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Light years are light years, they are absolute; it's the arbitrary gate connections that make your perception of them seem ridiculous. There are several instances where you can cover dozens of light years with a very low number of gate jumps just because there are very long range border or region, in some instances even constellation gates. Take K-IYNW for instance, the the Mivora constellation or the area around Hakonen (cross system from Vale of the Silent/The Forge to Lonetrek/Tribute), among many others. Lightyears are fine, its the gate connections that make light years appear borked.

a good start would be revert the jump range nerf

Please add a way to view jump fatigue timers via the API. I would love to be able to look at my Evemon and know whether or not it is time to log back in that character.

So now I need to train a few more accounts just so I always have a couple with max jump endurance on standby?

Good to know. Thank you for the information.

The first step in any decent planning process is problem framing. What was the problem? In short, how do I move twelve Carriers, eight Dreadnoughts, one Rorqual, and one Jump Freighter from A-1CON to G5ED-Y, without going completely insane and/or quitting Eve?

What assets did I have available? Six accounts total.

Capital Account 1 - all Carriers, Dreadnoughts, Rorqual, Anshar (and a cyno alt on his account)
Capital Account 2 - all Carriers, Dreadnoughts, Anshar (and a cyno alt on his account)
Capital Account 3 - all Carriers, Dreadnoughts, Anshar (and a cyno alt on his account)
Jump Freighter Alt - Anshar (and a cyno alt on his account)
Scanning Alt 1 - Loki (and a cyno alt on his account)
Scanning Alt 2 - Loki (and a cyno alt on his account)

I picked out a relatively safe route to get myself out of Fountain (which is not the easiest thing to accomplish with Black Legion occupying the best system for getting out of there).

Day 1 - I spend most of my play time getting my cyno chain for my Jump Freighter into place. Per my plan, this will actually be one of the last ships I move.

Day 2 - I scan for WH's and find one from 1-5 into Tribute. I suicide cyno into 1-5 with three Archons, jump through. Awesome TGRADS help me move to the next few jumps down to G5ED. Clearly this is the preferred method of travel.

Day 3 - I jump clone back to Fountain and spend all day scanning. No wormholes I can use, but do find a 10/10. So, I run that. 300m ISK drop.

Day 4 - I find a great WH from YZ- to Low Sec (Miroona). YZ- is a ghost town when I find it. Unfortunately, I have to go to a promotion ceremony, a meeting, and dinner. When I get back, YZ- is busy. I jump three Naglfars from a now-hostile station into the NPC station in YZ-, then undock to go for the wormhole. A Phobos camps me into the station for a long time. I go AFK, go back to the office, check my e-mail, have a snack, then come back. Still camped. I try again. Then chat with the camper for a while. He tries to set a trap for me, but I see through it. I log for the night. I'll get my Dreadnoughts out of there another day.

Day 5 - Since scanning and waiting for another WH does not seem like a viable option, I decide to execute my jump route (18 jumps). A friend helps me get my three Naglfars to the first jump. I suck up the jump fatigue and jump to my second jump as soon as I can - I want to put as much distance as possible between myself and YZ-. I get 2.5 hours jump fatigue. Which is fine, because I do have to go to work. So, I log off and go to work. I come back during my lunch break. Upon my return, I discover that someone has moved into my formerly deserted midpoint system. Still, after researching the killboard, they appear to be renters, not fighters. I make it through. After a couple of more jumps, I am into Syndicate and can now go station to station the rest of the way. I go as far as I can, before being stopped by an Incursion, 12/18 jumps in my planned route.

Day 6 - I relatively rapidly and painlessly moved three Archons 12/18 jumps, before being stopped by the same Incursion. The one scare was a bad bounce off a station, which sent me 40 kilometers off the station before I could dock. I was able to bounce to a planet and dock up, but it was nerve-wrenching for a couple of minutes. Then I jump-cloned over to Jita, grabbed a trio of my new favorite ship (a Claw), and flew 34 jumps back to Fountain in about 17 minutes.

So, what did I learn from all that? Well, that Jump Fatigue sucks! You knew that already! But, with proper planning and patience, you can overcome it (like so many things in Eve).

Due to my careful management, the longest Jump Fatigue timer I got was about 3.5 hours (at the end of the night just before going to bed anyway). So, all the horror stories about "I came back to the game and got 30 days Jump Fatigue trying to move" are really just the result of impatience and poor planning.

What would I change? I would add a drug that lowers your jump fatigue timer by a set number of minutes each time you take it - but you can only take one at a time (as with every other booster).

Synth - 3 minutes
Standard - 20 minutes
Improved - 25 minutes
Strong - 30 minutes

As with the other boosters, they would have some drawbacks in the case of side effects. Probably to capacitor amount/recharge, armor amount, shield amount, armor repair, shield repair, resistances, etc.

Thus, if I jumped 5LY, then popped Strong Jump Fatigue Reduction Powder, I would go from a 60 minute fatigue timer to a 30-minute timer. After waiting twenty minutes, I would be back down to 10 minutes. I could then jump again with no huge penalty. And so on and so forth.

Echoing sentiments that the scaling is way too sharp with the nerfed jump range.

This is an important point. I meant to write more about this above. Normally, training Biology to Level V is a good thing for boosters, since it gives you a 100% bonus to duration. If the Jump Fatigue Reduction Powder worked like a normal booster, this would actually be counterproductive to train Biology V. So, I would set the base duration for the drug at two hours. Then, make it so that Biology reduced its duration by 20% per level. Thus, you would be able to use Jump Fatigue Reduction Powder once per hour with Biology trained to Level V.

As it currently stands, you can jump once per hour without any issues. So, if the Strong version of the drug is going to be worth having, it should significantly increase how often you can jump. In this case, taking the Strong version would effectively enable you to jump twice in one hour.

So long as the price for the booster is sufficiently meaningful, and it has sufficient side-effects, being able to effectively jump twice per hour instead of once per hour makes sense to me. The other side of the Phoebe rebalancing is still in place - with the 5LY cap.

Limit hot drop capabilities from enemies in a sov space system.

Within one's own sov-spave relax the jump fatigue and range limitation.


There you go CCP, 2 cool new modules for alliances to grind to build and maintain for their new sov space, which people are still trying to figure out, why should we have it?....