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Can I look forward to the new characters being as creatively crafted as Mildew is?

Mr Epeen

Except Force projection i think that the primary reason why nullsec won't be selfsufficient it is because they don't NEED to be because of the JFs. While these changes adress my concern i think it is not still enough. The easier the logistics are the bigger the entities will be. There for JFs should not have any reductions and JF's should not be allowed to jump in or out of lowsec trough a cyno, only trough gates.

Also DDs in lowsec are a lettdown. Will kill small scale capital brawls.

Yeah I missed that one myself. Wat?

8 months learned skills a character specifically for Thanatos, without this patch carriers is rarely used, now I think I can safely delete this character.
Do you really think that jumping from the gate to the gate most interesting exercise in Eve?

Google translation

The jump cooldown timer is the highest value of ether the distance calculation or the fatigue value before the jump.

From the example :

In his second jump, the distance based cooldown value was 4 minutes 34 seconds but since he allready had more fatigue from the first jump his actual cooldown timer is 5 minute 16 secon.

In his third jump the actual cooldown timer is then 23 minutes 32 seconds because of the massive fatigue at which point he decides to fly the rest of the way via gate as his next jump would have a massive jump cooldown timer.



Since fatigue decays at a 0.1 trate per minute, it basiacally means that you can make 1 jump per hour without stacking up fatigue.
If you jump more often then that you start to build up fatigue exponentially.

The logical consequence will be that carrier pilots will only use their jump drive when they realy have to, to prevent getting caught with their pants down.

Dare to dream

why should it be difficult

what does that add to the game

please discuss in terms of the game and not dumb analogies involving babies

Yes.


I would argue it is one of the core reason.


Most definitely.


Hmmm... Tough one.

I believe there is a real problem with ease of gathering intel. People insist they need easy intel in order to get fights, but the truth is due to such easy intel, more fights actually DON'T happen because of it. Everyone does the math before the first anti-matter round is shot and if they determine they would lose - they simply do not engage at all. Stay docked. Play other games. 'Blue Ball' the enemy. There needs to be more fog of war, less effort free intel. I'm not advocating we should poke out our eyes and wander around in absolute pain trying to figure things out. Gathering intel should be intuitive and fun for the person doing it. The reward to match the effort put into it. What is the point of 'recon' ships if you can accomplish the same intel gathering in a capsule? By just being in the same system? There should also be equal ways for a player or group to make gathering intel more challenging for another group.

[quote=Mike Azariah]IF they are going to go through with this math and this solution what minor changes would you suggest?
As I mentioned in my article back in February, they need to make sure they have plenty of ways to make adjustments do these things so they can easily address problems. It appears they do in reguards to a role bonuses present on jump freighters and the Rorqual. Although I am not 100% sold on the Rorqual enjoying such a nice bonus to long distance traveling and being extremely combat capable for an industrial ship. As others have said, it should only get one of the two.

Also I am not completely sold on capitals taking gates. That could always be tied into the jump fatigue. Basically one could take as many gates as they like, but the distance they travel via gates is added to their jump fatigue as if they were taking a cyno. That said, I am satisfied enough to wait and see how things go with capitals taking gates. Perhaps there will be enough of a change we won't see hundreds of slow cats roaming around. As glorious as some are saying, I strongly believe something like that is no where remotely healthy for the game and very well could undermine this entire change. Again, time will tell.

EVE is hard....for non Goons.

Which is why they're crying on the forums when Nullsec is switched on Hard Mode...

Ok, here goes...

I remember my first foray into low-sec as a 2 week old pilot in a rifter. I didn't really have a clue what was going on, quite quickly I got ganked. 'Wow', I thought what the hell was that? A week or so later after learning a bit more about the game I ventured back and tried some mostly unsuccessful PvP, learning all the time. I ventured into the outskirts of null a month later after understanding the mechanics involved, died many, many times.

All of the above was fantastic fun. Now for your scenario....

1. Sign up to EVE.
2. read goon advert and join.
3. spend the rest of my EVE career jumping and pressing F1.

Question: Which one sounds more like an enjoyable gaming experience.....?