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Awesome- thanks for responding

Thought that there were lots of ways already. Interceptors, deep space transports, convoys....you know, all the things that the stone-age players from around 2006 used?

Love these changes. As a low sec FW corp it will be nice to fear the hotdrop less. We may even be able to use caps ourselves someday! *winks*

I do think that Logistics ships (JF's) should probably have increased jump range. And probably Blops should get similar treatment. Both these types really aren't the real problem.

Could we see a balance pass on BS's and BC's soon? Like to see more large subcaps be viable now that hotdrop o'clock is supposed to lessen, and gates become better content makers than cynos.

the better way isnt hard, just dont have these changes affect JFs/rorquals. Let them have their current range. Not a hard decision.

OR

CCP could reshuffle moons so that you didnt NEED to go across EVE to get the resources needed for T2 production

http://k162space.com/2013/01/30/visualization-of-moon-mineral-concentrations
^^ For those who dont know how certain moons are concentrated in certain regions of space. Might be good reading Greyscale

Because timers suck and are boring in a game? Because it's telling your players to log out of your game because you're not letting them play any more?

Basically the timer thing is there to create a major disincentive for moving your ship. The disincentive is that moving your ship will make the game much much more boring for you.

So, the goal then becomes to not move your ship at all because doing so generates boredom. The only escape from the boredom is incredibly long and dangerous gate travel.

Hence, the incentive is to bring out sub caps which are much more capable of taking gates.

But capitals are what's used to hasten the really boring structure grinding mechanic.

So now you're left figuring out which is more boring - moving your capitals or grinding structure with sub capitals.

For all small entities that can't afford welping cap fleets on gates or regional cap caches the only viable answer will be structure grinding with sub cap fleets.

Let me tell you, after having ground down Catch in Siege Bombers for months, that's really really ******* boring.

I would much prefer CCP accelerate the game pace instead of diminish it by introducing more disincentives through boredom.

Nope, that's what bubbles are for.



Initially, that wouldn't surprise me. How it plays out over the medium term is a more interesting ballgame. We'll see how it goes and adjust as necessary.



Because I took the ability to do so away from them almost exactly three years ago, and the reasons for doing so still hold :)

Looks like the "everybody is a winner" theme park is imminent.

These are probably some of the worst proposed changes in a very long time, and if CCP aren't careful they WILL lose a ton of subscriptions. Sad part is... they probably won't listen to us and just go through with the changes anyways.

A couple more questions (and thanks for replying to my first comment):

1) In the past you guys have said that CCP will be attempting to measure the effects of changes that have been made to evaluate the change. What criteria will you be using to measure this change? What measurable things will you be looking at to decide if this change was good or bad?

2) POS jump bridges are supposed to be a reward for holding space. Shouldn't there be some sort of reduce fatigue from using them vs using a titan bridge? Otherwise, why would sovholding alliances build and pay for them?

Is there any hope of making it so that black ops ships jumping/bridging to a covert cyno aren't affected by the cooldown? I'm just seeing the value of covert cynos drop dramatically with this change.

since you also mentioned you might want to revisit jumpclones too i always had the dream to have distance based cooldown for jumpclones.

The only reason i don't use specialized clones is that i can't change them fast enough when i change ships. If i could jump between clone within a single system with lets say 1h cooldown... would be awesome. It also discourages me to use drugs, since when i switch from shield to armor ships i have to stick with the effect.

Clonejuming would make things far more interesting and make me consume more drugs and in general also make me use specialized/expensive clones, rather than my current 100mil generic genolution clone which works for all my ships.