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I just have three requests (pleas) that I ask you to consider:

1) If your intention is to degrade the logistics capability of 00 empires, then there has to be a gray area between what is proposed and the status quo. Provide jump freighters with some additional range and/or capacity so they actually have a purpose. As it stands, they become virtually useless for sov holding alliances with an escorted freighter becoming superior in almost every way. I would rather have the full fatigue apply to jump freighters than the full range reduction proposed. The resulting impact to the Eve economy cannot be understated.

2) If your intention is to force regional play and regional economies, then look at the underlying industry and infrastructure first to make sure that is supports that vision. Amarr medium towers need to be able to support a simple reaction (3x silos + 1x simple reactor). Currently that's impossible and forces anyone living in Amarr flavored 00 space to import ice products to run reactions, or operate simple reactions at a significant financial loss. Also, moon mineral distribution does not support T2 production within each region. As it stands, Delve provides materials that are used in Gallente ship production, but has Amarr ice and Amarr flavored relic/data sites. Moon minerals need to be redistributed in order to support regional T2 production that corresponds to the racial technology available in that area. Even if an alliance doesn't hold an entire region, it should be able to trade with others in that region to facilitate this. They should not be forced to source product from the other side of the galaxy.

3) The Rorqual's role was marginalized in Crius with the addition of compression arrays. We were told leading up to Crius that a role change for Rorquals was coming soon(tm). We are now going into our second release since Crius without any further communication on this. If there is a role change for the Rorqual forthcoming, then let's hear it and make sure the jump drive changes make sense given the new role.

They didn't go far enough. They should have deleted the cyno entirely.

But we'll take what we can get.

Mate, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Say I want to jump from Stain to lowsec, there's only 2 station systems in stain that can make that jump NRT4 and T-NN. Cut jump distance to 5 LY and stain becomes inaccessible from empire without going through sov space or wormholes. That is an example of a massive topological change, one that will affect all of the player living in that particular region, and those types of topological changes will occur all over eve on day 1 of phoebe.

If you're ignorant of something, it's best not to resort to insults as your first option.

It is amusing watching pdople talk of stagnation. This is going to force more stagnation on the game. Anyone remember a little thing called world war one. Trench warfare ring a bell? This will force everyone to dig in where they are and you will have large swaths of no mans land between heavily defended areas. This was only broken by mobiliy. Mobility is now being taken away. They say those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We are going to have front row seats.......

Best change ever, just do it!
I cant wait to pick up a freighter full and jump gates in 0.0 with armed escort... I can see some crazy logistics being doing, like 10-20 freighters jumping gate to gate with armed squads protecting them, and fights happening around those supplies.

Wait wait ... that's an interesting idea... what would you call something that could stop long distance travel, both warp and jump, and was area of effect... almost like a scram but in a wider area ... its sort of like blockading something... or... maybe... its like interdicting... maybe you could call it an interdictor?

But you're right that would be really too OP to allow in the game.

And how exactly is that going to happen with these changes? The reason for the very stagnation we're experiencing right now is due to other "changes" CCP made in the past that forced larger entities to take up more space and turn it into renter empires. Cause and effect.

"Big fights are cool, but they’re crowding out more accessible and more frequent smaller ones."

So, at CCP, Big Ship = Big Fight? I applaud this line of reasoning.

Here is what this change will do IMHO:
1. Make people get more alts (more subscriptions) because we'll need more cyno alts as well as spare capital pilot/jumper toon so your main doesn't get fatigued to hell
2. Make fights the kind of we've seen in B-R almost impossible thus relieving some of the complaints about pisspoor single threaded server code from more than a decade ago.
3. Cause many people to give up hope and quit this junkyard of a sandbox, causing population to dwindle even more. Mind you, a lot of new players aspire to fly capital ship. With this proposed change you're not only screwing current pilots, but crushing hopes, dreams and aspirations of new player. Good luck promoting your litterbox with big supercapital engagements after this.
4. Make it appear like CCP is doing something

You want to shake things up? Introduce new type of very valuable resource present in only certain regions. Make it inefficient to hold big space vs. holding smaller, richer space.

Change jump drive to shake null sec? This is a joke. If the collaboration of "null developers" produced this, I abandon all hope that this game will ever be anything more than "Skill Points Online".

This actually used to be what happened before JF were introduced. Back before JF were introduced people *still* didn't locally produce in null. But they did long boring freighter escorts as a CTA constantly. It was horribly boring and caused null to be a empty wasteland of boredom.

Now realize they're not removing JF from the game, they're just making it harder to reach distant systems. So why would people supplying a market decide to take the most risky possible route? Wouldn't the sov holders just move their base of operations to the most easily accessible logistically? Isn't that simpler than creating a whole home grown industry or flying T1 freighters through gates?

Right now home systems are picked for their military ability to project or proximity to tasty PVE. That calculus doesn't include that much consideration for logistics. The balance of the equation will change slightly, so you'll see more concentration near highsec and much much less dispersion throughout nullsec regions. You'll see calcified and entrenched home systems and empty regions.

But dominion sov was (and is) better than pos sov. So that "type of thinking" did yield an improvement.

lol..greyscale will add a cooldown timer on that as well like a buffer zone with snakeskin cloak animation