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Everybody hated this part. Everybody, except perhaps for the captain, who wouldn't be able to feel anything, snug and comfy as he was in his pod.

He always imagined someone deep in the bowels of the ship closing a huge, old fashioned knife switch at the silent command from the captain. Yet in reality the jump activation process was nothing like that, of course. It ought to have been started like that though, the end result certainly warranted it.

The first indication to the crew that the jump sequence had been initiated, was the lockout of all non-essential equipment from the ship's power grid. A fraction of a second later the lights almost dimmed, as the capacitor dumped its energy into the reactors. The tokamaks screamed, as they were forced beyond all reason and engineering safety limits to fuse tons of atomized Helium, almost yet not quite not melting their delicate interior surfaces in the process. Somehow they still managed to multiply the energy from the capacitor by a thousandfold and more without instantly disintegrating, and it would be hours before the automatic repair systems had patched most of the abuse suffered by the ship's energy systems. Hours before they could jump again if events didn't go according to plan.

The plasma ablation emitters on one side of the hull began beaming titanic quantities of hard gamma rays toward a single, nearby point in space. The energy density of spacetime instantly jumped to infinity, and the delicate vacuum energy balance of spacetime was broken, further multiplying the available energy for what was to come. An utterly black softball sized event horizon formed around the tiny singularity, which began evaporating from the uneven Hawkings radiation. Anybody foolish enough to be outside the massive hull would have been instantly cooked to the bone.

The crew felt the slight lurch, as the whole ship stretched fractionally in the gravitational tidal forces from the singularity. He barely had time to think of the effect the energy field would have to anything or anybody near their point of arrival. Any moment now.

The Archon capital class ship Jumped.

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(Graphics and sound to match, pretty please. )

The best thing about these changes is that instead of forcing players into Incarna, it is forcing CCP to make Incarna such a compelling and fun experience that people will WANT to opt into it.

Glad to see the original icons appearing. I hope to see fancy new drawn icons in the future.

Btw we need 3 options while in station: Boarded, CQ and Door

Thank you CCP this makes me look forward to what the future holds. A step in the right direction.

right on ccp. looking forward to spending insane amounts of isk to look at that new cyno effect. here's hoping it blows my mind. :P

QFT

If you continue to publish devblogs that look like this one, we truly are moving forward.

Thank you for the updates.

Pro

I can say if I wasn't already cautiously optimistic, this would have put me there. As others have said it has been a long summer waiting, not for the actual changes in my case but for a sign that someone in CCP was paying attention and hearing and understanding what was being said. I (unlike others) do not despise the idea of WiS or Incarna (even if I am unlikely to participate in it until there is actual game content), it was the lack of concern for the feelings and desires of the customer that was worrying me the most.

Thank you. And its good to have the possibilities re-open up.

Excellent news, though it sounds like it will still be months until we get it back on TQ

Seems like the horrible decline in player activity and presumably subscriptions made some decision-makers think.