaging route of just buffing everything and making the galaxy smaller for every ship.
Obviously there's a fine line to walk here, but I think we found a strong compromise with the amount that we raised the freighter and JF warp speeds. It is definitely an increase in their average warp times, which is intentional. But it's not back breaking and I believe that it's quite well balanced in relation to their massive cargoholds. For trips where faster warp speeds are needed, people always have the choice of taking smaller volumes in something like an industrial or DST.
Options like adding rigs to freighters could very well happen someday, as we're fairly open that that idea and have been giving it some thought. However we're not going to commit to anything along those lines at this time.
Freigthers are used regularly in low sec and null sec to empty silos from POS reaction farms that normally are in dozens of moons around the same planets separated 10k up to 0.1 AU apart. I just did the run in sisi going from moon to moon simulating the warp between 18 towers and took me 3 times more to warp between moons than the current times in tranquility.
This just put a new nail in the the life of pos reaction owners. We don't have a small ship capable of transporting the quantities we need to empty / fill silos and to transport cubes to fuel poses other than these beasts. By doing these changes, small daily tasks that already take several hours every week will now take 3 times more to perform. Please consider adding code that allow the JF and freighters to warp like before for distances smaller than 0.1 AU or we are all going to kill ourselfs.
thank you in advance Unforgiven Storm for CSM 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. (If I don't get in in the next 5 years I will quit trying) :-) |