I have noticed an increased tendency of heavier ships to fall short of gates which naturally leads to extended time slowboating that last X metres to the gate. This is more noticeable with larger ships. In a Battleship at least one in three jumps requires coasting to the gate, this is far more than I remember.

I seen in ingame chat other people mentioning this but my admittedly deficient searching skills have revealed no other mentions of this.

god i miss the old days , standard 15km off , please ccp put it in again

Sorry kids. WTZ15KM is one of those things that allowed other kids in the sandbox to bonk other kids in the head with the pale and shovel then point and laugh, making the sandbox more about that and less about sand. Society has rapidly slid downhill since 2003 and this became a huge problem.

In order to keep the sandbox about sand and not being fodder for getting hit with pales and shovels for someone else's meta jollies, bookmarks became prevalent. Only players who could muster enough Stockholm Syndrome and convince themselves that the abuse was strictly "in game and a part of the game" avoided using bookmarks.

So mommy (CCP) had to go with WTZ so that sandcastles could at least be built in the sandbox at all, then be toppled or whatever later on. But the goal is to keep the realm of the sandbox to be about the sand.

Right click on stargate -> warp within 10km

There you go, warp to 0 removed. Sure, it's 10km and not 15 but since you dislike the warp to 0 i guess this a good solution for now.

The issue here is if its not really "warp to zero" people will start making jump bookmarks and docking bookmarks all over. Then start copying them, transferring them to others, and so on. This all causes a large amount of server load, and is the reason we have warp to zero.

It's a dip in the road, civility will make a comeback.


edit PS:I've noticed mining barges and exhumers warp to station and get the approaching docking range notification. Even with spamming dock you're sitting there long enough for two volleys of large artillery.
If you zoom the camera in close you can actually hear the sound of devs laughing.

You're so clever.

I have a better idea, if you chose to Warp To 0, there should be a small chance of your ship exploding from hitting the shields of anything in the area.

You have a problem with the warp to 0 and i gave you a solution that works. Yeah, i'm a clever guy.
You also can warp within different ranges if you don't like to warp within 10km. Right click again on the gate, then pick the one you like: 20km, 30km, 50km or 100km. If you want to warp within 300km (e.g.), pilot your ship 300km away from the gate and open "people and places" and then search for a tab called "add location". In eve we call this a bookmark.

Glad i could help.

god i miss the old days , standard 15km off , please ccp put it in again