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I have noticed that CCP seems to be forcing people to play in Corporations, gearing all new content towards that end, pushing those of us who enjoy being solo players into a position where we will not advance or being to engage new content unless we join a corporation and play in mobs.

This has ultimately ruined most 1vs1 combat where groups gank singular players now instead of engaging in combat as it used to be.

It has created massive gate camps where the only way they can be avoided is to fit a Strategic Cruiser with interdiction nullification.

It has just about ruined gameplay for those of us who seek to be individuals, solo hunters/pirates, players with a mind geared towards a different type of gameplay.

And now, the one ship that seems to even those odds, that still allows individuals to be so is being ruined. Just like all other ships that have been used by singular players, CCP is now proposing once again to nerf, to ruin a ship that some of us have been piloting for years and have focused all our training towards that end.

It's always the people who cry the most that get the most attention from CCP. Interdiction pilots who set up bubbles and believe they should be able to effectively block all traffic, capture and destroy all players gating through a specific gate they camp with their corp are crying about the only ship that can make it through their gate camps without concern for their blocking traffic. And because of their childish complaints, I cannot believe this by it seems CCP is now considering removing interdiction nullification.

For every offensive strategy their should be a counter defensive strategy. For every mod that enables a ship to pin or capture another ship, there should be a counter. If interdiction nullification is removed, then interdiction pilots will not be able to be countered by a ship or mode. That is not fair gameplay and will tip the game mechanics in favor of interdiction pilots.

There are players who enjoy being able to play stealthy, to avoid forced battles and to be able to pick and choose their battles based on their STRATEGIC ability. Who enjoy being solo pirates, or who enjoy being able to enter a system and carefully plot and plan their way around all the offensive positions that attempt to catch them. It's the old game of cat and mouse. And yet, CCP again seems to be ignoring these players, and instead focused on forcing conflicts, forcing fights when this cat and mouse type play is so exhilarating.

If CCP goes through with changing these ships into something they are currently not. If they wish to de-evolve them into just another cruiser, if they are going to ruin solo gameplay or the ability to do combat sights solo, or all the other things the larger sig radius will ruin, the interdiction nullification removal will ruin, the reduction in the distance damage can be applied then there should be an option to recover those skill points so that they can be applied towards other things. Because honestly, these are the exact reasons why many of us have spent years of game play perfecting our skills in regards to strategic cruisers.

If CCPs ultimate goal is to ruin solo gameplay, I think they should come out and state it so, instead of silently removing all options for solo play, and forcing fights where they use to allow an option for a different type of gameplay.

You cannot rightfully give someone a benefit on a particular ship, and then remove it all together. Doing so is equal to giving someone a benefit and then taking it away, effectively punishing those people for exploiting those benefits. If interdiction nullification is removed, then it should be added to another ship, there has to be some way that people can avoid interdiction, their must be a counter. If not, then you effectively trap players in systems and ruin their entire style of gameplay.

I for one, will discontinue playing EVE Online if there is no interdiction nullification, if CCP removes the very reasons why I have used strategic cruisers for so many years, if there are no other options or ways I can continue to play the game I so very much love in the way I love to play it. I suspect many others will do exactly the same.

TO say the very least I am not happy at all with the new suggested changes. Yet again just as with other ships it seems that CCP's true intent is to force people to join corporations, force people to play in mobs, force people to engage when otherwise they would prefer playing a different way, and to ruin ships that have a place in the game. And to leave wide gaping holes in a universe that if real would never allow them, would naturally fill those gaping holes with ships that excel at solo gameplay.

All new content, ships, changes, nerfs, "re-balancing" seem to be geared towards forcing solo players out of the game. It's been this way for years and it doesn't seem like it's going to change anytime soon. I fear that I am going to be looking for a new MMORPG to play in the very near future.

CCP will nerf the nullification to the point where it's useless to keep the gate gankers happy. They will make it a nessicity to bring additional modules when travelling solo as the nerf will not allow for a solid all round fit, the T3C will be nerfed into a 'fly as a group' fit.

How many of the players in the focus group are solo roamers or explorers?

Seeing how CCP wrecked the map and the DSCAN/Probe scan system I can only hope they will not break the T3C to the point where it wil lbe waste of time.

Exploration sites which now basically require the T3C will get run less, prices for the modules made using the drops in these sites will soar.. all in the interest of moving players to invest plex and with that $$

CCP is not working in the player interest here IMO, the endgoal here is still to drive players to invest and raise the CCP net worth to optimize the chance of a buyout.