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Dear CCP Grayscale.

Please feel free to test this idea by loading up a carrier with some big pile of expensive stuff and fly at least 20 gate jumps through null without being exploded. Pls fraps it for our shared entertainment.

Thanks

I wonder why everyone is so scared to just let this play out for a month or two before calling it quits. This change is massive, i don't think all the consequences have been mapped just yet. I think it's a rather interesting move.

If you are willing to stockpile accounts instead of operating in a more controllable area of space, then I applaud CCP for taking more money from you. I encourage them to go even further, and force you to pay double for every account past your fifth.

As a low sec denizen I can easily plex 2 accounts and get plenty of pew pew in. I can only imagine what null money would do to my account totals.

If you would rather pay than cede space, CCP should of course profit from your greed.

The more I think about this, the more it's sounding like a plan to bring increased revenue in for CCP. More jumps means more cyno alts needed which means more accounts needed which means more money for CCP.

Now I've just watched the Eve Online Show and seen the dev interviews and have a little more context for this as a result. I agree with what you want to achieve but disagree this is the way to do it. Could you not simply put a hard cap on jumps to a system within a certain time period to prevent every man and his dog jumping in on some random Cap fight somewhere? Have it so say after 10 ships jump in (arbitrary number, would need to be discussed) the system goes on lock down and all cynos are shut down and jammed. It would accomplish the same thing without restricting Jump Freighters, Rorquals or Blops.

You might want to think about the additional limits on jump distance. NOL to Amamake is 14 jumps. That is 3.5 hours ONE WAY. That is a 4 hour death march.

This is leaving aside the need to jump because you cannot enter highsec. By gate this requires 50 jumps and thousands of AU of warp. My estimate is 2+ hours of gate travel or 4+ hours of jump drive travel.

Enjoy your wine cooler and hand.

Those conventional fleets are the reason why I play Eve Online, and the reason why I try to find friends to play Eve Online with. That is the interaction that makes Eve Online worthwhile, not these faceless cogs-in-the-machine uber-fleets that are almost impossible to follow, even less possible to play reasonably, where each person has very little power to affect meaningful consequences to the game around them.

Conventional Fleets have always been, and always will be, the best parts of Eve Online, and you should be shouting from the rooftops from joy at their return.

Use a jump freighter or blockage runner?

Carriers were never meant to be cargo ships anyway. People will find new solutions.

Haha, good one!

Jokes on you though, my acc expires next week.