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I still haven't heard any confirmation from CCP that it was intended.

A test of the players rather than the game, I'm sure.

Bumping for dev response to these changes whether intentional or not.

These changes seem to be a step backwards.

If these changes were not intentional, I would like to point out that there are other ways of nerfing bombers without affecting the entire line of covert ops cloak reliant classes of ships.

There have been a few suggestions already and I'll bring them here in one post to condense it.

Reduce bomb damage or at least allow better mitigation. Armor battleships are far superior to shield due to the massive penalty of shield extenders and without the ability to somehow mitigate this, shield fleets tend to get absolutely ripped apart by bombs.

- suggestion a new skill similar to what was introduced in I believe Rubicon with the armor honeycombing skill would be highly beneficial to shield ships.
-introducing an explosion velocity to bomb damage would significantly reduce damage taken by smaller ships and would allow larger ships to still minimize some of the damage.
- half the resists on the bombs. This would half the initial bomb waves so the first damage wave will be reduced and give fleets a chance to respond.

If these changes were not intentional and merely a bug, please ignore.

But please do not let this change hit tranquility. Its simply stupid.

Nope! I have no idea whether it is intended behavior or a bug.

I'll try to draw someone's attention to get a more official response to this, since it appears to be a matter of significant concern affecting a large number of players.

Just to recap so that everyone is clear.

* A cloaked ship closer then 2k km of an object in space if forcibly decloaked and cannot cloak until they get outside of the 2km range.

* It used to be that ships that were within 2k km of each other decloaked, even if both parties were already cloaked.

* A few years back this was changed, so that cloaked ships were not considered when deciding if you were decloaked for being too close to an object

* As of the latest build in Sisi, the change has been reverted, and now behaves as it did (Cloaked ships can decloak each other)

* Players successfully bombed prior to these changes, however the changes did allow the bombers to be far more effective, have fewer mistakes, and generally increased the rate in which bombers were used.

* There has been no official response, dev-blog, or any form of communication to discuss if this change is intended, absolute, or a bug.

* ISD monitor the forums and keep things neat and tidy, their presence in this thread does nothing to confirm or deny the change.

Correct. Consolidating responses to one place means we're trying to make the feedback easily accessible for both players and CCP. When CCP reads it, or how (and if) they act on it is not controlled by the volunteers. We just try to grease the wheels.

You seem mad, can I have your stuff when you quit?

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=379671&p=3

Confirmation these changes were intended. Please go to the thread and **** on these changes. Such an idiotic bandaid fix

Tears would imply that I'm upset about something being nerfed. This usually happens when a player's own interests are threatened.

In this case, I am more appalled than teary at these changes as they do not address the main issue with bombers damage application and instead change random things in an attempt to fix the parts that are already fine.

Feel free to read my wall of text if youre even remotely interested in what I am talking about.

Or drink my imaginary tears that you are conjuring up from somewhere.

Backward step from CCP.