Revenant Major Update Patch Notes: Filament Changes

I woke up this morning to find when CCP Games labels something as major, they are not joking around. Today's Revenant Major Update for EVE Online features quite a few topics that deserve their own posts. The fifth in the series will feature another nerf to fast, long distance travel through the use of filaments. 

The news article gave a very brief explanation.

Pochven Filament Changes

Tactical retreats through Pochven just got harder. Filaments now feature a spool-up time, preventing instant extractions. Additionally, their activation leaves a detectable trace on D-Scan and can be probed with combat scanners, allowing pursuit and counterplay. This is the first step in a broader look at Pochven travel mechanics.

The patch notes were equally brief.

Filaments have long been a powerful tool for both fast travel and escaping dangerous situations. The addition of a spool-up timer and scannable traces aims to add risk and enable counterplay.

The patch notes didn't reveal a complex system. Hopefully the desire for needless complexity is behind us all.

• A spool-up timer has been added to all travel filaments (Triglavian Space, Needlejack, and Ice Storm).
  
  
• A Filament Trace will appear next to the travel filament’s owner on activation:
• Nearby fleet members without capsuleer log-off timers will become linked to the trace as it appears.
• Characters will unlink from a trace if they cloak, change ship, or go beyond 30km of the trace.
• A link cannot be reestablished once broken.
• If the filament’s owner unlinks from the trace, it immediately closes.
• Traces can be scanned with combat probes or d-scan.
  
  
• After the spool-up completes, the filament’s owner can jump all characters which remain linked to it:
• Warp disrupted players will not be jumped.
• Filament owners will be given a confirmation prompt if characters will be left behind.
• Traces will close after 15 minutes have passed since it first appeared.
  
  
• Travel filaments can no longer be used on a deadspace grid.

The patch notes did provide a table with the spool-up times for filaments: