EVE General Discussion

I think it's so/so. There's some good stuff and it's all a step in the right direction.

Faction Warfare could definitely use a buff, or some kind of its own special "Incursion" type events.

And personally, if I were CCP, I'd do away with SOV completely. If you want to 'own' a nullsec system, do so with numbers, and defending what you can hold onto, not with the ability to vomit up and defend a module. Buff the anoms etc, but remove the anchor bubbles, we have ships that do that instead of lazy people who prop a bunch on every gate every day.

Hybrids are a step in right direction.

It's a bit on the graphics heavy update-wise.

CCP had most likely planned to populate the NEX store this expansion and do a whole lot of other WiS garbage, but to stop the bleeding picked some of the most whined about things to keep the peace and goodwill flowing. I'm expecting the summer patch to be exploding with FiS goodness and fixes to the top 100 most complained about things leftover.

Walking in stations is stupid. CCP should just make EVE into 2 modules. Internet Spaceships, and Internet Space Barbies. If you want to fly in space, load that module, if you want to go play with other people at the Space Barbie glory hole, load that module. People have been playing EVE since 2003, and in almost 9 years of play, WiS has never, ever been a deal breaker.

Hurf Blurf

Ofcourse blasters suck against nano kiting setups, thats the way it should be you pubbie.

blasters suck against every setup you moron. rails should be able to counter, or at least compete with AC platforms, and compete with pulse platforms. right now you cant fit a decent tank with a full rack of rails, the tracking is abysmal and the damage is ****.

hurf blurf yourself troll.

Since it's still not out yet I'll reserve judgement.

That said, alot of the new t2 mods seem nice. Inventors will be both busy and happy.

Pos feul chance is a step in the right direction. Not everyone will be happy but then that never happens, so overall win.

New PCO's are an adventurous jump into the unkown which could be epic win or fall, only time will tell. I call win on it just for being unpredictable and rocking the boat.

New graphics for nebula's, scanning, new font will all be very welcome if subtle changed. +Win

Dram nerf is way overdue, only time will tell if th SC nerf does what it's supposed to.

Any improvement to hybrids is welcome. While this will probably not adress the issue 100% it's welcome anway.

Buff's to exploration, new sites, more affordable t2 rigs coming soon, and the anom buff will make alot of people happy and keep them busy. +Win

Amar and Mni will no doubt be anticipating their new Tier 3 BC's with much fervor. How much entheusiasm will great the Nag and Talos waits to be seen. Have to call fail on this. Inability to ballance them before release makes it seem like they were rushed a bit or they were the last 2 touched and not well finished ( even though they're both pretty sweet looking ).

Anyone who flies Galente will appreciate the speed and inertia buff. How big an effect this has will remain to be seen but it's a step in the right direction. + Win


CCP needs to wake up to to fact that the Nationalism aspect of FW burned itself out 2 years ago. Until it becomes Good vs Evil, White Hats vs Black it just doesn't have any relevance. Other than a change like that eveyting else is just a bandaid.

Null Sec. A previous dev blob asked for input into all aspects of null. Good start but unless CCP is truely prepared to rock the boat and take some serious risks it's not going to work. No local without sov, no mobile bubbles without sov, serious bonus's to manufacturing in null. There has to be real risk with genuine rewards. And, the players need to take some of the blame. CCP makes the sandbox but it's the player base that have taken a dump in it.

Being Galente you need a healthy amount of optimism to undock but either way I'm looking forward to all the new stuff so Win and tyvm.

Win, because it's a step towards refocusing on the core game. I expect we'll get a very nice expansion for summer 2012 since the development goal is to make something on the level of Apocrypha or better.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-21-eurogamer-interviews-ccps-hilmar-petursson-interview



Did you really think I would say something like that without being able to back it up?

Look at the pacing of the questions... it could very easily be interpreted that he was talking about WiS in that quote. That "right now we're doing FiS in this expansion, but as soon as I can get away with it, I want to do an apocrypha-sized WiS expansion." I hope I'm wrong, but I somehow doubt it. Hilmar apparently hates EVE. He seems to wish he was working on pretty much any other game.

Also, as to the OP:
The point of this expansion isn't to "fix" EVE. It's to stop EVE from hemorrhaging customers, and maybe win a couple back. It may or may not succeed at that. But OP is right. EVE will not really recover until a) nullsec is fixed and b) CCP convinces people that nullsec is fixed. Since Grayscale is in charge (he admitted in a devblog thread that he does not take feedback, nor does he even bother reading it) nullsec will probably never be truly fixed.

The hybrid changes tell me one thing ccp is not willing to do anything that might change the status quo. These changes are like slapping a band aid on a broken arm (useless).

It is an epic win, of course.

Mostly because what is released on the 29th is not going to be all of the Crucible expansion. If you believe so, you must have completely forgotten how Incursion was released. Understandable considering the release of Incarna.

I believe the Winter Expansion will be epic, the best yet. Just my 2 cents.