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indeed just dump the armor rep bonus and replace with an armour percentage bonus for those energy mods that increase armour by 15%...

that way galente can be fast armour tankers (removes the needs to fit a 1600)

but seriously make the mobile death stars the new Mother ship... keep the modular pos thing separate...

So, just how many pirates are in the CSM?

If none, then who of you are backing the pirate corner?

This is not looking good.

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The reason I chose to do it this way, is because there is a limit on the amount of characters that one can post on the forums, and there are many words in this (7 pages in fact)

uhm, for the starbases part.

Please consider that many of us are using currently POSs for fast storage, because we don't have to dock up to mess with the cargo. this is very useful when we're emptying PI offices, or unloading ratting loot.

Also, the forcefield allows a staging area before warping in to anywhere, where we can bump each other.

SMAs can also hold various ships for different proposes, which doesn't require docking, but allows us fast reshipping within the system.

Please consider these.

What the hell? Eve is already too overtanked, ships take a crapload of time to actually pop. It takes Mach well over a minute to kill a single fugly Drake. How is that short?

Nerfing DPS or boosting tank even more is one of the most detrimental things one can ever come up with.

It's extremely stupid to think prolonged fights would also give more 'tension'. I've been playing since late '05 where we had like 1/3 of current EHP and guess what? - the game was much better in terms of DPS/tank balance.

This is going to be a criticism echoed by many as we go into Winter. But let's take a look back - this new direction CCP's gone in terms of development practice is a direct response to the "Jesus feature" era - where the "new shiny" trumped the less sexy iterations that were badly needed for so many features. Players demanded CCP focus on the core game, and support their already-released content, instead of always chasing the next best thing.

Its time to allow them to do just that. I for one am perfectly happy with the winter agenda - its finishing the other half of Inferno, essentially. Hell, I'd be fine with them calling it Inferno 2.0, and not even bothering with the fanfare of a brand new title. The point is, you're absolutely right - we could use more work on the war dec system, Faction Warfare CERTAINLY needs to have its lingering core weaknesses adressed, and features such as player-to-player contracts could have PROFOUND impacts on 0.0 alliance business relationships, and introduce a real mercenary marketplace, complete with a functioning bounty hunting system. (in fact, player to player contracts is one of the must underrated features that I believe could unlock immense amounts of emergent gameplay with even just a few concrete contract styles.)

I've been following player feedback temperatures closely for over a year now, and I vividly remember the bittervet outcries that CCP was catering to new players, chasing shiny avatars, spending too much time on Dust, and ignoring their core base.

Thankfully, they listened. I think we're kidding ourselves to think that something like Faction Warfare, or 0.0 sovereignty, or new POS's, could EVER be deployed intact within a single expansion. Many have argued that CCP should commit a team to a feature permanently once deployed, so that groups like the Incursion community gets the long-term supported needed to thrive. While i think this is unrealistic for a number of reason, at least doubling up a pair of expansions on a single feature set (war themed, in 2012's case) is a refreshing compromise.

Interesting theory Two Step but your hypothesis falls flat in that the HI SEC Incursions which utilize chats have survived the Escalation NERF where the lo/NULL Incursions which relied on corps/alliances have absolutely died. The barriers to entry for the Incursion chats are alot less an obstacle ( what chat asks for API verification? ) even though there is no mechanic for advertising them in Eve.
I think what you see as a barrier to entry actually was viewed as the opposite to many fed up with corp/alliance politics ( not that there is any lack of politicking in the Incursion communities unfortunely but it is easier to escape/ignore & contine to be part of the community )

While for the most part HI sec Incursion community coalesed into 'chat communities' because otherwise it was to easy to be griefed by 1 man corps & griefers due to war dec aggro spreading amongst all the logi they grew into a coheriant, vibrant, and to my knowledge fairly unique new type of community not seen in Eve before which isn't corp or alliance based so I suspect an anathema to those not living in NULL/ or WH's.

this, good work, keep it up

But he was talking about active armor tanking and upping the boost amount on a brutix from 7.5 to 10% per level. And he is right it will do absolutely nothing for active armor tanking.

Now if they reduced the fitting costs of reppers it might enable more dual repper setups both of which getting the boost. Or if there was an ancilliary armor repairer in the game that was as op as the asb then yeah that bonus would do something. But as it stands upping the armor repair bonus by 2.5% per level will not make it worth using and frankly people will continue to put thin shield buffers and all gank in the lows on those ships. The only place the 10% armor bonus matters is fw plexing with an incursus. For pvp the increased bonus won't matter.