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Well that's embarrassing.

"Why bother showing this blog to the CSM for checking?"
"There's no new information so what can go wrong?"



Yeah it should be 200mm.

No she's right it was incorrectly saying 400mm until she mentioned it and CCP Guard was nice enough to ninja fix it.

The plus side of all this is I get to watch Quackbot spasm uncontrollably.

Brilliantly written Dev Blog and absolutely brilliant focus on this project. Thank You guys.

indeed still wondering when i am going to get a second bonus for the brutix though.

Born in Montreal (anglo parents), went to U Waterloo, most of my family lives in southern Ontario with everyone else in Canada

If there's ever a Toronto meet while I'm visiting home I'll definitely try to make it. I was gutted that the last December one was just before I went back for Christmas.

nice well next time you are in the city and if you make it i will buy you a pitcher of beer.

My phone lit up with anguished texts from BOBS pilots, you evil b*stard.

Fozzie, I appreciate the new skill and the reduction on mass of 800 and 200 plates. Yes these things will help somewhat with the armor disadvantages in the game currently. However, the AAR is not going to redeem the Gallente BCs.

Both Gallente BCs you are continuing to be wedged into a style of play, solo, that CCP does not favor, and which is very infrequent in the game. And at the same time both these ships are being disfavored out of a style of play, fleet with logi support, that CCP has always wanted to move players into. The AAR may see some use by those pilots that still seek out 1v1 or at most 3 or 4 ship engagements. It may have some utility in these. Although it will necessitate more slots devoted to it to work, that is an AAR, a normal repper, and a cap booster to power both reppers. Ulike the ASB which is good to go on its own (one slot) and is cap warfare safe, and can even be doubled up for an active tanking that can deal with a larger attacking force.

Also the Harbinger still seems lackluster. It has nothing redeeming really. It is a brick without a tanking bonus. Once plated it will be even more of a brick without a tanking bonus. At least there is aome alight cap relief. But really where will this ship see any use. Does it have fittings to plate up and range to use beams on Drakes? Does it have enough tank to really brawl and avoid getting capped out as well?

Thank you for posting the usage numbers, well ratios. This clearly signifies how badly unbalanced the situation has been for 3 or so years. It also shows only a minor dip with the HM changes. Have you nerfed the drake tank and range enough? We'll see I suppose. But I sorta doubt that Drake fleets will disappear. And we won't be seeing Brutix fleets now will we. Noone is going to put together a bunch of active rep blaster boats into a fleet.

Lastly, I'm still wondering if you guys continue to be concerned about the pve shield regen phenom with the Drake. Having a cheap tech I BC able to be configured to tank the highest end pve content should continue to be a concern. In that regard an accross the board increase in the BC shield time appears to be called for. The slight decrease in the base Drake shield hp I doubt will be enough to dent pve Drake advantages enough to even out the playing field more there. So how about a 1500 or thereabout regen time. Or whatever value just so long as it does not stay at 1400. As things are now I had a noobie alt getting a better level 3 boat out of a paasive shield Cane than an armor tank. And that is on a ship with only 4 mids and 6 lows. So is there any nerf coming to BC shield regen?

Edit - Wow. Good to know. I would like to see you at a Toronto meet. My grandmother was born in Ontario, I currently live in Buffalo, and my girlfriend lives in Toronto, so I would probably be able to make a Toronto gathering.

Fozzie mentioned tech 2 and 3 ships in the pipeline as well as capitals.

What are the plans for faction boats? I know you've said that some are already fairly balanced, but what about ships like:

-scythe fleet issue
-osprey navy issue
-augoror navy issue
-exquror navy issue
-worm
-succubus
-gila
-caracal navy issue
-vexor navy issue
-stabber fleet issue (great ship but it's supposed to have similar/better speed to a normal stabber, which is currently not the case)
-hookbill
-comet
-slicer
-firetail

that have been left a bit behind in the balancing updates (navy cruisers are pretty lacking in velocity in comparison to the T1 counterparts)

Based on the discussions I've seen, I think the next balance pass after Retribution 1.1 will be Summer 1.0 and should contain Battleships, Industrials, Black Ops, Command Ships, and EAF.

A response of "that sounds reasonable" would be great.