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Good example. I'd like to hear how players are faring in tech 1 BS, Command Ship and Tech 3 cruisers in these lesser sites as well.

If you don't mind, which radar site were you running?

(angel space) something "sparkling transmitter"

I had done this site many times before but now its like dam

You just described how Caldari toons got our **** pushed in under this patch. They're pretty much useless unless you've done some very heavy cross-training into projectile/hybrid/laser weapons systems and ships.....

But the question that apparently F***ING NO ONE AT CCP EVER STOPPED TO ASK: ***Why*** should a Caldari pilot have to train into ships/weapons systems from other races?

Still haven't gotten an answer on that one, other than that apparently people were bitching about drake blobs.
If that was the issue: Then nerf down a ship if it's too powerful, not an entire RACE.
Everyone knows, if you want the most effective combat/mission toon, you train them up in ONE skillset at a time. Be it Projectile, Missile, Hybrids or even drones. You don't branch off (if ever) until you've mastered a given skillset many months down the line. But I guess Caldari need to do that now, while the other races (except to slightly lesser extent, Frog pilots and their drones) get to continue on mastering their weapons skills while the Caldari get hamstrung by this nerf.

It's bad enough CCP totally shafted the Caldari FW groups with the ninja Faction Warfare patch. Not even a 48hrs notice that "Hey guys, guess what? We decided we're going to shove through this change now, not in 2 months like we said" notice.
Least you guys could have done was reset all FW systems to their orig sov state. Instead you hand T4 zone control to the Frogs. That was either a textbook case of incredible stupidity and lack of forethought on the part of the Dev's, or it was intentionally done. Either way, it was a total prick move to your paying customers.

So now our racial combat skills are pretty much useless. Combined with the Ninja-patch, you also just handed the FW conflict to the Gallente/Minmatar factions. Systems are falling like dominoes as the missile boats are just high-LP piggy-banks for the Win/Gal factions. Alliances are pulling out faster than a John with a broken rubber.
FW in the Gal/Caldari quadrants is about to become as one sided as it is in Amarr/Winmatar space.


As for the missile skills, I've seen people bemoan that "missiles ALWAYS hit, other weapons systems don't! That's why they're so unfair!". This is true, they do always hit (at least for now).

But consider this: WHY do the missiles always hit? Because by and large, when fitted with a primary weapons system (Missiles) most Caldari have very limited (or flat out NO) drone capability and drones are not a primary weapons skill set for this race. Thusly they "always hit".
Furthermore, Missiles are not "instant damage" like turrets/lasers. They have long flight times to hit their targets. So, per salvo they generally did more damage to maintain a comparable DPS with other offensive systems. This sucked for someone getting hammered by a ToT (Time On Target) missile barrage, but only about the same for someone getting alpha'd by a Telos, Naga, Tornado, Oracle, yadda yadda yadda.

Short version, CCP screwed over every Caldari pilot out there and flat out RAPED the Caldari militia corps.


There is one thing I'll give you guys credit on something: When you go all-out to screw over an entire race, you don't pull any punches.

I know I'm repeating what others have opined, but it needs to be said and I think CCP needs to hear it. The purpose of my post is not to flame on the dev's or anybody else, but to express an opinion (I know you guys work hard at this).

There's more than 1 or 2 things that just didn't work with this expansion.

Flying pizzas: You've got the grey flying pizzas that are locked, and the red flying pizzas that are actively attacking. Eve used to be flying spreadsheets, now it's flying spreadsheets and 2 types of flying pizzas. It comes across as more cluttered than ever.

Damage notifications: Too much info, only need to know who/what/amount. The info showing glancing/bouncing/tickles - could care less and is more needless content taking up screen space.

Sounds: JB (although I don't normally listen, but consideration of those that do), the unrealistic sounding glancing hits and the unrelenting buzz of aggression notifications.

Grapics: new explosions are totally underwhelming.

I get that you're trying to make the game a bit more friendly to new players, fix old code, and offer new content, but I do wonder if the emphasis on the test server forum is bugs rather than customer feedback/impressions. I would suggest the latter over the former as it seems the bugs often still make it through which get fixed in subsequent patches, while the big picture feedback seems to be overlooked.

I haven't lost any ships or other reasons for rage-quit. Main is a 2007 character and I have never lapsed or unsubscribed.

But for the first time in my Eve career it dawned on me tonight I wasn't looking forward to logging in.

Thanks for reading and hopefully listening.

Don't touch the notepad... I mean it! I have tons of s*hit there, it's useful. :)

Dear CCP,

Once again, I salute you. You have gone above and beyond when it comes to showing your customer base you have NO clue about your product.


Tengu/Drake/Heavy Missile nerf

You have single handedly screwed over the Caldari FW players, and anyone who flies a Tengu ..... especially those that use them in w-space (raises hand). My Drake fit will need to be switched to HAM's to get some of the DPS back. My Tengu alt has had his DPS cut practically in half (670 to 350) and range cut from over 90km to under 40km. The Tengu, a T3 ship, doesn't even compare to the other T3 ships now. I would ask, "What the hell were you thinking?", but its painfully obvious you didn't think at all.


Hurricane nerf

Instead of cutting down on the number of open high slots, you gut the cap/PG instead. Seriously, what are you thinking? Yes, the Cane is a very versatile ship .... there were, however, other ways to reduce that versatility (lose one high slot, maybe?). The Cane's biggest weakness is energy neuts and all you did was make that weakness even more exploitable.


The Unfixable Inventory

This is what I'm calling it from now on. Yes, you did fix it ..... after months of it being a giant clusterf*ck.


Spinning circles targets and camera POV changes

Absolutely useless. Flying pizzas? I couldn't agree more. It looks like a fake halo effect from a Shockwave animation or a movie. You need to have a tee shirt with the phrase:

"Eve Retribution - and all I got was this stupid flying pizza!"


Damage notifications

Again, another useless feature. It scrolls by so quickly, in green and red mind you (Christmas, anyone?) that it clutters the screen. I would rather have you fix the log file so that it kept the combat data and session changes didn't clear it out.


Aggression counters and NPC's

Normal belt NPC's can lock me from 200km away, sensor dampen me from 100km out, and I'm the one getting nailed with an aggression timer in a Retriever?? I've two words for you. FIX. IT.



On a serious note, if there is a change you want to make you need to publish it, test it, and listen (I mean really LISTEN) to the feedback you're getting. The inventory is finally fixed but how long did it take you to do it, 6 months? That's much too long of a time to have your customer base suffer over such a small change but very important piece of the game.

I absolutely hate CCP's last expension. The silly beep-sounds, the insane new NPC-AI which kills every drone within seconds so that you are scrambled in your mission with stage aggro, the new bounty system which leads to a bounty of ALL chars who types something in an official channel... I AM A HELPER IN A HELP CHANNEL. I helped other people. New people.. YOUR DAMN NEW CUSTOMERS! But if I now want to help I will get an bounty from some bumbling idiot who just wants to troll others!

I am very disappointed and mad about the last bad changes. Good job CCP. You can celebrate your last ****!

Just bcause you are NOW able to spend a bounty on EVERY ONES head does not mean, that you (as CCP) have now established the new profession "Bounty Hunter". The current, new system of bounty is the same crap as it was before "Retribution". The only exception is, that ALL players have a bounty on their heads. If deserved or not. This is CCP's imagination of an good system? Exclude CCP from the bounty system but the rest of your customer can bother with it?
Perhaps the payout restrictions of this new bounty system makes sense.. but the fact that ALL players have now bounty is just dumb!

My Account is cancelled now. It is my personal decision and reaction concerning "retribution". I have some month till the end. So you have some time to correct your crap of broken missions and bounty mess!
It hurts to quit with eve, after several years with a perfect skilled char. But your current mess of bounty, caldari nerf, NPC-AI which kills all drones within seconds, jukebox deletion, your dumb new squeaky noise called sound is unacceptable for me!

P.S.: To all "Can I have your stuff"- folks.. you can get it in form of a bounty on your head If you wish!

Hi CCP Alt/fanboi/troll, maybe people are posting about the insane drone hatred because it's a KNOWN BUG, as per CCP Foxfour in the testserver feedback thread regarding this and WENT AHEAD WITH IT ANYWAY??

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=155703


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Now all of us haven't been telling CCP to jump off bridges and other such means of suicide... THEY ASKED FOR FEEDBACK on the AI ... get it?

You yourself say that you don't use any of the things that people are complaining about... go spend a lot of ISK, spend a year training these ships/drones up and see for yourself... until then I don't see your post as any more constructive than anyone else's. Altho guess what... I value it because eve is *supposed* to be a community where everyone's input is at least listened to... if not always valued.

Maybe you enjoy PAYING a game company for putting out code they themselves admit is bugged, they should not have made it live until it was fixed... that is not something for which a person is normally paid for, obviously most of us do not.

You think I'm CCP? That's funny. Truth is, I'm not, of course. But CCP has to eat everyone's sh*t and smile while they're doing it. I don't, and I think the community shouldn't behave like a bunch of spoiled children. I'm not saying don't give feedback - feedback is important. I'm saying don't sh*t on CCP while you're doing it. A lot of people (some people have also been awesome) treat EVE like it's a birthright - truth is, we're lucky to have this product, not entitled.

So do us all a favor - you don't like to pay for it? Don't. P*ss off.

wow ... just .. wow.

Another person who pays for something that's broken and think they are "lucky" to have the broken product. That's your choice. Nothing gets fixed that is broken by being a fanboi and not giving critical feedback when it is needed. Your attitude speaks for itself so I'll go bk to backing up the people who are rightly giving feedback about these things.

P*ss off I won't do ... because like you I paid for my 3 subs over the last 6 years and will give criticial feedback when it is needed, and tell CCP thank you when it is *fixed* .. not before.

Have a nice day.