Gonna be a bumpy ride.

I will be collecting relevant comments in this small bag over here, tears in the tanker, over there.

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Can supers use gates after this change?
Yes.

Does this make it too difficult for new pilots to get out into 0.0?
Yes, it probably does. We are going to look at this tomorrow to try and make this easier.

Is the balance for Black Ops final?
No. Please give feedback!

The math about the minimum jump timer is inconsistent in the blog, right?
Yes, it is, I'll fix it as soon as I have time, thread's moving too fast atm!

Very large fatigue values will take a loooong time to decay, is this too much?
Possibly yes, we'll have a look at this.

o7 eve and thanks for all the fish, it's been fun.

Even with the bonus on the Jumpfreighters and Rorquals jump fatigue, i think this cutting into the logistics hugely cause of the reduction to 5LJs.

This means additional cyno spots, cyno chars. So where a single person could do the logistics and transports before, you now need several people to get this going.

If you own all this space, it may be no trouble as you can fly the cyno char through gates to the next system and open the next cyno. But if you don't what then? Moving a warfleet with several people being part of it is one thing. But moving ships like JFs or Rorquals was usually a "1 man show". So limiting their jumpange will severly limit their usability. If it stays to a 1 man show, the JF can only move on to the next system every 19-24 hours, when the cyno char can jumpclone to the next cyno spot. So a route that could be done in a single jump in very short amout of time before, now suddenly needs a complete day or even longer if you need several jumps?


The "warfare" part of those changes may be great to change the power projection, yet the changes to the "civilian" sector of this are horrible.


What if you give the JFs and Rorqual a role bonus of a hugely improved jump distance instead? So they can jump the same distances as before, or maybe even further? So you may have a huge jump fatigue afterwards, but can shrug it off as you reach your goal in a single jump and can wait it out there? Or a combination of both.. improved range, and reduced fatigue, trying to balance it out in a good way?

The sandbox is a lie

Somewhere in CCP HQ:

Person In Charge: Null is stagnant!

Person A: We need to make space bigger!
Person B: We could always merge WH space with K space?
Person C: We could add more systems?
Person D: We could open the EVE gate?
Person E: We could open Jove space for starters?
Person F: We could allow sub-light travel between systems?
Person G: We make everyone move slower than a snail! And! We make ships get fatigue, yeah!

Person In Charge: I like the G idea!

CCP Greyscale once this is though and we wont or can't get to far away conflicts anymore were will we get our conflict you know content? What are you doing to make sure there will be local conflict? Because right now most nullsec space is not even worth fighting over much less holding it other then for renting it out? Are you going to address the fact that nullsec is especially worthless?

ThreadAtar Update:

For anyone that's interested feel free to take the following Straw Poll

Renters quitting but lots of bitter vets re-subbing I wonder what would be the better trade for the game, this or the current status quo???

There's already one, with a lot more votes:

http://strawpoll.me/2686971/r

Folks keep the posts coming, we need to get this thread to 7000.