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Do me a favor before you guys go live with this stuff. Run anoms in a drone boat and then run them in the racial BS that is best against the local rats and compare the bounty ticks. I would think that a Navy domi versus a Navy Apoc against Sansha / Bloodraiders for example would be a decent comparison.

The way things are now If you are a Minmatar pilot you can go to Angel space and do well. If you are Amarr then Bloodraiders or Sansha space is good for you. For Caldari obviously it's serpentis/guristas. Drone boat's however have no race that they do well at killing. The advantage currently is that they do decent at all of them.

I understand that the Gallente have Hybrids as well but the caldari are more rail focused and blasters really aren't any good for PvE. The amount of time you spend traveling to the target costs you more dps than if you could hit from further out. Projectile pilots have ships like the Machariel and Vargur to make AC's usefull in PvE and the Amarr have scortch ammo and the NApoc to make Pulses good. Heck even ships without an optimal bonus like the NApoc can do well with Pulses. Blasters however, I know of no ship that makes blasters a viable option for PvE when we are talking isk/hour or isk/tick as the judging factor.

Please experiment with isk/hour potential of Gallente and drone pilots versus everyone else. Other wise you are giving Gallente / Drone pilots a serious ass pounding. Isk per hour is the almighty equalizer of everything in game. If you make half as much that means you can afford to loose half as many ships which means you'll get half as much experience and be half as good as another pilot of a different race with the same amount of game time as you. Keep that in mind.

They can, but the timing is extremely hard. I tried repeatedly with a large smartbomb on a carrier, and never once managed to hit it. And this was back before the missile graphics change, when you could actually see them coming at you.

I am now terrified for the future of exploration. Unless you've actually run the maze, you have absolutely no business ****ing with the AI in DED complexes. I'm glad I've moved past using exploration as my primary income, as these changes would have prevented me from getting into it in the first place and I would never have become filthy rich and started living off investment income.

Now sure, I could look at the elimination of one route by which new players can join me and my bemonocled friends in the 1% as a good thing, from a self-interest standpoint, but somehow I don't think it would be good for the game.

tl;dr proposed changes represent large nerf to exploration, large nerf to nullsec income, complete elimination of ninja exploration profession as it exists today.

OK that's fine, that's the broad brush stroke. But again the devil is in the detail and quickly in this thread a bunch of issues have been identified, which seem pretty obvious. Just like "let's revamp the inventory" without considering all the edge cases around that little window. The game is too broad and deep to jump on a single piece of functionality because few operate in isolation.

Didn't they just announce a nerf to heavy missile damage? If you are talking Drake/Tengu Caldari may suck in the near future as well.

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I've got T2 Warriors and Hobgoblins - just don't remember exact prereqs. :)

...and where were these stated goals in the release notes for Inferno? Where did it say we are going to release new mining changes, mods, fixes, and DRONE AI? This is deviating from the set goals posted in this release and creating new bugs and unforeseen consequences in HighSec PVE, null sec ganking, DED sites, Eve economy, and a direct impact on player count, and eve itself. Where are any of these changes helpful? I don't see a game designers hands on this at all, and much has been left unconsidered in the impact this seemingly small change is really producing. This idea should be completely scrapped and is taking way too much dev time away from serious issues. Concord is attacking players? I mean come on this is pathetic. Creating bugs out of thin air for no reason. I don't see Soundwave's signature on this either.

Yes, estamels modified leviathon should drop on a random carrier running an anomaly when it feels like it. Drops normal officer loot table if tackled

Maybe give it a 1 in 337 chance per anom respawn with a single carrier in it.

I am back from that event and dinner. I have read through every single post since I was last here and will now begin trying to answer as many questions as I can.