Upcoming Feature and Change Feedback Center

It's happening!

We're planning a huge set of module tiericide in our March release and this thread will serve as the feedback location for changes to Damage Controls.

The issue with Damage Controls is that they're essentially a must-fit module on a huge variety of ships. This limits fitting choice quite significantly. However because they're so powerful and so ubiquitous, simply nerfing them would be a large EHP nerf to almost every ship in EVE, knocking a lot of other dynamics out of balance.

So the plan is to nerf the hull resistance bonus of damage controls by a large margin, but also buff every ship in the game at the same time to compensate. We'll be reducing the hull resist benefit of Damage Controls by about 1/3 (going to 40% for T2 and 30% for T1) but also adding a base 33% hull resistance to ships by default.

This will result in a significant EHP buff to ships that can't or don't fit Damage Controls, but most of those already have very low hull hitpoints. The impact is Freighters, but we like to pair buff and nerfs to suicide ganking to keep things in balance, and after the February Wreck HP change these ships can handle a bit more tank without the "predator and prey" environment being thrown out of whack.

We're also planning on completing two long-time player requests:
1) Adding faction and officer versions of Damage Controls
2) Making all Damage Controls passive modules

We recognize that this is a pretty huge and far-reaching set of changes, so we'll be especially interested in all your feedback from SISI!

Here's the most recent iteration of the numbers:
[img]http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/67557/1/Damage_Controls.jpg[/img]

We're very interested in your feedback on all these changes. We'll be releasing them to Singularity next week if all goes well, so that you can try these and all the other module changes planned for the March release. Please use this thread for passing along your feedback, and we'll be reading.

Thanks!

THATS 'RADICAL' MAN

WOOO

So after making hull tanks more viable with the changes to reinforced bulkheads and the addition of transverse bulkheads a few patches ago, why are you hitting every single damage control with a significant nerf to hull resists?

E: i should read all of posts before I post, the 33% base hull resist balance it out

What a time to be Gallente

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"Syndicate Signal Damage Control"?

My thoughts exactly. Quite confusing; surely this would just make freighters tankier straight out of the box?

Yes, can someone explain the connection to me? Am I missing something?

Anti-ganking people used to have thrashers ready to destroy the freighter wreck as soon as the freighter was destroyed so the gankers wouldn't be able to loot the freighter (and it thus profit from the gank). Now that freighter wrecks no longer have 500hp a single thrasher can't deny the loot any longer.

Its not directly related as such

HP Buff to wrecks was a buff to ganking. It makes it harder for people to shoot the wrecks to deny loot to the gankers.

33% base hull resist makes most freighters much tankier which is a nerf to ganking.

there is a ying to every yang. and for every buff there is a nerf.

Hull Tanking is officially the New Meta 2016!

So excited. So good.