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One thing I've noticed with the warp effect is that the glare from the sun stops overlapping the ship as soon as it initiates warp all up until it comes out of warp. Cosmetic, but something I've noticed.

Engine trails are very nice, but could be blurred/dimmed slightly, and maybe not shoved up against the engine nozzle, and instead, trailing back a bit as it was like before.

Everything else is well done as a whole. I could gripe that the planets still lack ice caps, or that world sounds don't distort when you warp away like they used to, but hey, can't have it all.

Cheers

LOVE the session change meter.
LOVE the warp-to-and-jump.
LOVE the many new effects (turret miss, warp tunnel, trails, gates shooting at stars, etc)
LOVE the Serpentis paint scheme (including the Guardian Vexor)
LOVE the Deimos being gold.
LOVE the new navigation route interface (makes having multiple criss-crossing waypoints easier by far)

So far this is shaping up to be one of the best expansions ever. That is... except for the hybrid balance.

Here are my solutions:

The problem stems from the fastest, most agile race ALSO having the best ability to maintain a variety of range and keep DPS on a target.

There are two ways to correct this, and they must be followed closely:
1) Make Gallente the fastest race, with Minmatar being the most agile.
This makes Gallente terrifying when they are sprinting at you, and the Minmatar must use their manueverability to their advantage, while the Gallente ships are sprinting like a bull at a matador.

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2) Make Gallente the falloff race, with a small buff to optimal. Projectiles will have to be retooled to having almost non-existent falloff.
This makes it so the Gallente will remain slower than the Minmatar AND less agile, but their falloff will still hit into the Minmatar ships regardless.
For example: Heavy Neutron Blaster II should hit 6km optimal with 8km falloff. 425mm Auto cannons should have 10km optimal with 1km falloff. This would force them into a very narrow gap to maintain damage on target, but since they are fast and agile, they are better equipped for this purpose.

With Gallente now having the closest range weapons by optimal, they will still be terrifying to get close to, as it should be, with Minmatar remaining the quick, agile race with a specific range they must maintain to be effective, and Amarr remaining the longest overall range.

In addition, these changes would also have to be brought into being, for the sake of tank balance:
Armor Rigs must only affect agility, not both agility AND speed.
Plates must follow these same rules.
Hybrid reload should be 5s, as it is a hybrid between laser and auto-cannons, it should have a mix between 10s and no reload.
Astronautic Rigs should affect shield HP, as no speed tank should have both speed and any form of HP as a "tank," and speed/agility modifiers already take up low slots, compromising armor tanking. It shouldn't be "speed and shield tank" it should be "speed or HP tank"

This has been a problem for years, and deserves way more attention than it is getting. I'm sorry for being a broken record. I'm sorry for being sour apple in a barrel full of really great apples/additions to EVE. The fact remains: hybrids still need work. Please don't put in a weak effort and consider it a job well done. :\

Looking over boosters: did all the penalties get removed, because I ain't seeing any. And Synth seem to give 5% now instead of the measily 1-3% some of them used to give.

I also see that orbital infrastructure (player customs offices) have been added, mineral cost of the oracle is currently 50% higher than a harbinger (which puts it at the same price about as a tier 1 BS?)

Also, I shot a CONCORD owned customs office, got popped, and got no insurance.

Also, fitting meta4 mega pulses on an orcale in station CQ view, my guns make a noise.. kindof strange.

So assuming lvl 4 nuerobiology, synth will give 6%, and seeing how some boosters are only 400k ISK, yeah, thats pretty nice.

eve never looked that awesome.... *applauding

small issue: now being able to filter cosmic sigs on their nature: currently it does only filter sigs when you scan them beyond 25% which renders the feature useless.

i am not sure if making pilots able to choose the golden cherries without searching the basket is a good idea at all tbh

No repro on my Mac Mini, could you please also post the graphics settings you are using?

Is it just me or anytime I select a stargate click, use the shortcut or right click "Jump to" my ship automatically jump ? i did not read any changes about it.

Praise that people do not click on "jump to" stargate when they should "warp to 0" at a stargate It remains a nice tweak.

No its not just you. I think this feature is called "The Lemming Detector" as it will definitely show an FC who is actually listening :P

Sweet features coming, however the hybrids still lack the final touch (ammunition, a unique usefull role and a TE/TC fall-off nerf).
Then we can start look at the ship tweaks between gallente blaster boats and minmatar ships as well as the caldari railgun ships...

Also the tier 3 battlecruisers are still way too fast - you need to find other ways of making them usefull plz that doesn't make them the new MWD-hac fleets... less speed, more mass, smaller signature plz
And less guns or they will cost a fortune to fit (likely more than current Tier 1 battleships)

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