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Is Bug Report 135672 a real bug or intentional ?

Thanks!

- Riv

Don't mind me, I am just bitter.

I understand that we are talking about a very complex matter. My concern is that you might take things so slow that you will have to reassess frigates again by the time you plan to reach Capitals or T2 Battleships. I'd much rather see you change one ship class at a time, and actually touch every ship in this class, and explain, every time, how those changes fit into a detailed and clear long-term plan of ship balance.

Ok, fine, changing all the ships at once to reflect what the overall vision is in the War, Modules & Superfriends blog of CCP Ytterbium is not in truth to be expected. It would be a lot to ask. However, can you clarify whether this process is slated to take place with ensuing patches of Inferno, or will we have to wait another 6 months for the next expansion for another 5 frigs to get altered? Because if the later is the case then the above criticism would actually be quite tempered.

Which gets to the point that as you go in steps there will be periods of time where some races will lack a particular role of ship. For instance, you altered the role of the Tormentor. This now leaves the Amarr without a mining frigate. So any new players that start as Amarr are sorta SOL for building up isk as a noob. They'll have to put mining lasers on another frigate, none of which will have a bonus for mining. I certainly hope that the mining frigates of the other races will be altered in the next patch to balance this situation.
Sure, for us vets it means nothing, but for new players it is a huge handicap to roll amarr.

Also, about that blog, CCP Ytterbium listed only Caldari ships as getting the role of "bombardment ships" and listing the Hurricane as an attack vessel. Are only Caldari going to have bombardment ships? With now three BCs for each race it would seem to me that all the tier 3s fit the "attack vessel" role. That would leave the Minmatar needing a combat ship of the line and a bombardment ship between the Cyclone and the Hurricane. Similarly one would expect gallente and amarr to have a BC in each role as well. I hope this is what's being planned because if not then well, you'd better be prepared for unintended consequences.

Otherwise, thanks for doing something to try to fix FW. I have a new character that will be joining a militia to test it out. Hope the changes will work out for the better there.

edit- also, have to get these things into this post, GIVE THE HOUND IT"S DORSAL FIN BACK. I want to fly a space shark again even if it has no fricking laser beams. ANd FIX THE AGILITY ON THE NEMESIS and to a lesser extent on the Purifier. These ships do not tank. To continue to gimp the Nemesis and Purifier with some stupid racial tanking theory and not stat them according to their role is misguided.

i still say that 5% bonus to resist is a much better bonus then 10% to internal reps...

a 25% increase to resists makes internal reps better ehp better and incoming rr more effective....

but a 50% bonus to internal reps does make internal reps more effective but it does not affect ehp or incoming rr....

personally IMO the bonus to armor repair should also include incoming armor remote repair...

this way you have a much more balance paradigm...

where gal ships would be better at internal reps/have lower ehp/ and even on incoming rr...

and caldari ships would be better at ehp/ have lower internal reps/ and even on incoming rr...

Lol, a few more things.

Are there plans to introduce a new rig for drones that increases scout drone damage as well? Guns and missiles both have low slot damage boosting modules and rigs which do the same thing. As it stands now we will have a mod to increase scout and sentry drone damage (the new mod) but no rig for scout drone damage, only one for sentries. Is this intended?

Also, I hope that you are going forward with having tracking disruptors affect missile range. Otherwise there will be an ingame counter to turret bombardment ships, but none for missile bombardment ships. So hopefully there will be the addition to the optimal script of a missile speed or flight time reduction, or a new script to accomplish either of these. I suppose most missile users, myself included, would prefer that the effect would be on flight time. Missiles don't need to lose flight speed, far better if they lost flight time through a tracking disruptor.

Also, are there any plans to introduce any low or medium slot mods to increase missile range or explosion parameters? Obviously these would have to be very mild so that missile do not become op especially against smaller targets. However, such mods would break up the easy(er) fitting choices that missile ships currently enjoy in packing lows with damage mods and mids with tank.

How big is this new patch? 1 gb

Why did you lower the standings needed to join FW from .5 to 0?

One would think that people who hate the game/designers so much they would quit. Lots of masochists in this thread

I recall reading previous info alluding to a 10k ISK cost per datacore from R&D agents, but no mention here... did I miss it or is it not happening?

And also: "Show info windows for blueprint copies stored within containers will now show accurate data." = \o/

o/

When I started out, I used the Navitas exclusively for mining for quite a while. It wasn't a matter of ISK and being able to afford a bigger ship. I was advised by almost every experienced player to spend my first weeks training up support skills, rather than rush into any larger ship (such as a cruiser or mining barge), which I would not be able to fit and fly properly anyways.