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This is yet another clear example of PL favouritism from CCP. You know full well we can't dip our toes into lowsec without losing a super fleet, and you slap a load more R64's there anyway.

We won't know who is playing favorites until SC rebalancing

Good joke. If the following quote is true, you should try and heed your own mantra of adapt, improve and HTFU for a change:



If you cannot, with your sheer numbers, fend off PL, you clearly have more problems than than falling R64 prices.

What on earth are you talking about? An increase in goo supply is going to add a hell of a lot to consider with regards to ME changes. The less expensive T2 is, the less relevant each % of ME is with regards to a manufacturers' bottom line.

You don't 'compartmentalized' them differently (quite the term for someone who speaks the Queen's english ) as it serves to flatten the impact of ME advantage choices. Do I buy a team? Do I use a high ME or high run decryptor?

The same is true for TE. The increase in build times in great for introducing more value in TE advantage and the associated choices which were previously undervalued next to ME.

Because 1% of 100m is only 0.1% of 1000m. The cheaper a percentage is, the less value you get out of things like outposts, bidding on teams, decyptors and the less relevant station build costs will be. On top of that, the longer it takes to build something, the greater the value of each % of TE.

Due to fuel, hauling stuff about is always going to be a flat rate per volume, regardless of the value of the item.

The greater the value of decryptors next to the output product the less choices you have to use. There is no way you would use a decyptor to make ammo right now, for example. If your ammo bpc produced 100m worth of ammo, you might think about it.

I dunno how I can be more coherent about this really. A % is a %, yes. But you have to buy that %, the less it is worth the less the options that are viable to get it.

Having more of the better moons in Nullsec and fewer of them in Lowsec, effectively what is being requested, indeed makes sense. Conversely, having more moons available in systems that can't be controlled by anyone to the degree that Sov Null can be controlled is also good for the game overall ... though not necessarily for those who control the majority of them in Sov Null :) A randomisation of the moons in 0.4 at release also makes a lot of sense.

The market will follow the changes. Prices will go down after a little while due to extra resources being available; anyone who has been withholding product to artificially inflate the market or who has been speculating may lose. Good for that. Lower prices means more people will be willing to try a T2 ship instead of a T1 ship, as the cost drops below their personal thresholds for loss values. Increased usage will raise prices, so lower profit per unit but higher volume ... similar profit per hour? Who knows. But it certainly would make T2 more accessible to more players.

And personally, as a wormhole dweller who has seen Nullsec entities farming W-space and helping to tank the T3 industry, I'm all in favour of reducing T2 costs and prices.

One real problem from the risk side of things is that the POS ability to defend itself - or rather, be used by a player or group of players to defend itself - is absolutely laughable. Stats on the modules are dated to an era where a dread had less EHP than can be achieved by a well tanked cruiser or battlecruiser these days, not to mention the ridiculous lock times. The UI to actually manage your weapons is pretty bad too, but that's a harder problem to tackle, I suspect. All of that, though, means that "highsec POS users" are another group that would benefit from POS guns not being awful.

I suggest:

• Buff damage numbers a bit, and perhaps damage application numbers.
• Buff Starbase Defense Management to be two arrays per level instead of one.
• Increase scan resolution on weapon batteries by a factor of five and scan resolution on electronic warfare and neuting batteries by a factor of ten. To balance this and maximize the benefit of these changes to manned towers, increase the random lock delay by the same factor.
• Have a look at the stats on neuting batteries. Not relevant to highsec but in theory they should be the best weapon against capitals or supers; in practice, 1k cap is nothing. Alternatively, give us different sizes of neuting batteries - small, medium, large, and extra large.

Do all that and then if a "small corp" or indeed any corp is vigilant with their defense, they'll have the capability to defend their POS. Granted, it'll mean some tradeoffs, fewer labs and arrays if they want to supplement gun batteries with shield hardeners and electronic warfare, but that's as it should be - at least doing so would actually be a viable option.



Re: Extra moons and supply/demand, my napkin estimate says new supply from the new 0.4 moons is to a fart in a hurricane. I'm not exactly concerned.

No, I'm saying it's going to be pretty much unnoticeable.

This.

With an 11 year old MMO, it's crucial to scrutinise the authorship date of any guide, due to how thoroughly out of date it can become.

Wikis are no different, but at least they are only as out of date as the last person who notices.