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Broke the game for me. I log in and find blank character portraits. Clicking on them does nothing.

Active armor hardeners and shield hardeners no longer give a passive resistance bonus when not active.
Armor and shield compensation skills no longer give any bonus to active armor or shield hardeners.

^ this is really silly, if you think a little bit harder about current mods that are available to armor and shield ships you will realise that this put all shield ships at huge disadvantage when compared to armor ships. now when you neut shield ships they will have way less resistances than armour ships in a similar scenario. this coupled with honeycombing skill makes armor ships the only ships of choice for pvp. are you sure you want to rule out a huge portion of player base out of pvp? especially the new players? silly and not well thought out change in my opinion. strong words for a big mistake.

Okay, a couple more things to complain about.......and hopefully some suggestions for improvement can be gleaned!

THings that bug me - (always the little things)

1. the messages which pop up on screen; warnings and salvage messages, etc; they impede the locked target icons so I can't see which target is which until that message has disappeared !! How impossible is it to have those messages appear a little lower? I mean the one liners are okay, they appear immediately under the target icons, but as soon as message has two or more lines, they bump up - what moron couldn't figure out that might be a problem? - lack of quality control, thoughtfulness, I suppose. I know, someone is going to say, "but, you can move those icons!" so, what if I like them there? out of the way.....

2. the new Micro Warpdrive/ Jump, whatever, is fun! However, again, programmers who obviously don't know a thing about the game and are just writing code at their desk need some adult supervision !! Adult not referring to age but to a person who's knows the game from a Player's perspective..... I mean, any mod which has a timer function ABSOLUTELY NEEDS a mechanism to to inform pilot's of their recharge/reuse countdown!! Almost everything else has a timer showing its on cycle, we even have a means of seeing how much cap, shield, armour, structure we have remaining - how about timer for mods showing how long until I can use the bloody thing again!? So I don't have to keep jamming the jump drive until I don't get a message telling me how many minutes/seconds I still have to wait......useful, maybe? you think?

3. Orbit.......what a stupid setup that button is......someone seriously needs to learn some basic orbital mechanics math - I think it's taught in grade 5 now. Perhaps some NASA launch vids could be shown at lunch to see how it's supposed to work. You don't see rockets or the old shuttles shooting straight up until they hit the desired orbital height then trying to make a ninety degree turn - space is rather large and empty if you haven't noticed; no obvious strict demarcations of sidewalks and lamp standards, not to mention buildings and walled parking lots; there are no streetlights to tell you you are allowed a left hand turn at this intersection!
I mean if you're going to set up some buttons for automatic management of certain functions, isn't it worth the effort to include some rather obvious and simple intelligence to the function? The Orbit function as it is now is simply a 'keep at distance from' button which, if, in those extremely rare situations, find itself at the prescribed distance, will make an offhand effort to try actually orbiting - but don't hold your breath cause if that desired distance mentioned should stray, it's turn time again, run away in a straight line! If this were to be put on a graph, it would look like a seismic graph! When one hits the orbit button, the first priority should be to ORBIT, and while doing so make an effort to get out to distance desired. The ship should be striving to actually orbit as it goes towards distance as a function of its velocity vs distance remaining.

4. Auto-Targeting Missiles, great when needed, however, and this is a small glitch, when target is destroyed, the subsequent volleys already enrolee don't switch to a new target like they're supposed to. Instead they continue on and to wreck, and then, as if noticing they've made an error, slow down in confusion then subtly disappear, hoping, I'm sure, that nobody notices them. I've noticed it takes about two volleys until target switch is reluctantly acknowledged.

5. Back to orbiting....... why is it that the definition of orbiting in this game in mono directional? It's absolutely absurd that if I'm heading in one particular direction and I decide to orbit, my ship is forced to slow down, stop, check out the availability in the tea shop, buy a bunny, then once all that nonsense is done, head off in an altogether undesirable direction with the suddenly remembered afterthought of orbiting once again grabbing its attention. One could never begin to realize that the vast and largely empty void that we call space should have such strict rules of propriety in travel. Physics must be more complicated than us mere immortals can imagine. I still have yet to see all those directional arrows which must litter space pointing me in the correct direction I must adhere to. I have hope.

6. Orbiting Part 3! Since I'm on the topic - WTF !!!! Why, oh why are such stupid restrictions in place for orbiting distance? So fffffing what if I'm way out beyond Jump To distance, if I want to ORBIT something at 165km, or more, I should have to choice to.
Since, in PVE, Rats can magically make their mods and weapons reach WAY beyond what us mere skilled up immortals can; and so be it; we shouldn't have such silly restrictions placed on our ability to move where and how we want to. Don't get me started on the violability of physical objects ....

I'm sure there's more I could rant on about but my fingers ache, the bunny is hungry, there's a small pain orbiting my head and I feel like a spot of tea.

Happy travels! And please don't ask what all this has to do with the new patch, I really don't know.

Not sure at what point this was implemented, but I have recently noticed that a group I set as friendly and that my alliance set as unfriendly was showing friendly on my overview. This isn't how it used to work and I'm pretty sure not how most people want it to work. I kept hearing in fleet that there were several hostiles around, but I just saw blues in local. If I had been flying on my own, I could easily have fallen prey to these "blues" who were very much out to kill me, due to my not being aware of this. Please fix it!! I don't want to have to go through my contacts list and update every single item with the standings my alliance has just so I can protect myself in nullsec!!

So, Since the changes to the cyclone I haven't really played with it (since you made one of my favourite ships a damn missile boat which I can't use, minmi are projectiles, not missiles you twats), so I eft'd it today and it seems like it's no better than the old one.

My old fitting with faction ammo got 546dps no implants and it had a med neut, med nos and a small faction smarty. The new one has 554dps, has the same tank, little faster (nano in the last low) and loses a utility high.

If someone could explain to me why this is better than than the old one (because I'd prefer the extra untility high and guns over missiles and a spare low) that'd be great.

Damn good idea. Also perhaps a "I will not duel" flag.

CCP great patch... love it... was a very smooth transition...

Change is good, adapting is hard... thank you for making the game hard for people...

Now get back to work... if this is ship rebalancing, I cannot wait to see Sov fixing... should be awesome :)

dont know if anyone already posted it.

i run up to 16 clients at once and randomly after a few minutes a client freezes.
it looks like a screenshot, you cant open it again if it is minimized, but the client is online, the client accept warpouts. and klicks.
it looks like the graphical output is disturbed somehow.
the client itself blew his ram usage up to 2-4 gb and he cpu usage is at 100% for that client.

hope that helps.
german client
happens on windowed not windowed clients.
windows 7 OS
gtx 680 SLI system
core i7 cpu

even with isboxer.

please fix.

Why I am not suprised by Gallente pilot happy about nerfing Caldari... speak about your area of expertise please, if you have no idea what you are speaking about ?

I really wanted to fly some nice missile boat, but except dirt cheap paper tank caracal there is nothing. Of course I can fly overpowered Winmatar Cyclone... and seems this is the only option for Caldari pilots who speced in missiles.

The major problem are weapon systems :

Arties and autocannons are overpowered.
Hybrids - blasters are ok, railguns are terrible.
Energy - needs a bit buff.
Missiles - needs alot of buff.

Your problem is that you think nerfing a weapon makes it bad. When CCP nerfs something, the intention is to bring it from being too good to just right. You're digging your own grave here starting a new toon just because your old one had skills that got nerfed. You should have just started training projectile skills on the same toon, then now you'd be able to fly both the hurricane and the cyclone well, in addition to the drake and maybe the ferox if you also trained hybrid skills.