EVE General Discussion

I really appreciate the warp speed feature change. In any game i play i gravitate towards the fastest 'class' available, mainly a preference but also because speed increases both offensive and defensive ability, but only when used skillfully. In eve tackling and speed based roles are under represented, for example, my corporation found it odd that i would request to fly a very fast dual prop interception style armor cruiser in a hac fleet. When I demonstrated that quick ships can secure more kills than longer distance tackle modules, the interception cruiser became a specialized role in the fleet. Its great that ccp is reinforcing this playstyle because it is fun to be a part of.

Question though, is warp speed going to be static, or will it change based on mass/max velocity of your ship?

If it doesnt change based on mass or max velocity and is simply an arbitrary assigned value, will it be increased via any modules? Will warp velocity optimizer rigs increase acceleration in warp? Will the t3 warp speed subsystems make them warp awesomely fast?

Exactly! They are fine now, but they're going to be royally nerfed!

I used to have a very good and profitable profession of re-processing low-tier PI materials into high-tier. But that involved some work and dedication as well, because all of the profit would have disappeared if I did it in hisec, due to tax. What they are suggesting now is
- load a freighter in Jita
- run a couple of jumps away to you POCO
- reprocess
- run a couple of jumps back
- PROFIT!

No risk, no efforts, just pure boredom of clickfest.

So I dont see any good in that "feature". Instead, it removes a good portion of gameplay, and does not create any new contents. There are way too many planets in hisec, there will not be any competition whatsoever.

Considering the state of ship balance (ie no balance) when incarna was released, i think the community response was more than justified. Ccp is in a better state currently but dont have the resources to put together meaningful avatar gameplay.

The link between Eve and Dust are crucial , especially now where Dust is at a critical level. Dust needs to be a household name in Eve . I can think of no better way than POCO conflict to create this link and promote a deeper level of game play in New Eden. CCP do it !

Also CCP :

What is the news about :

Tracking disruptor ( malus on missile) .
Rebalancing pirate ship (Frigate , cruiser , BS).
Lens ( less range possibility but two lens in the same range with damage split beetween EM and thermal 80% 20% and 20% 80%)
Alliance taxe on the transaction (market etc ...)
Revamp POS.


Have you some plan on Rubicon about this subject.

You know how much trolling we will be able to do with those siphons? Especially if they can be used in high sec where you don't have to worry about guns so much.

POCOS in Highsec

Pew happening right infront of carebears' eyes. Not their barge going flash/bang, not a grim tide of catalysts fleetwarping to their freighter, a timer that they can form for, hire mercs for, call friends for. You know, a conflict driver.

If the CFC or whoever decides it's worth their time to grind them for tears then their whining over the Null Sov mechanics - where they can use their superlative structure bashing tools, where there are far fewer targets and the rewards are far greater - is so much hot air.... I doubt this. Very much.
+1

Deployable Structures

Affects my corp's gameplay little. More tools for us to play with though, and the basis of something the playerbase has been crying out for for for an age. Bypassing the POS spaghetticode instead of a rework? Fine, but I hope they're quick about it.
+1

Ship Rebalancing

More winsauce from ex-players who iterate extremely responsively to player concerns about their work. Not perfect now? Maybe not. But better all the time.
+1

New Ships

Sexy as all hell - in form aswell as function. Vague on the function part though... why so early in their development if they form part of a Winter expansion that is being deployed early...? Don't really care. Just give me several.
+10

Certs by Any Other Name

Whatever. Get noobs, retain noobs, get them flying their PvP ships better faster so there are more targets to shoot at however you feel necessary.
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CCP seems to be driving at a lot of things we all want. They are doing so without promising jam tomorrow, and failing to deliver, or burning out their devs.

The lack of new content, especially in W-space, where there is a total lack of any kind of conflict driver, is saddening. And still no T3 sub swaps at POSes....

But one thing at a time no?

Deployable Automatic tractor beam and looting device

Interesting isk/hr accelerator for every entity in Eve NOT living in Drone Regions.

CCP, please get busy adding loot drops back to Drone regions, or increase bounties again to compensate for the absolute waste of time it is now to wreck out anything in drone space. This new deployable structure will have only the most marginal of values, if really any at all, for an entire quadrant of space that already suffers from a variety of ills that were once partially compensated by the unique drone drop mechanics.

Unaddressed, I really see this as yet another nerf to Drones, further deepening the value gap between these regions and anywhere else in Eve.

Actually it is.
WiS was promised to be made in Incarna update. And the mechanics of quarters,station's locations and minigames was shown on a fanfest. (Still remember the "station square" and that bar with board mini-game)

But as a result,we only have the captains quarters.

Hope i've made that clear.
Cheers.

You Sir get's it ....The conflict will be on a smaller scale where the rules are different. As an eve player you will feel like a Demi God ..Large and in Charge :) . So stop over reacting about high sec its going to be a blast lol.

Btw this will not be about big ass alliances....and if it becomes "there are a few new kids on the block to recon with".