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Great many exciting changes coming up, I think CCP is going to have a great expansion and some real success with Citadel.

BUT please please rethink the nerf to combat refitting. CCP may want this but I dont think anyone in the player community is calling for it at all.

It brings depth to gameplay, stop dumbing it down. Also could we get a more realistic rationale for changing it / removing it. The analogy with a card game is ridiculous. Perhaps try some honesty.

If it simply that you want to increase the mortality of caps then say so.

>No more warping fighters. I missed that the first time through.
So, when a carrier gets ganked now and has to emergency warp to a safe, we lose a few hundred million in fighters? Solid plan, can't see this being an issue at all.

An additional note to make, from the looks of the squadron presentation, it seems like we can only watch as our drones die and do nothing to repair or prevent their death. Can you elaborate on how you plan to reduce fighter and fighter bomber prices? I would have understood if it was possible, like it is now, to move one injured fighter back to the hold and release another to fight in its stead while it's shields regenerate, but as it stands you have to pull back the entire squadron in order to prevent the death of a single fighter. The only way I can see this as being positive, is if each 'squadron' can be repaired rather than being forced to purchase new fighters to replenish the squadron.

Can you expand on how carriers are supposed to rat if the heavy fighters can't hit the rats and the light fighters can't do enough damage?

You seem determined on forcing carriers into a pvp role only, instead of keeping it as a multi-purpose ship as it is now. It's fine if you want to remove the RR from carriers, that's understandable, but how is their damage going to be applied when in an anomaly vs in fleets?

Additionally, the use of different drones to approach different situations is a key aspect of the carrier, in my eyes, and forcing only 3 drone types seems ineffective, both from a damage standpoint and a reaction standpoint.

The use of long range sentries to poke as the enemy fleet gets closer then bringing them in and launching lights to deal with the faster and smaller ships and heavies to deal with the cruisers then fighters to deal with battleships and higher. The way it's presented here seems like we'll not only be extremely limited in our capacity to react but also in our ability to keep up with drone deployment. It feels like, from what I've read, that you're going to force carriers into a few specific drone specialties and not allow us more than (X) amount of drone waves, whereas before it was dependent on how many fighters you would bring to a fight, if you brought any at all. Bring 10 fighters and several waves of every other drone or 15 fighters and a few waves of other drones or 20 fighters and hope for the best.

As much as I like the ideas presented herein, I do have the above concerns. Although moderately inexperienced as a carrier pilot, I have been having a lot of fun with the carrier thus far and I would hate to see it become ridiculously hard to utilize, or ridiculously easy to utilize. I feel like there should still be a middle ground where you have to learn how best to approach a situation with your own carrier fit and strategy, but the changes seem to present a limited array of possibilities when engaging with a carrier.
I hope my thoughts on the matter were clear and I do hope to hear back from you in regards to these potential issues.
Thank you for your time and thank you for continuing to create and diversify content for Eve.
Apologies if these ideas/issues have already been presented, I didn't read through the comments.

This is honestly my biggest question.

Can't find proove that carriers loose ability to launch drones. I didn't find it in Dev blog, neither here as CCP post.

If I miss it - can anyone point this statement.

I have read this, but again - nothing about Carriers will have no longer ability to launch drones. Yeap, fighters will be re-worked completely, it's fighters - not drones.

Maybe they don't...

I'm sure you can use a single battleship to get the isk to pay for a capital, it'll just take a bit longer.

If you must use multiple accounts at once though, make sure you aren't getting some sort of unfair advantage.


Yeah I wouldn't want you to keep your capital docked or anything. I did hear that losing them doesn't count if you insured though. Or so say some of the best players in eve (after losing caps)



Ah, an unsubber. Again.

Yes, the same response to that as before, as well.

Yes! Carriers can no longer use drones, that is why there are two new fighter types, they can only use fighter squads. As for refitting changes, they really are needed. Saying that it gives game play is a cop out and you are just scared of change. That being said CCP needs to add in something to fill that gap in terms of game play. They are filling the gap in game play for carriers and even titans to an extent, but dreads have no game play value now.

Let's tell himself yourself the truth and ask yourself - these innovations we expect from developers? Why all this fuss with capitals and citadels? Instead, to bring new modules and structure in game, without breaking the old, what well-balanced and trustworthy, and to please the players, what we have instead of carriers - two ships - this means you will have to make another character and develop it, instead of POS - citadel, which are basically useless and cost a lot of money - i was recently on the test for the citadel - the citadel - this is the same how station, but only beats as POS), and dreads will become as large battleship!) Is this what we expect from developers? I think many will say that no! What do you think - will fall or not online, then!? I must say that unfortunately, there is a redistribution of the old, how a new and nothing more - in addition project discovery, which hardly need - to see the fleas under the microscope!) Skills injectors can be cause big imbalance in the game! All this is, unfortunately, very sad!( Lately, positive I see from new destroyers, new modules and all!
PS Began to appear here such characters, three days from birth all improved skills http://eveboard.com/pilot/IronBank - this can cause an imbalance in the game, what time and again has already been written! Can't you do that the player could pour skill 1-2 million in month? But it's the little things! All the basics of eve will soon be revamped and not for the better!( The developers time to think what to do next - at the end of the year will be a new space game with a huge budget Star Citizen, where excellent graphics, with fully painted cabins, cities, bars, casino, manufacturing, planets, wormhole - all that we expect from developers and what will be in EVE with online after that! There is a time the developers change things for the better? - is, if they will sometimes listen to the players!