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No thats the point you get to be king of ore sucking probably more than it is even now as they said, but its not going to be a tank... meanwhile you go down to retriever level which will also get a buff and u have a battleship tank safe for highsec hulkageddon mining almost

So much to comment on, so little time.

Just make sure the Bantam and Ibis can mount missile launchers

1) We were promised missile launching bantams back in 2001, I'm still waiting
2) Caldari noobs need to use missiles to stop wasting time on railguns.

And as for EHP on mining barges - boost the hull, not the shield or armor, make em able to survive a suicide gank if you must, but we don't want more fragile industrial ships able to permatank battleships.

i know i'd hope there gonna revise the t2 variants at the same time but i doubt they will, they'll probably do t1 make t2 irrelevant and then fix t2

Tiericide is AWESOME... You have done an awesome job giving all the ships proper roles however I hope you manage to work it out faster than expected... This is the thing that will give Eve new life for everybody!!

About frigates they currently have a few problems easily solved but IMO necesary to look into:

1. Medium autocannons especially track and hit frigates very well from 0-24km with the tracking enhancers giving 30% fall-off
2. Battlecruisers being the most used platform for pvp having way too much EHP for frigates while being able to apply at least 5 drones and with medium weapons not suffering agaisnt frigates like battleships do.
3. Gate guns cheat and hit a frigate for the same damage as a battleship

A few notes to the roles listed :
Plz be very carefull with the missile frigates: Rockets were recently buffed, however light missiles are horrible not delivering dps OR alpha against anything but rookie ships. The same goes for the rapid missile launchers (old assault missile launchers) who on a crusier/battlecruiser used to deal the same dps as the old rockets...
In my opinion you will make 2 of the frigates useless for pvp if you force them to rely on current light missiles as their main weapon platform :-(

For the support frigates, how will you give them a role for combat as well as for probing, scanning, anaylyzing and codebreaking? I would suggest enough hi-slots to still deal decent dps, but not enough lowslots damage mods and no weapon bonuses. Perhaps give them a full rack of unbonused weapons, a tank bonus, scan bonus and a scan resolution able to tackle stuff without stepping on the toes of the fast tacklers with dps?

The rookie ships should all be able to fit 2 guns (learn to group weapons) and a civilian rocket launcher while giving them enough medslots to fit civilian afterburner AND civilian shield booster. With the stats and fitting available for the rookie ships they are hardly a threat anyway? Just do what you can to avoid rookie ship scouts...

The new aproach on mining is perfect. No matter how little I like to mine the mining industry should be the backbone of Eve and giving them more tank wont save most of the miners anyway if people want them dead. Battleship tank seems too much, but battlecruiser tank is reasonable - this gives organised players an option to defend miners from rats and players if properly prepared.
The next step is to make belt rats fewer and stronger, give lowsec a huge boost in minerals available and give lowsec more belts to hide in and more hi-sec/lo-sec gates to make camping more difficult. Making it easier to hidem easier to protect and giving miners better rewards in lowsec will be good for Eve if you can balance it against nasty blobs of bloodthirsty pirates...

PS: I love the YELLOW mining frigate giving it an industrial look - Plz make all barges industrial yellow NOW hehe :-)

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Not at all, they said they would have specialized ore holds. If i recall correctly the cargo hold expanders do not effect specialized holds only your normal cargo hold.

Which is something I would hope they are able to address. Cargo expansion should affect the specialized holds. That puts more of the decision into the player's hands of "do I want more cargo? more tank? more utility? more yield? etc".

This is great stuff! Hulkageddon just got a LOT more challenging, and as it should be.

My vote is make the burst a sniper - something about the name just makes sense!

Your blog isn't very clear on the time line for release. Are you saying that all the changes mentioned in the blog will be out before the Winter expansion? There is a lot of changes in the dev blog. I'm more interested in when the frigate changes are going to be released. I'm assuming that you won't be lumping everything together. Can we get a estimate of when they will be released?

This is sounding like it's gonna be good.

Not sure why people think gankers will be pissed seeing as it harldy changes anything. Just bring more catalysts. Assuming that miners will learn to tank with or without the higher base ehp...

Interesting changes, though I'd like a little more clarity on when these are coming: it's hard to tell if these are inferno 1.x things or Winter 1.