Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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It is often a dream of high sec corporations to place a POS in high sec. The standings requirements restrict these many new high sec corporations from doing so. The summer expansion will remove this obstacle allowing every new high sec corporation to erect their own high sec POS.

What happens if the influx of new POS towers offsets or exceeds the expected reduction in size of high sec POS towers? With an increased demand of isotopes (driven by an increase demand of fuel blocks), wouldn't this change further impact the isotope market?

Ok, Fozzinator... I declare a truce. And I think it's time to be quasi-constructive to you.

You have a great history of making thoughtful and impactful game decisions (tech nerf, pirate ships etc etc). One of your forte's has always been the combination of your extensive game knowledge with your ability to see the big picture and the long term impacts of any proposed changes. You have also, historically, done a great job at explaining your thought process in the dev blogs of any of these changes.

Today's announcement just feels a little more whimsical than we've grown to expect from you. Instead of "I am changing X because of Y," you've given us "well, how about this?" I'm sure there are a lot of reasons behind your proposal that I (and the other 99% of the posters here) don't understand/haven't thought of... but just from my chair, it seems like you haven't either. And I only say that because you typically have laid a much stronger groundwork than you did here (as evidenced by the fact that you implemented a suggested change within the first 30 minutes of the thread being up). Not that the timing of Resgo's suggestion negates its validity, but I would contend that if you're taking the first suggestions that come in, you may not have thought it out very thoroughly.

Or, maybe you have a good idea of where you want to go, and you're a step ahead and using the community to help vet your idea... in which case, that's an impressive meta game.

Didn't read a single argument in this thread explaining why doing JF runs should be more expensive..
Can someone enlighten me please, cause so far I just think it's ****.
In my eyes it looks like CCP continues to suck all the joy out of this game.

For all of you crowing that this will have any effect whatsoever on force projection, you're just wrong. Cost isn't an issue. Not for the groups you are worried about showing up on your doorstep with capitals. But it is a nice subsidy to the corn growers in the midwest, I mean, AFK ice bots in Empire.

Perhaps they should have seen what the effects actually become on isotope use related to starbases before creating this new social welfare program.

If this would have been part of a larger, more deeply conceived plan on limiting force projection, I could buy it. But for now, it's nothing more than a subsidy to people who already play the game AFK.

So jumps/portals will require 50% more fuel, but bays will hold 3x more. 1.5/3 = .5. ***** about to get expensive, yo. But less refueling required.

Buy isotopes.

What if fuel cost was a little more logarithmically tied to distance jumped?

Boost all jump ranges by 10-25%
Reduce jump fuel volume by 50-75%
Scale jump fuel cost by balancing efficiency of distance so that...

Jumping about 25% of current ranges is actually about 10% cheaper than now.
Jumping about 50% of current range is about 10% more expensive than now.
Jumping 100% of current range is 100% more expensive than now.
Jumping 125% of current range is 250% more expensive than now.

The trade-off would be shorter cyno chains for maximum fuel efficiency or longer jumps for max speed and security?

Posting in a stealth "nerf power projection" thread.

Power projection and hull tanking, Fozzie is on a roll and I like it.

FROZZIE, Hi, I'm a bit triggered here so bare with me and I'll try to resist the urge to sperg but please tell me.. us how this change is GOOD for all if not the majority of players?

This change will hurt the everyone and even more so anyone who is not in a powerbloc, or mega alliance. This is but a scratch to those big guys but it literally curb stomps the **** out of the smaller guys. I feel these changes will negatively affect an alliance like ours, not too mention the hundreds of other corps and alliances who are not in powerblocs or receiving sov/renter subsidies from their overlords.

The other question I have is why is this change being put forth in the first place, indy buff? capital nerf? tidi control? but really why? And do you think the positives IF ANY outweigh the negatives? ((Tinfoil alert:)) It seems the direction of the game is slowly moving in the direction to help the current powers that be to stay in positions. Am I playing Eve where you are part of the Rockafellas, certain players get to be in this elite group(CSM) and the rest of the players are all puppets and slaves with false hope of ever amounting to anything great in game INDEPENDENTLY?

No but really I have agreed and love the changes you've been doing all these years and even recently rise of Rise but as MissBolyai pointed out in post #127 this is a bit whimsical of you and it's a bit late for April fools.