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Removing useful, well liked features without a working replacement is not an 'Update'. And by 'working replacement' I mean working (from the user's perspective) as well if not better than the function that was removed. Seems there should have been more thought put into this after the wonderful ship spinning debacle. There should especially have been some very serious thought put into this after the Unified Inventory debacle. If you can't make it better, don't just remove it, or break it. And then claim it's just because EVE is an ever changing game. That sounds disingenuous.

Removing the Jukebox might have been easier for you than leaving it in, but at what price? Loss of a measure of goodwill from customers, because it makes you look out of touch, or worse.

And in the grand scheme of things, compared to the many thousands and thousands of man hours you put into this expansion, would it have really taken that much to leave the jukebox in? What, maybe one half of one percent or less of the work involved in rolling out the entire expansion?

I know you put a huge amount of effort into this expansion, and it's too bad you're getting so much flac for so many things. But seriously, put the jukebox back asap. And stop removing features that we like, are working correctly, and make the game more enjoyable for us, the customers.

Regards

oh and Remiel, stop liking all my posts, that really makes it look like your primary intention is just stirring crap

I prescribe less forums and more ingame time for you, so you might begin to understand what we're all talking about.

Maybe I'm just getting my half billion's worth

Yeah, sure wait a week.. it's not like there are timers in game that don't wait on the Dev's to fix problems they introduced.

CCP isn't a startup... there is little evidence that a large number of Dev's are working "ungodly" hours. If they are - CCP is a screwed up company.

it's probably always been like this. it makes more sense in the corporation kill reports list

This is for me. What do I care about management?

Something really needs to be done about these huge unscalable circles and halos. If you're in any real fight you can't see crap because of them, and after playing with it some, I'm convinced those halos don't tell you diddly poop you didn't already know. Also the targeting circles, they break completely if you have a ship w/ anything resembling high scan res.

You do realize that the devs asked for feedback on whether the new AI was too aggressive or not, right? Bitching at people (as you have been doing) for doing exactly what was asked for, seems a little odd to me.

As for EWAR, etc., with drone boats: Yes, that is a possibility. Fit a shield transporter on your Rattlesnake, and, if your light drone is about 8 km or less away, you can rep its shield as it takes damage. Assuming only one drone is taking damage, you don't mind reducing the engagement range of your sentry drones (requires link augments), or eliminating your (admittedly pathetic) missile DPS, since these things all take high slots, or EWAR in mid (where you need shield and drone tracking already). And ignoring, of course, that rep range is so short that recalling a light drone takes less time than locking it and firing up the rep. And you need both EWAR and Rep on the same Rattlesnake, with limited high slots that you already need for other things.

On the other hand, I LOVE the idea of making the Rattlesnake into a "mini carrier". Dump the missile slots, give it a bonus to EWAR and/or Rep range, etc. Rely completely on drone DPS with the thing. Really make it into something cool, not just a Domi with a massive overtank and micro-DPS from missile launchers. I already love the look on the thing, now make it badass in that manner and it'll be my go-to ship again!

The point isn't that "whaaa, my Rattlesnake sucks because I can't play". It's:

A) Devs asked for feedback
B) My Machariel is now so much better than my Rattlesnake, on the exact same missions, that it's ridiculous, even with more skills points in drones than in turrets. Twice the missions in half the time, where it used to be just slightly faster, and the R's overtank made certain encounters (Damsel, for example) more relaxed, which made up the difference.

Rattlesnake and Machariel are both pirate faction battleships. Both used to work beautifully for me, and be quite fun to fly, on L4 missions. Now the Rattlesnake is annoyingly complex to fly, expensive if rats gets excited about light drones, and (because of all the "call them back home again" cycles) very slow to complete missions.

Not at all catastrophic. But definitely annoying.

Maybe I'll sell the Rattlesnake and get a Nightmare instead. Just for the heck of it.

Either way, I can still fly the missions. But I still think the AI change was overdone by a bit. It's not a bad thing, just too much of it.

Has anyone got that to work? It just tells me there are no wrecks to salvage (though I am surrounded by them). I have to lock and tell drones to salvage each one. Perhaps that is the issue the DEV is talking about.

I just ran a test and apparently it is only the Mac client that is having this issue. Unfortunately that is the machine I use the most.