Player Features and Ideas Discussion

basically your idea is bad because you have not thought it through and make common errors made by people who don't know anything about what they're talking about

specifically, you clearly know nothing about coding, so you do not understand what makes problems potentially difficult. you are the walking example of the dunning-kruger effect: you do not know enough to know how little you know. your change is basically "what if we entirely rewrite fundamental assumptions about how this system works, that will be easy" you don't know the code, you don't know how it interfaces with other code, you don't know what testing and debugging even are, basically you're just sort of babbling incoherently. the core nugget from your post is that you don't have any idea what you're talking about and can be safely ignored

as for the mechanical merit: it's poorly thought out because you don't appear to realize that ships changing drone types is currently allowed and not-exploititive behavior and you are heavily nerfing that without any apparent knowledge you're doing so

now just because there are side effects doesn't make something bad - but you have to explain that you're aware of them and ok with them. here, ccp's solution admits the side effects and why they're ok with them (because death to supers they're overpowered ****). you didn't even realize your idea had a side effect

but really it's that you don't understand anything about what computer code is and probably think you just speak to a computer and it writes code that does what you told it to do and that's the fundamental issue here, so we're not likely to make much progress

Thats cute, but its not my problem if CCPs spaghetti code makes it hard for them to implement a new timer, that is CCP's problem and I can still expect them to actually fix what they claim they want to fix.

Is there a reason why they were built on the "high" alpha low ROF model to begin with? Server load of all those shots?

Carriers are fine with sentries, Ishtars need to have sentries nerfed :)

+1 on the changes.

Hey everyone. Hope you've all had a great holiday season. Most of us are back at the office now, and we're putting the final preparations in place for the Proteus release next week.

One of the tweaks we are making in Proteus is to the scan resolution of Fighters and Fighter Bombers, both of which are being reduced quite significantly.

The primary goal of this change is to ensure that rapidly scooping and relaunching fighters and fighter bombers never gives a dps advantage. This practice has not been widespread thus far, but any possible advantage gained this way would both provide imbalanced DPS and cause significant server load so we want to nip it in the bud.

The changes will also have the effect of delaying the initial alpha strike of fighters and fighter bombers, especially against subcaps. Although it is not the primary purpose of the change we are not displeased by this effect, and we do not believe that it will make fighters or fighter bombers underpowered.

I know that some people who are hoping for a major nerf to assigned fighters will be unhappy that this change will only have a small-moderate effect on that activity. We have been keeping a close eye on the way fighters are used ever since our recent rounds of drone rebalancing and we aren't ruling out any potential future changes at this time. However we are not going to rush into any larger changes to fighter mechanics.

The new numbers are:
Type - Old Scan Res – New Scan Res
Dragonfly - 200 - 100
Einherji - 350 - 175
Firbolg - 250 - 125
Templar - 300 - 150
Cyclops – 250 - 27
Malleus - 300 - 29
Mantis - 200 - 25
Shadow – 225 - 30
Tyrfing - 350 - 31

Thanks everyone, and happy New Year!

Thats cute, but its not my problem if CCPs spaghetti code makes it hard for them to implement a new timer, that is CCP's problem and I can still expect them to actually fix what they claim they want to fix. Perhaps if they didn't spend the last 5 years kicking cans down the road they would have been able to streamline their code a bit more so they could overhaul aspects of the game they believe necessary to change. Keep in mind that this change is not only about DPS, but also avoiding server load. That server load is just as easily spiked with subcap drone usage as it it is with Capital drone usage. HED-GP?

The point is that this is a made up problem by people who hate supers and feel that their way of playing is the right way. If you can't form a one thousand man fleet then you are irrelevant to the game and you should have no recourse in fighting that one thousand man fleet.

Oh, and your 30billion isk ship should rightly be ineffective against a majority of ship types in the game. It makes perfect sense!

If CCP wants to get rid of capitals, they should tell us so we can prepare, and make sure that we are properly reimbursed for the skill points and isk invested. Take away my super? Sure, as long as I get a boatload of deadspace fitted paladins, nightmares, redeemers and bhaalgorns in return, I'm game. Oh, and that's A and X type fitted deadspace, not scrubby c types or faction.