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Has a thought been given as to how much longer it will take a ship to land on grid with this.
Especially Battleships. You will have massive amounts of warning when something appears on your overview.
So it will be a lot harder to surprise someone on grid to tackle them.

I.E. Could a warping ship not appear on grid till it actually exits warp properly. Not just based on distance.

What I would like to see is a small change so your Overwiew won´t show you things on your grid that are more than 1.000 or 1500km away from you. Then everything coud be on the same grid, but because it is too far away, your short range scanners can´t see it. That is what the D-Scan is for. (exept of things like station, Celestials and so on which you already see through the whole system)

Since the grid range will be increased to 7800 km (According to CCP Nullabor's tweet), will the view range then also be increased from the small ~100 km?

I will take a look at your character and try and fix your ship issue on sisi, it is fallout from another change we made, getting quite a few reports about it and trying to fix as we speak. Really do not want that hitting TQ.

Thanks, it seems to be fixed for all my characters now (not just this one). Last time I was logged in was likely around the last mass test (though didn't get to attend), so it must've been after that that the bug happened. Wish I had any more specific data to show for the bug, but it's been bug reported at least.

any planned changes for bubbles re: how far they pull from?

currently any bubble on your destination grid on your vector pulls you to the closest bubble, obviously with much bigger grids the potential distance pulled can be much bigger

admittedly you could make bubbles very far on grid already, but it involved a lot of grid manipulation and would not persist through downtime

also wondering about the ESS, as currently you need to extend a grid 3001km from a station/stargate to place it on grid - which results in a very powerful bubble as it warns you in local when something lands in it
if grids are much bigger can we expect them to be modified too?


also abou the moon thing, i've had poses on the same grid as station undocks before (until downtime), it's not a big deal load wise and its kinda cool to see
the only issue is you can gun up to infinite range with the tower (unless this changed with brain in a box) so you can make sentry guns do strange things

At the moment, the numbers we are running are 7800km from the center point.

So if you imagine a station is the center point, the grid will expand 7800km in 6 directions from that point.

These numbers are subject to change depending on performance testing.

This is something you could already do with grid manipulation(grid-fu) I believe.

However anchoring them at that range becomes harder the farther you go, and your target will be able to warp to the gate if they manage to escape.

Sorry if it has been asked already but, could it be possible that 'thanks to' this extended grid, you could potentially change the minimum distance required to warp (150km actual could be, 300km), and also extend the warp-to options beyond 100km, let's say up to 500km ? 700km ?

Those are pure random thrown numbers, it oviously needs more reflexion to come up with reasonable good ones.