The focused point of a hic does not prevent ships from passing through a stargate, no.

The only thing you will see less is Supercarriers and Titans on not critical fights. But the archon blobs will remain EXACT as before.

EXACLTY as they do today. They put a crapton of subcapitals and move their capitals to get close to the more likely group to escalate to usage of capitals. As soon as they can they provoke a jutland battle with FULL force crush COMPLETELY and utterly the enemy because it will be ALONE with its fleet agaisnt he full massed fleet of the defender empire, while his allies cannto come to help. On next day they do the same against the other group.

You may be sure these groups will have 300 archosn stationed on every troublesome corner of their empire, and they will SHUTTLE travel or interceptor travel in 20 min there, get into their archons and obliterate the attacking fleet that cannot be reinforced because of these changes.


Peopel wake UP. This will make even more STUPID to spread your forces. Force concentration is not counterable in this game, so the empires will still focus ALL Their force and the other groups trying to attack from different flanks will have a FAR HARDER time fighting back.

The only thing you will see less is Supercarriers and Titans on not critical fights. But the archon blobs will remain EXACT as before.

Nothing lasts forever.. Sorry for the time spent on the game. I think that half of the players this patch was removed. Wait a few hours to play.. CCP is not worth it to spend 2 hours waiting..

A small throwback to the time when 0.0 was awesome: Pool yer isk, have one guy go to trade hub in a freighter and buy, escort said guy home. You know, actually play the game.

one question:
how big that escort will have to be to escort a freighter from m-o to h-pa in venal, tru the middle of the entire CFC?

all these people crying about logistics.
Do the math!

going from cobalt edge to empire will take about 9 mins in a jump freighter or rorqual after the patch. just takes a few more cyno's and a 1 min wait at each jump

theres also wh;s to get your snuff into your little home.

stop complaining and figure out how to abuse it and use it to your advantage. theres plenty of advantages to it

Now you'll just have to find your fights closer by, but that would require not having set everyone within 30 jumps blue! *gasp*

What could be better than oceans of tears and that smoke of burned asses from members of current claim holders coalition?

The idea of jump fatigue, 5 ly max distance and caps jumping by gates looks really fresh against the background of current zero space swamp.

Hope, that the enormous torrent of whine won't prevent CCP from applying the changes, that would be real run.

P.S. I own a super and a few simple cap pilots myself, so I'll be affected by that very heavily as well.

congratulations ccp you just had 4 less paying accounts to your name and keep on sticking your head into the excrement and you can have 0 paying customers at the end

all these people crying about logistics.
Do the math!

going from cobalt edge to empire will take about 9 mins in a jump freighter or rorqual after the patch. just takes a few more cyno's and a 1 min wait at each jump

theres also wh;s to get your snuff into your little home.

stop complaining and figure out how to abuse it and use it to your advantage. theres plenty of advantages to it

Perhaps you are right, but perhaps after the big blue donut gets bigger and fatter some dudes will realize they dont need the big blue donut to survive. (in my understanding that is why we have a big blue donut - to be able to hold space).

And since dropping a random carrier with 20 SC 5 regions away cant be done as easily, maybe they will split on smaller entities to move to the aforesaid region to be able to drop the poor sucker if that is their game.

Depends on the time of the day.

The problems occur when you're a smaller alliance. You lack the man power for self sufficiency, you lack the tools required for the job (blueprints for example) and you're wholly dependent upon Empire for your resources. But the logistics involved in gathering those resources is now extremely difficult, costly and time consuming so you're at an immediate disadvantage because you're unable to compete with the larger alliance for ship replacement. Because you lack the Blueprints to build, builders won't join so copies are of no use, and with no one to build, there's no need for miners so you're unable to reach a state of self sufficiency.

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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.

And the Mighty Bob give to you the W-Space ...

Use it as a short-cut for your log.

It is completly ok for small NS entities to contract intel to wh entities.

Most of the serious wh entities can give you bookmarks from a NS entry point to HS with all data needed (mass, duration, etc ...)

A new business incoming.

And piracy in wh