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An interesting idea...

God I effing hope so. B0TLRD is an abomination unto Uggan, and I can't wait to see it burn. Gewns will have some serious geographic and logistical advantages if they invade dronelands from Venal, no doubt. We'll see how it plays out though.

question. what's going to happen with the navigation skills? like jump calib and the others

Lol, listen to nullbears whine and whine and their BWWWAAAAAAAAAAAmbulance go BWAAAAAAAA, BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Let me tell you how carebear mission running was back in the day.... Difficult and rewarding. You could make a ton of isk, build your own ships, ammo, modules and enjoy a couple of hours a day of playtime feeling something was achieved. Then nullbears started infiltrating CCP management, created the CSM and all the other three or 4 letter entity abbreviations few players outside of nullbears and CCP care about. What have they nerfed for the normal carebear....
-Bounties, brought them down a lot
-Number and quality of NPCs, for example in missions you no longer get wave after wave of BS, faction cruisers and frigs
-Loot, on some missions you used to need an industrial to cart away all the bounty
-Drones, no longer drop drone goo
-Can no longer get faction drops outside of the new burner missions
-Made scanning down multibillion carebear ships so easy
-Made tackling, pointing and destroying multibillion isk carebear ships so easy
-CONCORD no longer gives a flying phuck if you get ganked, they leisurely show up after griefers get their shiny kill mail
-Changed the bonus rewards, getting tech 2 impants and other goodies is no longer possible or almost impossible
-Asteroids were nerfed, the good stuff is long gone
-Shooting structures is no longer worthwhile, once in a while something would drop that made spending hundreds of rounds worthwhile
-Nerfed industry so that you almost have to buy your ships as it's ridiculous how expensive it has become to make them yourself these days, not to mention ammo, modules, etc.
-Quality of missions, you now get a bunch of lowpayout missions and eventually get an extravaganza or an assault. Burner missions, they can be farmed because CCP in their wisdom have scheduled up to 4 in a row and still few players run them, lol.

In other words CCP at the behest of their nullbear masters and their BWAAAAAmbulance royally screwed up and nerfed highsec telling carebears, adapt or GTFO. Don't believe me? Read the dev blogs and posts....

So to hear and read about nullbear tears because they are being slowed down a bit is sweet music; their space, ships and most everything to do with nullbearing has gotten a buff in the last 4 or 5 years at the expense of highsec. Welcome to our world nullbears and I hope CCP tells nullbears adapt or GTFO - like they did and still do to us.

Who better has the resources to do a freighter op: a small entity, or a large coalition?

A freighter op is, by design, supposed to be boring. If anything happens, other than the freighter getting to its location without incident, the op failed. It's escorts are there to scare away the small stuff that might happen to stumble on it, not to fight. A freighter op isn't like some escort quest in any other MMO. It is moving a significant value of corp/alliance level assets. You would be a fool to risk anything happening to it, so you plan the op to be as tedious and boring for everyone involved as possible.

•Making something tedious will not stop players doing it if it's very clearly the best option. They'll do it, and they'll hate it - CCP Greyscale

Wow - I read the player suggestions about this sort of thing a while back, but didn't expect such a shake-up to happen. And of course there are lots of people here not looking at the wider implications of this beyond "but I wanna hot drop anything anywhere in the universe", implications which I broadly welcome.

I'm not sure about the numbers, they'll certainly need tweaking, but it's never made sense to me that massive attack fleets can be projected deep behind enemy lines when Black ops (which, you know, are supposed to operate under cover and behind enemy lines) can't go nearly so far and can achieve so much less...

It does seem an odd move to limit player jump bridge networks, when we know the game is heading towards player-owned jumpgates - I'm not sure how these parts of the grand plan fit together. This will, I guess, trouble the mid-to-large corps, while proving a boon to the truly small operators. I'd hate to see all these changes go ahead, only for the really big players to just build Jumpgates to replace lost ability, but we don't know the details about their limitations yet, so fingers crossed...

But the payoffs:

• making it harder for the biggest corps to cordon off excessively large areas of space "just because",
• forcing capital fleets to consider their deployment less casually then they've been able,
• the increased relevance (or maybe that's relevance at all) of diversionary raids,
• the ability for new capital ship commanders to go get their feet wet without the certainty of losing it to a meaningless hot drop...

Yeah, not sure that the current solution is the right one, but sounds like a pull in the right direction, and kudos for working towards improvement.

Yes please. We will hunt the weak and slow ones but you will make it to your destination.

Enjoy the video http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5w4q3_wildebeest-hunted-by-crocodiles_animals

See the best part is you have to cross the streams and rivers now.

and this can Happen also

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5wend_wildebeest-attacked-by-wild-dogs_animals?from_related=related.page.int.gravity-only.63039c7b0ae91a34f92742d2e6e43af9141254021

JD Cal is still integral for Black Ops. It's required to 4 and while the unpacked jump range of a Redeemer is 3.5 the true Jump range/ Bridge range is over 7 at base with the Cal requirement. 7.85 with JD Cal to 5. They have said that range will remain.

The stupidity of this all really becomes clear when you look at it. Stupid in what they say they are doing and why they say they are doing it. It's not about force projection. If anything, this sort of change will increase force projection. If you see a 200 man Super Cap fleet on a gate, what do you think the response is going to be from a small alliance? GTFO of the way maybe?

Avatar and Redeemer share the same base Jump range, they share the same Calibration modified jump range. An Avatar has less than 8 AU jump Range now. The ship that is really being punched in the face here is the Carrier.

Here is my question. If Supers can use gates, WTF is the point in cyno jammers?

I know flying by yourself in eve is a smart thing and re-approaching and jumping back thru while he has agro wouldn't work either. Hey here is a tip put a large nuet in your highs and nuet it off of you. I guess gate travel is a new thing for you time to learn to play eve all over again. Ask a vet in your organization for some more old school tips these are just a few you can use.

Better yet confirming DOTLAN is already prepping for the change. NEXT