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What is really disapointing is the way CPP threads its paying clients!
They do not communicate and they do not listen to the community.
They do crap and then the CEO promisses that they will do better in future.
Then they promise a lot of ****, exiting extensions for sommer and winter upgrades, also some balance changes and finally they promisse to balance hybrids.
Now when I look back at what CPP has promised and what they hold then it is just disapointing.
They do changes on Sisi and they even can not post one little sentence here in this thread, NOTHING!

I have never seen such a stupid company that f... its paying client like this company does.
I'm not going to wait years, there are a lot of other nice games out there and also a few similar to EVE.

This said I'm going to unsub, I will let my account go for the time it is payed, should be a few weeks.
If I do not see improvement in CPPs behaviour I will just leave this game.

This whole thread is REDICULOUS!

Compared to other games in EVE you have to fu..ing work for weeks to be able to afford a nice ship or you buy plex and you pay real money for it. The ABSOLUTE MINIMUM ONE CAN EXPECT IS A AT LEAST HALF BALANCED GAME FOR OUR EFFORDS AND OUR MONEY and not this OP MINMATAR **** and STUPID GAL SHIPS NOT BEING ABLE TO COMPETE WITH OTHER RACES BECOUSE OF STUPID PHILOSOPHY HAVING SLOW SHIPS AND SHORTEST RANGE! Even a 12 years old kid knows that this can't work.

The only changes we have seen in 12 month are useless stupid captains quarters and now some fancy shaders but the nebulas look **** in my opinion. It was better before the update.

Sorry for this harsh words but this whole thread is R E D I C U L O U S ! ! !

I really wish that they would give us some dev feedback or communicate on this forum about Hybrid balance. Hell, the design intent behind hybrids isn't even exactly clear (Example, extending null range, making it more homogeneous with the other turret systems)

IE you have a hole in the hull of your boat and its slowly filling up with water. So you use a bucket to get rid of the water initially. But you can't keep up and the boat is slowly sinking. So instead of trying to plug that hole you get a bigger bucket. Yes it will work and it does keep the ship from sinking, but theres still a damn hole in the boat.

but i dont get it how do the Dev`s do there math and call it balance when Maelstrom fitted with autocanons and Hail ammo have 10km more effective range then a blaster Rock with Null ammo
and only 10% less dps then a blaster megathtron with void ammo
so the maelstrom can do effective damage from 40 km away to the megathron and the megathron has to fly about 32km towards
it so it can start to do damage with only 100 dps more and before it from about 30km away he can use null ammo with about 300dps less then autocanons

damn there should be all the alarms sounding that something is completly out of balance
and the only response was now to add 15% more range to null

cammon, dont u see, thats what ur doing is a joke

at least reduce the fallof bonus on the traking enhancers to 15-20%

and then take another month to review how those changes are affecting the game

it's not just TE that are over powered, there are a lot of low slot mods that now massively outperform their mid slot counterpart.

This happened when scripts were introduced. So many mid slot modules didly just loose one of their stats by having to choose which of their two functions they would use to it's full extent. The function they use was also reduced so the mods effectiveness was almost quartered. This was a big boost to Mini and Caldari and a stealth nerf to Amarr/Gallante.

Could someone from CCP please detail current SiSi hybrid changes regarding null and possibly:

1) railguns, medium-sized fittings seems to need further tweaking, as does damage at the medium and large levels
2) any plans to provide hybrid ships some kind of defensive mechanic

Since we're on the topic: if Null changes are in SiSi, shouldn't this thread be re-stickied?

The lack of communication is vexing.

Thanks

Are you capable of making a post without insulting the people whom you're supposed to represent?

I am aware of the SiSi changes. My immediate concern is why there wasn't a dev post in these forums notifying anyone about it, and as you said, if hybrids need more work, then what else is in store?

You won't see a huge increase in Gallente or falloff in Minmatar preference (no pun intended), but that has more to do with the current state of the game and the lack of players committing to fights. People will always prefer to run away when they can, and alpha fleets will alphas trump ROF, and as a result Minmatar will still remain popular. This doesn't mean Hybrids are worse than Projectiles, that simply means that the Hybrid playstyle is less popular than the crap that Minmatar promotes.

What the Hybrid changes have done is make those weapons the proper high damaging sluggers they are intended to be.
If someone comes into range, Hybrids will (now) always have a clear damage advantage unlike, prior to the patch, where Autocannons were roughly on par.

Also, blasters with Void ammo actually track well enough now to use.
The tracking difference is 5% worse than regular Antimatter used to be, making it pretty good against bigger/slower targets. When you factor in the ammo actually taking half the cargo space, you can now carry an extra set of ammo without having to sacrifice your main stashes of ammo or cap.

With the Null changes, blasters are ensured to still have some bite beyond point-blank range.
The changes are even more evident on the larger ships and those which can fit Neutron blasters.

And for the record, I haven't been part of a gate camp for well over a year, and I've not even been in a fleet for 8+ months.
All my pvp is primarily blaster-equipped Gallente done solo.

I think it has more to do with Artillery and Scorch being so damn awesome than rails actually being *bad*.
The same applies at all levels of pvp. Tachyons are pretty good, but Artillery is almost always preferred. When it comes to small weapons, nobody even bothers with beams and small rails are actually decent, but still less preferred compared to Artillery.

As far as actual damage application goes, all the long range weapons are pretty similar.
The differences are all in the ROF & Damage mod.

For example, 720mm Artillery has 3x the damage mod & ROF compared to 250mm Railguns.
However, the Railgun does the same amount of damage (on paper) in the amount of time it takes the Artillery to cycle it's next shot. Artillery has a major advantage because if you mass enough ships you can easily alpha people through their tanks, and this is extremely relevant in large fleets. In fact, much of 00 fights consist of these types of engagements. So it doens't matter how much *better* medium rails become, as they've already got better range and tracking and equal damage, Artillery will always be the premier choice.

Wouldn't matter, because at that range the high number of players that are usually associated with "long range" fights will overwhelm the target despite signature size.