I was in several 3-5 freighter supply convoys 20-40 jump into null sec before Jump Freighters and it was some of the most nail biting pvp I've ever been in.

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Why?

Lordy Baltec, you do whinge just for the sake of whinging!

I use this character far, far more than my older one, so which one is my main?

No No and another No to that. That is what created the entire mess in the first place - CCP giving in to changing ships bonuses and adjusting them to whatever the players used them for instead of keeping their intended roles. That is completely against the sandbox idea and continuously leads to the whining of one or another group about being nerfed to hell.

Well - come up with proper argument against an idea and why its better. My kids tend to say something is bad - and they dont get away with just that. I assume you are an adult - so you can defnitly do better than that.

P.S: Snipping half of the context is a bad attitude by the way

Stacking people from your alliance against any kind of different idea wont help. We all understand by now that you follow the same ideas and trends inside your group. And there are other groups who simply look at things differently and will continuously oppose any suggestions you make. Because you dont try to ruin my game - but THE game ;)

Maybe I didn't say it clearly enough either, there is no Casual use of jump anything. A jump is a jump regardless of the destination or intention. The only exception to this use is with industrials. It was only allowed because nullsec is not in a position to handle its own production yet. Once that is solved it is likely to go away too.

How does a pilots intentions change the effects of a jump? Is there a menu that asks whether you are here for business or pleasure? And now that the pilot has successfully convinced customs that he is here to enjoy the sites, what's to stop him from shooting anything he wants?

You may think it's a casual use, but there is no difference in what you can do. Unless you consider hot dropping regions away as casual use then I guess that's part of the issue.

It doesn't matter what you intend to do at the other end. I could decide to refit my ratting carrier for combat after shooting a rat or two. How do you plan on differentiating the two? How do you plan to ensure a ship on the other side of a jump is not allowed to do combat? And it's not the jump itself that's the problem, it's the pilots movement. That's why phoebe came with death clone changes as well.

And I'm going to ask again, how do you plan to stop abuse of this? If you can shoot rats at your destination what's to stop from shooting players or structures?

I keep asking these questions because you won't answer them. Just snide remarks about "duh they're different. Everybody knows that". Yes jump bridges provide better QoL, but how do you plan to prevent that change from being abused for unintended purposes? Apparently it's so obvious that nobody brought it up in the last 400+ pages of discussion that preceded phoebe.

So please, educate my ignorant self.

What is the difference in mechanics between when a jump drive is used for strategic purposes and when it is used for anythin non-combat? I don't care what actually happens after or before the jump, since that is completely up to the pilots ever changing objectives. How does the jump bridge/drive itself change its behavior between the two scenarios?

I explained a few pages back that there is no difference between casual and any other descriptive use of a jump anything. Casually using something does not make it casual as you would like it to be defined. Before phoebe people were dropping carriers everywhere and jumping around all the time. Simply saying you are trying to protect casual use does not make it better in any way. Especially when there is a claim to keep it relatively possible compared someone using it explicitly for strategic purposes. Thats why I kept asking the difference.