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I think they are afraid of our subcap apex force projected by jump bridges.

Sorry but an alliance who hauls 10+million m3 of stuff to null sec every week isn't going to do it in blockade runners. Half the stuff won't even fit in one. Even if the materials for the t2 ships/mods/ammo were brought instead of the actual items, it would still be the same.

Then think about how this affects small corps running pos based industry in quiet areas of low sec that are not even going to have the man power any more to make the jf jumps required to manage the business.

Exponentially increasing the time and cost it takes to transport goods (which already takes an enormous amount of time, isk, and risk) is going to have a drastically bigger impact than the nerf to the other capitals. It will also disproportionately affect smaller entities who aren't even engaging in force projection.

The right fix to this won't have these unintended consequences. That this solution does means that it is not the right one for the game.

If there is an optimal jump frequency that you've calculated as being the best for the fatigue curve..

I don't see why you wouldn't just set a static jump cooldown timer to that value and just call it a day.

Why use this insane system where people can lock their characters for 30 days? As a penalty for playing your game? In what world does this make sense?

Here is an easier fix for sov IMO. Simply limit the number of systems and alliance can hold .

What a bunch of cry babies.

I'm going to tell my mommy.

Key word in my post is "if."

I'm sorry you're too caught up in the moment, continue to complain about the changes loudly.

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Alrighty, CCP, since as a company, you're entirely too lazy to bother to actually produce good designs, I'll do your work for you, and explain how it works and solves your problems without making your entire playerbase cry.

To start with, scrap every single thing you've already suggested, there's literally nothing salvageable here.

Now, our goals are:

1. Limit the speed at which players can move across the whole of new eden via jump drives.
2. Impact large scale utilization of capitals that gives a numbers superiority advantage to large groups.
3. Keep tedious gameplay out, while still making capital use meaningful.
4. Keep uncontested jumps easy, but allow others to be made more difficult.

Core Parts:
The core parts of the jump mechanic are Jump Fuel, "Jumping", Cyno Fields, Capital Ships, and Cyno Ships. So let's look at what we can play with, if there's anything else we can do to improve the overall design playability of eve while we're at it.

Existing Issues:

• Jump Fuel is pretty annoying as it is, it'd be nice to simplify that.
Jumping is instant, when doing design work "instant" is one of the evil words, like 'invulnerable' and 'infinite', so let's see if we can't fix that.Proper utilization of jump requires you to use an out-of-game tool, and has since the inception of jumping. This is inherently unacceptable and needs to be remedied.
Cyno Fields are instant, when doing design work "instant" is one of the evil words, like 'invulnerable' and 'infinite', so let's see if we can't fix that.
Capital Ships have a number of issues, both in being over-specialized and over-generalized or simply ridiculous, but those are balance changes mostly for another time. However they're reliant on carry jump fuel, which we discussed, and getting your group to work together is very confusing, because you have to trust everyone has the same level of Jump Drive Calibration. Also, jump range as it stands is indeed quite long, but in-and-of itself, not a direct issue.
Cyno Ships are almost always disposable and generally irrelevant in the process, this is our biggest lever for improvement!

Let's start with the biggest lever, Cyno Ships, and while we're at it, let's make jump fuel more economically balanced, and less of a chore for groups with smaller logistics groups. Let's make a new item, The Jump Fuel Block, the goal here is similar to what fuel blocks did for towers, to simplify the mess of fuels you need to stock by taking 1 Liquid Ozone, 1 of each Isotope, and producing 4 fuel blocks. The size of these block also becomes a lever, but I suggest to start out we keep them relatively small and adjust as needed, start with .5m3 per block. These blocks will be used for lighting Cynos as we move through the rest of this change.

Now, let's move to the actual act of jumping: Currently jumping is instant, and as the crow flies. Let's change this, make jumping gate-based. Travel from origin point to destination follows a route through the gate network. Each jump through the gate network takes 60s (20s with JDC V) after the initiating pilot has selected a cyno to jump to, during which time a projection of the ship that is jumping in appears at the beacon. This allows people who are there time to decide if they want to kill the Cyno Ship, or let things come on through. Black Ops will see a 90% reduction in time, to 2s when jumping or bridging, to keep them as a quick-strike utility platform. If the Cyno is destroyed during transit, the capital ship comes out of it's jump in whatever system it would have been in while travelling through the gate network, at a random point in that system. This route can be interrupted by Cyno Jammers. This necessitates a need to change the current Mobile Cyno Jammer to the Emergency Mobile Cyno Jammer, keeping most of it's current stats with 2 notable changes:

1. The Jammer is now System Wide.
2. The Jammer now lasts 12 hours.

We also will need another new mobile module, which is a 'permanent' version of the Emergency Mobile Cyno Jammer, and functions much like a mobile depot, lasting one month if not disturbed, when it is reinforced, it ceases jamming and only one can be placed per system. When a Mobile Cyno Jammer (new, long-lasting version) is destroyed, it creates a husk, which prevents anchoring the long-lasting variety for 2 days, but not the Emergency variety.
If, at the time of jumping, a cyno jammer of any of the three varieties exist, that part of the route is not valid, and will be avoided, much like an avoidance waypoint would be normally in auto-pilot, which will now feature a 'Show Jump Route" as well as the fastest and safest routes.

Cynos and Cyno ships will change heavily with this system, Cynos will gain a 40s spool up time, to ensure that under peak conditions, you can't have less than 1 minute notice of incoming capitals. Cyno Ships themselves will now carry jump fuel, making them an investment risk, and limiting the amount of ships that can jump to them, by requiring an amount of fuel blocks equal to Jumps Traveled * (mass of ship / 1000000) * Modifiers, modifiers include Jump Fuel Conservation, and a global modifier that can be applied to help move the amount of fuel blocks required up or down, making them a dual-lever system for easy adjustment. These size changes should push Cyno Lighting into the realm of Deep Space Transports and the like as the need for tank and large cargo bays make cynos much harder to get lit. These changes should also effectively limit the number of ships able to jump to a single cyno. This also means that moving to prepared locations is easy, and unprepared ones, notably harder with these slower cyno ships.

Overall this system makes uncontested Jumping easy, contested jumping hard, doesn't cripple small entities, and doesn't grant massive power comparatively for large entities.

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So far I see 3 undeniable benefits to these changes -

1. An end to PL hotdropping craziness...they will need to be strategic now about drops, and only hit high value targets

2. The ability to camp renters on the fringes of sov without getting hotdropped. Sure the big alliances can send subcap fleets, but that takes time and is easier to monitor. Who is going to pay rent if they will get incessantly camped without any intervention by the nominal sov holder?

3. An end to the absurdly easy transportation of goods by Jump Freighters. Yes, they will force people to actually think about logistic, and will raise ship/mod prices - but that is great. Ships will be valuable again, they won't just be an easily supplied and infinitely replaceable commodity. People on the fringes of nullsec, and hopefully everywhere else, will actually feel a measure of pain when losing ships, and will be more strategic about committing them.

You all realise this is a standard ploy of Governments?

You leak info that is designed to be extreme and then when it comes to implementation you back off a bit so it doesnt feel so bad.