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I like the fact that EVE, being 10 years old, is taking a nice revamp. With some luck, in a year or two, it'll actually be a completly different game, with only some ship hulls being the same, but ith mostly diferent abilities/capacities in play. That alone will be sufficient to shake up the entire universe.

I do hope a good job is done, and that variety is added by providing for player-specific needs in terms of preferred playstyles and combat approaches.

I especially like the new ORE frigate. :)

This is an absolute outrage.

I just changed my desktop background to a picture of young ladies holding guns in their underpants,

and now you release a pic of this big exciting chunky yellow spaceship,

and the poor young ladies are sent back to C:/Users/Benny/My Pictures for a month while the spaceship sits on desktop.

I wish you'd consider the young ladies in their underpants before you did things like this.

This blog is happy making.

Oh wow
ok I need to condense all of my pure amazement at this dev blog into one post.

1st off great changes to the mining lines! I don't fly these ships much but I'm blown away by the forward thinking in their design now. Great idea, I hope we see more of that moving forward.
2nd.


That's amazing. Making one of the cheaper ships a main tool in DUST 514 lowers the barrier for newer players to take part. I'm really impressed, this is cool.

Ok down to some real feed back.


Maybe this is a good time to have the artist do the burst redesign? You could have the art tailors for the role you want it to fit. Making it a series of platforms to hold long range artillery sounds pretty awesome. Send this memo to the art team, work with this, you have a rare chance to make a brand new minmatar ship, and no one , i repeat NO ONE will miss the old burst model.


This one is important to me.


I made a huge post in F&I on this and I hope you take it into account. Give these 4 ships heavy defense. the 5% to armor resistances per level skill. Then give them 2 high slots but then tons of mid and low slots. So they have as many overall as a rifter or such. No combat bonuses.

This would give them one tiny role in combat when they aren't out scanning. Staying alive. Being able to scan down enemies is handy, but being able to last until your fleet shows up, that's the ticket. Plus you even describe the ships like they are hard to kill with super advanced defense systems. Just listen to the show into on the Probe.

"The Probe is large compared to most Minmatar frigates and is considered a good scout and cargo-runner. Uncharacteristically for a Minmatar ship, its hard outer coating makes it difficult to destroy, while the limited weapon hardpoints force it to rely on fighter assistance if engaged in combat."

It's like it's describing the 25% armor resistances allready!

CCP,

Please realize that players with higher SP currently don't like flying destroyers and to a lesser degree frigates because of the clonecosts , for me it costs about 50-60 mil to replace my medical clone. The odds of getting podkilled in a light interdictor is quite high.

Having high skillpoints doesn't mean that the player also has a lot of isk or some way to make isk more efficiently than a lower skilled character. Sure, I don't deny that it helps but having 10 mil SP or 100mil SP doesn't really matter for the income of level 4 agent missions.

Thanks,
Red

will the ore cargo on the hulk be = to the current unmodified cargo or max cargo?

One technical note:

Damping - reducing an effect, or, in the world of controls, minimizing overshoot.

Dampening - getting something wet.

There, I've finally said it. This has been annoying me for a looooooong time.

*IRL mechanical engineer*

Thank god someone else noticed that.

If I was a girl, some of these things could legitimately be called dampeners, but I'm not, so please fix these:)

Sounds promising so far.

But, why does it take so long?
T1 frigates and mining ships done this *winter*.
That still leaves:

actually fixing them afterwards
Faction frigates
Cruisers (t1, t2, faction, t3)
Battlecruisers
Battleships
and so on

Are we really looking at several years to get that reasonably done?