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med clone change is super dumb, just nerfs newbies - older/richer pilots can just have more characters with more jump clones in diff places

thats the only totally senseless change imo

CCP Just killed all cap fights, RIP EVE o7

Preface: this is a big change. Yes, the way you play now is, as it relates to things touched by these changes and to varying degrees, no longer going to be viable. If that wasn't the case, these changes wouldn't be worth making in the first place.

This isn't a business-as-usual tuning pass, this is redefining what jump drives are *for* in this game.



Yes, we have. The 5 LY range was chosen after looking at gaps between regions. 5 allows you to cross many of them. The larger gaps, such as some of the drone region jumps, were never going to be crossable with any of the range of ranges we'd be comfortable with. In some cases yes, this will lead to gate bottlenecks for capitals, and the geography of these areas will become very significant, yes.

(BRT-OP to C-4D0W is 2.52 LY)



We'll have a look at the consequences of this.



Yes, they are. The blog says the intent is not to nerf them too hard, not to not nerf them at all.



Yes, but it's a thing we're still not happy with the state of. We're going to discuss this specific issue more tomorrow, with the aim of coming up with a reasonable solution that deals with the newbie use case without opening the door to more general problems. Stay tuned for more info.



I'm sure people will find a solution to this.



1.88 minutes after jump 3, assuming 5-LY jumps. (At least assuming I'm looking at the right spreadsheet...)



Good catch. I'll fix that in a bit; should always have minimum-length timer, but it's not specified correctly.



Yup, all ships in the game will be able to use gates after this change. (Masterplan is looking into gate-warping physics to tidy up the way large ships land in relation to the gate.)



The simple implementation with cap regen is loose, in that you can have people cap boost you along the way. We had a more involved cap-based solution that locked off a portion of your cap after jump, so you couldn't get the cap requirements because some of your cap couldn't fill up, but we decided it was a little too gimmicky and didn't get to the heart of the problem cleanly enough. When we're working with player motivation we generally want to leave things as wide-open and interesting as possible; in the few cases where we feel the need to work against player motivation, we try to make the fix map as closely to the exact desired outcome as possible, because wiggle room will be exploited.

2007 EvE > 2014 EvE.


Battle ship slug fests. Large hac fleets, large fast atack frig fleets. it was glorius!


It was a time when you held 0.0 territory you actually had to work as a team to hold it, to move people out there you had to escort them out there.

getting the general gist of this it hurts the little guy a bit too much

maybe go with the idea of mass effecting cyno's ie stagger the use of cyno's linked to mass or something i dunno lol

cfc/pl/nc. tears best tears

Finally.

Cooldown timer sounds good, id prefer it to have an effect for regional jumps. Reduce jump range, that works too, again penalty on ly range for changing regions ( able to jump anywhere within the same region + the fatigue thing).

Capitals jumping gates...hmmm not really a good idea, i can already see the hell (gate) camps. Unless you want to allow them in high sec too

Have you ppl ever thought about removing supers from the game, and redesign them or forget about them? The way i see it, if u remove the portal from titans, and fighters bombers from supers, that fixes alot of things. No more blobs in your face, and lets face it, FBs were a mistake.

What you could consider is allow the capital bonuses to become active only on triage / siege mode, outside of triage an archon doesnt receive its tank bonus and rep range, Thanatos doesnt receive drones bonus and rep range, etc. Plus you allow launching fighters while in triage. And maybe allow carriers to launch max 5 FBs ( or just forget about FBs, big mistake...), until you fix supers...?

You remove portal from a titan, therefore titan loses 50% of its utility...maybe anchor these behemoths and make stations out of them, or better, REMOVE THEM. They were fun, lets move on.

Overall mindset is good, things need a change, but you are taking it to the extreme, hope you really get it right

o/

EvE was just fine before cap fights and super cap brawls. also 0.0 was less stagnant and more of the player base actually lived out there.

I'm so excited.

This is absolutely amazing.


CCP THANK YOU


Gonna get some of my buds to resub and bring back my other accounts now I think. /o.o/