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re one asb per ship:
I see no reason why fitting more then one asb per ship shouldn't be possible.

On the frig level the only frig that can reliably fit double asb and not sacrifice range control (one of the most important things in frig fights) is the Hawk. One might argue that the Hawk currently is the strongest and most versatile assault frigate with its 5 mid slots being able to fit full tackle and double asbs. The addition of navy 50s might have pushed it to far but there are still ways to counter the hawk. Wolves, Thrashers and even Vengances can kill a dual asb hawk. Other frigs that can fit double asb like the merlin, heron, breacher etc all have to drop their web and a webless Merlin/Geron will die and a webless Breacher will apply no damage.

On the Cruiser level I feel most of the ships lack the midslots and fitting to fit multiple asbs. It is also often the case that fitting a single xl-asb is better then double l-asbs. Ships such as Caracal can mix lses with l-asbs but you rarely see them go double l-asb since it's usually to hard to fit and don't provide any real bonuses compared to lses. The rupture and moa are also better with a xl-asb fit instead of going double asbs. One ship that might be able to do stuff with a double asb fit is the Vagabond but then you run into another problem with cruisers, they can get alphaed through shield pretty easily and once again you have to sacrifice way to much to make this work.

Battlecruisers are rarely used in small gang/solo pvp. One exception that fits double asbs and is actually really strong is the Sleipnir. But I do not think this ship is so overpowered that you have to remove the ability to fit double asbs completly. For one it has to brawl with puts you at even greater risk and considering the ships cost this might end bad. Secondly by going double asbs instead of normal booster + cap booster you become very vulnerable to neuts, a thing that is very common at these shipsizes.

re Pirate ship rebalance:
I am confident that the balance team is already looking at these ships. I do not feel like they are in that good of a spot at the moment. Most of these ships have fallen way behind after the recent rebalance and most will actually need a buff. Only one I see as a problem here is the vindicator + tracking dread problem and the fact that 90% webs really are to strong. Also please don't nerf the Machariel it doesn't need it and make the Phantasm and all other sansha ships into shield laser kite ships.

re T3 cruisers:
I think that the armor versions of the T3 cruisers are way overpowered. Being able to have 500 dps, almost 200k ehp and a super small sig while still being able to web from very far away is very broken in my opinion. I am confident CCP already knows that these ships are superior and I would not be surprised to see them get nerfed hard.

I think the incursus should not be able to fit 3 or 4 armor reppers.
What's up with that???




Serious bit -
What is your opinion about silent plex auctions being used to guarantee only rich players have a chance at entering the CCP run tournaments?


Do think a system that gives all alliances/players an equal chance is fairer?

Voting because Gorski, drama and lowsec orientated candidate. 7o

How much is this a CSM issue and how much is it a player issue? Your fellow candidate, Sugar Kyle, had the same problem, so... she went out and started a market. Despite her having no experience, and despite Bosena being lowsec (albeit, one jump from high sec), despite it being in relatively depopulated Molden Heath low sec, she succeeded. Now other traders sell their wares in Bosena as well, and people outside her corp buy them. It's not what anyone would call a major hub, but it supplies the necessaries.

Given that, perhaps the question is, to what extent does the current cultural makeup of low sec contribute to the pain of getting stuff in the market? Is the problem systemic, or a mere lack of people who find market-running and logistics to be interesting gameplay?



Done right, this could be very interesting. I always thought that CCP didn't do enough with the intrigue/black ops side of Empire (Gallente "terrorists" killing you in the Minmatar tutorial, Empire Navy ships parked in pirate DED complexes in null sec, etc.). Not to mention the number of business, military and otherwise, that would be perfectly happy to get some plausibly deniable work done. Lore-wise, there should be a lively business in secretive, scurrilous behavior.

I think this is more of a player issue. The systems I live in currently have pretty active markets so its usually enough with loot from fallen enemies and the low sec market to fit stuff up. I think the current cultural makeup of lowsec contributes a lot to the fact that the market is kinda bad, still there are hubs as you say. I am currently living in Barleguet, Nennamalia, Hevrice and Innia and of those systems only Hevrice has a bit shaky market regarding ammo and other high demand pvp items. But I manage.

I personally do not enjoy hauling or putting up market orders. I keep all my loot so that I can use it to fit ships up and fight with. The problem with logistics is that there are so few people that want to do it because lets be honest it's not really very fun game play pressing warp to 0 for 20 jumps. This is especially true for low sec pvpers who enjoy a way faster pace of playing.

Thanatos Marathon: I will answer those questions tomorrow.

do you think smartbombs are currently underpowered?

Ishtar is good ship, drones ))

Right now I think all of them are underpowered except the large versions that might be a tiny tiny bit overpowered.

I think that smartbombs should be a easy way to clean up drones in their size category so small bombs for scout drones, medium bombs for medium drones and large bombs for heavy drones. The problem you run into if you do it like this is that large bombs will probably deal far to much damage to frigates. But if the bombs have less range then scram range it shouldn't be a instant kill for people getting close.

I don't really see a problem with large smartbombs being buffed since their uses right now are really slim and many people choose to use the more useful energy neutralizer in their utility high on battleships. Even if it is a really good way to counter ec-300s.

Micro smartbombs are in the same place as 50mm plates and I have no idea why they are even in the game.

While able to run the timer down defensively, the warp core stabbed cloaky farmer goes and completes almost 2 plexes to your 1 if they ground the timer up, thus the commonly requested timer rollbacks.

Corp income isn't much of an issue if all you fly is T1 frigs. But with current mechanics of force projection as well as the nature of FW Lowsec, and lowsec in general, income for most corps is usually in the 2-10 million isk range excluding direct member contributions. Rent on an office in Eha is 100 million isk, when we moved out of nenna the rent there was over 300 million a month.



Do you see problems with power projection and would you like to see it curtailed in some fashion?

re: Fw stuff: I support dual timers for FW and I think that LP should be taxable. You will still run into the problem where you need to convert the lp to isk in order to buy offices. Maybe let fw corps buy offices with their lp?

I have been taking some time to think about this question since it is a big question with no easy answer and it seems to be one of the major points for many people running for CSM.

I understand that it is a problem for smaller groups to ever take moons or pocos without a carrier blob arriving as soon as the cyno alt is in place. With that said it is not impossible for newer groups to take assets from bigger guys. Brave newbies managed to grab two r64s from us for example.

I think titan bridges and jump bridges are a problem and that they make most of 0.0 dead since there is no reason to actually go from system to system if you want to get to somewhere. You just warp to the bridge and instantly appear 15jumps away.

The solution to this problem is not easy and you can't just straight up nerf the titan bridge for example since that's one of the main use of that ship.

I suggest you read through
http://marlonasky.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/cancers-of-eve-online-teleportation/

Something like this is a good idea.

As for cake, find me at fanfest and I am sure we can make something happen. But only if you share.