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Why the Eos looks like a brutix other then a myrmdon?

Maybe the t2 ships should have a different hull base model... it would looks better then the same hull painted in different colours.

Also you could revamp the POS system... and all the other stuff that you promissed...

I'm also one of the 7 with maxxed out Warfare skills :) Well, MD5 is missing, but meh.

Question : As I bugreported this at least once, when you're revisiting the bonusses, will you also fix the broken wing command bonus ?
The WC will has never had any bonusses from the FC, where SC's get fleet ánd wing bonusses.


Also, a ship with active links with LESSER skills as squadcommander overrules a wingcommander with better skills (and links running).
(As example, an Orca SC with links running gives HIS bonusses to squad, even when there's a Rorqual Wing commander in fleet).

You are as droneboats always have one less slot than the rest.

Harbinger definitely doesn't need a nerf. However good solution would be:
- 1 low
- capacitor recharge for lasers
tank bonus instead of laser cap usage

Regarding ships using mindlinks & giving boosts:

1) I personally have no problem with boosting ships not being allowed to boost within a POS forcefield EXCEPT for the Rorqual or any other ship that is providing mining boost links ONLY. Mining should kept apart from combat.
2) I personally feel that ships should still be able to apply boosts to their respective fleets while being in the same system UNLESS you implement a different method of obtaining mindlinks so that they are far cheaper and therefore disposable financially speaking. They currently sell in the region of 100 million ISK each and I would propose a price of 20 million ISK would be not too cheap but still somewhat 'disposable'. Instead of dropping or as rewards from missions they would be on sale at LP stores in high sec systems but probably not at FW LP stores.
I have another pilot trained up with lvl 5 in most of the mindlink related skills but at 100+ million a pop I would be loathe to risk that kind of loss in battle on a regular basis and I doubt most pilots would want to do that either.
So on that basis I suggest you either leave the off grid boosting alone OR apply a far cheaper buying method for COMBAT ONLY related mindlinks with the removal of off-grid boosting.
I also suggest you leave the rarity of mining mindlinks as it currently stands as making them more readily available would affect the EVE economy to a great degree.

I'm expecting my bonuses T3 that's worth three times a claymore on the market to give my fleet better bonuses, and I don't give a **** about having a bonus of each type. It seems you forgot about the ship prices, the better it is, the more you have to pay for it and this apply to all the changes planned in here.

Both nerfing Cane and Drake and buffing Myrm and harbinger isn't a good idea. It's the better way to make the old OP ones **** and the old ****** ones OP. Pick your changes but buffing is better than nerfing, I'm not the only one to say that.

Another point is that by nerfing missiles, you nerf other missiles boat such as Cerberus (which, in my opinion, doesn't diserve it) and not only the drake (that obviously diserve something in da face). And please, don't kill the ferox making it a railgun fragile sniping thing, no one will be using it.


Yeah, **** passive tanking, let that to amar ships, they are good for fleets, Gallente ones are good for solo, no need to change this.

Each ship has its own weaknesses and strengths and that's what makes EVE insteresting, you have to keep that in mind before making them all the same. EVE isn't WoW, you're not bound to a race or a ship, you can fly whatever you want if you train for it, so there's no need for all ships to be equals. You can add to this the fact that the all market thing is rebalancing it for you. There's some good ideas in that blog but you should focus on making the ships that no one flies better instead of trying to balance ships that everyone loves the way they are.

You also have to think about changing the BP minerals requirements if you kill the Tier system, didn't hear anything about that.

Anyway I've got lots of things to say but it would take too long.
Love you all anyway <3

I love the future of Eve, however I do have a few things...

Battlecruisers:

The current tier 3 ships should IMO fit into the bombardment role - getting long range firepower by fitting larger weaponry.
Speed is the main reason for these babies being unbalanced atm, but at the same time having 8 large weapons with damage bonus on each of them really steps on the role of battleships as nothing subcapital can compete with the alpha from these.
At the same time the lock time is insanely fast - I'm okay with a long range but they should not lock any faster than other battlecruisers and perhaps their scan resolution should even be worse.

I love how CCP managed to make alpha/sniping viable again, but nerfing mobility is not the only thing we need. I am a strong believer in removing at least 1 turret (so at least 1 battleship for each race can have better alpha) and use 1 bonus for signature reduction instead of having a fixed low signature. Then each ship have 1 bonus left for damage, rof, tracking or similar still making them shine in their field. Apart from this plz remove Talos drone bay and find another way to balance it...

Also if you want these to stay away from close range just give them a negative role bonus towards tracking. Even 10% should be noticeable?

Prophecy will be fun as a drone ship if it will gain a little mobility - I find it very interesting to see if you make the Prophecy keep the resist bonus to give it time for the drones to tear down the enemies or you give it a laser/gank profile. Just make sure at least the Prophecy or the Harbinger will be a good tank...

The Ferox would REALLY, REALLY shine with a shield bonus and a damage bonus. The range on Railguns are more than sufficient for battlecruisers and the model really look like a space knight in shining armor. If you insist on a damage bonus + optimal bonus plz make sure it has 6 medslots and do not let the Drake keep the resist bonus plz...
Resist + damage bonus really match the caldari hybrid line, but perhaps you are too worried it will outshine the Moa?

Drake would be fun with a missile velocity bonus instead of the resistbonus. I doubt many people think the Drake is too fragile as it is right now anyway and with the slow acceleration HAMs will benefit a lot from the extra range and speed such a bonus can give.

Battleships:

Scorpion could really benefit a lot from a 5/5 weapon layout and maybe a huge structure to prevent them being primaried out of the field - especially with ecm effectivity being reduced a lot. Tbh a strong structure should also be introduced to Griffins and BlackBirds to keep them away from being oneshots?

Apocalypse is okay but would be far more interesting with more damage. The cap bonus is nice but makes it look dull. Cap can always be solved with a bigger capacitor, but it's a shame to have Apocs for NPC only just like the Raven. It has a super nice anti support role with the range bonus that could easily be strengthened.

Raven - I dont know what you have in mind but giving it the same amount of shield as a Navy Raven as well as looking into missiles and fitting could make it very interesting again...

Rokh: Damage bonus and Shield Resistance would be epic. Large railguns don't need a range bonus anyway.

Hyperion is very nice, however the amount of armor is too little for active repairers to be really effective and it has too much shield to keep people away from very effecient shield gank setups (it should be an option but not better than the armor setup)

This is it for now. I really love the new warfare link changes. Hope you force warfare links to be on grid too - but let links be active during warps too...

While on the subject of command ships, I would suggest using the T1 hull with a similar role for the base, instead of basing both on the same one. Mostly because I want a T2 Hurricane.

I find the conversion of skills not very well explained. 'if you can fly it now, you can fly it afterwards' is only part of the story.

"Let us repeat again: if you could fly it before, you will be able to do so after the change. Technically it means if you are able to fly an Oracle by having Amarr Cruisers 3 and Battlecruisers 3, we will remove the Battlecruisers skill from your character and give you Amarr Battlecruisers at 3. If you had Battlecruisers at 3 and Caldari Cruisers 3 instead, you would not receive Amarr Battlecruisers but the Caldari Battlecruisers skill at 3 instead. The same principle work with the Destroyers skill."

What happens when you have a battlecruiser skill of level 5 and an Amarr cruiser skill of only 3? You get Amarr battlecruiser skill 3 according to the text. Just as someone who has only a battlecruiser skill of level 3. That seems hugely unfair. What happens with the effort invested in the 'extra' levels of battlecruiser skills that cannot get converted? Do you get the skillpoints back?

Now while I understand that the effort of the battlecruisers will be counted against all races and so you are getting a bonus when you have multiple races, starting toons have only 1 race developped I would say, and can have a loss of skill points as a result of this conversion.

Suppose I better start training races I have no interest in atm...

First it does not say what you claim it does, it didn't address it at all, but was clarified by multiple dev comment already.

Their response was that you will be able to fly any ship at the existing level you did before, meaning Battlecruiser 5 combined with any Racial Cruiser 3 will result in Racial Battecruiser 5.