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My alt is level 5 on all pertinent HM skills and Tengu skills. He flys an officer fit Tengu which could solo all level 4 missions and quite a few level 5's as well. So I dare say his skills are not "low" and that the ship is "properly fit" for the task at hand.
I, and many others who've posted here, have noticed the severe drop off in range of the HM's and the drop to damage that the HM's apply to frigate/dessie targets. We observe this by playing the game, not asking our friends or hearing rumors or just making **** up to be uber forum warriors.


As to your friends..... Clearly they are about as observant as a blind man in an empty room at midnight, or else they themselves lack the skills and fitting to have noticed any changes.


Also, it is quite obvious from your posts (despite their horrid composition) that you yourself do not actually fly the ships or use the weapons that you profess to know about. Yet you seek to speak with authority that you and others are okay with the changes and accept them on behalf of the players who do use them.

Why you feel qualified to speak on behalf of others about something you obviously know nothing about is beyond me. If you wish to talk about something you have 1st hand experience with, by all means do so. But when it comes to discussing something you know nothing about, how about you just keep your mouth shut?

I do not talk about tracking disruption or care much about drones. I do not use turrets or drones. So I gladly accept that other payers, who do use those systems, will voice their concerns and issues while I remain silent on such issues. It is not my place to speak on such issues as I have no real experience with said systems.

About the HM's and their nerf: I (and many others) speak from 1st hand in game experience. You speak based on 2nd and 3rd hand info and have no experience in the matter directly....


Do the forum world a favor and try this: Stick to what you know Francis.

I agree with this in principle, but think that the mechanics as described may also be easy to abuse, the best fix is simply to make it impossible to place a bounty on a player unless they have a negative security status.

I do also lean towards the other idea that you could use a different criminal system to place a price on the head of any player, but I think this mechanism should be incredibly expensive and require the use of the criminal connections skill or a new skill along the lines of criminal contracting.

Such contracts should be highly expensive after all you are asking someone to do something criminal that may elict a concord response depending on where your target is. Such contracts on players that have done nothing technically wrong should expire quickly and require a massive collatoral for failure, enough so that people may be wary enough not to take the deal and also no refunds so that the player with a price on his head may have time to dock up and hide out for a bit and in general such prices should represent 'dead money'. You set up the contract and the money is gone forever. I like the idea of a countdown say 24 hours to kill (insert name of person).

I know there's a lot wrong with the criminal system I'm proposing but I'm sure that it cannot be beyond the whit of man to make something that is rule based and hard to abuse. At least you'd think that...

CCP gave a lot of thought on how to handle the payout or "back-end" of the bounty system and absolutely no thought whatsoever on the front-end, application of bounties. Even the simplest of minds could think of any number of ways to improve the frivolous application of bounties which is now pervasive. How about these ideas:

1. Cost of placing the bounties is tied to the sec status of the mark, so a -10 is cheap to place a bounty on, while a +5 is expensive or even impossible to do so.
2. No one in an NPC corp can place a bounty.
3. Bounties decay over time or otherwise expire after some length of time.

As it is now, players are carrying around "nuisance" bounties for having done nothing more than ask a question in chat.

That is not "Retribution" -- that is just plain dumb.

The Viator used to be my workhorse. It was the ship that I used for all the boring tasks that are more like a job than like a game.

So all the running around that I used to do for example if I need to make a supply run from null or low sec I could manually jump the couple jumps to get to high sec and then autopilot to where ever I needed to go to pick up ammo or what ever. It was an awesome default ship for when I did not know what I was going to need to do when I got to where I was going. It warped fast, aligned fast and could fit a MWD for when I wanted to semi autopilot.

Now with these changes you've turned the ship into a pinata. So I can't auto pilot anywhere even empty because no one knows what I am carrying and empty or hull full of PLEXs all looks the same.

You've made the boring, grueling, work-like parts of this game far more boring, far more work-like and much less fun.

Your inventory changes just get worse and worse. If I were giving this expansion a grade it would be a "D".

atleast i'm not the only one i guess.... somehow this makes me feel better? :/

I assume eve works perfectly well the 23 hours out of the day i can't play. maybe i should make an income charging others for the service of my not playing eve, as this likely would eliminate any future problems for everyone else.

A feedback ? Hum... I suppose that this one had been told multiple times, but one more time don't hurt :

* Enable sound *

Time to undock, I need to go somewhere.

* Shortly after the undock, the shuttle emit a high-pitched sound *

A....AAARRRRRGGGG MY EARS ARE BLEEDING !

* Disable sound *

......

I guess that 2013 will be my 6th year without sound. I wonder how in 2013, a game video company is UNABLE to make a correct sound engine and correct sounds... And unable to make them customizable although it would resolve most of the trouble... Rumors said that the sounds when you shoot NPCs are worse than before, but right now I don't want test. Just the shuttle make me suffer enough.

IMHO Logistic frigates need rep amount buffed 2x. One logi frig can only tank 2-3 frigs worth of damage (~600 DPS), one logi cruiser can tank 3-4 cruisers (~2000 DPS) with armor links.

It's a bit unbalanced, any doctrine built around it would get crushed by a pure DPS version of the same fleet. I would think one frig should tank a frig ~800 DPS with 3 reps?

Unless i am missing something here?

Blockade Runners are now immune to cargo scanners.

Why was this even a change. If a blockade runner had valuable cargo the pilot would just not autopilot and use cloak to avoid gankage. Now all blockade runner users have to not autopilot and use insta undocks in Jita to avoid getting ganked for luls and being an unknown loot pinata. While this does only effect a small number of users this was an unnecessary change that only causes headaches for random players that used blockade runners for usualy hauling.

Re: Bounties

Just because you have a bounty doesn't mean you're going to get shot up for it. It does however provide an incentive to pvp... though in most cases I personally fight before I know if there's a bounty or not... but the point is that bounties are now simply a part of the fabric of the game and pay out if and when there is combat. No combat no bounty- so really, WHAT is the big deal?