This devblog has to be the dumbest thing I've read in a very long time. You should just leave it the way it is right now and make no changes. If you continue with this course of action it's no wonder why so many CCP employees are jumping ship so to speak for other game companies. I predict Monoclegate and all the other issues brought about by Incarna. Will pale in comparison to the outrage this is going to generate.

Take WH's behind them. Make them jump to deal with your moderately sized fleet.

Then attack the staging system while they are stranded with timers.

After these changes they can't be everywhere at once. Make them choose what to hold, take what they won't or can't defend.

Removed some off topics post. I will see to it the thread gets a good proper clean in the morning.

So the summary so far:

Highsec scrubs who've never been to nullsec and never will: "This is amazing, even though I don't understand what is happening, I'm just saying it because it's annoying the people in nullsec. I'm never going to move there myself anyway but that isn't the point"

Nullsec people: "Wait, what? So the future vision is gate camps online? Do you even play your game CCP?"

CSM: "We're really ******* important, even though practically no one gives a **** about us any more and we've not done our jobs. But we're still really important and we'll keep telling you this. We've not done anything important for a very long time but we're very important".

CCP: "Go away, we're busy writing applications to join Riot Games. We've left the dregs to sort out something which is above their pay grade.tia".

This. Some people like the larger scale battles, in fact the only times EVE has hit the headlines and brought in more subcribers than CCP's marketing department ever has is the big fights. With these changes, these sorts of battles will likely never happen again. Those with local supercap dominance will always have a trump card and no one will be able to escalate.

It begs the question of why can't CCP see what the real problem here is: Supercaps and not Carriers, Dreads, JF's or anything else with a jump drive.

Small gangs of carriers. On gates, being remote sebo'ed. Safe in the knowledge that they won't get hot dropped. Waiting for high sec scrubs to come through because they think that this change will make things better. I can't wait. This will be the age of the Carrier gate camp and blap dread local defense fleet.

This is fairly normal when you reach a certain state in EVE. If CCP promote a style of game play which consumes a vast amount of time to do anything yet you're not actually required to do very much during that time, it's hardly a surprise.

Some of these changes are good, some are completely daft and some further promote this sort of timer based game play which means players go AFK while they wait for an alarm clock. It's not an elegant solution.

Come strangle us, then.