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So you think it is a good change to make kiting ships completely incapable of killing a ****** in a battleship, regardless of pilot skill? The game should be decided at the fitting window?

Hmm, needs a mid slot.

Bait freighter!

In your 'rebalancing' efforts, could you take the time to explain why you are nerfing the rupture? Swapping a high to a low could probably be considered breaking even, but swapping a high to a mid is practically useless. Now granted I haven't sat in a rupture in many years, but the dual neut/nos or dual launcher setups are fairly standard. Changing this to an extra mid on an armor tanking ship winds up being a nerf no matter how you slice it. What's the rational behind this? Did I miss the fleets of ruptures flying around ganking everything?

Stop trying to pigeon hole minmatar ships into shield tanking setups. The ship that really needs more mids is the Muninn, but it's obviously not going to see any work for another year at least.

Also your nerf to the Hurricane is a bit too much, I thought CCP was looking at making smaller adjustments to avoid reducing ships to uselessness. If the intent was to force players to choose between fitting larger guns and a fitting mod, or smaller guns, then 200 pg is probably a better number.

I guess this is the achillies heel of EvE, they can't keep introducing new ships/modules and people have played and trained for a long time, so all they can do, is move ships/modules around and make players have to rebalance fits and swap out FOTMs.

Lastly does that change to TP bonus effect all t1 and t2 ships (i.e. the golem)?

1. +1
2. Micro Jump Drive not just going to kill small gang PVP but large too at the gates.
No more trap for enemy fleets on gate bubbles. It's a bullsh*t.
Try to catch a ship at region change gates which is 70km large and don't forget every single 0.0 entry gate is huge.
Try to catch something with scrambler when the enemy ship 70km far away from you. LOL
And more one thing Wcs+MJD+cloak=invulnerable ships.
So, MJD with this feature such a bubble and disruptor resists, it's a worst idea what CCP try to create.

Juding by this post and the one above, you need to try to get up to speed on what the changes involved actually are.

Try reading his post again, very slowly.

Then look at the chart you linked, paying particular attention to the section on the T2 missiles (the ones that he referred to in his post).

Focus in on the damage and range column, where for the most part you will find a significant boost in damage and only a couple of very slight reductions in range.

Then consider that all missile skills and rigs will for the first time apply their affects to all missiles.

Then also consider that after this patch settles in the next step is to allow targeting computers/enhancers to also affect missiles.

I know you are upset that the one long range weapons system that was still way out of whack with all the others is finally being brought into line as far as base stats, but try not to let nerd rage blind you to the rest of the picture.

Somebody else want to clue this guy in?

Okay, lets try this again.

His post was talking specifically about the T2 missiles, focus your eyes on that area.

On a related note, when did all NPC's start using TD's?

Just had 5 accounts expire, another one will in two days, can't really see myself reactiving them either. Will just keep a few combat pilots running for skill training.. so why do I post that as a reply to this dev blog?

Well this is about the winter expansion and ship balancing, right? Ok, let's talk about balancing:
* CCP have done a great job boosting afterburners and letting scramblers shut off mwd, while nerfing overall speed. Credit to those involved in this.
* CCP also did a good job ages ago when they fixed the overpowered dampeners, nosferatu etc, i.e. the ewar balancing. I see the changes that are being done for this expansion as an 'extention' to that. The added skills doesn't make much sense, other than to give us something to train, which is nice for us approaching 150mil SP (getting dull getting all rig skills, and useless t2 ships lv5), but - for younger pilots that is just a nuisance. And I can't really see any sense and logic in it, we had skills adding lock speed and range already, the +strength skills for the offense ewar is for offensive ewar. If that is too strong, nerf it, don't add in skills to counter it. That's just a poorly disguised time-/isk-sink.

The real issues tho, comes here:
* No considerations has been taken for the proper balancing of the "issues" with HML. Which, namely, was two folded: a) blobs. Drakes or Tengus was never too strong in small numbers, while in blobs they were, that's an issue with blobs and not the weapon type or ship itself. The Tengu got a bit too high damage with combined engineering/offensive subsystem, which still leaves all other setups (cloaky, for example) at extremely low damage output. Closer or lower than the other t3's. You going to nerf those too? At the same time, other HML ships (way more of those than the two nerfed) is getting shafted beyond belief. The Nighthawk was already bad, the Caldari cruiser and HACs was already suffering badly, and the Sacrilege etc suffers too. This is a great example of poor game balancing, not addressing the issue at hand but instead doing a blatant nerf over certain over-used shiptypes.
-> The nerf should have been to scale down the RoF bonus on Tengu's offensive subsystem (or removing the +1 launcher on engineering sub), and Drake should have had less buffer potential as that is what makes it so strong in blobs. HML should've been left the way it was.
* The ship balancing has been done on frigs and destroyers and cruisers. Only the third of those types really needed a major overhaul, the other two had it recently. What badly needs love a look at right now is t2 cruisers. HACs in particular, Recons have been quite alot weaker for years now with the increased damage/tank of players in general, solo killing a ratting Raven/Tengu/Drake in any Recon used to be common, but now it's damn hard. They all suffer from weak tank and horrible damage output, and the short warp range makes (even with max skills, obviously) a 2-300 au system a five to eight (yes, 5-8) jumps just to cross ONE system. Command Ships have needed massive love for years now, and it got worse with t3 introduction, as now the CS can barely be a fleet booster even.
* Blobs in general is a major focus for CCP, which at least for me personally (but this is obviously a personal comment, unlike the factual ones above) is massively offputting. EVE always catered everyone, and finding your own fortune and fights was always possible. Having people gather up to be stronger in numbers was always a strategy. But that was completely different when fleet sizes barely escalated past 20, or hell even past 200. But now that they easily go past 2000, and people live in upgraded sov-hubs (no belt ratting, no belt mining, jumpbridge access, titan bridges everywhere, etc) this is completely redudant. I spent hours and hours on a daily basis just to find someone to kill, getting few ones here and there. I regulary (yes, regulary) had people run from me when they were "only" 10-20 vs me and max +1 corpmate. FW is also blob hubs (and making FW emulate the nullsec behaviour is really the worst thing you can/could do, it should and could have a unique role as a smallscale part time easy-access PvP zone).

The day CCP starts to balance ships based on all kind of useage, not just blobs, and the days CCP starts to cater all players and not just the nullsec blobs and highsec carebears (let's face it CCP, the only reasonable semi-small and midscale PvP you still have in this game is in wormholes, which has it's own limitations - mainly massive time comumption compared to null- and lowsec), then perhaps you will have small- and midscale PvP players like me want to play your game again. It's been some great near-decade, and thank you but I'll keep my stuff. Who knows, maybe someone at CCP actually cares about PvP. And maybe, just maybe, I could dream, they will read this and actually think about what they're doing with the game.

+thanks to all the guys at the floor CCP, you had great staff helping me with petitions through the years, they deserve a future, give them some love.. i.e. incentitives for us PvP-interested players to reactivate our dying and dead accounts.

I know which shiptype will be use MJD, but i think you never saw trapped 0.0 battleship fleets on gate bubbles.
After MJD this will be gone.

Very few people try to argue the fact that heavy missiles in particular were given over the top range even for a long range weapons system, and this was coupled with the damage potential of a short range weapons system. Those that do try to argue this get laughed at quietly by the rest of the EVE community. Originally heavy missiles were tying to cover all the bases as at that time there was no such thing as HAM's. Correcting this issue is long over due.

Heavy missiles simply got brought into line with the rest for the very first time... and the next round of changes will allow ample opportunity mitigate these changes if you choose to do so with your fittings.

The post you quoted was simply trying to point out that the missile changes affect far more than just heavy missiles, and over all are a rather nice boost for missile combat in general, paricularly for T2 missiles. However you appear to be blinded by hysteria and can't focus on anything other than your heavy missiles.

Now mind your manners.