EVE General Discussion

My HAM Tengu has over 30km range. You should maybe think about a different fit. It also helps with the DPS projection on rats.

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As for the OP:

Yea, there have been lots of "swarm o locusts" frig fleets about. I saved a corp mates pirate ship with my Domi a few days ago (his client froze as we were landing in an anomaly right before they came in). The swarm IS scary lol, so much so that i've removed my own pirate ship from null sec and just use Tech1 battleships for PVE stuff.

But with all the mods and equipment CCP has given us (and not just recently, ECM bursts and ECM drones are not new), there is pretty much no real reason to fear a bunch of little ships that can at best do 100 or 200 dps and are squishy as hell.

Finally, an open discussion. The problem isn’t the blops, they have always been around. It isn’t the roving gangs as they too have been around as long as I have been in game. But CCP claims they were rebalancing the interceptors, but the Blockade runners, a ship specifically designed to (by its own description) get through gate camps only gets a plus 1 to warp strength while the new interceptors are totally immune. It would seem to me that the ship actually built to get through warp bubbles should be nullified and sure the interceptors should get a bonus to warp strength, but not nullification.

I submit that this is an intentional part of the ccp plan to kill industry in eve because of one simple fact. When was the last time you saw a fleet of blockade runners flying around tiring to kill anyone?

I would love to actually hear a dev actually address these points, but alas they never seem to want to actually discuss how their changes have hurt the game.

The last year and a half has brought many changes to the industrial side of eve. I personally would be hard presses to fins any though that hasn’t placed targets on the industrial toons and slid the bar entirely to the PVP’ers favor. Please explain how this Sand box affect is doing ANY good for the industrial players?
So far in just the last 2 patches CCP has taken what used to be hidden grav sites and made them so any pilot can just jump into system and get them displayed and warp right to them. When that didn’t kill industry, now you have made it so there is now a ship that NO MATTER WHAT precautions are taken can jump into a system. Negate the planning of warp bubbles and careful alignment, and these ship can still get past and not only engage but kill miners and ratters with impunity.
Again, I would really like CCP to explain ANYTHING they have done in the last 3 major expansions that has done anything but hurt the miners and industry players in EVE.

Bring a friend in a Ship with 90% web bonus for solution?

Interceptor balance means people are able to undock and do something when everyone around them
IS STUCK In a bubble or gate camp.

Perhaps you missed this expansions undertones of rapid movement being returned to the game?

Interceptors still suck at locking passed 28km (certainly can't compete with a maulus is there). They have pitiful dps compared to a Merlin and they tank like a heron.

Now the recon buff would be lovely if :

- rook and falcon gets ECM range reverted (better than blackbird)
- curse and pilgrim get equal bonus to Nuet range and tank
- Lachesis and arazu have bigger drone bays
- huggin and rapier 90% web back

to highlight my entire rambling post, more changes are coming and until all ships have been balanced it's too soon to whine !

I have been tiring to understand the changes CCP has been making for the last 3 Patchovers. They never seem to care about anything Indy and I dough they ever will. If anything, their silence on the matter has spoken volumes about their intentions and direction.

I tried endlessly to get someone to help me understand why you would take hidden mining belts that could be scanned out if they wanted to, and make them a regular anomaly. CCP’s response was deafeningly quiet. And in fact they seemed resounding to just let the PVPers rail about the “care bears” and acted like Indy players deserved no explanation at all.
If CCP has no interest in discussing anything that doesn’t kill other ships, then what is the point of asking them questions about such? But I bet if I tried to introduce a way to break a booster toon out of a tower shields they would be all over that.

Simply put CCP has shown nothing but contempt for the game for the last 3 patches. Their only concern is how to unbalance the game in the PVPers favor. Again, if I am missing something I invite any of the DEV’s to please correct me. But I don’t see the revamping of industrial ships to make them less useful is of any value to the Indy players as a whole, and the other changes have all been to slide the scale to the shooters advantage.

ok then give me one example of any time in actual RW combat that even a gang of interceptor craft has had the ability to attack with total impunity? I cant tell you right now that it has never happened. and even with intel and scouts in place. when a ship allows for a toon to log in undock warp to a gate jump through and tackle a ship before that ship can make it to warp makes intel and scouts completely usless.

I, too, am outraged that a ship has been made good enough that people actually want to fly it.

Since you asked: Between Castor and Exodus in 2004 we had a time when Interceptors were not affected by bubbles, because those didn't exist. http://www.eveonline.com/expansions/

They still can't attack with impunity. They can be pointed just like any other ship, they can be smartbombed, they can be shot. If you can't fight them, that's your fault for not being prepared. If you can't get into warp before they point you, it's your fault for not being aligned, not paying attention or having a bad scout.

What I like to do for ***** and giggles with my positive game inputs is approach both CCP and a local homeless drunk. One entity usually yells back something incoherent and tells me to f^ck off, the other just keeps pushing his shopping trolley.