Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This idea alone made me wonder if you were actually serious or simply trolling.

I read it like this: First we get a doughnut, then we get into a car and grab soda and bacon and ice cream then to make it even more fun we throw toilet paper at the neighbours house but that's not the best thing while doing it we would listen to really loud music and wake up all the neighbours.

Idea after idea after idea... Makes you sound childish and as if you didn't have a genuine idea but simply came up with bit by bit while writing.

Power creep is sadly a viable option here potentially. James' rokh fixes above for example...as a rokh pilot I like them. Not on pos bash or meat grind 400 on 400 fleet ops, I get few reasons to pick rokh over Naga.


Nerf t3.....which ones. CCP tried picking one, hml tengu. Well HML was a split drake/tengu HML setup nerf. People went to HAM or said lets give hybrids a go on tengu and they grew in popularity. Now depending on who you ask...hybrid tengu is op. Can't really nerf hybrid tengu, that just came out of the ignored pile its been in for years.


T2 cruiser was buffed to be viable again, it was out of favor for a while. Pirate was buffed after t2 cruiser as they were becoming non-viable. Basically we had nerfed cruisers that limited their usage. Buffs fixed that, is rolling back the clock an option here really?

T3 dessies are not even fully implemented and need time to see if they are op or if players just need to learn to play the game with them in it. Here we get the case of players who are not open to change versus those who embrace the new stuff, change their doctrine and roll with it. The really good ones who follow the latter path at some point also learn to counter them as well as they learn to use them. Can make balance hard here as some of the problems may lie on the simple fact some players are in the whole I have flown this way for years and I don't want to change group. that is not a balance issue, that is a player/crew preference one.

The track I usually take with these kinds of things is to highlight an issue that DOES need discussion by mixing decent ideas for balance with some rediculous "I wish" ideas that I like anyway to cause enough consteration by folks such as yourself to get the attention needed for a serious discussion.

Since I don't have a habit of burying my head in the sand about balance ideas, usually the bad bits get toned down and smoothed out as time goes on. On the Abaddon, the cap's a bit high, but not too much more than the Hyperion, which gets a solid 9k cap with top skills. I thought it was prudent to have the best battleship cap since the abby tends to use beams a little more heavily than the apoc. And dear lord to they gobble up the cap.

Also...I really like the abby. A lot. I don't like how they didn't do anything for its cap during the balance pass.

BIG BULLETS + BIG TRACKING = BIG BOOMS

CCP: "Battleships are fine, no changes, f#%@ you.."

Classic case of CCP not listening and CSM being asleep at the switch, again. Let me get this right, "battleships are being 'used' so based on them being used no change is needed..."

WTF?

They SUCK to use. Also, if they weren't AIDS to fly through gates and roam in, people might use them more or hey..actually enjoy flying them.

Call me crazy, but when CCP is staring down the barrel of competitors with more twitch-based flight models like E:D and SC, shouldn't they do everything they can to make all the front-line ships pass the simple smell-test of "FUN to fly?"

Sorry CCP, but your usage metrics don't include fun-factor, or conversely the groans at using said BC's and BS's because of AIDS warp speeds.

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Hence all of these excepting the Abby are focused on improving strength vs smaller ships. The tracking bonus on the tempest alone should allow it to do some very nasty things to cruisers.