Ships & Modules

ok, before kronos, my retriver could warp across 50-au (average) systemson one capacitor. now, it can barely warp 20 AU on a 275gj cap.
it's never had a really great warp distance, thanks to its small cap, but a 20au warp distance seems like an attempt to ahve EVERYONE stop using it. beyond that, it's not in the patch notes.
a 60% nerf is wayyy too much...

that's what i'm hoping....

I don't recall seeing anything about a cap cost of warping either, so I checked in the rebalance and CCP did not increase the mass or change the cap on the Retriever so you should be able to warp as far as you could before. If you can actually quantify the issue so we can be sure it's not just your feeling and that you in fact can't warp as far as you could pre-patch then you may have found a bug. As of right now I'm inclined to think your story is exaggerated or mistaken in some way.

In EFT it shows your maximum warp range without skills should be 37.5 AU, clearly you don't have zero SP, though I can extrapolate Energy Management II from your story, so chances are your SP are still low. So if what you are saying is not exaggerated and you can't warp that 37.5 AU distance on a full capacitor that'd be enough to make your case and I'd suggest you file a bug report. Better yet calculate how far you should be able to warp given your skills (plugging your toon into EFT and mousing over your warp speed will do it for you) then undock from a station and try to warp to something that is beyond your range and the message above your capacitor will tell you how far you will actually make it. Show us that this number is lower than the EFT readout.

As always the warp range of a high SP pilot and low SP pilot can be radically different, training energy management and especially warp drive operation will make a huge difference. EFT lists 93 AU as the max warp range with max skills.

EDIT: Upon reading the thread that popped up while I was writing this, point taken.