Ships & Modules

It's a good change. There was never any justification for magic undetectable hangars that didn't drop loot like "proper" cargo bays; it was just never fixed. And now it has been

+1 CCP

I invite you to try this sometime.

So, seriously, contact me ingame, I'll get you into VANIS, you can tootle up to Querious and see how you find the experience of manufacturing in sov space.

HINT: training skills is not the issue here. We all have industrial alts. A substantial fraction of "hi-sec" population is actually the alts of 0.0 people using hi-sec to manufacture because the facilities are so vastly superior that it's more efficient to manufacture BATTLESHIPS 40 jumps from where they're actually needed.

I would support CCP making items drop from every kill and at a higher rate in exchange for cargo scanners being removed from the game.

I'm a space mendicant, I only kill red crosses to replace my stuff. If I ever get some faction stuff in my cargo or hangar it always comes from other players ship drop.

Doesn't mean I shouldn't have an opinion (yep I do own an Orca to move my ships left and right), but whatever.

I only ask for NPC stations to be destructible, everything else, I care more or less.

As of today I sold mine, and I'm selling off my entire industrial fleet, tired of CCP giving upper hand to griefers.

No hauling was ever safe, regardless of the ability to scan. People gank just to gank sometimes. Especially with the bump mechanics. Can keep someone stuck in a spot until the servers shut down while others just go to refit and shoot again.

For starters, the ability to cyno from Jita directly to a deathstar POS in sov space, and from there take a jump bridge directly to your destination system basically removes all risk in nullsec logistics. Jump Freighters and Jump Bridges are the two worst changes to ever happen to nullsec. Prior to those, if people wanted things in nullsec, they either had to manufacture it in their space, or they had to use these crazy things called stargates to bring it in from somewhere else. The number of fights that have been lost over the years due to JFs and JBs is immeasurable. And yes, I'm talking about actual fights, not just hauler ganks (although there would certainly be more of those, too).

Imagine, if you would, a world without JFs or JBs. Alliance X needs to do some logistics (say, for instance, POS fuel). They purchase it in jita, load it into a freighter(s), and start making their way to their destination. They then have to have a fleet meet their freighter at the first lowsec system along the route. They have to clear out every gatecamp along the route, and be prepared to fight any roaming gangs they come across. The obvious downside is that there's more :jumps: for whoever is stuck flying the freighter, but the upside is that the alliance as a whole has to actual put in effort beyond "lol i lit a cyno" to get shit to and from Jita.

Now enter Corporation/Alliance Y, a group of pilots that specializes in small-gang PvP. As things stand right now, the only thing that roaming through enemy space does is force ratters to warp to a POS, and catch the occasional moron not reading intel channels, and maybe, if somebody has an FC online and feels like fighting you, you'll get a ~good fight~. This happen maybe 2-3 times a week with the current system. With the removal of JFs and JBs, there would actually be a purpose behind roaming in enemy space. Not only would there be convoys as described above to go out and fight, there would be individual pilots doing their personal hauling to disrupt. While 90% of the time this results in nothing more than a ~hauler gank~, if you push somebody often enough they eventually are forced to defend their shit, or have their alliance collapse.

Gatecamping would also have a place in Eve once again. As it stands right now, gatecamping serves next to no purpose. You sit on a gate while watching pornography on your second monitor, and every once in a while a shuttle jumps into you and if you're paying enough attention you maybe get on the killmail. However, if gatecamping actually disrupted something, you would not only get a few more ganks, but people would have to come and try to clear you out at some point.

While this obviously wouldn't spawn constant fights, and people would still blob/run away/other bullshit, it would increase the potential for fights tenfold from what it is right now. Alliances would have to be more self-sufficient in terms of defending themselves. You can batphone your entire coalition whenever your structures are shot, but you cant batphone your entire coalition every time you want to move something. Alliances would have to actually be able to stand on their own 2 feet if they wanted to live in nullsec, and it would present more opportunities for small-mid sized fights in both not only sov space, but also npc space and lowsec, and that would definitely be a good thing for Eve-Online overall, even if a few freighter pilots have to spend a few more hours a week at the keyboard and get the occasional adrenaline rush.

The HED-GP camp is actually a huge pain in the ass to go bust. You either have to go through something like 10-15 jumps of empire (which is a massive hassle when half your fleet has to best-speed to HED because they're -5 and would die to police if they slow down, thus resulting in your fleet being spread out over multiple systems by the time they reach Keberz, where they still can't stop and wait), or you have to go the long way through either Curse or Provi, both of which are more enticing to stay in and PvP than to go to HED and have the camp go "lol, we're jumping into highsec, bye". It's just quite a ways out of the way to go, because if you don't get a fight there you basically have to turn around and go back the way you came.