EVE New Citizens Q&A

A nerf to one ship is an indirect buff to all others. It's therefore easier to tone down one thing than try to prop up everything else.

Eve is not like other games in that there is no level cap that they can keep raising and there is no new season of gear. They can't just continually buff things like other MMOs do. In a game like WoW you can buff one or two classes or spells or what ever and since you'll be getting a new PvP season or a new raid tier or a new expansion or something like that is always a couple months a way so you can just continually creep up. Power creep like that would destroy eve so they have to continue to keep the ship classes generally where they are.

If CCP were to give into the power creep scenario that you are talking about the NPCs would get easier and easier to fight. Then isk per hour would go up which would then mean that prices of everything would go up which would just further increase the barrier of entry for newer players.

I don't agree with the balancing act that CCP is doing right now. I think it is a bad road to go down that just opens them up to constant problems in a game that was reasonably well balanced in the ways that it needed to be. Now they are seeking balance in all the wrong ways IMHO.

Each races ship line ups used to have a niche that they filled. They each had a role and depending on what you like to do, you could find a racial ship line up that worked well for you. Now they keep trying to make it so that all ships get used exactly the same. So now let's say if Goons come up with a new ship doctrine and one specific ship get used a lot more all of the sudden just because it's a required ship by some huge alliance that accounts for large amounts of PvP and that ship sees a lot more action as a result, that ship now will get nerfed just based on the fact that a lot of people are flying it. It does not matter if the ship is over powered or dead even perfectly balanced.

I don't think that is wise to assume because these guys have been developing this game for a long time that they know how to balance things. I'm sure that they know how to code this game much better than you or I but game developers in this game and others often have a disconnect from how the game actually works. If you think about it, it is difficult to focus on playing the game when you spend all day working on the back end of stuff.

A player that only plays the game has as focused perspective that can not be gotten any other way other than having that level of focus. I believe that is why CCP has the CSM because they are aware of this. I know he doesn't play anymore but back when Ripard Teg was still in the game I would have taken his predictions on how game mechanic changes would effect the game over any CCP employee every time and on every subject. Every game has it's elite players that know the game play side of things better than the devs do.

If what you said were universally true then politicians that were in office for decades on end would get better and better with each passing year and I don't think anyone would argue that to be the case, well at least not anyone that wasn't a politician or worked for one.

..............ok, now you're trolling, right?

Normally I would agree with that logic. However, this game is unique in that training and character development takes years to accomplish. So when the Devs makes a "rebalance" they can effectively erase a toons usefulness and value. For example the changes announced to carrier pilots/fighters will reduce their usefulness greatly making them effectively useless expect for large scale alliance fleet battles.

How do you suggest they would "buff" other ships to counter carrier's ability to assign fighters? I can't think of one. 10 frigates on a gate have the firepower of 5 carriers, without putting the carriers at actual risk. How do you fix that by buffing the ships that might jump into such a situation?

If you just came to cry about carrier nerfs you are in the wrong forum. Carriers will be far from useless.

Okay. 6/10 om the OP, too many people took the bait.

This guy is obviously not a new player, and is obviously a troll.

This makes no sense.

If they buff everything else, the current overpowered thing will then no longer be overpowered in comparison to something else and you would complain again.

The game will never be perfectly balanced, but fixing one part to make it more balanced is a lot easier than fixing everything to be as broken as the problem.

Are you honestly trying to argue that Ishtars, Tengus, or offgrid carriers only seem to be overpowered because Goons have them as a doctrine or something? Whining about a nerf to your favorite ship, because it's your favorite ship, is not a good preface to a couple posts down where you argue that CCP developers are myopic while you personally take a holistic global view of game balance.