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Interesting and welcome changes. Especially the weapons timer for refitting. Highly appreciated. I realize this is about PvP, but any news on the Rorq? That needs a make-over as well following the recent passive nerfs... compression-arrays are POS-Modules now and Jump-Clones are available at every corner...

Given the new modules: A little bit more please. Like T2, Deadspace, Faction. Possibly Fleet-Hangar Extender.

Also allow ships to dock with cargo, as long it's not a hauling/industrial ship. This one of the most annoying things of the Ship-Maintenance Bay. Like those <350m ³ of cargo matter when docking at a capital sized ship... -.-'

Although, the logic you apply to warp drives should not end at supercarriers:

Please introduce this to all ships of New Eden. The larger the ships, the more difficult to tackle. Vice-versa their own warp-core-strength is their warp-scramble-strength (if a scrambler is fitted, T1 disruptor get 50% penalty on scramble strenght). Interceptors (also their T1 counterpart) should get massive bonus to scramble-strength. I think that would make people a lot more willing to undock their precious carrier, battleship,... if not any random frig can easily tackle it.

Refitting during combat is ~not~ being removed. All they're doing is preventing you from changing your fit while you're actively attacking someone else. You'll still be perfectly able to adjust your ship during a fight, it just requires you hold off firing guns for a minute.

I totally have and i get their moving towards a homeworld direction, but I'd like more specifics than what the video provides.

More over, they can't bring basck skynet (not that I'm complaining if they do, long liv skynet) and then complain about it later on in the sense of "risk free off grid pvp is bad mmmkay"

Please tell us where you're doing PVE in nullsec with dreads.

I said I wanted to use the carrier and ships not watch them burn ;)

Do they not have scouts and webs where you live?

Can you not evade this question in every post? And just answer it?

I am a bit confused, as during the Vegas presentation, I am sure I heard that Cap Remote Reps can only be used in Triage, but the blog states that they will only be effective in Triage. This means two entirely different things.

Remote Reps should work on capitals in the same way as on sub-caps, where in an unbonused role, they are relatively weak and only have limited usefulness. When you combine the new fall-off changes with the loss of bonuses, remote reps no matter what size or classification, will be of limited usefulness. So removing them as an option not only reduces variation in game play, but defeats the nature of the sandbox.

Before making a knee-jerk anti n+1 reaction, look at how far the current changes for Remote Assistance are going to limit unbonused ships. Then remind yourselves that with many of the new proposed capital changes and additions, clumping capitals together is going to be a tactic of the past. This means that in a fleet fight, even if combat carriers wanted to fit for reps, like today, without the current bonuses, they would have to make a choice. 1) Either be sitting in a relatively close manner, and risk massive penalties, or dmg, via the new AOE mechanics, or 2) sit at near max rep ranges and receive a large penalty to Remote Assistance.

I understand you are thinking, but large groups will just bunch in tighter, meaning n+1 will still be the effect, and this just might happen a time or 2. Until the handful of Titans pop in, hit AOE DDs and even if they didn't kill the entire fleet, they would have put in such a hurting that the stealth bombers just come in and mop up.

So as I have pointed out, with your current new effects, combined with upcoming nerfs and removal of bonuses. The current Pantheon meta for carriers is over, and there is no need to just remove fitting options, when the new mechanics will make them undesirable.

This leads you to ask, "Why then do you want to keep the option?", which would be a valid question. The answer is simple, variation and limited resource options. I use the RR Domi as my example, this style of Dominix fitting, allows a small group to increase it's abilities mildly, but in no way out performs the T2 logistic hulls it is trying to. the point here, is some small groups, being WHers, LS gangs, and even null groups, tend to do a lot of small gang action much more often than any large scale battles. This gives those everyday pilots more function, even if it is at the cost of limited range or effect.

Also this allows for a single capital, which gets tackled, to have a response force show up, and assist it rather than just watch him die as you couldn't find a FAX pilot in time.


Options are a backbone of Eve, even if you wanna do something stupid, like using hybrids on an Amarr BS that is sheild tanked, you can. Doesn't mean it is gonna work the greatest, but that is still your right, in the sandbox.

Wait you point is that you can't travel around from one end of new eden to the other risk free?

If so then working as intended.

I don't like the sound of this ewar resistance. have you thought about doing something with the stacking penalty, to make it so you can still damp a capital down to -x%, but it just takes, say, 12 damps rather than 3? a resistance to ECM means you can still just bring a lot of ECM. a resistance to other stuff means you're really cutting how much they can be affected. I don't want to be on field in a damp ship and be reducing a dreadnought's targeting range from 250km to 150km with 4 bonused damps when it's brawling at 40km.

making capital ships tacklable is nice, but have you given any thought to lowsec in particular, where we can't just drop a load of bubbles? HICs are effectively garbage because they can't receive remote reps. I think if it's ok for everything else in the game to receive remote reps, HICs also should be able to. some kind of lowsec capital tackle bubble would be nice though.

and regarding capital warp strength, will this be a separate thing from jump drive? or will it be that you can jump if you can warp?

any changes to capital travel? currently you can move the biggest ships in the game by having 1 noob cyno alt, and people can't really do much about it. how about some kind of interruptable activation on jump drives, and a timer before a cyno becomes jumpable?