Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I agree there should be no special treatment but I disagree on a new ORE booster ship.
Orca and rorqual ARE the industry booster ships. Its a shame that CCP is holding their hand over them. booster is booster.

When is ice compression going to be modified to match the increased demand to export ice out of nullsec with the Odyssey changes?

Do you know what makes these modules similar?
- Triage Module I
- Siege Module I
- Industrial Core I

Ok now I got you.

I won’t spill Merlot over the changes, we all knew they were coming and at least now you can say you did something and hopefully the masses will take their pound of flesh and move on. But I do want to address one thing;

The old T2 Mindlink is now only going to give 25% to one linkgroup and will be available in the Concord store,
The Faction Mindlink will give 25% bonuses to two Linkgroups and be available in the corresponding faction navy stores.
Right so far?

Why not make the faction Mindlink available to the Concord store as well? After all when you rebalanced faction cruisers and frigs you made them available to the FW players at a fraction of the price non-FW players would pay, you added faction Capcharges (The 25s and 50s) for FW players and the charges are still only available in their stores, back even further you added some rather nifty modules available to FW players again only in FW stores. Where’s the love to non FW pilots?

For someone not willing to tank their standings or add another toon to their account it seems rather FW pro, everyone else is screwed. I run missions and Incursions, and use the ISK to PVP and Explore but I look in the Concord store and see very little LP/ISK conversions that make it worthwhile, many times I go with the 0.8 to 1 exchange to move some LP to ISK, and here I see I will be doing it again if I want a faction Mindlink, unless it is again in the FW stores then I guess I will be getting them from the market. But really send some love to the Concord store please.

To put them into perspective, the current boosts increase the rep power of an incursus about 125% (or less depending on your fit, as gang links and modules and rigs can all suffer stacking penalties).

With the change, the max armor boosts will increase your incursus' rep power by about 70%. (or less depending on stacking penalties).

This is a significant reduction, but it is still more powerful than anything you can get by drugs or even pirate implants. IMO, that means, since they can be provided while off grid, they are still too potent!

All defensive (Siege and Armored) links:
T1: 14%
T2: 16%
Max bonus per link with all modifiers: 24%
Former max bonus: 35%

Information Warfare: Electronic Superiority bonuses to ECM and Target Painters:
T1: 16%
T2: 18%
Max bonus per link with all modifiers: 27%
Former max bonus: 35%

Information Warfare: Electronic Superiority bonuses to Tracking Disruptors and Sensor Damps:
T1: 10%
T2: 12%
Max bonus per link with all modifiers: 18%
Former max bonus: 21%

Information Warfare: Recon Operation:
T1: 16%
T2: 18%
Max bonus per link with all modifiers: 27%
Former max bonus: 35%

Information Warfare: Sensor Integrity:
T1: 20%
T2: 22%
Max bonus per link with all modifiers: 33%
Former max bonus: 53%

Skirmish Warfare: Evasive Maneuvers:
T1: 17%
T2: 19%
Max bonus per link with all modifiers: 28.5%
Former max bonus: 35%

Skirmish Warfare: Interdiction Maneuvers:
T1: 17%
T2: 20%
Max bonus per link with all modifiers: 30%
Former max bonus: 53%

Skirmish Warfare: Rapid Deployment:
T1: 14%
T2: 16%
Max bonus per link with all modifiers: 24%
Former max bonus: 35%

The four Warfare Specialist skill bonus changed from the current 100% bonus per level (after the first level) to 5% bonus per level.
Mindlink bonus reduced from +50% to +15%
Powergrid need of all warfare links modules decreased by 100.

This is more like what i would like to see and think is much more balanced at least until OGB is removed anyway.
And its much easier to understand how you get the end result on the bonus
15% CS ..15% mindlink... 20% from skills

Although still not sure what the difference is in the T1 navy and T2 mindlinks

T1 mindlink - 10%
T2 mindlink -15%
Navy mindlink - 12% bonus to the two racial links

True, but they never do.

I still need to digest the command ship changes but my only gripe so far is that I feel like the command ship bonus should remain per-level. As someone who spent the time to take Command Ships to V, I feel like it's too easy to make a command ships pilot now that is equally as effective.

I'm really hoping these changes are a prelude to bringing it on grid. They work better then. Entirely agree that the changes in OP aren't nearly strong enough now. Fozzie's last comment was encouraging.