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I'm still not a fan on the mechanic. It's a cheap feeling gimmick that requires basically no pilot skill and has overpowered impact in how it disrupts organized fleets against the (expected) cost of the ship.
Want to balance the risk reward? 5 second cool down to the ships engines after activation. Sure you can jump out those 6 ships, but when you all land you're ******. Still, those 6 ships out of the fight for a minute or more could swing a battle.

What can i say, I dislike kitey stuff and prefer slugfests.

I see no reason to use these over t3s if I cannot run 3 links with a tank. In a game where isk is no longer a real constraint (incursions, whs, etc.) I will choose the better links time and time again. Instead of making these vastly inferior to t3 cruisers at running links, allow them to actually run enough links to be worth a damn and not just be a gimmicky mjd platform that every fleet is forced to bring.

Incidentally, these are so game breaking via the mjd that they will be GURANTEED to be primaried every single time for fear that they will simply sit on top of the FC or the logi wing and just mjd them off into space. It is legitimately stupid to mix the two roles because it means that your links will never, ever live long enough on grid to be useful to the fleet because of how powerful the mjd function is.

What you have created is a link boat that not only cannot do links to any reasonable degree, but a ship so broken that it is guranteed that even if it could do links it will be killed at the outset of every single engagement.

Ok this made me chuckle.

I find this point quite amusing - if you have a spare person in a command dessie in a BC/BS fleet - it removes the need for the other BS'es to fit MJD's themselves.

Get everyone to cuddle the dessie, spool it up and bam, saved fleet.

Easy +1 mid slot for tank or cap.

Information warfare is a gallente bonus, yet the Magus hasn't got it?
why is this?

It's because they are worried people won't want to use it. Its kind of dumb really, no one is going to use the pontifex for that reason.

It still only has a 6km area of effect. Don't blob up too much, or if you do, have a proper support wing to counter them. If the enemy has 30-50 pilots in these ships, that's 30-50 pilots you could put into a hard counter (or more of something else) - assuming equal numbers. And, if the enemy outnumbers you that much anyway, then it's not like it will change the outcome that much.

These things have fairly high skill requirements. Even if they are as cheap as Interdictors, I do not expect to see everyone and his dog flying them right away. They will die a lot and can be shut down with a single warp scrambler.

How will this kill brawling? The ship has to come within 6km to do anything to your fleet. Well within even unbonused scram range.

Even with a proper support wing shutting down every single one of a large group's modules is nigh-impossible, as a single one's effect getting through can be gamebreaking.

6KM is also a large area considering only the ship model's edge has to be in the AoE, and everything within is for all intents and purposes removed from the rest of a large fleet fight.

The reason it affects brawling fleets more than kitey fleets is pretty obvious, they'll have a much harder time dodging these ships and the effect brought with them, especially en masse.

Wow you're pretty stupid huh? I'll try to explain using small words.

"Why would a flag be needed, Its banned from Hi-sec."
Have you heard of Low Sec? Did you know you can get flags there too? It's true! Gaining a flag on activation use is important a big deal because of things like gate guns. You know, the things the OP mentioned said in his post?

"If your moving orca/freighter in low/null without support it deserves to die."
It's 'you're'*. I agree with you on this, which is why it is important a big deal to know if you can blink a JF away from a station it just cynoed to.

"Why would Concord be involved?"
The one correct one!

"Did you even read the OP?"
His language "knowing how to use words" skill is clearly superior better than yours which is why he asked these important big deal questions.

I think this is overall a pretty cool development.

However, a few niggles.

#1 - Stork? No. Come on, can't you make it something cool like the Shrike, or Peregrine, or even the Swallow (African or Eropean)?

#2 - MJD'ing yourself
I think that the point which was made about the Bifrost being the fastest missile-chucking kitefag dessie (with shield resists!) and a MJD is very apt. The Bifrost will get LML's, MJFG, midslots MWD - Dissy - MSE - Invul - TD, lows RCU, DC, BCU, etc, and a decent 15K EHP at least, and unlike other small ships it will have the MJD ability. If you aren't even within range of another ship, you just MJD yourself.

I think that's a bit unwarranted. You should be able to MJFG other ships and not move yourself, which means it's an offensive module, not a defensive module like the MJD. You can fling away your foes, but you stay behind.

Yeah, it's cool to see if people can chain up jumps, but this also then becomes a tool for a whole gang to kitefag around and escape en-masse.

#3 - Suspect timer
I like the idea of dropping these on gate campers who are hugging a gate and attempt to deaggress and jump, and you pull them 100km off gate. Same for smartbombing BS. That's cool. But certainly activating a MJFG needs the suspect timer and to cause gate guns to shoot you as well, because I can see these being used for ala kachuu people who are trying to burn back to gate. Especially the Bifrost/Stork; web off with a Daredevil or Vigilant, CD pulls you 100 off gate and your victim can't even get back to gate. Great.

#4 - Highsec use
Ugh. Afkalt just never shuts up. But the idea of restricting the use of MJFG from deadspace pockets (like inside dungeons, incursions, etc) is a neat workaround to allow the use of the MJFG in hisec for other things, like deafeating gate campers (Marmites, etc), defeating station campers (or their logis).

I'm not arguing any further on incursions, bt if there's a way to preserve the safety of PVE and allow these to b used in highsec, then fine. Although, i think the point that this should be a low-null-wh ship, and people need to leave highsec to enjoy it, is also valid.

Yeah, you might find people trying this on for laffs on hulks in a belt. But really, hulks in belts only die if the pilot is AFK. if you're AFK enough to not warp out when the CD lands, you were going to die to a pair of Catalysts anyway.

#5 - HIC interplay
I like the infinipoint 37km scram HICs, and the fact their points allow armour fleets to dominate (non-link bonused faction point/arazu-lach) kite fleets. I also love the idea of dumping a bubble on some RR domis and bringing in a CD for some ala kachuu on one or two of them to break spider domis. This will, finally, be a great remedy against domiballs in C4 Cataclysmics, where the Russians overuse these fleets. Being able to ala kacuu apart such fleets is going to be great craic.

#6 - Frig holes
These will be amazeballs for frig hole doctrines, especially with the upcoming T2 Logistic frigates and Navy EWAR frigates; I definitely like the interplay of these small ships and their strong EWAR.

I think the tactical execution won't be as easy as some people think, because no one can be scrammed (target or CD) for the tactic to work, so there's a bunch of ships that will be difficult to ala kachuu - DST's, Ventures, etc.; you'll need to long point, web them down, and then ala kachuu, and get the CD within 6km at the right time.

#6.B boosts
I also think these dessies will be useful with links in some situations. Like, frig/dessie roams. Also in frig hole situations.
I personally think the boost magnitudes are fine, bearing in mind level 5 will be 10% from the ship, plus the link skills, and (if you dare) an implant.

#7 - Fittings and ship capabilities
I'm not sure what the stats will be, as I have yet to plug these in to PYFA and fiddle around, but I also agree;
- the Gallente one needs more drone bay capacity
- what's with the 1 launcher hardpoint on the Magus? Like...wtf
- I think the Bifrost needs more PG (+2?)
- I think there's a distinct difference between the armour CD's and shield CD's in that the armour CD's get the spare highs to fit a MJFG and a link, but the shield CD's can only really opt for one or the other without dropping a launcher hardpoint. This means the armour CD's are much more flexible and viable

#8 - Odds and sods
- adding my voice for the Marauder in Bastion Y/N? I'd expect a no.
- will this move depots? They technically aren't anchored, just launched. It's an edge case, i guess. But I'd expect this won't move depots which would be great for separating a Rattler from its refits, for example.