Ships & Modules

Just returned to this game after... quite some time away. The first thing I notice upon entering my ship hangar is this atrocious abomination of a Drake look-alike. As if swapping out the best looking ship for one of the ugliest wasn't bad enough, I was then greeted by a message upon trying to undock stating: You can't leave the station until you remove one of your missile launchers, indicating that aside from a very severe "visual nerf", CCP also decided to do an actual performance nerf by taking away one of the missile hardpoints.

Maybe I'm a little late to the party in asking this but... What the heck brought on these awful changes? Was there -anyone- who ever complained that the Nighthawk was visually unappealing before? I certainly didn't when I was spending my 2+ years specializing my skills towards flying it. And performance-wise, if I recall correctly, it was mediocre at best, so what in the world justified making it even worse?

I'll stay for as long as this PLEX I used to get back lasts, but I don't think I'll be here long beyond that. As far as I'm concerned, you absolutely ruined my favorite ship in this game, and for no real reason at that.

Is that why the market value of the ship dropped by roughly 40%? Because people love it now so much? I've also still yet to hear any viable reason behind this "rebalance". Let alone the god awful redesign of turning it into one of the least visually appealing battlecruisers.

IIRC it was somethin like lose launcher but get double bonus...

why? cause nighthawk was one of the best looking ship in this game , nighthawk was outdated and weak before the launcher/bonus change , it only did a very slight change ---> nighthawk still crap

You still have the vulture if you miss flying an elite ferox so much.
It's not black though.

I kinda like the new Attack Command ships but I too would have preferred more Hull modifications than just the skin.

People want t2 tier 2 battle cruiser, ccp answer was to change a command ship skin, kinda like many of the programming excuses ccp gives us about their coding being to old when there's some older mmo's that have some base functions that we are missing

The visual change came up because the galente got boned on the navy battlecruiser being the brutix instead of the myrmidon. They decided instead to change one of the command ships for each race to the other battlecruiser hull. The Eos was applauded, most people liked the absolution, while the sleipnir and the nighthawk had mixed reactions.

As far as performance, the nighthalk performs better now than it did before. To break it down barney style:
Before
Base launchers before: 6
effective launchers with command ships 5 firing non-kinetic missiles: 8
effective launchers with command ships 5 firing kinetic missiles: 10

Now
Base launchers: 5
effective launchers with command ships 5 firing non-kinetic missiles: 8
effective launchers with command ships 5 firing kinetic missiles: 11
Also gets an application bonus that didn't exist before, and has a slightly better resist profile.

If you hate the drake hull that much there isn't much you can do about that, but the ship is better than it was before.

Flying what looks cool is the best way, although as FotM is closer to FotY in EVE there is less need to worry...

But cool looks are rarely nerfed - if you're flying what you fly because it looks cool you're far less likely to be disappointed by a patch.

Personally I feel all of the changes are for the worse - the Space Train Sleipnir, the Laser Chicken, the Black Ferox and the Chin Waggler will be greatly missed (admittedly the Chin Waggler was nerfed several years ago).

People cried all over the forums about the Command Ship models.

They complained that there wasn't enough variation.


Then the new Absolution model was unveiled. It was only then that the capsuleers of New Eden realized their mistake.

Maybe you should, I don't know, start looking around the forums instead of making whine threads.