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1. Overall great job on the expansion CCP. Love the Algos, freaking cool looking ship. In fact I would really like to see some more of the design features added to other Gallente ships (like those sweet drone bays.)

2. Tristan not bad but think it needs a bit of a look at some increased grid/CPU. Its just too tight and most fits I've found useful require too much sacrifice in fitting mods. It just needs a tweak.

3. While defensive plexing in Faction War everything is great until I deploy drones as I see a potential PvP target about to enter. To my surprise my own faction rat (which of course is not shooting at me) suddenly shoots my drones? A bug I assume? (my standing with my own faction is good.)

4. Jukebox gone? fine by me, never used it. Good riddance, plenty other out of game music players that are better.

5. I like where you are going with the Thorax and appreciate the increased mobility but this concept of brawling ships that are squishy when it operates in everyone's optimal is just a bit off. It needs a bit more tank. Please don't kill the Mega's tank when the time comes and you try to make it more mobile. Makes no sense for brawlers.

6. Vexor is awesome.

Great job CCP. Really enjoying the game.

Hopefully this isn't an additional report:

When you turn on the tracking camera option, and are using 2 screen with the camera offset option, it shifts your ship back to the middle of the two screens (or so), ignoring the offset.

CCP my feed back

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Great patch. But, why on earth u removed the jukebox? U know that music was a huge part of this game. All time im logged i turned on the sound bar just to hear that beutifull sound. Now this game is stone-deaf.

59 pages of feedback already, why not add mine.

new ships, balancing frigs, new roles for obsolete ships: I'll have to adapt a bit but overall it looks good.

bounty system: something's wrong when so many of players have large bounties on them. The exception has become general rule. I hope some Einstein dude finds a way to abuse it, then it might be fixed. *shrugs*

drone AI: belt ratting is doable, very seldom I encountered NPC's switching target to my drones. Missioning and sites on the other hand... I assume the same problem arises for the lower level missions.

Jukebox: sad to see it disappear.

Okay, valid point. Too many EWAR NPCs for the new AI system. For now, spend a day or two putting levels in the proper racial sensor compensation skill for your mission boat, and we'll see what CCP does when they do it.

I like the new music system. I miss being able to listen to below the asteroids out in null where I live, but the new music is very "spacey". I haven't put many hours in but so far the null music always sounds the same. A little more variation would be nice.

Some weirdness I noticed with the music in highsec though, where the number of tracks makes it more noticeable. Every time you jump through a gate it picks a new song to play. This is very jarring when you're quickly traveling through several systems. The music generator should remember the security status of the system you just left and compare it to the new one, if both are in the same "music class" then it should let the current track finish playing, unless some other event triggers a change.

New Destroyers: Wow they look amazing ;) - didn't get around to flying one yet though.

Frig and cruiser overhaul: Now we are speaking, looks sweet overall. Most ships got buffed up, or changed to fit their roles better. There may be little things that could be improved further. I think an overhaul of t2 and faction ships is in order now too. Take the new "scanning" frigs (like Probe), they are now really amazing. But compared to them, their "big brother", the t2 varaint (aka Cheetah) just lacks in comparison now. Why would i want to fly a ship that is worse in most cases than its t1 version? So i hope they get pulled along soon as well, so you get a real sense of "progressing up the ladder" when you are finally able to fly this new shiny ship that needs so many skills.

Drone aggro: No that one seems totally off. I have been using drones very carefully before already, calling them back, deploying only when i have aggro and so on.Hearing about the changes beforehand i have been even more careful than before, but my little ones got shot down so quickly after deploying, that i was unable to pull them back at all. Not happy about this, cause as Gallente i am using them as my primary weapons. This needs adjusting badly - there must be ways to buff up the AI to prevent AFK ratting/missioning, without screwing a races main weapons.
Compare it to making turrets and launchers destroyable, and the AI going for them at first. I would assume most pilots would be very very unhappy about this, and you'd lose their favour very fast.
So this needs some overworking really badly.

Heavy Missiles: As Gallente i rarely use rockets, let alone this specific heavy variant. So i am unable to report much about this. Also i heard rumors that tracking enhancers/computers are planned to work with them sometimes in the future? So may mean they get changed/balanced through this - without real opinion on this matter.

Hurricane: My alt is flying that one... or should i say was flying that one? I think my fit was quite "normal", yet i am unable to use it now, as my skills are too few to use it with the fitting it had. I noticed i can make it working again by learning some new skills. Inconvenient. I thought the problem were the energy neutralizers in PvP? But now my PvE Hurri is just as "limited". Well i will know more when i can fly it again in about ~10 days. Lots of time lost that i could have used to fly missions or check out how the hurri would do in them....

Sounds: I had a different expectation when i read the dev blogs about it sounding like "naval battles" - more "bang". Instead i get additional bleeps and alarms that start to get annoying after some time - and they are not even configurable. Same goes with the music. The many tracks you had got replaced by a few repeating over and over? Good plan to "modernize" the sounds, maybe it will get different over time if there is more content planned to the music queue? Otherwise i would say "the plans sounded way better than the actual outcome"

Bounty: That one confuses me some. As someone being friendly and helpful overall, staying in highsec pretty much all the time, i for never expected me to have bounty. But right on the first day i had quite some of it....
Doesn't look this well if you want to recruit some newbies to help them getting into the game, and first thing they see is a big red wanted all over you.. and your corp? Guess they will go look somewhere else. Not good for small corps who try to buff up their numbers some. But i also have no idea or suggestion on how to do this different for now


Overall: I like where you go, with the ships, the basics. Keep adding to it, fix the bugs, the problems that now surface, and you may go into a very good direction. Fix the Drone aggro, give those missleboats something back when you go over their hulls, maybe put your ideas about putting tracking enhancing/computers in effect for rockets, and they may be pretty amazing once again.
I am quite happy with the expansion overall, but it has some pressing issues, that needs to be addressed asap. Making a branch of ships that was quite popular for missioning useless is the wrong way, especially after adding even more ships in that are supposed to use drones. Make the Droneboats useful again, and you may be good to go - for now. I myself have a few t2 ships in my hangar already, that are based on drones as well. If they stay this useless, this is a way to make your customers very unhappy. Keep going forward, adding to it, more soundtracks, to have more variation again ;)

Please fix both of these issues My mega is not MEGA anymore and jukebox is miss very much. If JB is put back lets upgrade it so you can repeat eve or personal songs.

Greetings,

I heard a lot of complaints about the old bounty system was broken. But at least you had to have been a bad boy for ppl to be able to put a bounty on your head. (Security status -1 or lower, wasn't it?) Congratulations on breaking it even more. Now anyone can put a bounty on anyone? WHAT!? You really need to fix this! At least put some kind of limitation on this guys!

I don't really get the impression that you know that not every player has a desperate need for PvPing. I've been in Eve since 2005. In the last few updates I feel that everybody is forced more and more into PvPing. If you continue that direction you are forcing me to consider unsubbing my 5 accounts. Hope I'm not the only one feeling this way.

Oh, and missiles are no longer working :-P