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To be true to this image, will CCP also rebalance AT ships? The ones given out in recent years are appropriately powerful, but the older ones have become less and less formidable as EVE evolved. The Mimir, for example, is a known example of a relatively useless AT prize.

Heh. You would think the "Will CCP rebalance that ship" -> "Yes!" would be a clear enough message so that people would not ask.

Very likely before :)

Because, even though the regular cap boosters are quite ineffective due to the sizes involved, the option to pay 1/70th of the cost is there. Where's the civilian nanite repair paste, same repairing power, 33% bigger size, costs 500 ISK to manufacture? Hmm?

Datachips seem to have jumped from 90k to 400k since the announcement.

Fozzie, I'm assuming CCP UsedToBeKil2 will be joining you guys when he arrives, so who else is on the balancing team now?

Well, well, well... The real problem now is not that “the active hardeners no longer have the passive resist element, and that change are going live to TQ without any official CCP note about it (aka stealth nerf)” but about the usefulness or not of the compensation skills.

For some play base this change do not meaning nothing, but for other player base this change all they play style. So, the real question is if the compensation skills should be reimbursed or not, because it´s a set of lvl 5 skills that become obsolete.

I think that the fair is that should be a one time question at login asking if you want to be reimbursed or not, and this solve all problem. The one who are affected by the usefulness of the skill are reimbursed, and the one who want to keep it are ok either.

And, of course, better communication between CCP and the player base are always welcome (no more stealth nerfs). Remember, I did not said no more changes, but no more unannounced changes, please.

Castelo

With the changes being made to the number of launchers the drake can fit is there any plans to revisit the actual ship model? (taking off one harder from each side)

Excellent question about the graph, and it is something I should have noted in the blog.
The bottom of the graph is 0, and the scale is linear. I am however going to take a pass on providing exact numbers at this time.

I've been intentionally careful when it comes to distributing statistics that have significant potential economic value. When possible I'm trying to keep any such information to the official forums and dev blogs, and when in doubt I'm leaning on the side of caution. I know that can be frustrating for people who are used to the huge amounts of information that used to be distributed via twitter, and there's nothing wrong with patch speculation aided by cleverly following public CCP communication (that used to be one of my best income sources) but I don't have the time or education that a dedicated researcher like Diagoras could bring to bear on this kind of communication so I'll be fairly conservative in the foreseeable future.

It's very possible that we may provide some updated graphs as the results of our ship balance changes settle over time, but I can't make promises to that effect right now.

The key similarity is the use of fuel and the long reload mechanic. I think the use of Ancillary fits well and helps illustrate the gameplay similarities even though they differ in details.

Finally some official acknowledgement that Armor tanking for small gang pvp was made near obsolete with the half-arsed introduction of the ASB.

However, when active armor tanks get a single module that boosts up to 36% with ZERO penalties, all while still not being able to have even remotely the same burst tank as shield's do...then i'd say its finally balanced. But when you keep seeing all these "armor" ships being flown more effectively with shield tanks, you know something is wrong.

Looks like my Dual Rep, Dual Rigged Armor ships will be stuck with LESS PG than before...awesome buff to armor tanking!

Whats the thinking behind limiting the armor tank burst ability?

Then there is the whole fact medium rails are THE least effective weapon system in the game (minus FOF)...and your solution is to just make the ships that use them geared toward blasters? Are you ever going to fix them or just sudo fix them and then leave the ships that you retooled for blasters as they lay, thus leaving medium rails still hanging out in the wind even if you ever actually fix them.

"We know this weapon is broken, but to fix that, we'll just redesign the ships that were spossed to use them to ignore the problem." Sadly, typical CCP logic.