EVE General Discussion

But EVE is perfectly balanced and there are no bugs to fix.

Constant steady balancing is a bad thing.

The planets haven't aligned right for a balance change in anything.

CCP

Y U NO BALANCE SHIP!?

I don't see how that is true. To much change will cause for something to be re-evaluated once again "drastically". Not to mention all the effects for which such an action would cause while waiting for further changes. Small and gradual changes that are made to meet a goal always end with a happier player base.

Don't believe me? Look at the difference in companies who do slow and gradual to the ones that make flavor of the months.

I wouldn't say FOTMs are necessarily a bad thing - they encourage older players to try something new every once in a while and provide new players with new goals to train for. Imbalance adds flavour.

Having that said, there should be regular rebalances - 3 years of playing Dramiels online when it comes to frig combat, Minmatar online when it comes to smallscale/medscale roams or Supercaps online in 0.0 is boring.

I really don't know what is taking them so long - I can see the reason with Supercaps, as there are quite some assets involved, but who cares if e.g. The dramiel is entirely useless after the nerf? It had its ~3 years of playing in an entirely different league than 90% of the other frigs and it could always be buffed back in 5 years.

You are the ugliest thing I have ever seen on the internet, but you're right. If it was nerfed to nothingness at least it opens back up a ton of options for the frigate class.

Congratulations. Yet again, you totally miss the point of the thread.

Sofia. Have you forgotten that Eve players are generally quite clever people. It's a demographic metric we enjoy.

Quite often, when all scenarios are presumed accounted for by devs, some clever little player works out something that was not accounted for.

Our sandbox environment really does fall victim to the "Butterfly Effect" and even the slightest change of abilities could tip the game very rapidly to positive things and just as rapidly into negative things.

Players in scaps for example have enjoyed relative impunity. The fact that they cost so much should have been enough of a limiting factor. It turns out it isn't. But if you owned a scap and were told it's abilities were being "adjusted" every week, 2 weeks ad infinitum, you'd be a a bit peed off. The forward investment for corps/alliances is staggering and even smaller class vessels are relative to players wealth.

SP training alone to fly class X of ship is measured in months (sometimes years) and if I was 10 days from flying X ship after 7 months of training and then told it was being nerfed, I'd be emoragequtting all over the universe!

Cause and Effect is a very fine line to tread in Eve. Caution is an absolute.

Balance is always transitory, the player bases fits and tactics evolve to fit whats available with little change by CCP. I seen like the drake go from underpowered to overpowered to littering the universe and now I barely hear about them and nothing has changed except the people using them's assumptions.

WHats needed are stealth nerfs and not public nerfs. We need to suspect they are going on so that we constantly retest our assumptions and rework fits and tactics.

Everybody likes to balance but they do it with all 5 stats and eft stuff but in reality the playerbase skill points evolve allowing new capabilities in actual practice. I seem to see much more t2 in the last year but If the Goons goo gets nerfed or wormholes or even drone space gets adjusted, you could see lots of changes without any ship rebalancing.

Super caps could be adjusted just by erasing the prints so there is no new production. People wouldn't bring them out as easily if they can't be replaced. Maybe only allowing one per region at a time. Real carriers don't need heavy density to project power. Here's another change without adjusting the ship.

I'm all for any ship changes being boosts to make them more fun and other changes to hold them back.