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I think Sir Molle cooked up all this hocus pocus!!!

Is the era of BoB on our doorsteps again?

CCP you have fundamentally misunderstood why nullsec has reached it's current state. It is not because forming a coalition is easy, it's because there's no cost in doing so. There is no reason not to bring more people.

After these changes, there is STILL no reason not to bring more people, and so the coalitions will remain.

This game was not dieing due to a lack of freighter escort operations and 7 month cooldowns, it was dieing due to the stagnant meta of "bring more people" and "not fighting is more rewarded than fighting".

CCP, fix the actual problem please. Six months from now you will be looking at subscriber numbers that are still declining, power blocks which still exist, and an even more blue doughnut with no capitals to counteract the subcap blob (oh and half your capital owning hub players will be gone).

This will be an interesting change indeed.

However, there are a few things to consider, both for the people in nullsec and CCP.

For those of you in nullsec, I've seen a few posts about getting to a "hot region" for fights and how that will be incredibly difficult. That's the entire point. CCP wants to make every region a "hot region" - you should be focusing on your own little patch of grass and the ones right next to it, not the one across town.

Now for CCP, resource distribution is a massive thing to consider here. Logistics will be made quite a bit more difficult with this change, as I'm sure you're aware. Right now nullsec is lacking in mexallon and isogen, which are kind of important for building stuff, and there just isn't enough of it to meet demand, thus resulting in needing to import either it or the ships/mods themselves. You'll need to fix that somehow to make local industry viable in nullsec without hisec logistics backup.

Also, you need to look at the moon distribution - as it stands, moons are distributed mostly by area of space. If you made it so that every region had a handful of each moon type, and a special type that is more common in particular areas, that would probably be a help. The same goes for ice.

But anyway, things will be very interesting. Nullsec people: don't freak out, and give CCP good feedback. CCP: Listen to the feedback - don't get all tunnelvisioned here.

The next few months are going to be incredibly crucial for the future of EVE - don't goof it up.

dont do that.. that suck...... ccp vil only loss player's alot...

let all the big alliance be big us the small must just be smartere whit we are...


ccp dont do it.... the small alliance vil conquer...




ccp let us get more new Region's the game in sted of making the jumpin think

If I can't use my jump freighters I can't move good out of null, so what is the point of producing locally. I will NOT move a jump freighter through a normal gate. 6 billion isk taclked by 2000 isk. That is what I look for in fun.

It cuts both ways....sure it takes longer to get to the ratters and kill them. On the other hand, it's going to take a lot longer for the sov holders to respond, if they bother to do so at all. Plus they will often need to take gates rather than hotdropping on top of you, which makes it even hard to get surprised. So once you do catch some ratters, the chances of them getting saved approach 0.

So, the clonejumping wrongheadedness aside, the following are problems:

Obvious Problems:

1. This eliminates the ability for re-enforcement fleets to be mustered from the fallen. The first round you could take two bridges and make it to a fight.

2. This only IMPROVES defence. Attackers cannot easily move in to a region, you have to capture gateway systems (3 days) and then you start to push in. Defenders already have ships and supplies in the area, but the attackers cannot move things because they either need to move them from outside (and how do you do that when you ? Have fun. The issue in NULL is not on the defence, it is on offence.

3. Single accounts should be able to do more than just be on the front lines waiting for the next Clarion Call (welp, it was fun RNK, no more pipebombs!)

4. Players now MUST have multiple accounts. It goes from this "have more so you can train in to new things" to "you can only ever be in one area ever."

Obvious BETTER solution:

Make the cooldown on the ships. Treat it like damage so you cannot repackage the ship to get rid of it.

This eliminates so many of the issues with the jump change. The flavor make sense, the logic is better, and it allows supplies to move and pilots (players) move without massive "now quit playing while your cooldown goes away" penalties.

It also makes the whole podjumping change unnecessary.

So, sov will change even less because nobody can attack it?

Sooo basically every major alliance will pick their entrance system to live in so they are close to resources. Any alliance that wishes to have sov has to get past those powerhouses hugging high sec?

SUGGESTION

Limit fatigue to 1 month.

Firstly, a penalty of more than a month is not seen in any other game mechanic aside from losing something forever. T3's cost you a few days training tops, alpha clones at most a month, kill rights last a month etc.

Secondly, a 1 month fatigue would produce a jump cooldown of 3 days. This is sufficiently penalizing for any situation to stop excessive movement. I doubt anyone is going to say 5 LY per 3 days is OP.

Thirdly, reaching such a fatigue require a couple days and multiple back to back jumps under the currently proposed system. You'd have to know what you're getting yourself into and be dedicated to it.

A max of 1 month of fatigue cooldown, thus 3 days of jump cool down, is sufficient. Especially when careful time management can lead to 8 jumps a day at max range in 2 jump pairs.

BLOPs adjustments

Enh, you've seen a million people state this one already, I'll just reiterate it. They kinda live on jumping around, so perhaps a range scaling similar to the JF one, though not as nice neither. Perhaps a exponential scale, where 1 LY is treated like a 0.1 LY (10% range influence) while 7.875 LY is treated like 5 LY (a 63.5% range influence). The mid ground of about 4 LY would then want to be around 30% influence, giving a fatigue multiplier of 2.2 which shouldn't be anywhere near as prohibitive as a multiplier of 5.