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+1 for this.

I've been wanting a search option for the LP store for years. Hopefully post-Retribution or the next expansion after that.

You can capture AND stand at 0 now, a lot of nano navy / pirate will disappear and you'll be able to do miracles with T1 brawl range frigates, easier than now in small.

Anyway I'm a bit worried about the afk farm come back with a NPC quick kill then afk button. For everything else it's a bit disappointing but promising, we will see how great it is live :)

WTB Bulk purchasing for ship fittings.

I like the changes overall, but I can't help but think that you guys went a bit extreme. Good call on rookie ships, but 1 NPC per PLEX? I wonder if you making this change because you want fighting that NPC to be more like PVP, so it would be as strong as a player ship?

Also the CP seems a bit too close to the warp in point, but that's probably because you don't want all those people who are guarding the warpin to be left out from the payout.

Interesting changes, I think they will result in more ships blown up, which is good.

P.S. The LP store changes affect everyone and they need a lot more work.

No it's one NPC that has to be killed in order for the timer to begin to count down (this ensure you bring some dps with you). But the NPC itself is weak so that it does interfere with PVP should it occur.

It was like this before the dessie buff - then the destroyers actually put some fear into the pirate frigs. Now it's rolling back :(

Looks really good *jumps up and down running around screaming CCP rules*

Now will this also impact those missions FW runners in cloaked bombers? (Kinda goes against the pvp idea)

Isn't that what they're doing mostly with the plexes now? Does including tech 2 somehow make it heterosexual, but not so if they're restricted? With killboards, you can't really have a don't ask, don't tell, as everyone will know you're just flying around in T2 doing leet pvp against T1 ships.

Ok you get bonus points for the devblog title and the LP store changes are great and I like the UI tweaks.

I am a supporter of how you are trying to change NPC’s but the feedback in the threads has been fairly consistent in pointing out the exploitable nature of the NPC changes and I still disagree with the plex size changes especially in regards to pirate faction in the novice plexes and T2 cruisers in the mediums. I had really hoped given the rebalancing T1 ships would have a great place but in Novice, Small and Medium plexes it feels they have ships where they cannot compete if that ship chooses to take the plex.

I would have also allowed Rookie ships in the Novice plexes at least; they have been redone and look good. The real issue with defensive plexing is that it is a bad game mechanic can be done in any cheap ship where there is no opposition.

I do not like the button move either, I would have preffered a 10KM zone 30KM form the warp in, I feel a tactical element may be lost where ships are currently fit in a well balanced way for low sec PVP now plexes will be dominated by specific fits designed to overwhelm/shut down any aggressor on the warp in, afterburner HACS and E-war may dominate the Medium and large Plexes

The time between plex waves has no logic behind it, if a player cannot kill the NPC in five or ten minutes then they are not going too, they cannot run the timer so are just sitting in space doing nothing, they are not even farming? The second (and further waves which are required on the longer timers) should always spawn regardless of the first NPC’s destruction.

No mention of the I-hub upgrade changes or the Cynojammer, is that content still planned for development?

T2 cruisers are only not used now in majors due to the large amount of NPC damage. There would have been plenty of space for T2 cruisers in a gated larger plex including battlecruisers.