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As I'm still primarily using Amarr hulls, I'm not too upset by these changes. (It may have something to do with the fact that EVE survived a near-death experience yesterday and as she just came out of a coma, I can't bring myself to anger - either that or it's because these changes will be implemented in mere minutes so there isn't much point in getting too excited...) For what it's worth,

My first impressions:

1.) Writing that the IN Slicer may have received a "tweak" to its fitting really isn't informative enough to draw any conclusions.

2.) The Amarr navy cruisers are getting badass bonuses. What's not to like?

3.) When I read about the changes to the Armageddon, and saw the words: "drone ship," my heart skipped a beat. Oh man, again? But my poor heart was shocked back into rhythm by the preceeding four words "more devious energy neutralizing." It's no secret that I'm not a fan of the Amarr people being turned into a drone race. They've always been best known for armor tanking and energy weapons imo. But at least when you pair drones with an energy weapon bonus (like neuts - I've always considered neuts energy weapons, they just do it in reverse) you bring an affordable, poor-man's Bhaalgorn to the party. And then at least there's a consistent theme between the Pilgrim, Dragoon, Armageddon, and the Bhaalgorn of these Amarr drone ships with energy sucking bonuses. This pve race is getting its pvp teeth one ship at a time. Hell, I say we're past the tipping point now. Just go for it and give the Punisher a neut bonus too. We'll have a whole pvp neut set then. In the end, it's difficult to be upset about a Neutageddon. I've used Neutageddon fits on the old Armageddons in pvp and they work well. They tend to surprise people. With the bonuses, they should work wonders.

(The Prophecy still sticks out like a red-headed stepchild though - I swear I'll never get over turning the eagle of the fleet into a drone carrier. I'm still wounded.)

4.) I was about to have an all-out stroke and fall out of my chair when I read that the Apoc's cap bonuses are being removed. The best thing about an Apoc is that you can fit a full set of T2s or Tachyons and do major dps with them. It still requires cap boosters of course (there's no such thing as cap stable in the Amarr empire! cap stability is for noobs!) but it performed well "because" of that cap bonus. (Same thing with the Navy Harb - no cap bonus, tracking instead.) But then I saw that fitting large energy turrets is being made orders of magnitude easier with requirements of TWENTY PERCENT less capacitor and TEN PERCENT less powergrid. And since this single change alone is like Christmas and my birthday all rolled into one, it's virtually impossible to be upset about anything else. How many Amarr ships have I fit with capacitor rigs and powergrid rigs, and powergrid modules and powergrid implants because the large energy turrets were so hungry they had to have it? How many times have I wished I could fit something like a rate of fire rig or an armor mod in the low slot that powergrid mod is occupying? As I've always had at least one Amarr character over the past five years: Too. Many. To. Count.

For that one reason alone, I'm thrilled. I can't wait to see how it affects all the fittings on all my ships and what alterations will be made possible because of it.

I can't believe I'm writing this but I'm actually looking forward to these ship changes.

Wow, huh?

YK

How does that follow for the navy variants of the Armageddon, Augoror, Exequror, Osprey, Scorpion, and Scythe? None of them are variations on the T1 ships.

Awesome changes for the ships.

Any eta on when the changes for the pirate ships are coming though?

Lets hope you CCP doesn't mess up the Vindicator now, because i'm a very happy user of it.

That's a good point, if the Domi's success is going to be centered around fighting exclusively with the sentries, then having any mobility with a fleet is going to mean abandoning a LOT of drones.

Should the domi really be abandoning drones to compete with the mobility of other combat battleships?

The domi should at least have a role bonus that increases sentry velocity up from 1 m/s, at least when being recalled to the dronebay.

Combat ship changes seem to be getting all the coverage, (not that all the info is a bad thing) what has been lacking from the point of the initial ship change blog is what is happening with the non-combat ships, particularly the basic industrials. The origional blog stated that you would only need Gallante Industrial 1 as opposed to the current V that is needed now. Is this still going to happen, and have role changes been set up so that Itty's 1-4 do not become worthless hulls?

Could you add warfare link effectiveness cut by 50% somewhere in there?

I wouldn't mind if the font would be small.

WARNING - Lots o' love in this post.


Seriously - not to downplay what the other awesome devs at CCP do, but how does CCP Fozzie get all this Awwwwesome?

I mean - this guy is an animal. Talk about owning it and dominating.

The likes are strong with this one. ;)


Great work Fozzie, Rise, et al

Thanks for helping me and many others get much more excited about EVE. The spark is almost back! ;)

You are forgetting WH brawlers ma'am!

drone mechanics are already being looked at. so just because a weapon system is not as viable now does not mean it wont be in the future.

things to look foward to is:

Ability to use nanite paste on drones when they are in the drone bay

not having to recall drones when warping away for the drones to be moved to "in distance space" so that way you will not loose control over drones if you warp away.

sentry drones having the ability to move around at heavy drone speed but cannot fire. then you toggle the sentries to zero speed and gain ability to shoot.

small and medium sentry drones

ewar drones being balanced.

Moreover:
Increase tracking and optimal range will also help close range drones.

as an exploration solo 0.0 ratting ship my domi just got allot better.

Well, I see the person who wrote that dev blog needs to go back to grammar school. His spelling / grammatical cases is / are awful.

First. He wrote where "the probem laid". It should be LAY.

Secondly. some extend Battleships... That should be EXTENT you illiterate cad.

What is the problem these days with getting something spelt right?
I will paraphrase something I read here a while ago; If you cannot be bothered to write something properly I cannot be bothered to read it properly.

Their is moast likeley soem moar i haev misst, btu carnt b bovvert tu fined dem.

Does that look right to you?

Edit: Now this is just insulting. " also follows the same pattern than its regular Tech " Are you freaking kidding me?
Write me a mail ingame with the right answer and I will rescind publicly my comments. Ytterbium only please. (Or one of the dev crew)

Thama out.