Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Depends what they need. I would not go as far as claim that it's 98% - as if the local market is short just the right mod you need you will pay that 3 extra mil AND travel to Jita for that last mod. Even for stuff like standard doctrine stuff - like, for example Triangel Scimi which uses few deadspace medium shield transfers.

Jita is just the place where you know that if it's for sale you will get it instead of figuring out first if your full shopping list is available before you start shopping and end up going to Jita regardless.

For standard T2 fit the four hubs are usually ok, although even for that you can pay something through the nose for more niche things - like, for example, Heavy T2 logi drones or "common" faction items like republic/domination points, etc. Smaller hubs just fluctuate more. Amarr, as the second largest hub is still more or less fine ofc, been a while since I have lived south and used it though.

* The supers are much much larger than regular non-assembled caps and could not be moved. Also - they are by design undockabe as it stands and as such being able to transport supers into station would be significant change indeed.
* You can not produce capitals in hi sec. Being able to transport that would not change it. Otherwise most capitals would be produced in hi sec and would be just jumped out of hi sec (as it used to be once upon a time, that is the reason whi Chribba and other have capitals in hi sec today).
* Sure you can. Cyno's cant be done in hi sec and that does not prevent people going there in other jump capable ships like jump freighters and black ops. They even fixed the exploit where you were able to escape concord by jumping out of hi sec through cyno in low/null.
* Noobs get rolfstomped without caps in hi sec all day long already if going up against veterans. T2 logi ships, establised doctrines, flying pirate battleships .. etc ... so in that regard caps would not change the landscape by any significant degree.
* Sieged dread can not be remote boosted and its lock time is loooooong. Wirthout siege the dread is pretty much useless doing only approx 1/3 rd of the gank battleship damage. So I really really would not worry about dreads camping someone in sub cap in. Now if someone is playing the station games in a carrier agressing at station then ... I would indeed expect to see some dreads stuck on that station for the duration of their siege cykle. Unsupported sieged dreads die btw real fast if you neut them dry. So combat as expected.
* I do not understand what would be the problem exactly with fighters in hi sec. They lose the carrier bonuses when assigned to other people so they suck badly for pve unless directly controlled by a carrier, can be killed if one needs to and carriers can't already use any gates in missions so using a carrier in a mission would be possible only in select few missions - and they are less effective at that than a pimped pirate BS at roughly similar cost.

Although we are drifting off topic in here. I just honestly do not believe regular capitals would be a problem in hi sec in todays EVE. On the other hand I'm not particularly caring if they can or can not enter hi sec as other than few very select niche cases I do not see much use for them in hi sec. The being mainly station games, shooting POCO's / POS'es with fewer people and poviding leadership bonuses and - one important factor why ORCA was nerfed - theyr ship maintenance bay would allow criminals to ignore their sec status by just grabbing gank catalysts from a carrier.

If the JF's now use 50% more fuel will the fuel bay be made bigger to accommodate more fuel or do we have to use some of our reduced cargo space to carry fuel aswell?

Yes.

give us low-slot shield tanking module

I would like to suggest that you consider either leaving the packaged size of Freighters and JFs alone or better yet reduce them to 800K m3 or lower.

1. Freighters and JFs are non-aggressive capital ships already allowed in high-sec
2. You could eliminate some of the serious questions raised in the Contracts thread around getting Freighters and JFs to market, as they could be hauled in existing courier contracts. No need for the devs to even consider Contract changes just to solve this one problem.

You have an opportunity here that you might not want to pass up.

While you are increasing jump fuel consumption could you also look at the different jump freighter fuel consumption numbers of the different races/jump freighters?

I'm fairly certain I would have erected a research tower and tried a bit of industry with a Capital Cargohold BPO, exploring things like research, invention, production. I'm just guessing it would have impacted rig market and the economy a bit much. cuz I doubt it was reverted for the sake of player feels.

My only concern is this: why is there absolutely no variation in between racial freighter variants? Same boni all around. The only choice between them is the optics.

Customization by righs would be to prevent choices which give more possibilities compared to the status quo.

Let's take agility, hp and cargo as base points.

Rigging for agility should hit hp and cargo, rigging for cargo should hit hp and agility and of course rigging for hp should hit cargo and agility. So you have choices to take for certain purposes while the baseline (unrigged) should stay more or less the same as it is.

With the proposed changes only risk gets raised while there is no added real benefit. The potential benefit of getting more money for transport jobs will easily be eaten up by only one ship loss. And one medium term consequence will very probably be overall inflation anyway. Intended consequence?

And real life shows that markts do not diversify just because it is more expensive to get to the superstore. No local market will ever come near the reach and volume of the trade hubs and so it will still be better for most purposes to use the trade hubs and just raise prices.

In the long run it is also another blow agains single / small corp players since the large alliances and blocks will have a much easier time to mitigate any consquences of both transport nerf and industry changes whereas small enterprises will have a hard time. It will in no way lead to a more diverse or interesting 0.0 though but just furthers concentration even more.