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I am hoping that only dreads will be able to be used in high sec as dreads are fairly balanced to sub caps...

This could help in cleaning up all those abandonded poses in high sec... if ccp makes it so any abandonded pos turns into a supect for crime watch.

though blappy dreads on the jita undock would be sick...

This idea is terrible, and trying to fix it is just making it worse... there are lots of other methods I am sure, but I question why are we only getting answers from the Devs when suggestions are being made. The Devs are paid money by CCP from our Subs to create ways for the paying customers to have fun and enjoy their time.

so if I am a cap pilot who has a life and spend the little time I have free playing eve...am I going to get extra hours of enjoyment from this? Probably not, have I contributed to the stagnation... probably not, in actual fact I am probably helping the economy. SO why am I being penalized?

Why are we the players making suggestions on what is clearly a half baked idea and expected to give solutions? rather than the EXPERTS at CCP giving a solution that adds fun?

I work like many others in EVE and frankly I play eve so as not to have to overly think ...that's why I pay for it
and as such we players expect to get some level of enjoyment out of a game which we pay for, and for years in my case I think about 8, we have been loyally fans of the game, but if I have to play eve for hours just to get my logistics done, what is the point?

Null sec is boring?, then why not make NCP's stronger and a chance of fleets that can even attack SOV structure? with higher risks and rewards? that will give small gangs targets either NPC or PC's , it would make large alliances keep on their toes, and have to guard their own property or lose it, it will also change the map of eve, where the empires can expand and gain more territory or even lose it, the lines of the map will be more fluid. even lo-sec could become null or empire space and cause POs owners to fight to keep their structures there would be need for new structures and mods and new manufacturing industries could start up.

nerf cap range maybe still ok but not to the extent that you will kill or take the enjoyment out of playing eve

The concept of eve is sound,

But this sudden increase of what can only be considered as a crazy attempt to fix things is not. can we please have an eve that is fun for everyone

This will be interesting

I welcome these changes. However I feel that are 4 years too late.

Super Blocks have long consolidated their power. With these new changes, CCP just entrenched their position.

These changes will also bring few changes to improve PVP.......

Why?

You no longer have an element of surprise. Putting a few scouts in systems head will provide intel well before combat can take place.

This will lead to 2 outcome.

Fight if you can win
Run if you can't.

There will be no counter bait, counter drop or any form of surprise element, just fight or run.

Improving small gang? How is that even possible? All I can forsee is gangs of carriers roaming in low/null sec, crushing anything in their way. (More lowsec than null.)
I can see a few alliance using smartbomb carrier in FW systems farming kills. Good luck to newbies trying to use FW to learn the ropes of PVP. It will be first jump into lowsec, first warp to out gate, reactivate clone.

On the subject of helping smaller alliance, please explain how.

CFC can still field a 500-1500 man BS BLOBS that can crush any small alliance trying to establish a beachhead.
N/3 can still field 200 archons which can provide similar result.

Even if a small alliance can gain a foothold, without logistic support, how long do CCP think they can hold on to the system?

Problem is not projection of power, but how fast super blocks can turn around should they be threaten in their rear.

You have a solution at hand. The jump fatigue, I believe provide an interesting solutions.
Leave the jump distance alone
Double/triple the amount ot fatigue base on distance cover, preventing quick turn around. This can force a fleet, once projected to their deployment, to stay for at least a few days. CCP can even set a penalty to say min jump distance of 3LY with max fatigue, so captial ships can still be use in combat.

E.g

CFC deploy into Germinate to fight N/3. With the distance covered and the fatigue those cap ships accumulated, they now cannot do a return trip of 50ly in the same amount cyno chains, say for 1 week. Of course, they can still jump 3LY, so it is still possible for them to return, if they wish, or stay for combat.

This can allow;
1. smaller alliance to strike their back.
2. counter deployment for more content.

These are my few cents worth.

This has been a fun thread to read. I've not much to say about it since it won't immediately affect me. But I do have to say that I've rage quit twice in the past due to sweeping changes CCP made. So for those of you quitting let me recommend you keep your stuff. Its kind of a pain restarting with an empty wallet and no assets to speak of. Which is to say, you'll be back.

Hahaha ... It took us weeks to get to 100 pages of tears when they changed wormhole jump changes. Your tears are filling up new pages by the minute.

As I have lived in a wormhole my whole eve carrier, I won't pretend to understand how much this will make life more difficult for you on more than on a theoretic level, just like all the null sec alts that posted in our forums didn't understand wormhole jump changes on more than a theoretic level. However, it does seem like this would weaken the defensive ability of the big power blocks. This is a good thing, isn't it?

I am not talking about quitting. I am talking about a very unintuitive mechanic from the point of a new player alliance living in null.

I think you should scrap all methods of being able to remotely install you clone from the game completely. This will just confuse new players as it won't make sense to them that they can just jump around for no apparent lore reason. If I was new again this would be immersion breaking for me. You should need to be present for the medical facility to physically copy your consciousness onto a new clone, if you make an edge case where it is possible then it opens up pandoras box.

Solution, introduce an interdiction nullified shuttle with no skill requirement to fly. This will be more fun for a new player and will make a lot more sense to them, and also give them a sense of perspective of the galaxy rather than just simply appearing at their new location with no sense of bearing.

The large alliance/coalition have the organisation to teach their player to setup jump clone in important station and can setup ship cache. It will be a PITA to do this but their position is easier to defend with this change as long as they do the legwork of having their pilot setup correctly.

Changes to jump mechanics.

Cyno's can only be fit to:
Exploration Frig.
Covert ops frig (t2)
Covert ops cruiser (t2)
Strategic cruiser (with the right sub system)
Tier 2 battle cruisers
Command ships (t2)
Blops (t2)
Carriers
Titans

Cyno modules use charges. Can carry 10 charges, can not reload while active. 1 minute reload cycle.
Charge blueprint costs 400 liquid ozone, builds 10 charges. Each charge is 0.5 m3
Each ship that jumps to cyno uses 1 charge from the ship lighting the cyno.

In order to light a cyno, pilot needs to be in squad leader, wing commander, or fleet commander slot in fleet. Needs skills depending on which position in fleet (ie wing commander level 1 to light a cyno while in a wing commander position. )
Ships can only jump to cyno from their direct leader
(Example: fleet leader cynos, wing commanders jump in and light their cynos, squad leaders then jump in, lighting their cynos, tthen fleet members can jump in.)

Change cyno cycle time to what is felt needed for game balance. The fleet will still have to wait around for the cynos to end in order to continue.

This would also work for titan bridges, as the bigger the force, the more leadership needs to jump in.

Moving large fleets becomes possible, through coordination, but not as easy as it is now.

Set max jump range to 5-7.5 ly. Remove or re purpose the skill jump drive calibration. Jump freighters should be exempt from ly change, give them whatever they currently have at jdc 5 now. You will always need logistics. You can't make t2 items locally (the 4 faction moon mats are quadrant based) Also, 4 types of ice spawn in distinct areas. You want people to choose based on what they have access to, or what they want in a ship.

"But this just means more cyno chars!"
No. With the current logic in regards to the proposed changes "alliances will have members get a 2nd or third character so they can get in the capital and jump it further" is the same argument. Also, this makes it harder to get advanced leadership skills needed for bigger fleets.
"But then they will just have more, smaller fleets"
No, because logistics is harder in multiple fleets. They could, but at their risk.
'The people that light cynos will just drop fleet and others will take over for them in those roles."
Have some kind of cool down for fleet movement if you light a cyno.
like: if cyno was lit, no fleet changes (leadership changes) can be made for x minutes (which conveniently is the same time as the length of cyno)

This solution would be much less of a drastic change. If this fails, THEN try your crazy drastic change.
First, at least TRY a cyno change, see how people abuse it. If they abuse it in a way you cannot fix, then make your crazy changes.
at least the community will know you tried to work with them.