EVE General Discussion

HML and Cane rebalancing have been in the air for years.

Also, check out what the CSM are doing:

http://seleenes-sandbox.blogspot.fi/2012/09/csm-7-fall-progress-report.html

This part is especially cool:

And also charge you 25 billion ISK per station. And reduce hi-sec stations to the abilities of 0.0 outposts (look into this, seriously. The difference is amazing). And remove CONCORD. And limit you to 1 station per system. And take away your agents. And make you stuff vulnerable to being locked into stations you can't access. And almost 50% of the systems won't even get anything much from having a hub installed.

Then we have a deal!

Turns out you need an egomaniac ex-lawyer nerd to make a fake internet space council more than just a group holiday to Iceland. Who knew? (10,000 people did)

fixed it for ya.

Right, 2 out of what, 14?
And Kelduum's UNI corp now has a low sec and null sec presence, albeit a small one.

And yes, the proposed AI changes will impact high sec more than anywhere else, though high end plexes are definitely getting very very difficult, unless changes to those plexes are made.
And there are already "suggestions" on the forums by the null sec zealot propaganda teams to make the high end plexes easier, specifically the citadel torps.

I have already suggested that before this AI is implemented, that the slider the Fox Four created to dictate aggro switching will be cloned into separate sliders for high, low, and null.
High sec will experience the most difficult conditions, null the easiest.

To the people who are saying that the Winter expansion will nerf HS.. How?

I am very confused?

If anything the AI changes do not go far enough and I hope once they implement this small change they do take it further.

When I say further I mean things like when running missions the AI use dedicated support ships like ECM and Logi as well as random targeting.

I want level 4 mission to be nearly impossible to be run solo let alone afk.

As for missiles changes, yes because nobody outside of HS uses drakes and Tengu's

Of course no large and very well known alliances use Drake and Tengu's fleets

AI change is a buff to EVE in general. Mission NPCs and Rats are too predictable and that predictability makes most missions and other NPC sites a cakewalk for the people running them. This isn't how it is meant to be played.

All you need to know is exactly which ships trigger respawns, which hardeners to fit, and how much aggro you're going to need to tank with the ship you warp in to pull aggro. AI changes will make that more interesting, and will change the semi-afk nature of current mission running by making players at least pay attention most of the time.

Granted, it doesn't change the fact that they should still be soloable, and actually makes them easier to solo than do as a group, with respect to how the AI changes will impact one method vs another. Having more DPS to throw at the mission will still always make it faster.

Heavy Missile changes affect everybody, and from what I understand, the changes aren't all bad; meaning they aren't arbitrarily nerfing missiles and Heavy missiles in general. They are balancing them, and making some changes to improve gameplay. I'm not sure how this is all going to pan out, or if it's going to be balancing, but I'm sure it'll have an effect on the game dynamics for some people.

Hurricane changes are a little weird. Here's where I start to question the logic.

Drop the powergrid capacity of the Hurricane, while dropping the Powergrid requirements of the Artillery. Okay.. so that works for the Hurricane maybe, but what of the other Minmatar ships? Now everybody flying Minmatar has an easier time fitting Artillery, or plenty of power left over after fitting them.

My issue there is that only one ship is changed, but the guns for all of them receive a cut in power grid requirements. For some, or even many of those ships, this might be much needed because they are already suffering from fitting problems, particularly with artillery. For others, it might leave them with huge leftover amounts of power after fitting a full rack of artillery.

Not sure it's going to work out that way, but I suppose it depends on the exact change. My first thought is the Sleipnir of course, which is already a beast without the need for more buffs thrown its way. Of course, fitting artillery on a Sleipnir may, or may not be your thing.

edit: currently, Arti on the Sleipnir doesn't really make for a great fit, but it can put out >600 dps with ~18km optimal and 47km falloff, while having a tank in excess of 60K EHP. Limited actually, but nice range on that dps. Really, you need a PG implant and/or rig to make it half decent, so it might be alright, but that's just one ship.

CSM is only interested in one thing.

Themselves and the free trip to iceland

Both actually

Whilst the AI can never replicate real players it needs to be changed so that gap between PvE fits and PvP fits is reduced.

I would leave level 1 + 2 missions alone but once you hit level 3 missions I feel NPC's should start using damping / ECM / Logi but still be soloable.

However the majority of Level Missions 4 should not be soloable, and none should be doable in a BC for Christ sakes.

Level 4 missions should encourage team play and not be able to be done afk in any circumstances.

I lived in HS / WH and the ability to make isk is ridiculously easy when compared to living in null and this needs to be changed.

However I would not go mad nerfing everything in HS as this does not solve the numerous of problems in null sec.

I would like to see station taxes increased in HS, as well as the number of manufacturing slots halved in addition to what I have talked about missions.

I don't know of any nerfs.

I know about my buff to lasers by making missiles not as overpowered, but I don't know about any nerfs?

(lol)