EVE General Discussion

The problem here is 90% of people doing the whining about CCP not buffing blasters enough never use the damn things.

Yes its nice to get answers. Why they asked us ? What for ?

OK, so you're a failed game developer, or some sort of Walter Mitty fantasist. What does any of that has to do with CCP's poor communication?

All the OP is trying to do is get some answers. So STFU.

Then don't post on the general forums, genius.

Yeah, you're right. My mistake. I should have posted this in TSF, where all the counless other threads about hybrids have led to a really informative and constructive discussion between the players and the devs about the issue.

Yet they feel the need to comment on weapons they never use.

I do use blasters and I like the changes as they fix the bulk of my issues.

God that was like 8 years ago, think it was called Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour : Annhilation however I suspect that may have been the foundation for what I wound up with. I went in and mostly exaggerated all of the 9 Generals(12 technically as I had to throw back in the vanillias variety) to the thier specalties a bit more so they where much for flavorfull than standard cookie cutter copies of each ohter with slightly different weapons. Chinese where the easiest to segregate and exagerate, Americans a where a bit harder between super and laser generlas. GLA was fun until I had to nerf the stelath general.

I think the largest nerf I had to dole out was to the stealth general and keeping things ambusy for him instead of permacloaks. But the coolest thing I ever did was give him IEDs a new ability that wasnt originally in CnC Generals Zero Hour. That eventually evolved to ambush nests and few other pop in and out things.

Hardest peices of rules.ini rewrites was having tanks and other vehicles dropping wounded solders on death with a loss in veterancy and aircraft parachuting off pilots with the similar behavior. I dont think I ever finished the pilots out of jet one. before they patched rule.ini out of the equation and made it a voilation of users to modify thier software. Which killed my project and any ambitions I had left for it.

So overall I think I added about 48 new units, 5 new superweapons and modified every single unit in the game. The 20 testers had a blast at thier lan games but the stelath general was the first to be complained about and proved to be the hardest of them to fix.


Other games Ive tried messing with was homeworld and free space both of them a bit beyond me at the moment because I suck at modeling and sharp looking interfaces.

And Game Modding isnt Game Developer fail. Espeically when you work with testers and work on thier feedback and have to churn out a better version product by the weekend or lose out on the free pizza. Matter of fact I think it is one of those interview questions when you do apply for Game Development, They ask you if you ever done any modding or development for experince.

But seriously if you wanted a developer response you should have declared your entire metrics on the test server forum youll get much clearer results there.

The reason why is that the developers specifically working on said balance DO NOT HAVE THE TIME to read every itty bitty subfourum for feedback, the more centralized the feedback is the better.

CoPs got thier feedback listened to and impliment because most of them complained on the one thread that did matter.

So do yourself a real favor and threadnaught the thread they are listening to. Stop making new posts elsewhere stop disinforming, stop disenfrancising, because you are not helping your constituatiuates, your case, or your point by adding to the problem.

Also mind you QA is probably thorwing a hissy fit over some changes becuase they are making setups that are extremly unfair than usual.

^ Is one reason why this thread is getting lauded at.

We are testing them.

What if blaster damage were increased by 5000%, but all ships with blasters fitted travelled 100% slower?
This will create interesting tactics where blaster ships would need to approach away from enemies in order to get closer.