EVE General Discussion

Forgive me for not reading every post in this thread. From the source I gathered there is some nice stuff coming. I do scrtatch my head about two things however...
POS Syphons just sounds intrusive, and frankly, magical and quite weird to implement. This will be quite a stretch to integrate with any kind of back story or lore. Perhaps CCP could say some wizard was working in his lab and waved his wand over a piece of metal, it came to 'life' and was a 'Syphon of POS's'. "This should change how space people interact" - said the wizard...
Of course, natural thieves would say this is a legitimate business tool. Makes perfect sense in the technical department.

Unnerving as well, is the statement made that shooting a personal structure only gives suspect. This while believeable, is it lazy? Could they 'expire' if not docked into in say 2 weeks? Any aggression suffered after a week of inactivity give suspect, but if lived in, before that give status adjustment and CONCORD response? I don't know, maybe that's the way it should be. Like a homeless guys box in an alley or a surfers shanty on a beach somewhere...The only one you have to worry about if you knock them over is an angry smelly bum , or and indignant surfer who yells "Dude!" then strides across the beach to tackle you.

Everything else sounds top drawer guys! I may be wrong about how these things above play out too. Keep up the good work!

No offense to any bums or surfers who play EvE.

on the bright side, at least you didn't make a new thread to say "nerf afk cloaking"

When you automatically get kicked from stations after ten minutes of inactivity us covert ops specialists will think about it.

Second Life uses the carbon engine made by CCP? Hmm that's pretty neat, I'll go check that out.

EDIT: Uhhmmm I can't find any proof of your claim, could you please provide me with a reference?

TBH, i dont understand why people think rubicon is underwhelming. All the deployable structures are awesome, and although im not interested in SoE ships, they look very promising. As well, the new UI is cool. my only problem is this:

Maybe the wrong place for this, but has anyone heard anything at all regarding the deployables besides the siphon? The very vague info on them that I have is all unconfirmed and would like to know if anyone at CCP is planning to...you know...kindly give us some stats to work with.

The less they talk about Rubicon the less likely people will figure out how light in the pants this so called "expansion" actually is until its too late in the game.

Well played CCP/EA games ...well played.

With Rubicon coming up, are there any plans to make Capital gun requirements lower, regarding the needed Large Racial Gunnery skill to level 5?

Considering, it was mentioned that the reason behind changing the Racial Battleship skill requirement for capitals to level 3, was because level 5 was for specialization. (Black ops, Marauders etc.) To make up for the difference in training time, requirements could be changed to need: Motion prediction and Sharpshooter to 5.(Since the Racial capital gun skill allows being able to use both close range and long range guns, example; Rails/Blasters)

You're getting additional content to a game for no additional cost.

I'm so sad for you guys that are underwhelmed or leaving.

I personally expected no expansions at all in the future and now I'm getting additional content, woohoo!

I'm excited about the money-making potential of syphons. I can go into null, drop them down, go back into null and pick up the goods, hopefully not get killed, and sell it for corp-sized dollars... as an individual.

I'm imagining a bit of rebasing is going to go on here, where people get reassigned to different areas to better protect them. That doesn't mean I can't still sneak in though.

Of course, I'll be way too busy with my new POCO in a system nobody cares about in hi-sec, so I won't have time to do that.

I think this will draw people into losec and null sec operations.

I can't see the mobile cyno being used by ratting carriers.

They're useless against a pair of new nullified inties. One can jump, warp in and point, the other then simply jumps and warps to 100 from his mate and lights a cyno for ranged dps support.

The basic mineral cost of over 4m isk per unit for a one-time use.
The two-minute activation time.

The fact that a cloaky aggressor can watch & wait till a carrier deploys at a new site and still has a two minute window to decloak, point & light a regular cyno. Yes, people DO still rat in carriers with reds in system.


That won't help carrier ticks at all. Plus a mobile cyno jammer in space is a lovely "I'm RIGHT HERE" sign probable with combats at 4au in an average skilled scanning boat..