Ships & Modules

CCP officially announced a major rebalancing initiative with the 'Rebalancing EVE, one ship at a time' developer blog on the 6/3/2012. This initiative started with Inferno 1.0 which modified some T1 frigates on the 22/5/2012.

I know a lot of old timers who can fly many ships have enjoyed the progress, as every few releases they get a major change to one of their favorite ships. The following is a summary of how the re-balancing is progressing.

Let me know if I missed something in patch notes since late 2011, I think I may have missed some minor tweaks done to ships in the 'no rebalance yet' category. I'll keep this post updated if it doesn't get locked due to CCP inactivity :).

Some rebalancing was done prior to the announcement and i've included those. The whole rebalance initiative was in response to the Incarna backlash, refocusing the game around spaceships again. I've also listed the new ships since Incarna.

Won't be rebalanced
Special edition ships as listed under the special editions market category.

Major rebalance done
Subcapital T1 ships (except ORE Industrial and Shuttles) (*NEW 2ND T1 Destroyer and Attack Battlecruisers for each race. A T1 Mining Frigate)
T1 Freighters (*NEW T1 ORE Freighter - Bowhead)
Faction ships (except Revenant) (*NEW Major Faction Battlecruisers, Sisters of EVE & Mordu's Legion Ships)
T2 Assault frigates (Tweaked just prior to the re balancing initiative)
T2 Blockade runners
T2 Combat recon ships
T2 Command ships
T2 Deep space transports
T2 Electronic attack ships
T2 Exhumers
T2 Expedition frigates *NEW
T2 Force recon ships
T2 Heavy assault cruisers
T2 Heavy interdiction cruisers
T2 Interceptors
T2 Interdictors
T2 Jump freighters
T2 Marauders
T2 Stealth bombers
T3 Amarr & Minmatar Destroyers *NEW

Major rebalance coming soon (tm)
T2 Black ops (Some tweaks done)
T3 Strategic cruisers

No major rebalance yet
T1 Capital industrial ships
T1 Carriers
T1 Dreadnoughts (Some tweaks done)
T1 Industrial command ships
T1 ORE Industrial
T1 Shuttles
T1 Supercarriers
T1 Titans
Faction Revenant
T2 Covert ops
T2 Logistics

New ships - Coming soon
T3 Destroyers for Caldari & Gallente

Modules rebalanced
Co-Processors
Reactor Control Units
Micro Auxiliary Power Cores
Light Missile Launchers
Capacitor Flux Coils
Cargo Scanners
Ship Scanners
Survey Scanners

Mining Lasers
Mining Laser Upgrades
Ice Harvester Upgrades
Expanded Cargoholds
Nanofiber Internal Structures
Reinforced Bulkheads
Inertial Stabilizers
Overdrive Injectors
Power Diagnostic Systems
Capacitor Power Relays
Capacitor Rechargers

Afterburners
Microwarpdrive
Shield Extenders
Armor Plates


Cheers,
Neug

Not sure suicide gankers are the players most likely to whinge. I think the percentage per capita of excessive whinging probably goes to nullsec community even allowing for more people being there.

I do agree the Freighter rebalance probably has been the worst of the lot so far. Don't forget things can always get worse no matter how bad they are. This was brought on them by so many people asking for slots on the Freighters for so long though. 'Be careful what you wish for' is a good phrase for this one.

T1 industrials have always been poor although the functionality of having additional specific holds has been handy as long as you use them wisely. They cannot be used for more than short trips really and then not on well travelled routes.

Regarding hauling a large problem a large problem continues to be overfilling of holds with expensive cargo, poor fitting choices, and 'AFK' piloting. If those three can be remedied the situation 'may' improve.

A lot of the current Freighter ganking is to do with the political leanings between the CODE directors and GSF apparently. So it's still a bad time potentially to be a hauler. You would think people would maybe switch to hubs other than Jita to trade but this isn't happening I don't think.

I smell bittervet syndrome....

HACs are mostly fine, I agree on the BC part, they are underpowered atm, apart from the ABCs

Passive myrm/would like a word with (might be others, I haven't checked).
What're some issues with HICs? They look fine to me. Long point? Longer on a garmur (I think). Infinite point? That's kind of their primary role.
I also don't see problems with the marauder changes.

So, what, Fozzie (a 'former' Goon) and Rise are showing a bias toward gankers?

Color me shocked! That was obvious the day they introduced the Tornado.

So, no, it's not the 'Bears' who got exactly what they asked for, it was you, the Goons, and gankers (not that there's much to separate the two).

Troll harder.

T3s won't see a full rebalance anytime soon. Fozzie is scared to death of touching them because they are literally the only fleet ship besides Ishtars, bombers, and caps that are worth fielding anymore. Meanwhile, we're getting T3 destroyers to distract us.

And because recons are now and have been **** for fleets beyond about 10 pilots, they are under represented, and thus not a priority. You don't even see them in AT anymore. If you want recon abilities, you fly a T3. If you want the standard EWAR abilities like ECM or damps, you fly a T1 EWAR cruiser or frigate.

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So, bombers v AFs. Bombers won. Frigates, especially AFs, are not the intended target of bombers. Yet they got plastered. I'm actually glad this happened. Hopefully it will draw attention to the obviously unbalanced state of bombs, NOT BOMBERS! Its the bombs that are a problem.

As far as OP's list, AFs were one of the first ships to get a major rebalance. They were categorically worse than faction frigates before getting a fix. Now they are competitive. It was one of the better rebalance efforts. Caps of all kinds have been "fixed" and "rebalanced" multiple times over the years.

Updated. Also flagged the new ships and ship catagories for veterens coming back to the game.

Cheers,
Neug

Done.

Cheers,
Neug

Fozzie was in PL, and Rise was an honorabru solo pvper, not a ganker.

A troll doesn't know what he's talking about? Color me shocked!