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All I can say is, good luck to all the non-cfc groups. We have an over/under on how long it takes everyone else to realize.

Also, we're expanding our rental program!

Get in to some of the best space in the game, now even better because of these changes!

This will become an issue for the majority of Eve players because it affects the economy of the game (via logistics).

-Liang

My opinion is that a great deal of the complaining stems from a lack of capacity to think about the big picture. Changes on this scale will both destroy and create new opportunities and gameplay. New mid way trade hubs, Increased industry in low and null to offset the challenges of longer trade routes. Haulers will likely hand off their cargo more so instead of cargo using a single JF from deep null to Jita, It will jump part way, and hand it off to the next pilot.

In terms of combat, it will require alliances to be far more strategic in when, where, and how they use their assets. If you choose to go the gate route, you open yourself up for ambushes and hit and run tactics to slow you down. You provide the defenders more time to gather their forces promoting larger scale and more strategic conflicts. Every fight and every asset lost has the potential to become more and more significant allowing attrition strategies to come into play more so than before. I'm sure the majority of the players complaining don't think about strategy this way, all they see is themselves and how they want to do everything when they want to do it. EVE is a large scale war and economy strategy simulator. Sometimes effective strategy means planning weeks, months, years? in advance. You want to talk about significant gameplay, These changes open the doors to making your 1 ship kill mean more than it did before. It also encourages you to think more about how you use your ship because losing it means you can't simply hop back in.

This is all very different from the gameplay most people are used to. This will undoubtedly "ruin eve" for some players. They will unsubscribe. Does that make it a bad change? No. The problem is players are enjoying and engaging in play styles that are detrimental to engaging and emergent gameplay. You want your actions to matter on the battle field? These changes give you that power.

By adding all these challenges, CCP gets time to find and implement more changes. Titans were designed with the thought of only a few EVER existing in the game. Players proved them wrong. NULL was never supposed to become what it is. It did anyway. The players will always find a solution and no solution CCP implements is likely to be perfect.

The very bottom line is, there is no way to fix this problem without upsetting players. It's been the norm for far too long and people have become accustomed to it. But it needs to be fixed, and that means disrupting people's play styles because some playstyle's are bad for EVE.

You are killing npc 0.0.

If you want this to be reliable, you need to seed some more systems here and there or reshape regions.

Stain will be a madness. Venal too. Good luck living in NPC Fountain or even in Curse after this changes.

Even Catch that has a really weird shape will be ****** up.

And please don't say that a titan has to take gates to move. If titans are already nerfed to the ground this is just ridiculous.