EVE General Discussion

Can someone please explain CCP's Current track of thought with the ongoing balance changes.

As i can see it all they have done is to push people into larger groups flying **** ships.

I used to be able to go out in a 10-15 man gang have fun and compete with larger blobs. Im not saying we could have won outright, we rarely held the field but we could at least get a fight out of it and a few kills before we ran away.

NOW

Links changes make it harder to compete.
The soon to be changes to cepters make it harder to evade blobs in anything other than a cepter.

Does CCP not like small gang PVP?
Does CCP want to push out it most die hard of fans by removing their play style?

Eve player who have been here a while normally have done the alliance thing being a 0.0 entity, They have done the high sec bearing. They settle into small groups to blow **** up.

I feel that CCP really needs to think about all of the change and should re introduce something that makes small gang viable again im not after 3 people and a link alt taking on the entire of eve on their own but tactics such as hit and run in medium sized ships should be viable.

Please stop pushing people into blobs it's bad for game play it's bad for fun and finally it's bad for eve.

People playing together in a Massive Multiplayer game? Blasphemy.

OP, you're kidding, right? Small gangs of interceptors are going to make the stars run red with blood.

CCP makes more small gang oriented changes --> Whine thread about CCP nerfing large gangs.

CCP makes more large gang oriented changes --> Whine thread about CCP nerfing small gangs.

CCP makes any groups size oriented changes --> Whine thread about CCP nerfing Solo PvP.

CCP makes any changes to anything whatsoever --> Whine thread about CCP nerfing something.

Far too many words, this is how the general discussion forum and basically life works:

Change -> Whine

You have hit the nail on the head perfectly in describing what they have done wrong in the recent balance change they have given each ship a role. what CCP thinks that ship should do. Eve has always been a sandbox were players take what you have given them and use it in interesting ways. "who cares what it was built to do! im bother about what it can do" - Gene Gene Kranz Nasa flight director.

CCP has completely changed the roles of ships without taking into account what that ship was used for by the players.

They havent thought about what affects it has on the smaller gangs or the soloist's i just think they haven't considered the bigger picture enough.

Look, if an NPC corp can get a blob together, you can too.

(the following link is NSFW btw, lol google search)

When The Scope becomes a blob, should it be called The Proctoscope ?

The roaming gangs would be a hell of a lot faster and able to cross large swaths of 0.0 faster. Their ability to find and catch things would be much higher, targets would have less time to respond to hostiles in local or intel channels. Once the roamers have poked the nest and decide to back off, they can do so quicker. If the defense fleet does send a few interceptors, they wouldn't be much more than free kills for the road, unless of course the entire defense fleet is in ceptors.