EVE General Discussion

1) the warp speed changes will be severely and partially nerfed by bringing the warp changes back to where they were pre-rubicon for ships larger then a cruiser after there is a loud howl from the players (the majority of whom dont pay attention to the forums) when they realize that flying a bs, orca, freighter, barge, exhumer, and indy has become totally unbearable. Carebears in particular will scream, since flying a freighter already a tedious activity becomes tortuous. (As an aside, I dont know if anybody else has ever bothered to do the eve survey that gets sent around by ccp in the mail - but i always get a kick out of the question that asks in sum and substance on a scale of 1 to 10 rate the statement "eve is always fun").

My prediction is fairly simple, EvE online will have spaceships.

1. Pretty sure I read that the ships that warp slower than 3.0 au/s aren't having their travel times changed much as they are already slow enough to have their travel times affected by low cruising speed. Battleships are where it will hurt the most. Probably the Orca too.

They may do something about fast warping ships appearing or disappearing from grid in a single tick, either by slowing deceleration speed so you can see a ceptor landing on you, or introducing an effect to indicate when someone has warped (although this exists, a targetted ship that gets destroyed blinks, a warping ship just disappears).

2. won't change because the pirates always spawn first giving you a warning, also the explosion should be tankable by larger ships like a buffer-fit t3.

The most howling will come from miners and ratters who will now have something new to blame their losses on, despite the fact that they would have lost their ship regardless.

If anything, the ghost sites are not nearly dangerous enough right now.

The explosion should force the player to decide if they should keep popping cans to maximize their loot, or bug out before **** gets real.

Unfortunately, the explosion is trivially tankable, which nullifies the decision. There's NO reason you shouldn't just keep popping cans until you eat the explosion - you'll be fine.

If nothing else, hacking the sites in high or low sec should give a suspect flag - this would at least keep with the whole, "Concord doesn't want you doing this," theme for the sites.

Not so much predictions for Rubicon, but a vision for what might be on the other side of the crossing.

While there will be numerous complaints, there will be those fanatical fan boys / white knights claiming CCP is the best of the best and everything they have done with this expansion / patch will be gold... even if CCP later changes stuff, these same "CCP can do no wrong" types will still be crowing their tired, old song and dance routine.

That's my prediction.