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Wow, my response went straight over the top did it?
Couldn't respond with anything that might be in context?

You've never used blops BS in hostile space? Back in the day, we used to do it all the time. It's pretty safe, even in a safespot, as long as you cloak up and keep an eye on local.

The goal of fatigue was to stop us from 3rd partying our entire titan swarm on fight happening across the map. This goal is still being met.

Can't you still cover a long distance by jumping multiple times? And if so wasn't the long fatigue there to penalize people for doing this? (I'm generally curious as I don't live in low sec)

I just don't see how making it trivial for alliances to more around the map is a good thing. Personally i think wars should be a long/drawn-out process where people have to commit for weeks/months, not just an additional activity you can do to find fights every weekend... Constantly missing move ops? join a group that is invested in their region!

You can cover a maximum distance between 20-25LY before fatigue maximizes and you have to wait 12 hours between each jump.

This is about the distance from YA0 to TVN, for reference. You'd have to endure about four hours of jump fatigue cooldown to do this, get stuck with 12 hours of cooldown at the end, and be capped out for fatigue with 5 days.

Or, you could fit for gate travel and take the same trip in about 22 minutes, assuming you didn't get bubbled along the way.

My personal experience is that any ship cruiser size and above can relatively be caught in a gatecamp.
Yes, instalock camps exist, but they have quite high requirements.

Proof:
number of solo cruisers in FW <<< number of solo frigs/dessies

If the gameplay around sov involves keeping someone away from something, it can only be cruiser size+ or the defenders will be in serious trouble.
(and Strategic Cruisers are still problematic)

Interceptors banned from Entosis: good.
Think about all frigs, dessies and maybe T3 cruisers.

In favor of attackers:
Temporary disabling services should hurt the defenders enough so they will not ignore roaming gangs looking for a fight and it should be fairly easy.

But destroying or permanently damaging infrastructure should take WAY more commitment. Not necessarily in numbers (like old structure grind), but in time.
And by this I mean not hours playing but say number of successful attacks in a month.

I do not believe the test server can effectively test new features on a broad scale. there are too many different parameters, and in particular assets have no value there. The test server is good for test fittings and mass test, like load testing and stuff like that only.

The iterative approach is the best way to introduce new feature and tweak them as data and play patterns are gathered over time, as long as the balances are done by small increment. Unfortunately, for this announcement, the changes are swinging way too far from where they are now...

Key words "back in the day", that was before fatigue stopped your fleet moving more than once every 28 mins (X 3 or 4 to get to the target system - forget it)
Yes Blops can be done pretty safely but who wants to spend a week moving a small fleet to a target area, only to find you can't do what you came for because the locals saw you coming 3 days ago and are waiting for you or just stay docked.

Thanks for giving me some perspective.

I still think null sec will be become better if it remains difficult for capital fleets to be deployed in different regions. I don't think making things easy for your more nomadic groups like PL, who exist for nice kill mails and have more capitals than they know what to do with, are good for the game.

By penalizing players for moving around all the time, you reward the players that invest in and develop certain regions. Is making war deployment a trivial and fun thing you can do every weekend really good for the game?

Do you even sov?
Let me explain how typically a real sov war goes.
First, there are skirmishes - roamings and BO drops. Opponents try each other.
Then, someone says "looks like we can take this moon/system/region, so let's do it". They reinforce it, and if timer is right - opposing forces come and clush in those furious battles that are reported on TMC and EN24.
After a while, one side realizes they cannot win this war. This is the time they unleash the most powerful weapon out there. That is not a thousand of Megathrons, not a wreaking ball, not even a full fleet of titans. It's weaponized boredom.

Now if you set regen time to 196 minutes, you bring this weapon to the whole new level. Works as follows:
1. Set vuln window at 4 am for attacker (doesnt matter what time it is for defender).
2. Never show for capture event.
3. Boom - headshot! War stopped.

Passive regen is a good thing. But it should take at least 24 hours.