Out of Pod Experience

So I have finished going over all of the patch notes and changes that are coming and generally feel fairly down now over all.

Some changes make sense, like Super area of effect modules gaining a sensible activation time ect.

But some things are going into the dumpster that unfortunately impact me fairly heavily, fighters will now be priority targets for rats which means the entirety of a nullsec site will now target them first. And as a result alpha several fighters for all Carrier's save for the Thanatos. The increase sig radius is another major factor in the vulnerability of fighters.

I can see fairly clearly that ratting Carrier's will become a false economy in comparison to fighter loss per site.

Rorq's as stated are being nerfed essentially to a pointless state, it now makes more sense to have two hulks in a belt. And maybe if you really don't want to have a Orca in the belt then a Rorq to give them boosts while mining. Unfortunately I will not be expanding my active character numbers.

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So why am I down?

Essentially Carrier ratting and recently Rorq mining has funded the game for me, it allows me to spend an hour or two now and then doing some dull PvE activity to fund PvP. Which consumes isk at a rapid rate.

After these nerfs I will be left probably with the option of going back to Ishtar ratting or using a Marauder which will probably equal 1/4 of the isk gains of my previous tasks. The Rorq nerf will essentially put a hold on my industry in its entirety, I will unfortunately have to close shop as I cannot handle having to buy the ore, or run enough accounts to gain the Ore required to run it profitably.

So as such, with the new baby in my life taking up time and not really being able to play EvE for the time span it will now take to be able to fund activities I find fun within the game post nerf, I will be liquidating my assets and moving my characters back to highsec, to once more go into hiatus.

I will still knock about on the LAGL post now and then probably, but far as paying and playing EvE goes it will no longer be possible.

The smoke meta is complete and utter garbage. Don't try to play ranked. Rank 5 and up, it's 3-4 Belfasts per team for the most part, because the only real counter to a Belfast is another Belfast. I find it extra sad because without the Belfast, T7 might actually be entertaining - amongst BBs and DDs, there's a lot of valid choice.

Morning, everyone.

I may or may not really want to get to 100,000 likes before the forums shuts down.

What you get if you cross Kancolle with Star Trek? Anthropomorphized Enterprise.

What is Kancolle?

Poi!

Eh, a shield tanked Vindi can net you 150-200m isk/h, provided you're I. Serp/Guri space. Don't tell the nullsec chobocops that keep whining about incursion payouts. You also have to be pretty on the ball while using the Vindi too, a lot of people that defer to carrier ratt i ng atm simply can't do it.

*Climbs atop of Island Perejil and places LAGL flag on top*

I claim this land for LAGL! \o/