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I haven't seen this asked yet...

Will Dreadnaughts receive updated hull designs, from the art department, to show a docking bay (for their new Ship Maintenance Bay)?


Oh and take that Carrier Changes: http://i.imgur.com/y5OemnI.png

It's an old game, and it's past its popularity peak. It's going to dwindle from here on out no matter what, but people certainly aren't leaving in droves. The fact of the matter is that most gamers have heard of EVE by now. People are coming in slower than they are leaving. It doesn't mean EVE is dying, in fact given how well it's staying afloat compared to every other game on the market, I think it's fair to say that CCP manages the single most successful MMO in gaming history. They're clearly doing something right.


You are angry that these changes make it more difficult for you to stay on top. You've grown used to game features that you learned to use a long time ago, and that gives you an advantage against newer and less experienced players. But with all these changes, their fresh minds tackle the learning process much more readily, while you find it difficult learning new tricks and abandoning old habits. It is annoying and it results in you seeing much newer and less-experienced pilots sometimes outperforming you. It doesn't mean the changes are bad, it only means they are recent relative to your experience.

I said sometimes. I did say it is the older players who have the advantage. Some of them (particularly those with weaker networks and who are used to relying on their own strength, soloists and such) are put off by the changes because it diminishes their advantage and they feel they deserve to keep that advantage in full strength.



These changes have overwhelmingly favored small groups. Nullsec stagnation was smashed in a brilliant success back in Crucible and Inferno, and the game has drastically improved since. Large groups still have a strong advantage, but the bar for entry--both in size and in experience--has been lowered dramatically. CCP knows what they are doing, and they know they have pretty much run out of people who don't know about EVE yet, so they are marketing it to people who left once before while also preparing the game to maintain good balance for years to come.

There will always be hordes of players who can't see the forest for the trees, and it is imperative that CCP know not to give their input too much credit. Blizzard made that mistake and destroyed the most-played MMO on the market.

that's what renting is all about


No. Jump fatigue has led to a huge increase in small gang prevalence due to the greatly diminished threat of hotdrops.


That animation starts at 2014 and captures a time period entire after the breaking of nullsec stagnation.

The problems are not all fixed perfectly, that is an extreme that will never be achieved. The problems are not nearly as bad as they were in the past, that is an extreme we left behind long ago.

OWNED.

That's pretty much something like the old "adapt or ???", but better.

I asked this question, and we as of yet have not received a formal response from the Devs.

All these changes are gr8 stuff and i like the idea of t2 mods and only fighters for my thanatos.

but i fear no one rats with sentry's these days besides me and i have to make my point.

carriers are not gonna be allowed to drop nothing else besides fighters. im ok with that. theyre costly but its a carrier. move on. but since i snipe in a ratting anom, will i get the benefits of a sentry drone aplyed on my new fighter squadrons?

the main idea with sentry ratting is that you warp @ 100 drop them and keep your eye on local mainly and not wary allot for the actual combat cause they pick up targets by them self's. if someone comes in the system insta collect drones initiate warp to safe spot or pos or wherever, hit one cycle on a 500 mwd and in 12 sec youre off. its on the fly safe manual :) ... fighters are a different cake. if i say i wanna go fight with fighters on a site i have to go 0 or 30 drop them and actually align to somewhere again and tell each squadron what to do. that's annoying especially if youre trying to add a second account to rat right next to ya. its hectic.

i dont care bought dps cause there are allot of variables that count, like the time fighters take to go from target to target plus the time they travel from carrier when deployed, in relevance to sentry low dps. sentrys do better than fighters in anoms and thats my opinion. everyone else in my corp laugh. i dont care. i still get 30 mil ticks and i feal safer...

AAAAANYWAY

i just need to ask IF THEM NEW FIGHTER VARIATIONS are gonna have the ability to do sentry like fighting from a distance and including the reply of fire when something is attacking either my ship or my new fighter squadrons..

for the ethical part of the situation, ratting is less boring than mining to me cause its something i can scale up like rat with multi accounts and have sort of a challenge there. mining is .. ah whell its mining. the reason im whiny is that sentry's can reply dps more effectively than fighters and do some of the work by them selfs.

please dont point me out of my ratting habbits by forcing me to fight with fighters that are less able to do stuff. you need to allow em to be able to varry in abilitys and be able to addapt. im sitting in a carrier. and as risky as that is it should feal like its better to be in a carrier than a dominix. as far as ratting goes.

i hope i made my point and not a fool of my self and i hope you consider this tiny aspect that im pointing out. for me its a big deal. thank you.

This guy is right.

All the people complaining about Jump Fatigue hurting small groups tend to be either members of large groups or people that made money by hauling stuff around in Carriers.

Jump Fatigue has absolutely helped small groups and hurt larger groups (as well as annoying soloers), which is why it gets so much flack. Without the threat of constant hot drops, people are a bit more willing to move around and do things.

...not a LOT, due to the nature of N+1 still being in tact, but somewhat moreso. The Sov map changed a lot, with a lot of entities being broken up. The vast rental empires don't exist in the same form that they used to (the "renters" in many cases became a part of the sov holding and fighting).

The blue doughnut still exists as a thing, an N+1 still exists as a thing, but both were nerfed by Jump Fatigue. While people complain endlessly about it, it was one of the better more recent changes.

Now, some of these other changes do benefit large groups - the poster was right about that. The cap on logistics isn't going to stop N+1 because the bigger blob will still win. There's not really a good way to stop that, however.

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I also contest the player numbers as a metric of the game's health. Back two years ago or so, there WERE often 35k people on instead of the 20k now. But the thing you have to realize looking at those raw numbers is that's ACCOUNTS logged in, not PLAYERS logged in.

When they hit some of the assist stuff and nerfed multiboxing, that cut into those numbers where you'd often have people with 3-8 (or more) accounts. So OF COURSE the number of logged in ACCOUNTS decreased.

The actual number of PLAYERS lost was probably a significantly smaller percentage. To illustrate how this works, imagine if every player had 8 accounts, and then some change was made to the game so every player cancelled 4 of their accounts. On average, it would look like the online population was cut in half, but in reality, there would still be exactly the same number of players.

So don't use logged in accounts to gauge the health or player base of the game, that's stupid. It's like using the unemployment rate instead of labor force participation to see how many people are unemployed in an economy.

I'm not sure the best way TO measure the active players since Eve's launcher only lists logged in accounts, but it's definitely not simply comparing accounts logged in 2 years ago (before the multiboxing changes) to now.

Indeed, if you compare the numbers about a month after those changes (once they stabilized), that's pretty much what they are now - around 20k. It hasn't changed in a year. So the game isn't losing massive numbers of players, no matter how much bittervets want everyone to believe it is. It's actually remarkably stable, considering how old it is, how high the learning curve is, and how niche the market is.

So will our titans turn into nuclear-armed super...missilebattleships?

An area of effect doomsday weapon, right?


Or perhaps more like a SLBM system which aoe doomsdays across the map (ie: though a cyno)