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It's harder than it used to but it's certainly not impossible. And people usually overreact, then adapt.
I fully expect "the big guys" to reclaim (in the long run) a large slice of what they gave up on "in anticipation of Phoebe".
Especially after the fatigue-burn-alliance-alts get sufficiently trained up.

No(t much) offense here, but let's be realistic - if you don't nip this in the not-yet-sprouted bud, you're setting yourself up for major pain in the more distant future when things start hitting the proverbial fan.
Whereas right now, all you would REALLY need to do (on a conceptual level, implementation might be less straightforward) is to add a SUPERCAPS ONLY jump fatigue ship attribute, and whenever a jump is to be performed, check both ship and pilot fatigue.

P.S. Also, what if it just happens in a "minor way"? Is that somehow more acceptable? Why?

Has anyone ran damage stats on rorq drone damage done on TQ in say the last month?

Most of the jump fatigue evasion relay pilots don't need to be fully trained - in fact, they can have a skeleton skillset.
And you don't need to make ALL the jumps ALL the time - a few key ones will do just fine most of the time too, bringing the ship into or near systems with long-range inter-regional stargates.
Combine that with other travel options and you have yourself a need of maybe 2 alts per active supercap to reach about half the map in not a lot longer than you used to be able to (and drastically less time than you could "honestly" do).

Yeah, it's not TOO cheap, but for the same force projection capability, it's a lot cheaper than having many more fully trained pilots with extra supercaps included stationed in various staging areas semipermanently.

P.S. Anyway, even if it would be AT FIRST prohibitively expensive, the price will keep going down in time while ISK income levels keep rising, making it "cheaper" from two fronts at once.
Why not proactively make a tiny additional adjustment to prevent even the possibility of it happening much later on?
It's not like the workload to add this change to the existing changes would constitute a major timesink in comparison... while saving you a lot of potential grief later down the road.

So what happens if the station you are in gets taken over and your med clone is there?

Are you stuck in the station for a year?

I guess the swaps will happen in safespots, because trying to clown-car supercaps into a POS and do swaps without any of them getting A) bumped or 2) stolen would be about impossible.

Well I'm still not sure about the high-sec caps thing but hope you guys announce it well in advance so I can invite all pilots to pop the Veldnaught before the changes are introduced.

/c

There is still a cost associated with that. Unless you are of the opinion slots are free if it isn't a main...

It's a non-zero amount of work with a non-one chance of being needed, net work over time is lessened by playing "wait and see", and given that we've been very clear that we'll make changes if it becomes a big issue, if it happens our messaging strategy will be "told you so".

Yes, if it happens in a minor way, it's more acceptable, because that suggests that it is one option within a healthy ecosystem of other (cheaper) options. It's when something becomes a dominant strategy that it becomes problematic, because it's then making the game less interesting.

And if you're hoping to "I-told-you-so" later, will you also stand up and say "whoops, I was wrong" if it doesn't happen? :P



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Ie, you can *always* set your medical clone to your starter corporation's HQ station. The once-per-year thing is in addition to the above.

To quote myself from here almost exactly a month ago:



Could still turn out to be wrong, of course, but we'll see how it shakes out :)