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Removing the ability to jump gates and increasing the short range bubble where there is no or very little "fatigue" penalty to about 7.5ly might have half a chance of this working, anything else is going to have more negatives than positives in the end IMO.

Like most changes this will devastate smaller groups, and just mostly be an inconvenience for larger groups. This will make it nearly impossible to assault someone like CFC.

I realise this thread is already heated enough with people complaining, and others soaking up the 'tears' of those that this change is likely to affect. However, I would regret not adding my opinion to this thread, if I thought it could help sway any decision on behalf of CCP.

Like others on here, I'm a 10 year old toon and have seen my fair share of nerfs. I've always defended CCP, and the decisions they make to streamline the game. Yet in spite of all this, I'm actually considering quitting EVE myself - should this change come in.

I've reached that stage in my EVE 'career' where I've become lazy and simply can't summon the energy to pvp. Frigate warfare does little for me, and frankly the prospect of getting blobbed or hot-dropped removes any desire I have to try. Therefore this game has become a way of simply keeping in touch with the little community I play with - rather like some big space themed chat channel. For me, that's what I enjoy logging in for - to each their own I guess.

Whilst I enjoy chatting with friends and the like, my only action in space comes from running a small tower concern in the depths of null. With this change, I simply don't have enough toons available to move my JF to Jita and back, and even if I did, it'd take days with the amount of jumps required. Assuming we're considering a 5 ly jump range with a JF, it'll take me 7 - 8 cynos to get to Empire, and then the same back again. If CCP genuinely believes that I'd risk jumping through gates with a fully loaded JF (a value of around 10bn per trip - 3 to 6 trips per week), then I'm sorry to disappoint. Instead, I'd rather just sell my towers, sell my JF and station spin whilst I chat to friends. I dare say there will be others that share my opinion on such, and quite honestly, this'll result in a much steeper drop in EVE's already falling player base.

Finally, to those people that think my opinion (among the many that complain about this matter) are simply 'delicious' tears, I'd suggest you consider how many people you'll have left to hunt if everyone that runs cap ships, JFs, Supers, long range null fleets, etc, all get fed up and leave the game.

Many years ago I played Star Wars Galaxies; a testament that too much dev meddling into unbroken mechanics can seriously ruin a communitys resolve and associated desire to play.

Yours,
Tiger.

stay strong ccp. strong and steady will lead these changes to tq

have them go a different way?

adapt or die time

I'm looking at the bright side. My 25 paid monthly reoccurring accounts will be going down to 3 if I even keep playing.


I don't see this helping null sec. Its going to make it so hard to get anywhere no one will bother.

You're misunderstanding. What I'm saying is with the cool down timer for moving toons through a Titan's Jump Portal, alliances with a small number will be impacted for more than alliances with a larger number. While 1 Titan is cooling down, a larger alliance will just use another. Small groups don't have that option.

And your son says..."dad, why are you such a ******? you could have just used the gate...."

New players can't fly an interceptor and they don't understand the mechanics enough to do a wormhole route. Both your suggestions are for experienced eve players

but maybe not multi-year players which might be where your confusion lies - when newbie friendly alliances talk about new players they mean players that just completed the tutorial missions.

Name those so called reasons . . .