EVE General Discussion

Two things:

1) Will Fozzie be on during your regular slot (20:00) Wiggles? I didn't read a time for the interview.

and 2) Will Fozzie be able to see the in-game Eve Radio chat during the interview for interactive feedback to his comments?

Thanks.

YK

Hey guys, thanks for all the questions so far. Just to give you a heads up, my options for answering questions about the Summer expansion, or timelines for any specific changes will still be very limited during this interview since we will not have completed our release planning at that point.

So don't be surprised if a lot of questions about timelines get answered with a "Can't say with enough certainty yet".

Q: Can you have a look at balancing Weapons rigs - specifically the stacking penalties and calibration points esp. with T2 rigs?

Sadly the game seems to have focussed more and more on 'tank' rather than 'gank'.
I don't understand how or why you can fit 5x 1600mm plates and 3x T2 trimarks without stacking penalty, but even try fitting 2x T2 collision accelerator rigs and you find your calibration points sadly lacking. Add to that a damage module or two and the stacking penalty makes your 'gank' fit rigged ship completely redundant.

Q2: How about altering the Algid rig to reduce the heat damage to weapons systems by 10% per rigging level?

Gank needs some more love.

Im surprised no-one has asked the ground breaking question: which side of the sandwich fence do you sit on?

Q: Hey Fozzie can you detail for us your preliminary thoughts about capital ship balancing?

A big thank you to Fozzie for coming on to talk about spaceships :D

Hey can you allow us to download that interview in a file? There's the 'rewind' section of the eve-radio website but it only allows for streaming and I'd rather not wait for 2 hours to listen to one itty-bit of an interview that I'm interested in.

Downloading now!

Transcript. Time starts 1:45:05

DJ Wiggles: Well it'll get done when its gets done... Question from ingame: Shadow Lord...

CCP Fozzie: I'll make a note to poke the community guys and ask him... what's up with there...

Shadow Lord says can you detail your preliminary thoughts about capital ship balancing?

And I'm sure you have maybe have a scratching of information back on a napkin somewhere.

CCP Fozzie: [Rubs arm or hands nervously] Yeah it's... that's one of those things where I have to be very careful about, what we say because, this is... something that's... the design isn't completed yet, and so I don't want.. want to be... everytime I say something like this it will get accept as fact by a lot of people. So.. What I'll say is that we want capital ship piloting to be something you have fun, interesting activities to do with them. So it's not just showing up and shooting structures with your supercarrier, or with your dread. We want to make sure to make sure that there is good reasons to bring out your capital ships and your supercapital ships without obviously them being overpowered. So that's the really difficult line to cross, or to.. to.. walk.. and that is the main challenge we're working towards, is getting to the point where umm.. the-these are fun ships to fly.

End of question.

That was a fun segment to transcript. Lol. I kept in all the uncertainties in his speech for accuracy.

Link to the interview:
http://wiggles.gamingradio.net/blog/?p=587

Listened to the show and enjoyed it. Cheers.

First time I've actually listened to Eve radio in my time playing, but been on countless roams with them.

shame my Qs never got asked, but hey-ho, such is life. Did learn some other interesting stuff like Fozzie was a PL AHAC gheyboy, before he became a CCP gheyboy. *tinfoil conspiracy and stuff* No wonder he's buffing 'tank' playstyle.... it is all to make fights longer and escalate more so his superblob buds can have funs...