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my 2 cents...

new mods are cool, but the seeding metodology chosen is not and breaks with the established convention, if they are meta 0 then the only way to seed then is using BPOs, any other seeding method, these must not be meta 0 but something else!


about the war dec formula, seams better, but there are still room to improvement:

1 - War cost formula should go both ways to make this fair, if a small corp/alliance targets a big corp/alliance it will pay for that (because it has more targets to shoot, discussable, but valid argument) but the other way arround should also be expensive, (I can argument that big people preying on small people should also be expensive). Make this formula go both ways!

2 - the war cost uses the enemy size but in my opinion it should use the diference between the attacking force and defending force size, that should be the variable that defines the cost the war, for example my force is 4000, my enemies 7000 then the magic number should be 3000 not 7000! ( the argument here is that we should want equal size / powerfull forces declaring war and fighting each other as much as possible, when that is not possible war costs should be high and the diference between the 2 should be variable to use and not the total number of pilots of the force that Im declaring war).

resume: war formula should go both ways in terms of costs and the number of pilots used in the formula should be diference between both forces in war.

you're not addressing the 'leave corp and create new corp' exploit...

MagSheath Target Breaker I: So, basically another ECM Burst, but with a slight twist: Works better vs large fleets, worse vs small fleets or solo enemies. Since its a BPC loot only module, it will be fairly rare. So, do you wanna use that rare module that may not work in a large fleet fight, where more tank and incoming reps would probably be more reliable?

Unless this thing has uber range, I don't see this seeing much use.

Extrinsic Damage Mod: Good idea. Now make it a high slot item and reduce the CPU cost from 40 to 30tf like every Gallente pilot is asking. Can only use so many drone link augmentors. Then you'll have a useful and desireable damage mod for drone boats. Stacking penalties will prevent this from becoming abusable.

The edit for capacitor batteries in the blog and their description on SISSI leaves alot of confusion. For example, if you equip:

Micro or Small:
-15% Nos effect
-7.5% Nuet Effect

Medium:
-20% Nos effect
-10% Nuet Effect

Large:
-25% Nos Effect
-12.5% Nuet Effect

And of course you get the extra capacitor. Nowhere in the description though does it say that the aggressor is penalized more then a diminished effect.

can anyone point me toward where i can read more about the proposed, but mostly likely not included micro jump drive?

The new Wardec system seems an improvement over the old one, but it still fails. The whole idea of the cost being a payment for targets is just bizarre. Even accepting that as a good place to begin from the system still doesn't make any sense, since if you pay for targets based on numbers of individuals surely the war should stick to the individuals for the duration, in that they remain war targets regardless of corp hoping or going into an NPC corp... Either that or the war declarer gets a refund for every player that bails. I know it sounds silly, but the whole thing is silly.

I just seems to me EVE would have a far better War System requiring far less effort from CCP if we just rolled back to before the P. Alliance Wardec Nerf and added further penalties for being in NPC corps.

You named a few ships but which of those have you ever seen in PVP (Golem?) using missiles?
I have been fighting Drake, Typhoon, Raven, Tengu with my alt, can't remember other ones.

Hence, I would say, missiles suck at PVP already. Let the tracking disruptor affect them, and they will suck even more at that.

Concerning PVE, nearly each ship has defender missiles, so it does work there. Hence, no need to change anything.

And now have a look at missile (unguided or guided ones) themself. They shoot out of their launcher and have time to adjust their way of flight for several seconds before hitting their target. Turrets don't have that but therefor they have instant damage. So, letting tracking disruptors effect missiles would be pretty strange from a real world point of view.

You named a few ships but which of those have you ever seen in PVP (Golem?) while using missiles?[/quote]

Once, but didn't last very long... simply because Active Tank Battleships are honestly just too squishy for the amount of damage they receive.

I mean you can say "Oh but it has a passive / buffer similar to a Drake" or such, but reality is a Drake is (can't believe I'm saying this) nimble and small enough to shrug off alot of incoming damage. Battleships, even T2 get the full brunt of whatever is shooting them.

Honestly the Active Tanking on them is disproportional to the damage they can sustain.

This blog just shows a fundamental failure to understand the reasons behind wars, the mechanics they operate in, why some people might prefer not to be hotdropped in low/null sec from across the universe at any moment and most importantly, how the war dec system ended up as it is now in the first place.

I even went out of my way to explain in length what those events were leading to the current situation here. With none of the underlying issues addressed nothing will change other than people being disuaded by the ridiculous pricing scheme. High sec war deccers have to pay ISK as it stands for what is essentially low quality content that revolves around being in or near Jita, which is unusual as most professions don't require you to pay for it, raising the price by 1000% will just make them give up entirely.

SoniClover and team superfriends clearly have no clue about the evolution of EveOnline warfare. These changes bring nothing to the table that could restore what was once an enjoyable part of the game. CCPs only success here is to protect the 0.0 alliances that need protection the least and to look after alts in 0.0 running private highsec pos empires - they will afterall, be able to have their main alliance + whatever mercenaries join their war - team superfriends amirite?

Still, it's not the end of PvP quite yet, there's still 0.0 where no-one does anything unless a timer tells them too, where alpha and numbers are king. Or there's lowsec, where bored 0.0 alliances hotdrop their full super cap fleet because there isn't a timer for them that night and people camp gates with impunity thanks to CCPs lack of fundamental understanding of how Ship Maintenance Bays work - looking forward to the fix in 2016, which is around how long it took them to fix neutral remote reppers.

Another blog, more rapidly diminishing content. Looking forward to the coming blog on the mercenary interface that relies so heavily on war dec mechanics.

The cool thing is that with the Buddy invite program, you can make an unlimited number of inactive toons to put in your corp (3 per buddy account) and then you get your Plex back when you're done. I'll bet that it wouldn't take more than a day to fill a corp with a few hundred toons (a few thousand if you have some help). Let's go 10k inactive Dec Proof corps.