EVE General Discussion

nope. maybe I just did it to **** people like you off :)

As for everyone else maybe now I can start exploring on another char

Considering that the theme is exploration... it's funny that the best stuff (of which there is a lot) is the non-exploration stuff.

The exploration gameplay stuff is ... meh. Waiting for the potential improvements in Odysse 1.1 and 1.2 that might improve it to okay/good (esp. making the mini-game somewhat interesting).

The best stuff is - as usual - that a lot of stuff moves from broken to working

• POS improvements
• cancellation of corp. jobs/role changes
• tech
• tagging hotkeys
• sec status fixing (no need for sec status ratting, while providing income for those in lowsec who like to do it)
• quite a bit more

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I appreciate the continuing ship balancing and quite like most visual and UI fixes of which there are a lot, including a few quite hidden ones ppl should appreciate on patch day (and yes, that includes the UI/visual changes that got done in the name of the exploration revamp, those are actually nice, unlike the exploration gameplay changes).


tldr: Overall, I am reasonably happy. It isn't a truly great expansion, though.

if that was your intention; try harder.

what else do you expect? more systems? pandaria?


anything added to the game will be a rebalance at this point, and any change will have its consequences. moon goo and ice changes alone already changed the game... TEST found themselves sitting on a gold mine, and everyone wants it. and as far as ice goes, the effect will take a few months to be felt on null, but just wait until the logistics crew of any mayor alliance finds a racial isotope dwindling.

any self respecting Sov holding alliance knows that their backbone is the Pos logistics chain.

im just sad that CCP keeps kicking the ball forward... because we know, and they know, that they will have to devote one or two full development cycles to the inner workings of POSes and stations. there's a million features that cannot be added because they are being built around a system that's now ten years old.

In the end, they may have gone overboard with the scanning revamp, but beyond that, the only bad thing about an otherwise awesome expansion is that I'll have to rewrite the newbie skill plan.

(Ok, so it's actually already done and waiting to be auto-published on patch day, but still… that was an awful lot of EVEMon-fiddling-around )

I do think the new expansion really benefits relatively newer players like me. I am almost a year old in a few days, and the scanning changes are great, and encouraging me to get into scanning; it's come to the point where I can fly most ships with ease, and the new training specialization will help me focus on one goal and complete more useful prerequisites.

All in all, while not seemingly as jam-packed with features, it seems that CCP is working on the polish of the game, now. They're done building the car, now all that's left is the paintjob...

Im not Explorer savvy even on my old Char I tried it but I just couldn't I didn't have the patience nor the understanding to continue past the 4th tutorial mission.