Let the Ships Fall Where They May…

~or "Time to Once Again HTFU in New Eden my friends!”

CCP has brought the pain to long distance insta-travel in EVE… and Nullsec is screaming…  =]

CCP is FINALLY changing Force Projection in EVE. As I have already wroten about in my last post ‘here’ and as was first announced on the first Web TV episode of “o7” here (starts at 33:30, details at 35:24) and then was detailed a bit more in this Dev Blog here… Please go watch & read for yourself, I feel we have reached a point where I don’t need to repeat the dev blog word for word, but basically jump drives and portals, are getting a huge nerf as follows…

(1) Jump capable warships will have an absolute max range of 5LY at max skills,

(2) adding 2 timers, ‘cool down’ and ‘fatigue’ levied on the active pilot’s toon… both of these used together to incrementally but very effectively increase the ‘wait’ time required between jumps,

(3) Caps will be able to use gates in low and Null,

(4) Med clone ‘movement’ limitations to avoid blood-jump work arounds.

So effectively much shorter distances traveled per jump with increasingly longer wait times between jumps (per pilot) primarily for Warships… IE Jump Capable Caps and Titans.

As Black Ops are not part of the Force Projection issues in Null they are not having their range changed for now, but as Jump Capable ships they will get the timers. JFs and Rorqs will have a 90% reduction to "effective range jumped", for the purpose of calculating the new timers.

Of course the screaming and whining from the entrenched Nullsec Old Guard about this can be heard in the New Space we haven't even built a gate to yet… LOL... and the number of “Imma UNSUB!!” comments I have already read IMHO exceeds the level, and whining, of Hisec carebear ‘unsubbiness’ both before and after Crius… LOL. They are also rounding up the wagons and beginning to lobby hard for a whole host of small changes that will push things back in their favor... of course.

CCP needs to hold the course, publish the changes and let the ships fall where they may... (I said I was gonna use it!!) THEN let's see about small iterated changes that DO NOT push us back to where CFC & Co. want Nullsec to be... changes that continue to push the game in a new direction... one that does not favor immense huge groups dominating everyone around them to the point of ending up back in just another iteration of the Big Blue Doughnut…

Looks like we're in for some lively times in New Eden once again  my friends... and it's about damn time! And this time the shoe is on the Titan pilots foot… and they dunt seem to like it as much as when it’s pubbies getting the nerfbat to th' head… Can't say as I've been this excited about where the game is going in a few years... Good start CCP… damn good start!

Fly Wreckless and see you in the Sky  =/|)=