EvE Rubicon: Excuse me, I am not convinced.

The "Features and Ideas" forum on EvE-O is the place to go for new developments about EvE. CCP Ytterbium, CCP Fozzie and CCP Rise post new stats and new game play features before a new expansion or point release hits TQ. When you look there now you can easily see much rejoice about the upcoming Rubicon features. One of the expansion features is:

Guerilla-style Warfare Support - Tactics to chip away at the behemoths have surfaced, allowing small fleets of mercenaries, saboteurs and troublemakers to become cause for concern for even the most reinforced of alliance strongholds.

Obviously the new deployable mobile structures are part of this and from the stats that are available from the chaos dumps those will be a nice and new feature. Being able to refit in a random "safer" system in a hostile environment is very useful - I wish back in the days I was roaming on a daily basis I had something like that. When more information is available I will probably come back to these.

Go read the dev posts in these "Features and Ideas" threads if you have not done this already:

• Electronic attack ships
• Interceptors
• Marauders 
• Warp speed and acceleration 

Updated data files for EFT can be found here.

These separate changes combined will change small gank/ solo pvp as well as large fleet battles as we know it today. And I am not convinced that these will improve null sec as pvp area.

Upcoming articles:
Part 1: Electronic attack ships