2) the ghost sites will be nerfed/altered to eliminate the self destruct timer once carebears start complaining about the unfairness of a hidden timer which destroys their ships without regard to the skill of the player, and which can be "abused" for tears in highsec.

I actually really, really hope this one doesn't happen. I know it probably will, but bleh.

Ghost sites need a mechanic like that to help make them something harder than the other exploration sites we have now.

I understand what you're saying but the hidden timer doesn't really make the sites "harder" as it is unconnected to player skill. Its simply a random fail condition which a player has no control over. If you ever played one of those other mmo's and done a raid where the raid failed wiping an entire party of 24 players not because of anything the players did but just because the RNG said so, then you know what type of angst and teeth gnashing this mechanism is going to generate.

the other half will need to be nerfed due to the tsunami of tears from carebears whos d-scans no longer give them enough time to run.

I understand what you're saying but the hidden timer doesn't really make the sites "harder" as it is unconnected to player skill. Its simply a random fail condition which a player has no control over. If you ever played one of those other mmo's and done a raid where the raid failed wiping an entire party of 24 players not because of anything the players did but just because the RNG said so, then you know what type of angst and teeth gnashing this mechanism is going to generate.

I think the landing speed of ships is still a lot slower, but the acceleration phase will be a lot quicker, to avoid people just popping up randomly without warning.

Everyone else goes, wait a few seconds, then go! Fly past them, intercept, everyone else lands... how hard is that?

I think the landing speed of ships is still a lot slower, but the acceleration phase will be a lot quicker, to avoid people just popping up randomly without warning.

um no, the ratio between acceleration cruising and deceleration is still 1/1/3 according to the dev blog.

2) the ghost sites will be nerfed/altered to eliminate the self destruct timer once carebears start complaining about the unfairness of a hidden timer which destroys their ships without regard to the skill of the player, and which can be "abused" for tears in highsec.

1) the warp speed changes will be severely and partially nerfed by bringing the warp changes back to where they were pre-rubicon for ships larger then a cruiser after there is a loud howl from the players (the majority of whom dont pay attention to the forums) when they realize that flying a bs, orca, freighter, barge, exhumer, and indy has become totally unbearable. Carebears in particular will scream, since flying a freighter already a tedious activity becomes tortuous. (As an aside, I dont know if anybody else has ever bothered to do the eve survey that gets sent around by ccp in the mail - but i always get a kick out of the question that asks in sum and substance on a scale of 1 to 10 rate the statement "eve is always fun").

My prediction is fairly simple, EvE online will have spaceships.

1. Pretty sure I read that the ships that warp slower than 3.0 au/s aren't having their travel times changed much as they are already slow enough to have their travel times affected by low cruising speed. Battleships are where it will hurt the most. Probably the Orca too.

They may do something about fast warping ships appearing or disappearing from grid in a single tick, either by slowing deceleration speed so you can see a ceptor landing on you, or introducing an effect to indicate when someone has warped (although this exists, a targetted ship that gets destroyed blinks, a warping ship just disappears).

2. won't change because the pirates always spawn first giving you a warning, also the explosion should be tankable by larger ships like a buffer-fit t3.