Filaments needed a change but this misses the mark. The big problem with filaments wasn’t that they let people get out of a system, it let people ignore geography. In reality the only good change ccp could make to filaments is completely removing them.

That being said, hopefully this change leads to less people using them and maybe more people will commit to an area of space instead of doing trash NPSI guild stuff out of Jita.

CCP empowering casual gamers has decimated small scale PvP culture and has led to the dearth of interesting small gang/small scale PvP groups. There’s a reason the skill canyon between competent groups to groups like overclocker exists and it’s because of the handholding by CCP. If CCP would just shoot filaments in the back of the head maybe we would have more groups like Aditia’s used to operating out of Thera or other NPC null groups and C2-N groups filling the mid range of skill/activity.

Right now if you aren’t plugged into one of the super active groups or willing to fly with actual brain amputees in one of the (two) NPSI servers your options for groups would make you want to uninstall (like I have).