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One minor concern :)

100MN meta 4 MWD would go from 720 to 360GJ for comparison T2 AB burns 352GJ.

Now obviously AB's are still scram immune, don't bloat your sig and have no innate cap penalty. And they already don't really get fitted to battleships anyway, but still you might want to also have a look at afterburners if you do this. Because I'd be very hard pressed to find a reason other then over sizing on cruisers to fit one now :)

You'll also need a hedge to be dragged through and an optional mobile gallows or stake and bushels.

As someone who occasionally does PVP with frigs in FW, it is possible to catch frigs, even when one side tries to avoid you actively. It happens all the time and is quite common, even.

So no, as soon as a mission happens outside of HighSec, good hunting. HighSec is different of course, since there aren't many frigates which can gank another frigate and none of them are cheap enough for ganks, since they would've to be as blingy as the mission running frigate in the first place to get them before CONCORD arrives. Nothing is preventing gankers from trying to play with aggresson mechanics, however.

Which is good, when both sides are in frigates, the playing field is a lot more level and some honest PVP may occur.

Now in HighSec, the greatest danger for frigs would be the rats themselves, especially since a mission runner can't just MJD 100km away and plink them to death with his cruise missile Raven. A mission runner has to be a bit more proactive here.

Not very excited about the Hyperion release (most of it doesn't effect me).

Exceptions being for the new mission type, that sounds interesting. And the reduced cap cost on 100MW I will look forward to when using my BS.

Still feels underwhelming.

Sig bloat will be the PvP killer for anyone in a battleship.

MWD Domi has more sig rad than an Archon so alpha popping them with Capitals will be a thing again.

My usual FW farming bombers cost approx 50 mil/pop. I do lose them occasionally (on alt). In hi sec, if the rewards are good enough I might actually put some bling on them. A faction fitted AF with links in system can do pretty sick things.

As far as L4 missions being "totally safe". Depends really - I have lost far more ships in hi sec lev 4 missions over the past 5 years than doing PvE in null sec. Including, for example, a Drake with proper hardeners with max skill Scimi boosting it with everything it got. That is btw equivalent of running four T2 XL boosters locally. Existing L4 missions do have some quite spectacular tripwires in them and can kill quite blingy ships if you mess up. That drake btw had 6 points on it when it pulled the full stage agro and had still 3 points left on it when it went down.

Oh dear, the wormhole mass-spawn range thing still seems to be there. I hope we can get rid of it before the expansion goes live. I've somehow got the feeling that in that particular feedback thread almost nobody liked it even a bit.

I do like the new release schedule but was hoping to see some things fixed that Crius messed up. I haven't played much since the release because of it.

Hopefully maybe they add a way to disable links in them, that would go a good way to make things interesting. Even better if they are low-sec based. Frigate pvp is fun.

Now there's an idea: links don't work in deadspace ("that's why they call it dead"). Suddenly, beyond more easily balanced PVE, you have the option of introducing deadspace-for-its-own-sake as a terrain option for PVP.

The only downside, which I admit is not much of one, is that it's fun to link the daylights out of newbies in their little ships and watch their glee as they motor around like bosses in a mission they'd have no hope of running otherwise.