If you take out reclaim you remove a massive overhead from the servers as people spam the reclaim terminal for their items. The terminal then has to determine what it contains in relation to what was in your inverntory and associated backpacks for each one.
It is intended I believe to reduce lag, and it has a great potential to do so, especially in shopping and zoning, as reclaim is a zone transfer too.
Not sure exactly what it will mean for looting and such, or if you will still have to use a scanner to save in that area, we can only assume that all this stays the same.
I do feel that the NT's are either going to cry tears of joy over this or cry tears of frustration as too little has been done and it will be seen as a token from FC. I really hope for them that it is the former, rather than the latter
One note on the NT nukes it that in PvP NT Nukes rarely fail to land and including an NR debuff in there is likely to cause an outcry against NT's and calls for much nerfing. I hope that anything along these lines is ironed out before LE.
Foremans.................................GET YOUR TIM SCOPES NOW
If you are TL4 and above get your TIM scopes now as you may not be able to be warped in after TL3, and your CDR's for that matter.
New textures......hmm....any news on an update that include a DX8+ version of the graphics engine, surely even with Foremans being updated the new content cannot account for 105mb. Any new textures may offset any lag reduction seen from the benefits of losing reclaim, or was reclaim lost to counter the additional lag.
It certainly looks like a lot of work from FC and a lot of people will be happy, lets see what hits Live and when