EVE New Citizens Q&A

I actually have no problem with Ishtars, Tengus etc... I don't even fly them. So it isn't in my interest to keep things better for those pilots.

I do have a problem with changing a ship, mechanic or piece of equipment so much so that it makes using it a dumb choice. There is always going to be something that is considered "overpowered" in comparision with the current meta of the day. I just don't like it when players spend lots of time and effort training to have that time and investment made almost of no value by a Dev update.

Btw - Medium Rails guns are used on a lot more than just the few ships that are OP and making their damage stats seem out of norms. It is more a problem with "Tengu, Eagle and Vulture" than it is with the railgun itself being OP.

No I was not trying to say that.

If you look at the Dev post the main piece of data that they are using to determine what needs to be nerfed is how much damage that ship or weapon system does in PvP as compared to everything else. So if one ship looked very pretty and everyone flew that ship because it looked pretty CCP would see that ship doing the most damage because everyone is flying it. So according to CCP that ship would need to be nerfed to a point where it was not Flavor of the month anymore. So even if the ship is not over popwered it will still get nerfed just because it gets used "too much".

As far as whinning about my favorite ship getting nerfed none of my favorite ships have been touched so that is not at all the case.As a matter of fact one of my favorite ships just got a slight buff in the last round of balancing and I bitched about that as well. It's the balancing that I don't like. I watched this attempt to create a "balanced" game destroy WoW and I'm watching it destroy Eve. I've said that from when they first started discussing the tiericide and I'll say it today.

As far as me accusing the devs of being myopic I don't believe that is what I did. I said that they were good at making the game and players were good at playing the game. I argued that the people that played the game were in a better position to speak about balance than the ones making the game and I think that if you compare blogs from elite gamers and the devs of those games when discussing upcoming changes that more often the elite gamers are more correct than the devs.

As far as my holistic global view of game balance what other kind is there?

As far as my take on the changes to ishtars, tengus and off grid fighter assists, I don't PvP and I don't fly ishtars much, never been in a tengu and never used a carrier for anything other than moving ships around. I did comment on the changes in the appropriate forum thread however and when I did I commented on CCPs own comments. They by their own admission are nerfing things that are already well balanced strictly because too many people are flying them. I also found it funny that they had a problem with rails being used the most when 2 races use hybrids when projectiles and lazors are only used by one race so based on just that alone hybrids should be used twice as much anyway.

So to distill, it's all about you. Quaint.

Are you suggesting that he should play this game for someone else's enjoyment?

Because it's easier to fix 2 things than it is to fix 80 things.
And because constantly buffing everything would result in PvE being better, meaning more isk into the economy.
And because then you'd need to buff the health of everything, so that logistics doesn't become useless because rookie ships could alpha damnations.