CCP have been meaning to shake up the entrenched player territories of nullsec in Eve Online for some time now. The transport changes wrought by next week’s Phoebe expansion might look innocuous enough - but they’ll finally force old alliances to redraw their battlelines.
Long distance travel is going to work markedly differently in Eve beginning next Tuesday - and CCP expect the differences to yield dramatic changes in logistics and warfare.
“The current ease of movement has shrunk the practical dimensions of New Eden considerably,” said the developers, “to the detriment of the game experience.”