EVE General Discussion

I thought the AFK cloaking comments would have got more attention...

If local is removed in null, AFK cloakers are going to have to alt-tab into client more often to chatter in local, and I look forward to all of the comments that get posted in local in ratting systems.

Imagine a N3 member sitting in a Goon ratting system, cloaked, and typing the lyrics of Call Me Maybe into chat over and over....

Well he wouldn't really be AFK at that point would he.

If anything he would just be unable to confirm precisely how many people are actually doing stuff and what kind of stuff they are doing.

More to the point if local gets delayed would that justify removing pilots-in-space/pilots-currently-docked from map statistics? Because if we're going to go one step towards removing free intel we might as well remove the other.

So what do we have so far in this new game they call EVE-ONGRIND.

No winter megawar, gj onthe jump fatique. My first winter in years that I am actually bored to death.
Supers.......well lets not mention those. GL pilots who have trained there ballz off and grinded like a mtf, gl taking it up the ass....dry
Sov, going to be more a a pain.
Titan's where killed a long time ago so aint gonna mention them.
Oh yeah......I forgot the fights that do occur.....40 jumps to the fight and 40 back.......really really awesome and not a complete wast off time and fun at all.

Wonder how long it's going to take CCP before they actually start doing things to the game that will "improve" the game instead off twisting it's neck off even further.
I feel bad for all the oldtimers in this game, after years and years off sticking to the program.
We are all getting a major **** in our asses.

But maybe thats just me and i am beeing really negative.

Nice, always wanted to fly a 150 bil damnation.

Those were nerf, not boosts... I can't even begin to imagine how it would boost them... I'v been around since 2004, and i'v seen how CCP rolls. I also don't remember saying i would quit... actually i have never said that, ever, on any of my toons. Sometimes i take a break, but i don't 'quit'.

Now, tell me something: If you spent +1 year on a few toons to train for supers, you worked hard in-game to get the isk to have them build and properly fitted... and then... they have a huge nerf/role change/etc (and this keeps happening over the course of years), and suddenly what you like to do in the game, isn't a possibility anymore (so you once again adapt). I would think you wouldn't like it, especially when it's getting worst and worst.

I still see clueless noobs saying how super's are so super and OP... Yeah ok... Clearly they haven't played this game long and never flown one. Also, when ever CCP say's "lots of those supers are too powerful" it makes me cringe because they treat us like idiots. Lots of ANYTHING is too powerfull... 100 BS... 100 interceptor... 100 ishtar... all of those are MUCH more powerful than a few of them... Strength in number... DDDDDDDDDDDDDDUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

What ccp is doing is wrong headed (proving they don't know much about their players, especially in null), but it's not the end of the world. They've done these kinds of 'tone deaf' things before (not talking about super caps, we don't know what they will do yet, I mean the general direciton of the game) and CCP is the kind of company that needs to hit near-rock bottom before they level out and start doing things right again.

It took monocle gate/Incarna to get ccp on the right track with the game the last time, but that was years ago and anyone who is an adult with a job knows that 'institutional memory' doesn't actually exist lol. Eventually, the folly of CCPs choices will catch up with them, their will again be a period of much soul searching (ie layoffs while the big wigs cover ass) and EVE Online will temporarily be set on a good track again... until the next time.

TL;DR, CCP are really cylons (the hot babe kind, not the toaster kind), this has happened before, and it WILL happen again.

Clearly someone got dropped on by supers in CCP and their favourite ship is the Ishtar.

Incarna mk2 inc pls

Defacto not only the super accounts, but their support accounts as well. Imagine a supercarrier or titan like an Abrams tank. To keep a single Abrams operational and ready for battle it requires some ~50 people supporting. Obviously not as extreme for a lousy digital supercapital, but the concept is the same. You won't have a need for logistics toons to provide fuel/stront/etc, no more cyno alts, no more scouts, no more wormhole/ratting/incursion/mission -alts to make isk for those big babies and their blingy modules (eh, how much would you want to bling up your Ishtar anyway)

You may see a chain reaction... if it was up to me, I'd rather give supers a new and strategically important purpose, much like every other ship has one. Let them excel in their field just as other category ships do.

Anyway, I'm not too worried about it, nerf or buff either way - it may be a sign from Bob that it's time to spend the next decade doing something else :D

We would probably join in.

I have to admit I've conspicuously never seen calls for the death of supers coming from NCdot players.

Although on the other hand I do still think they're a detriment to the game in their current incarnation: speaking of which what happens to fighter bombers now?