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Inferno is burning towards New Eden, impacting on May 22nd, shaking up the Universe with improved war mechanics and a multitude of completely new modules, never seen before.

Read all about these changes and the new modules in this exciting dev blog by CCP SoniClover!


Additonal information:
It seems that The Scope news reporters are never asleep, they already have picked up rumors of our upcoming new modules! Read their story here.

2nd =D

This update is awesome! Lot of good stuff!!!

Cost of war: The new war dec. mechanism don't make things that expensive, it is a fair price ( at last if you are planing to attack an alliance the same size as yours, so you only bite what you can chew)... although the real price of the war, and I mean ship prices could be lowered (but this will only happen on the next industrial patch after inferno)... And using the "count only active players" on the corp sounds good, also it would be good to pick only the players that logged in the last 30 days, it would fix the fake acc issue...

And about the modules:

Armor Adaptive Hardener I: Nice concept!!!

Extrinsic Damage Amplifier I & II: This doesn't sounds good, as a drone boat user, most of the drone boats use low slots as tank, ( except for the rattlesnake that will be overpower with lots of tank, torpedo dps and drones dps) so the gallente ships will not be that good again.... my sugestion was to make this a Hi-Slot module (since this is a drone augmentation module, not a ship dps module), so most of drone boats could really use it, removing the guns and replacing with it...

Small/Medium/Large/X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster I: Nice concept!

MagSheath Target Breaker I: Industrials will love this!

Small/Medium/Large Overclocking Processor Unit I & II: Awesome!!!

Light & Medium Web Drones: Long time needed!

Capacitor Battery edits: Sweet!! =D

About the seeding: All tech 1 should have a BPO ( It is not good to have more exceptions in the game), if you are not seeding them, make the BPC drop Meta 1-4 or faction drop...

Good job TEAM SUPER FRIENDS!!!

Wooo :)

holy shiney modules batman O_o

Awesome, a new toy that brings all the fun game play of ECM to every ship.

I for one welcome our new Drone Damage mod overlords.



Confirming. Kill mails are cool, and so is the new war system.



How's this? http://pastebin.com/9qkzYfP2

Awesome, looking forward to test those new mods, esp the shield booster and adaptive hardener...

That's good, but what about same-account blank alts? If every member of an alliance puts only one of their alts in a special alt corp in the alliance, the cost of a wardec against said alliance nearly doubles. Are the alts rare enough that they do not realistically have an impact? Even if that is true, I have heard rumors that E-Uni is already trying to pad its membership with alts; do you expect alts to remain non-problematic?

(not trolling, legit question)

Edit: Answer, so people don't have to go digging through pages and pages:

Big thanks to CCP SoniClover for taking the time to answer questions and concerns!

I don't follow the logic of having war costs scale in the first place. "Scale with the number of targets" is, to me, a terrible answer since this model of scaling only serves to improve the lives of pilots who fly in very large alliances. What's more, it's ripe for abuse. Eve University, as an example, is already preparing a wing of completely inactive alts just to drive war declaration costs through the roof. As one of the stated goals of the new wardec system was to close abuse loopholes, it would be incredibly sloppy to let this one slide on in.

If the only purpose of the scaling war declaration costs is to prevent people from dec-griefing organizations, the mechanic should be universal and independent of organization size, or it shouldn't exist at all. These subtle mechanic changes that encourage super-group formation could cause a lot of damage to the net ability of many players to enjoy the game. Eve has never been at its best when nobody knows anybody in their groups, but these mechanics provide preferential treatment to players who exist in just that kind of environment. Madness!

EDIT: I only recently recognized that the asymptote for wardec costs in the current proposal peaks at around 450 million ISK, rather than the limitless multi-billion isk scale that had initially caused so much consternation. I apologize for reacting so harshly to what is, ultimately, a reasonable maximum price for a mechanic, even if I don't agree on the idea of scaling costs with member count.