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If I were CCP Zulu, I would have written this dev blog...

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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#41 - 2011-09-26 14:39:22 UTC
writing down high level plans is so easy (thats one of the reasons why the world has money making consultants without any prior experience).

tick tock? are you working for intel?

seriously, stop this crap. Thats at the end just advanced trolling. It does not help anybody. If you want to change something try to get a position at CCP. You can't help a project without knowing the project.

how to fix eve: 1) remove ECM 2) rename dampeners to ECM 3) add new anti-drone ewar for caldari 4) give offgrid boosters ongrid combat value

Alejan Gerakh
Scourge Wolf Syndicate
#42 - 2011-09-26 14:54:36 UTC
Issler Dainze wrote:
the refusal to do even simple balancing with major classes of weapons like blasters.

Quite funny about this... yesterday I was doing a mission with my gaming group's leader. He had a Rokh loaded down with Railguns, I had a Maelstrom armed to the teeth with 1400mm Howitzers. There was one point where we were firing at different NPC Battleships, and he took out his target and half-way shredded the next before I finished mine, and I'm used to Artillery being pretty devastating (I was using Phased Plasma, by the way, just so it's clear I was actually using ammo of comparable damage and damage types to Antimatter). We have rather comparable skills in Gunnery, too, so it wasn't that. He just was dominating at range, and quickly, with Hybrids.

Granted, my anecdote involves Railguns and not Blasters, which is what you mentioned (not to mention it is a PvE situation, not PvP where balance is more important)... So maybe Blasters still need work. But Railguns certainly seemed pretty vicious then, and it's not like ships give bonuses just to Blasters and not Railguns.

"Sounds like a bad case of pikal envy, if you ask me."

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#43 - 2011-09-27 03:33:21 UTC
Pattern Clarc wrote:
Continuous patching has problems including forcing players to wait several minutes once every few days before logging in.


Better than waiting several days every couple of months, IMHO. It would be especially nice if cosmetic changes could be downloaded on the fly.

Pattern Clarc wrote:
But to be honest, don't get caught up on the specifics. I wanted to show what a CCP would/should do if they had a plan. The lack of "where are we going, and how will we get there" is the issue atm and the OP was one example of how this could be presented.


The issue is the lack of a plan, not the lack of presentation of a plan. It seems to me that the captain wants to steer the ship to El Dorado across the uncharted oceans, the crew want to keep the ship sailing the route between the twin coastal cities of Pew-Pew and OMG-Lazors. Right now they're becalmed with sails reefed, playing rock-paper-scissors to figure out what happens next.
Jita Alt666
#44 - 2011-09-27 19:54:01 UTC
Have a free bump back to the top of the dreg pile. The Op wrote a very nice piece that more people should see.
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