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If I understand correctly, the freighters will double the time spent on warp under 50AU which is an important part of the warps they are doing in empire.
So the round trip of 35 jumps will not take 3 hours but 6 hours, in manual control, approximately.

Oh.

Oh, God.

Masterplan.

Well played. Well played, indeed.

Will be feeling like this, literally.

http://i.imgur.com/QLdCn.gif

Well done.

Though the physics geek in me has to ask, is there any reason why the whole velocity curve couldn't be made a smooth function? The physics model of EVE used for movement on grid is based basically on rigid bodies accelerating with a constant force through a liquid ("submarines in space"). The same can be done for warp speeds, although on a different scale. Again, assuming a constant propelling force F and a counteracting drag force, this would lead to an equation for velocity in the form v = v_t * tanh [ t * F / (m * v_t) ], where v_t is the warp speed (or terminal velocity) and m is the mass of the ship. This curve is smooth everywhere and for time approaching infinity asymptotically approaches v_t (as tanh (x) ~ 1 for large x) and can thus be (as a good approximation) smoothly stiched with the curve v = v_t and the corresponding decceleration curve. It behaves just as a player would naively expect based on his experience of sub light speed on-grid movement (let's face it, the warp acceleration mechanisms were largely unintuitive before, although it's getting much better post Rubicon).

I realize this is actually ton of work with no measurable effect on the actual flight, but still, I would maybe warp with lesser fear knowing there are no infinities present in the points of stopping the acceleration/ beginning the decceleration ;)

Has the insta-appear on grid thing for interceptors been fixed?

Nice changes, though if you were to ask someone who never played eve what they expect warp to be. I imagine the response would be, "Deceleration = to acceleration...not slower than." Could you imagine how much faster warp would be for all ships if the deceleration curve was the same rate as acceleration? lol

Sorry for the late reply, but this might be the best dev post ever in my 10ish years of playing eve.

Some tech talk atlast, althought this one is for kids :) Great changes and long awaited!

CCP Masterplan - where are your faimous blogs with tons of geek stuff, programming and all that? I have a need, a need for geek p**n! :)) I have to feed that geek inside me and he is hungry for a long time now :) How's brain in a box fairing?

agree the decel is a little slow. As above poster mentions there are good reasons it's not as fast as accel but it could do with a slight tweak up

So, if I have read correctly:

Today:

1) My fast and rigged ships warp so fast that I get a timer preventing me from jumping in the next system until said timer is over.

2) My freigthers are boring and slow like molasses.


After Rubicon:

1) My fast and rigged ships will warp faster so I'll have to wait longer at the next gate before the timer clears them to warp.

2) My freighters will become even more boring to fly.


Is this change basically only aimed at who uses interceptors in deep null sec, in those 200 AU long systems?