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NCNs were never hard, they just took for fecking ever because you have to cope with so many little annoyances. The individual bits of it were the size of VG spawns already. Condense both sides of the NCN into one, and completion time would speed up, while also presenting more of a challenge.

Likewise, TPPHs are the easiest HQ site by far, and also the slowest. Combining the first two rooms into one makes the site harder, not easier. It also speeds things up, putting it relatively on par with the other two in completion time. Less boring + faster = more fun and balance at the same time.


For anyone reading that doesn't get the argument, the NCN and TPPH both take roughly double the time that the other two equivalent sites require. The TPPH because of the 60 something kilometers between gates (as well as the tower bash and the need to kill every single rat), and the NCN because of the sheer amount of logistical annoyances that it presents.

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A question to balance team - what is the reason for dread nerf ?

Hey DEVs why have you added nerfs to every space EXCEPT W-SPACE? Why are Sleeper sites being ignored in Escalation and Inferno?
I heard CCP Soundwave in his Ten Ton Hammer interview also talk about a 10% nerf comming to bounties after the 10% nerf to Incursion payouts so why are not the Blue loot NPC buy orders also getting the 10% nerf to combat inflation? Sleeper blue loots bring in nearly the same amount of ISK FAUCET injection and from DR E's charts 5% of Eve lives there I seem to recall he also said around 10% of Eve has done Incursions in the same talk. So are not a even smaller number of people getting rich from Incursions then Wormholes?
Also are the Drones also going to be getting these 10% bounty cuts immediately on the heels of the Alloy nerf?

The changes to overview with shading have made it very difficult to use the ship related value columns. To have 2 decimal places of angular velocity for instance requires that the column width be set to about 5 decimal places so that the first 2 decimals are readable before elegantly fading into oblivion.

Can we make these numerical columns exempt from elegance and have their hard un-shaded boundaries again??

You cant be more wrong............. incursions in SiSI are not made harder. Assaults are turned into sites that you can complete with 10 man fleets. for the Vangaurds CCP they are turned in a long and boring farm. randomize a few ships in does not make the sites harder if you have to kill everything since you remove the dps from the field. there is no more option to keep dps on the field but complete a site faster. That would be a reason why people would take more risk for isk. This should have been tweeked and not a dumm increase in spawns.

aswel for random sites there is always a killing order Niarja's since they jamm and then you just kill what has worst resist and does most dps in that order. i would not call this random same thing everytime all day long 24/7.

whats on the sisi server is now is more like a multiple choice where every answer is correct since if you kill everything you complete the site.

let me rephrase that, then....

NCNs, for most of the time they've been in existence, have never been "hard".

If you had actually been reading, there is no "dread nerf." XL Turret tracking is halved, but Siege Modules no longer reduce your tracking so the end result is the same.

Updated the top post with TriLambda's small section of V3 for this expansion, and also the latest iteration of titan changes (which again, are not final)

Except Vangel, Maller and Apocalypse. But you are right. Nothing new on the V3 front.

Just some feedback on the faction/officer items now in the market:

By doing this you are destroying a certain aspect of the market, as the market for faction modules, especially certain ones was first bound to the contract system. I have at times been able to sell items on contract far above jita prices because I was the only one offering them on contract in the region, while I understand this will still be possible, from what I've seen the market tends to have far more orders stuck there for long periods of time, and the prices are very easy to manipulate.

I'm not sure if I'm the only one who sees a problem with this, and perhaps I'm overreacting but this will bring faction modules into the .01 isk wars which imo is not a good thing.