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because they lowered the resists? check the ship info, it clearly says 5%.

"7.5% per level" as seen on TQ is a lie.

The resists for all exhumers were hardcoded to give approximately those resists since Mining Barge V was a prerequisite anyway.

On the current SISI build, the game references the pilot's Exhumer level and computes resists accordingly.

結衣

This is starting to get rediculous...

5% is correct for the Hulk

Sorry CCP Paradox, but this is just a joke really, Hulks were supposed as t2 Ships to have a sligth higher Ressists then t1 ships, removing this 7,5% bonus, brings the Exhumers in range to rest from the t1 Mining barges and makes them so to say not longer worthy having the T2 sign...except the needed materials to build them and stuff its a technical downgrading from them not a really change.

And if this really had been done cause like Tankn00blicus posted above 'quote start' Someone was whining that it's unfair that you need to go all the way up to a tornado just to alpha a hulk, so CCP fixed that. 'quote end' . Then i'm really disapointed to be honest CCP followed those whiners.

Sincerly ( and more and more getting angry at CCP designer staff )

Carola Kessler

Hulks never really were the high HP ships anyways, so the rest from the Exhumers and Miningbarges....after this patch goes live, Skiffs and Macks were the choice for having somewhat protection.....but in this case, even in a fleet the hulk will be the ship gets over time less used except in Mining ops in 0.0.

Bringing it to the point Hulks if players thinking about their even with sligthly raised EHP but less resists tankability against Ganks, makes the Choice easy, Hulk will get abandoned, even if it still has a sligthly higher mining yield.

And don't come me with the Words...Learn to tank a hulk properly, I'm TALKING ABOUT TANKED HULKS, not about Max Cargo / yield Hulks.

Tanked Mack with Shield Harmonizing Ganglink II gets about 62k EHP against a Hulk same tank setup except one less lowslot only about 30k EHP lets go about 31k so.....Makes the Hulk the last choice against survivability against hisec ganks if they come in hordes.

Sincerly

Carola Kessler

Ok, the Hulk is not supposed to be the tanky exhumer... but why do all others have the same 5% resistance bonus now?

Shouldn't the Skiff have 7.5% as the new tanky T2 barge?

I get the impression that you guys are alittle lost in the woods right now, when it comes to balancing this changes...

Same goes for the T1 barges by the way... Procurer 4 medslots, all other barges only 1.

My suggestions:

Procurer: Stats and bonuses ok
Retreiver: Everything ok aside from +2 medslots (total of 3) and more powergrid
Covetor: Everything ok aside from +1 medslots (total of 2)

Skiff: +7.5% to shield resists per level
Mackinaw: ok
Hulk: +5% mining yield and 3% resistances per level

There's a dev blog on the verge of being released. You can read Tallest's reasoning and provide feedback to him once it's out.

Well lets hope he comes with a somewhat good explanation for this change and offcourse hopefully this friday or weekend before Inferno 1.2 release as well.

Such a change having that high impact on Exhumers in regards to Cargohold capacity, Ressist bonus decrease and so on and fort will make alot of peoples upset at the best. Depending what explanation he brings up, peoples will reflect their views on this change very vocal i'm sure.

Sincerly

Carola Kessler

Tallest needs to grow some stones and come interact with us. This is supposed to be the motherfucking test server where we test changes and give feedback. if he doesn't come and actually interact then our feedback is useless.


/pissed off software dev engineer in test.