As a career high security carebear, I, for one, am absolutely going to miss the blackout.
I haven’t moved to null because I can’t stand the politics, and there’s really no place for a micro-corp that doesn’t want to play the politics game. Everything is seen as red or blue, with nothing in between.
I would absolutely love to see this come back as a permanent feature of the game.
The ability to traverse null space, without people sitting in upwell structures being able to see when I’m about, so I can grind a few null npc’s or hit some exploration sites has been wonderful. I’ve only needed to worry about people actively looking for me, so I can d-scan them right back and avoid them.
The ‘station hugging null intel system’ that arose after the ‘sit in the bubble stick’ of yesteryear no longer has been a concern, and I’ve spent more time in null in the last few weeks than I have in the previous 13 years.
This has been entirely unlike wormhole space, where there is usually an entire corp dedicated to scanning down and hunting intruders. In those, there’s extremely limited options for avoiding people, and it’s certainly worlds different moving elsewhere when you do find yourself hunted. You have to scan and bookmark exits, so its an entirely different type of play field.
Now, we’re back to where the ‘hard core pvp alliances’ can sit safe in their upwells, and watch a chat channel to know when to undock and start hunting.
Gone is actually needing to go out and look.
Hope you’re happy, nullsec carebears.