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when you die in EVE, it's ALWAYS me who has the final blow

true story! (not really)

I don't blame the WH for not letting me jump, I blame the black box installed in my ship by CONCORD. They seem to derive immense satisfaction from saying NO.

Since I see devs around I would like to say thank you for this great looking changes.

yet I still have 2 questions regarding reactive armor hardener:

1. Has the calculation formula been updated as well (recently the module will stop readapting under some specific conditions)
2. Is this module now affected by compensation skills (it is hardener after all and hence should give passive resist when not active)

EDIT out ot check on Buckingham to see for myself

EDIT 2: there seems to be a bug with armor resistance phasing skill. It should give reduction 5% to capacitor use per level. Yet with level 4 I am geting 39.9 GJ activation cost. That is only 5% total reduction, not 20% as I would expect from lvl4.

Still open questions regarding loopholes in new bounty system:
- Any way to avoid gaming the payout system by forcibly getting damaged (and repaired) before a loss?
- Any thoughts on limiting changing implants in space to avoid people ripping them out to lower payouts/sums in kill mails (some care a lot; e.g. when stuck in a bubble)?
Regarding offered kill rights:
- Have you thought about adding a popup/confirmation, if someone tries to attack a player with open kill rights? Something like "You can't attack this player without ... penalty, but there's an open kill right available for x isk. Do you want to buy it?" If that is declined (or there's no kill right available), you'd get the standard CONCORD warning, etc. (unless dismissed).

In terms of promoting fun gameplay ASB fix looks the most prominent.

And reading the tears of those who base their PvP ability on something so overwhelmingly OP and suddenly see it getting fixed is simply pleasant.

Sadly, no changes to cynoes makes it impossible to label this expansion as a good one.

If I understand the kill rights mechanic, making your kill right available to everyone means everyone can buy the kill right at any time. As you pointed out, if the kill right is cheap then people are going to have alts or friends blow up their rookie ships to get rid of the kill right, and if the kill right is expensive there's no too high a chance of it being activated by most people.

However, think about what this does to the bounty hunting profession. Suppose you're looking around for people with kill rights for sale and you want to rack up kills for yourself. Since people with cheap kill rights aren't going to keep them for very long and are most likely to easily discard them, I'm left with kill rights I'll have to pay a fair amount of isk for. Let's say most kill rights that aren't easily discarded run in the 50-100 million isk range.

What incentive do I have to pay for a kill right that once activated, anybody in the vicinity can take advantage of? If I buy a killright I should be paying to have the chance to take someone down myself, not to make it so CONCORD completely ignores aggression from anyone and everyone at that time. This game mechanic makes absolutely no sense. Why should I pay for everyone else to shoot the same target I want to shoot at? Why can't I just pay for myself to shoot at the target?


EVEN IF this kill right was restricted to my corporation or just me, when I activate it that still gives everyone in the vicinity the opportunity to attack. The only thing this really changes is who is forced to pay to activate the kill right, and who gets to decide when and where the engagement is. There's absolutely no control whatsoever on who can get involved. This doesn't make any sense.

As much as people whine about blobbing you'd think CCP wouldn't add more mechanics that encourage it...

I might have missed it, but what about looting the wreck of someone I have/bought kill rights on? Once I kill them does that mean I can loot their wreck without flagging the 'theft' aggression mechanic?

Don't know if this has been asked / answered but with engaging ships in low sec being changed from criminal to suspect will they still get kill rights if they don't engage you? Seems inconsistent that it wouldn't be a criminal action but they still get kill rights.

Lowsec is not very young-pilot friendly anymore. FW is a spy-infested blobfest, and piracy is the same as usual: you get overpowered on a gate by a force that has an advantage (rightly so, they put in the effort).

The best way for learning the ropes in PvP is actually highsec wardecs, or nullsec roams. Nullsec roams have nearly completely died off for everyone not in US TZ, due to a combination of reasons. One is the stupid amounts of pilots in this game now, when you do find people they are not scattered in belts like they used to either. You'll rather find stations every other system, jumpbridges, titanbridges, upgraded sovhubs, and literally seconds after you enter a system the "defender" will overpower your single ship by tens or even hundreds of pilots. It's that ridicilous.

As for wardeccing smaller entities: that makes no sense. It should be cheaper the bigger entity you wardec, as it gets more risky. The bigger entities are more appealing targets because of :numbers:, but they also have alot better potential to defend themselves. You should want smaller and younger entities to wardec them, and the professional wardeccers to go for specific targets that require more effort/skill/experience.

I would, however, say that lowsec should be the place to learn the ropes. Both for PvP and PvE. I'd personally love to see players move out there early, like we did. But FW being a carbon copy of nullsec, full of spies and blobs, the new killright system that has alot tougher effects on inexperienced criminals, no real PvE incentitives (remember when mining in lowsec used to be desireable? industrialists and combat pilots co-existed quite well back then), highsec being super-profitable and almost-completely-safe, nullsec being supereasy to defend vs roaming PvPers, WH's being time consuming and taking some time to learn.. the simple truth is that highsec wardecs is the only real entry point for younger aspiring combat pilots. At least if they want to be in a non-laggy blob-environment, that is bound to be spy-infested and be short of properly skilled pilots (so they possibly learn absolutely nothing).