EVE General Discussion

So I quit in.. um.. 2010 I think. I've been playing the hell out of AI War lately and after getting curbstomped on 10/10 I got the itch to play EvE again, especially since somehow the entire world has failed to produce another good sandbox MMO in all that time.

Tier 3 BCs were the latest and greatest at the time. I'm hoping you can all fill me in on what's been going on!

I heard my beloved Hurricane was nerfed :(
Also EON doesn't seem to be publishing anymore and my maps are so out of date.. I suppose I should finally get used to Dotlan, they seem to still be around.
Are EFT and Evemon still up-to-date and commonly used?

Thanks!

Edit: What the hell is a bonus remap? CCP didn't implement respec'ing while I wasn't looking, did they?

Most subcaps have been re-balanced since you were last here, some rather significantly depending on how you used them. Of course this doesn't apply to T3 Cruisers, cause they still have no idea what they are doing.

More ships added, including ORE Mining Frigate, Sisters of Eve line (Bonuses to Drones, and Exploration), Mordu's Legion (Scram Range and kity missiles), Bowhead Freighter (Freighter for moving Fitted ships), and 2 of the T3 Destroyers (Amarr and Minmatar).
T3 Destroyers are not like T3 Cruisers, they don't have subs, but "modes" you can change on the fly to adjust ship bonuses. Well worth checking out, lots of fun.

Drifter NPC's were added, they can appear next to Jove Structures in all securities of space. If you aren't a cap, or with friends, leave em alone.

We have Ship Skins.. Sorta.. with a better version on the way.

The Eve Development cycle has moved from 2 Major, 2 Minor releases a year, to a new release every 6 weeks. It's much nicer.

Goons are still Grrr.

A new type of lvl4 mission has been added, Burner Missions, they are freely declinable, require a frig, and go against another NPC frig that assumes they have Pirate Implants, Perfect Skills, Boosts, and shiny fit..

Thera, a WH system with 4 Sisters of Eve stations and a boatload of WH's signatures in it was added.. Considered the Jita of W-Space.

Caps and Supers can take gates now. Jump Range got the nerf hammer, and they added other drawbacks to using your Jump Drive. Was designed to limit force projection..

Most ships got their warpspeed changed. Bigger ships are slower, small ships are faster, and Angel Ships get a bonus to their warpspeed (Cause CCP noticed during their Pirate Ship Balance that Angels ships were lacking a "unique" trait)

Freighters now have lowslots.. Don't get your hopes up, Damage Control's don't fit.

Lastly, for me at least..

Many ships have got updated models. This includes unique ones for T2 Counterparts. Moa line being my personal fav. Blackbird line is nice too.

You missed spending some quality time on the forum with me. But as you can see, I'm still here.

All is good.

Mr Epeen

Just in case: T3ds are getting nerfs already and an increase in price. So while assumed OP, they got a fairly big sig and get slaughtered by BCs and similar, while costing about as much. They're good at annihilating everything smaller, but who would've guessed a T3 destroyer beats T1 and T2 frigs...

Anomalies, whs and the like, green are warp to's, red has to be scanned down. They'll show up in the probe interface with name etc if they're green.

Cosmic signatures and anomalies. Open your probe scanner (Alt+P) for those.

Dear god, whatever you do, don't take jump bridges in rapid succession.
That is all.

- new, crappy UI

- new, crappy textures (gallente ships look like they're made of plastic now)

- T3 destroyers, completely OP and out of line

- Jump drive nerf

That's all I remeber anyway.

My favorite subject line.

Since the budget to produce a "good" MMO equals the annual budget of an average-sized country, it's pretty much the cold hard fact of life no "good" MMOs will ever be developed again.