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First and last post to these forums. Yes, this is an alt. Congratulations, CCP, on several more nails in the coffin of PvE. You realize if you continue far enough in this direction, you will have to start seeding minerals and salvage on the market, don't you?

There is a subtle but crucial difference between making PvE content interesting and simply punishing those who enjoy it.

That is all.

Just attempted another level V in carrier.

Used Sentries, Small /mediums and fighters. all deployed without aggroing anything first.


Lost 1 sentry, 5 docked in low armor structure. (Recalled/deployed drones 5 times, they start taking damage before i can lock with carrer not agressing anything. Capital reps change nothing on threat.)

Lost 1 Hammerhead killing 2 scramble frigs.(capital reps active on drones) Someone said larger drones dont take as much aggro from frigates. Ok buddy.

Docked 2 fighters in low armor after attacking structure 43km out. Capital reps didnt change much but im not going to leave a fighter outside the carrier for long with half room primarying it just to see how that works.

All of this micromanagement is also while watching local and Dscanning every few seconds. Postponed completion of mission because its bul1shit.


Yes i've tried ewar pre patch with this same result except losing 2 fighters.


Is this supposed to be more fun? I had no issue with being bored before expansion in level 5's Now its like trying to circumsize a shrimp.

Well I've had some interesting things in level 5s since the patch.

The first 5 level 5s I ran after the patch I got 0 agro. Now i don't mean my drones got 0 agro I mean I got 0 agro, literally nothing other than sentry towers agro'd for the entire mission.

Since then i've been getting agro as expected so dunno what that was all about.

My drones however, well fighters and sentries are still getting agro from frigates, cruisers and battlecruisers which according to the patch notes shouldn't be happening. So apart from the first few broken missions it appears to me nothing has changed at all, or at least level 5 mission rats are completely ignoring the new rules.

Hello,
I am qute disappointed by that patch-Series.

First of all. The tracking disrupters make it impossible to fly a projectile, lazor or hybrid ship solo in a 0.0 site.
After patch on 4th (i think) you have beed perma tracking disrupted. After last patch the disruption was no longer permanent by the same ship, They now let it run out, yeah, but If there are 2 or 3 of these little buggers, they just cycle that disruption which results in perma-disruption again. That sucks!

I am also not able to fly in my gallente ships anymore. So funny the aggro of my drones has been increased during the patches. Now if I put my sentries out, the npc switch aggro immediatly and I have to pull the drones in again.
It does not help that frigs target small drones and above, cruiser medium drones and above and bs the above drones, since my sentries are above and therefor get aggro of all ships and that very often.

Well, I could try to fly my drake in a site, but my missle range is 1/3 less then it was before and the damage got weeken aswell. And since my damage output therefore is quite low, I am not able to fly there sucessful, because I ahve to fly out quite often due to not enough tank.

CCP, if you want to make me happy, you should ignore sending gifts (which were great, I have to admit) but put the changes into the trash barrel and give me my ability to fly a site back.

Oh and to the new great t1 logistics. Why the hell did I train T2 Logistics? They are worthless now. Thanks!

Oh and while I am at it..

can you please include numerous checkmarks in the options to remove these new sounds?
I hear tik tik.. you cap runs low
tik tik your agression timer vs 0.0 rats runs out and all fine after that again. The problem with these sounds? It takes you quite some time to realise why it is is doing that tik tik. You have no direct visial why it is doing these sounds. And who cares if the counter runs out. You will just seeing the symbol disappear. Thats really enough!

WTH, The symbols are great. But the sounds are just awefull. The beep beep shield is about to fail and beep beep armor is about to fail and beep beep beeeeeeep you are in a pod now were just enough.

Yup, CCP killed the solo PvP.
And one another thing, Safety system ? A big picture for noobs,, don't log off because u should be die ???
If a pilot do a mistake, should take the consequences. This is helping PvP somebody ??? Pardon, but this is a bullsh*t.
What is will be next ? The ship will be jump safe to safe automaticaly, because the noobs cant do that without help of client?
This help for those pilots who did a mistake and trying to logg off with aggrotimer, it's a fail. This changes just more close the door before PvP pilots.

So far, I am happy about this expansion. The few things that were serious issues have been fixed already, or I am sure they will be fixed. It would be nice if you hurried a bit about the sound that is played whenever I aggress an NPC and whenever one pops, as that is highly annoying during missions with many frigate NPCs.

One thing though really sours this expansion for me. I didn't train the Armor Resistance Phasing skill when it came out, so as not to get into cap issues, as it used to only shorten the cycle time of the module. Then there was a dev blog about changes to skills and modules, and sensible changes were done to the Afterburner skill, which now shortens cycle time by 5% and lowers cap usage by 10%, so you can finally train it to V without having just too long cycle times. When I read in that dev blog that Armor Resistance Phasing had also been fixed regarding the cap issues, I put this skill into my skill queue.

Then, after EFT had also been updated, I realized that my mission fits were no longer cap stable. When I looked for the reason, I found that each level of Armor Resistance Phasing, while shortening the cycle time by 10%, only lowers cap usage by 5%. This leads to higher cap usage for every level of the skill trained. I am now very unhappy that I have trained this skill at all and ruined my armor tanked mission fits by this.

Are you going to fix this, by lowering cap usage by 10% as well, so the module will use the same cap regardless of the level trained? Or is there a way how I can at least get the skill points removed from that skill, so it goes back to level 0 and therefore to the lowest cap usage possible for the module? Because as it is right now, you really are worse off for every level you have trained.

Just had a mission cruiser pop 2 light webifier (Warrior SW-300) drones and attempt to shoot down a Hobgoblin II. Awesome... guess the agro scaling isn't really working either.

a partial solution to killing small NPCs

some ships have turret slots, which are often unused. Fit small autocannons there, they use no cap but help tear apart stupid tackling interceptors.

I used to have 2x 200mm autocannons on my Raven with some success.

ccp focuses on the eve universe - a ccp announcement
reported by CCP Manifest | 2011.10.19 13:24:38
At CCP we have been working hard to expand the gaming landscape by applying the knowledge and expertise we've built up with EVE Online to create a new experience within the EVE Universe in DUST 514, as well as a new video game franchise in World of Darkness.

During the last few months, as evidenced by our interaction with the community, we made some missteps on that journey.

As we reexamine our outward relations, we are also taking time to reevaluate our internal goals. In doing so, we have come to the conclusion that we are attempting too many things for a company our size. Developing EVE expansions, DUST 514 and World of Darkness has stretched our resources too thin.

Rather than allowing this to persist, we have made the decision to sharpen our focus. Sadly, this means reducing our staff. We estimate that around twenty percent of global positions will be affected by this process. These will be predominantly in our Atlanta, GA office, although select positions in our Reykjavik, Iceland office will be affected.

We are very sad to lose some of our talented and dedicated colleagues to this necessary process. Naturally we are making every effort within our means to help them find alternative employment. Decisions like these are difficult for all those involved and extraordinarily sad for all of those whose lives are affected.

Following this reorganization, we must do a better job by focusing on these priorities:



For the immediate future, our mission is to enrich the vast EVE Universe by strengthening the continuous development of EVE Online while preparing to bring DUST 514 to market on the PS3. We do this in order to realize our ambitious and challenging plan of joining the two in a cross-platform, truly massive online world.
World of Darkness will continue development with a significantly reduced team. This team will continue to iterate and expand on the gameplay and systems they have designed. We will also redeploy creative teams in Atlanta to support the launch of DUST 514.


This will enable us to accelerate timeframes for new features and increase our ability to respond to community needs. The fruits of this realignment will be seen as early as this winter with the upcoming EVE Online expansions and the launch of DUST 514 private trials.

We understand how an announcement such as this can be perceived by our community and industry peers. We feel it is important to clearly address two questions that might arise.

First, EVE Online is in good health. Our subscriber numbers are higher today than they were a year ago. Unlike many other MMO's on the market, we have continued to grow year-on-year since launch in 2003. However, over the past two months, our subscribers have gone down from their peak this summer. We attribute this to our own mistakes and poor communications with our players. We are correcting that now.

Second, World of Darkness lives on. Its concepts are revolutionary. CCP continues to believe that it will alter the landscape of the MMO as significantly as EVE has done but we need more time to continue to develop them before dedicating the substantial resources required to bring this experience to market.

As an innovator in the industry, CCP has never shied away from tough decisions, remaining agile to allow for shifts in production, technology and gaming trends since even before the launch of EVE Online. While our decision to refocus is a solemn one, it will benefit our players through a renewed commitment to the EVE Universe and its fans.

-Please keep discussion about this announcement in the following EVE forum thread. Thank you for your understanding that this day, and the days in the near future, will be very hard on the individuals at CCP. Sincerely, CCP Manifest

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