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Good god yes.

I think this is the first official word I have seen that ET were both on a list AND a high priority. I think it is the single easiest way to convey scale and speed in space.

First, love the two latest blogs. Both indicate a bright future.

CCP, a question for you.

What is NOT being considered for the winter expansion, that is what are your fairly sure is off the list?

Mulit-avatar spaces?
Establishments?
Contra-band?
Sov mechanics?
Null sec small holdings?
T3 frigs?
New missions?
PI changes to get ready for dust?
Ice belt changes?

Anything else?


Nice to see what is coming, but its also nice to know what not to expect to avoid disappointment by waiting for 3 months then having it not show.

Capital ship balancing long overdue but nice to see it coming! Power back to the people and restore the battleship to it's rightfull place of primary pvp ship in large engagements.

Hybride love and faction warfare. The little things really do matter for all players of eve.
If CCP gets these things the way they should be I can live with long term plans/visions that they have. Even if they are incomplete, bugged or worthless. I don't need to enjoy every feature of eve, I just need the ones I use to be good.

Hope lowsec turns back to the place I love so much!

That's what I try highlight btw; where the focus should be, and how currently nothing CCP state is reassuring. I also want the bullshit out of the way, i.e. the populism, and the continous two-faced CSM (ab)useage. One day they're spoken to and used as a tool, next time overlooked.

I myself have large t2 hybrids on multiple characters. Personally I find blasters to be perfectly fine, while rails isn't, and it's far from gamebreaking since noone is sniping anyway. That's a perfect example of populism. Players scream hybrids enough on the forums, sure enough you'll have a hybrid revamp. Not enough people are screaming about nullsec, tho, I wonder why.. too busy farming their isk?

It was especially amusing when the members of CSM from the nullsec giants blantantly refuses any nerfs to jumpbridges. Everyone knows jumpbridges kill PvP and is a major player on making the supercaps so easily accessible. But instead both CCP and those members chose to focus on time dilation, as some kind of holy grail that will 'fix it all'. Time dilation won't fix the problems with mechanics that actually promotes blobby systems (sov upgrades, jumpbridges). It won't make it easier for smaller entities to move out to null. It won't promote lowsec to anyone but FW blobbage. It won't have any impact on (super)capital useage. It's technicly relevant and a nice addition to the game, for the big fleet fights, but it's far from a PvP boost - in fact more likely the opposite, a PvP deterrent.

People have different opinions and interest, I respect those who want to use hybrids, AF's etc, more than they do today. But it's hard to argue this is a "PvP centered expansion" when it's rather a 'nice fix to mechanics that was broken, but not gamebreaking'.

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. *thumbs up*

If we all working together at the gameplay, we can make this game mutch better. An open ear to the communety is important and i know the EvE-Communety truly loves this game.

O wow, campaigning for hybrids, never say something about hybrids in the relevant threads(just like prom), how pathetic(gg hearing mittens "wtf is wrong with blasters" fail cascading on eve radio).

Overall, if you really want to fix hybrids till winter good luck, I doubt you have a actually hybrid vent that knows what makes them useless and I can't see a sissi change or official thread to discuss it. On the other hand given how pathetic feedback was back in the days(Zulu: we looking into it, Nozh: hey med gun ECM hype ftw) there are zero hopes left on my side of the screen.

Hybrid weapons balancing !!!!

Can't stop my tears....




Of Joy

Surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be anything about the sov system in there. I thought that would be the core feature.

Very glad to see factional warfare on the list, and I'm hoping for something substantial rather than simple reward tweaks or whatever. Bold and fresh new mechanics please. Also a starbase overhaul is something I started thinking of as vapourware a long time ago, so thats promising.

But, the missing CQ's are being considered part of the next expansion? Incarna really didn't follow through on the staggered release philosophy then.

CCP have made it quite clear for a long time they consider the nullsec blobwars to be "endgame" content, and looking at how safe/dumbed down highsec is - combined with how CCP want to "force/lure" players into corporations (extra bonus for making big coaltions easily control vast space).. it's quite clear CCP envision EVE to be a nullsec blob game. Everything else is irrelevant.

+1 For all the bucketloads of positivity in this thread. It's about time CCP.

Looking after the playerbase and sorting out all the niggles.

Balancing and more balancing - love it.