Can anyone actually explain what the changes are going to be though? I haven't seen/heard anything about it yet
From memory, They're going to change the LP so that you get many fewer for running missions, some for running plexes that affect sov, and more for shooting opposition militia.
They're proposing allowing FW sides to upgrade FW systems with features (I can't remember what) but which culminate in the possibility of Cyno-jamming an FW system. How do you upgrade a system? With LP.
They're also thinking about allowing corps to "tax" LP. The corp can then spend the LP on system upgrades in a coordinated way.
How do the opposition degrade these upgrades? By earning LP in that system! (and potentially shooting the upgrade thingies in space.
Another likely change is that you likely won't be able to dock in systems that belong to the opposition (although this is still under discussion, with some suggestion that you just won't be able to dock in 24IC stations if you're in the TLF and vice versa)
I didn't really hear much discussion of the other options, because the cyno-jam caused such wonderful tears from FW participants, people with supers who want to keep hot-dropping cruiser gangs with half a dozen titans and a couple of supercarriers, and from nullsec logistics pilots who want their jump-freighters to be able to keep using POS in FW systems as safe mid-points.
Another change that will probably affect things is that they're completely changing the rules on aggression in highsec and who can shoot who and when will Concord get involved. That still wasn't finalised last I heard. A major design goal is to avoid keeping track of who can shoot who on a per-pilot basis, but move that to a per corp basis, or just flag each pilot "can be shot at" and have that apply to all other pilots. So, someone gets an aggro flag, and
everyone can shoot at them. But if you shoot at them, you might then become flagged yourself (or alternatively, if you're flagged and someone shoots at you, you can't shoot back). This was a major point of contention at Fan Fest, and CCP Master Plan was fairly insistent that no decision had been made about exactly how that was going to work at that point.