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removal of strategic cruisers from 3/10 and 4/10 sites

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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#41 - 2013-06-05 17:58:55 UTC
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
Derdrom Utida wrote:
Jonas Staal wrote:
Logical solution would be "balance the rewards in such a way that old vets feel no need to run new players' sites"


Stop right there.

It isn't reward balancing.

People just don't want to run the *risk* of losing their ships. It isn't about loot distribution, it isn't about being entitled to do X because you have Y sp. It's because people want super-shiny loot with as little risk, and as little effort as possible. Don't even try to pretend it isn't about that.

EDIT: This only applies in hi-sec.

It's also about the intensity of the gaming experience. From my perspective the best thing about highsec PvE is that you don't have to remain alert and tense all the time. No cat and mouse games with locals or roaming gangs, no directional scanner spamming, running gate camps and no scouting and traveling by your personal safespot network. You can actually enjoy the game casually for once doing an activity you like in exchage for a reduced reward level. Increased income is nice, but it's just one thing among many, that decide where and how people spend their time in the game.




Pro Tip:


Use wormholes to get to deep null, past the gank pipelines and renter staffed gate camps, and you can spend weeks out there without seeing another ship.

I do it in an exploration-fit Tech 1 BC.

People with Tech 3 crying about this change are making my sh!t itch.


Bring back DEEEEP Space!

Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#42 - 2013-06-05 18:22:48 UTC
Thorn Galen wrote:
The Gnosis most of us received (at least one), fit for exploration and sites is an excellent ship for 4/10.
Perfect for these sites along with probing and hacking.

T3 was total overkill on 3/10 and 4/10.




Gnosis is a BC, FTFY
Jayrendo Karr
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#43 - 2013-06-05 21:51:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Jayrendo Karr
I vote they don't outright ban t3's but instead, the site is filled with a cloud that damages and destroys t3's in a matter of seconds. Either that or have the rats call in reinforcements to take out the T3 ships, other ships won't be in danger because the rats don't see a frigate as a threat and move resources somewhere more important. Basically it keeps the game realistic. Taking a T3 into a 4/4 is the equivalent of hot dropping a full fleet of carriers into a level 2 mission. Either accept making a bit less in hi-sec or making more in low and null at the risk of being blown up.
Derdrom Utida
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#44 - 2013-06-05 22:25:19 UTC
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
Derdrom Utida wrote:
Jonas Staal wrote:
Logical solution would be "balance the rewards in such a way that old vets feel no need to run new players' sites"


Stop right there.

It isn't reward balancing.

People just don't want to run the *risk* of losing their ships. It isn't about loot distribution, it isn't about being entitled to do X because you have Y sp. It's because people want super-shiny loot with as little risk, and as little effort as possible. Don't even try to pretend it isn't about that.

EDIT: This only applies in hi-sec.

It's also about the intensity of the gaming experience. From my perspective the best thing about highsec PvE is that you don't have to remain alert and tense all the time. No cat and mouse games with locals or roaming gangs, no directional scanner spamming, running gate camps and no scouting and traveling by your personal safespot network. You can actually enjoy the game casually for once doing an activity you like in exchage for a reduced reward level. Increased income is nice, but it's just one thing among many, that decide where and how people spend their time in the game.


You're absolutely allowed to play the game in the way in which you want to. Hi-sec still exists, and it will continue to exist. But you shouldn't be making "good" ISK when you have a ship that simply tears apart anything you throw it at. It's not healthy for the game.

Hell, with Tags4Sec and the new explo, I feel low-sec should STILL be buffed, but that's just because I'm biased.
Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#45 - 2013-06-05 22:27:06 UTC
Haulin Gneiss wrote:
Copper Rei wrote:
why? this change makes no sense to me. I trained to fly a scanning frig...found I needed to also be able to run the sites if I wanted to make anything out of the sites I found.....so I trained to skill everything I needed for exploration to lvl V and then I trained combat to be able to fly decent cruisers...this didn't work as well as the frig due to loss of scan bonuses....so the long awaited t3 which offered scan bonus options........I trained to cruiser V and weapons and all subsystems so I could fly a decent cruiser with scan bonus comparable to my frig........
I just found a good fit that holds all my gear for scanning....analyzer, salvager, codebreaker, and launcher as well as having weapons enough to run the site so I didn't have to fly a second account and tag along another toon while dual boxing and all that..........
I finially get there and you block my access to every known site in h-sec.

I am a 3+ year pilot with no ability to PVP and I enjoy solo exploration.

I found a game I could play and have fun and I have tried damn near every aspect of the game.

This move to eliminate the t3 from the only available sites in h-sec SUCKS MY ASS.

I have never been so pissed.

I am forced into l-sec. and ALL my training is out the window.



Never mind this is supposed to be a 'sandbox". There are a lot of us in the same boat. just get a nice worm and live with that. gone are the days when CCP gives content for experienced players. They takin all our toys and giving them to the noobs or low sec.



Strategic cruisers are meant to be versatile, which some are and most precisely Tengu followed very closely by Loki.

For exploration you can't just spit in the air how op those are and forget about the essential, those are minor sites requiring cruiser sized hulls and I do agree these T3's are rather good to clean those sites.

Now tell us all about exploration and how you tank/DPS your 10/10 with your lonely Tengu fitted for exploration. You can't !
So in the end are those OP or not OP?

The answer is quite simple, you're using a fantastic tool to clean sites not requiring anything else than a regular T1 or T2 ship version, if something you should ask for a T1 cruiser hull with bonus for this, not say strategic cruisers are OP because it's false, it's only your perception from your experience in small minor exploration sites.

Again the problem is not T3's but the lack of a cheaper exploration ship cruiser sized in between T1/T2 exploration frigates and T3's exploration subs.

Will that be all? -ok you can send me 1B for this enlightenment.

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Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#46 - 2013-06-05 22:38:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Sergeant Acht Scultz
Derdrom Utida wrote:
You're absolutely allowed to play the game in the way in which you want to. Hi-sec still exists, and it will continue to exist. But you shouldn't be making "good" ISK when you have a ship that simply tears apart anything you throw it at. It's not healthy for the game.

Hell, with Tags4Sec and the new explo, I feel low-sec should STILL be buffed, but that's just because I'm biased.


Are you kidding?

You're kidding right?


Tell me more about Faction fitted Machariels/Vindicators/Nightmares/Rattlesnakes Gilas Navy ships and other pimp stuff that should be banned from high sec too.

From your point of view players in high sec should fly with T1 frigates and cruisers only? -because that's what you're implying since T3's are not what you're talking about or at least you've never flown a 3K+DPS Machariel/Vindicator able to clean entire sanctums in less than 20min, leave it alone lvl4's.

You're finding problems where there aren't any, it's players actions and the content they crate for themselves. Someone tells you to do it in a T3? -I don't think so, I don't think neither it's in the EULA, don't like it? don't use it
Make your own content, build your own gaming tools, this is the finest freedom you have available in Eve, you shape yourself your gaming world.
Hell go run lvl4's in a retriever or a T2 frigate if you like, the problems you might find is not tools available but players horrible thinking.

Edit because it's worth: low sec doesn't need more buffs, just needs better thinking players over there.

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Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#47 - 2013-06-05 22:52:13 UTC
actually the eula does prevent you from getting a T3 into a 3/4/10 since the only way you'd have one in there is if you're exploiting

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Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#48 - 2013-06-05 23:02:34 UTC
Andski wrote:
actually the eula does prevent you from getting a T3 into a 3/4/10 since the only way you'd have one in there is if you're exploiting



The entire point being OP is delivering tears and rage for peanuts, believe me I've made huge efforts to not troll this (harder)

Lol

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Derdrom Utida
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#49 - 2013-06-05 23:03:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Derdrom Utida
Sergeant Acht Scultz wrote:
Derdrom Utida wrote:
You're absolutely allowed to play the game in the way in which you want to. Hi-sec still exists, and it will continue to exist. But you shouldn't be making "good" ISK when you have a ship that simply tears apart anything you throw it at. It's not healthy for the game.

Hell, with Tags4Sec and the new explo, I feel low-sec should STILL be buffed, but that's just because I'm biased.


Are you kidding?

You're kidding right?


Tell me more about Faction fitted Machariels/Vindicators/Nightmares/Rattlesnakes Gilas Navy ships and other pimp stuff that should be banned from high sec too.

From your point of view players in high sec should fly with T1 frigates and cruisers only? -because that's what you're implying since T3's are not what you're talking about or at least you've never flown a 3K+DPS Machariel/Vindicator able to clean entire sanctums in less than 20min, leave it alone lvl4's.

You're finding problems where there aren't any, it's players actions and the content they crate for themselves. Someone tells you to do it in a T3? -I don't think so, I don't think neither it's in the EULA, don't like it? don't use it
Make your own content, build your own gaming tools, this is the finest freedom you have available in Eve, you shape yourself your gaming world.
Hell go run lvl4's in a retriever or a T2 frigate if you like, the problems you might find is not tools available but players horrible thinking.

Edit because it's worth: low sec doesn't need more buffs, just needs better thinking players over there.


No one's stopping people from running 3 and 4/10 DED's with Gila's or other blingy ships. CCP agrees with my sentiment that there was a problem because they nerfed specifically T3's in those DED's. Bringing strategic cruisers into lowbie sites isn't this genius idea that only idiots don't do, it's what everyone did, and thus, warranted the nerf.

Level 4's shouldn't even be in this discussion because they can't be solo'd in a Caracal, unlike 3/4 DED's.

EDIT: Spelling
Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#50 - 2013-06-05 23:24:04 UTC
Derdrom Utida wrote:

No one's stopping people from running 3 and 4/10 DED's with Gila's or other blingy ships. CCP agrees with my sentiment that there was a problem because they nerfed specifically T3's in those DED's. Bringing strategic cruisers into lowbie sites isn't this genius idea that only idiots don't do, it's what everyone did, and thus, warranted the nerf.

Level 4's shouldn't even be in this discussion because they can't be solo'd in a Caracal, unlike 3/4 DED's.

EDIT: Spelling


I understand you point of view, thing is that by that logic CCP are not being logic, what about ban from lvl4's Marauders/Navy ships/Pirate ships?

By that logic then why not ban T2 links/OGB and T2 mining ships from high sec?-those have a well known huge impact

By that logic again why not ban from high sec POSs?-those clearly have a huge impact

It's exactly the same problems but a lot bigger and having a greater impact than T3's running 3/4 anoms, instead of fixing anom difficulty or the mechanic it's easier and faster to script ban an item, and this is silly.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#51 - 2013-06-05 23:30:40 UTC
Sergeant Acht Scultz wrote:
I understand you point of view, thing is that by that logic CCP are not being logic, what about ban from lvl4's Marauders/Navy ships/Pirate ships?

By that logic then why not ban T2 links/OGB and T2 mining ships from high sec?-those have a well known huge impact

By that logic again why not ban from high sec POSs?-those clearly have a huge impact
Because none of those have any ship restrictions that are put into place to ensure that you can't utterly steam-roll them with something that so ridiculously outmatches the content.

It's entirely logical that the restrictions for one type of content do not apply to a completely different type of content since… you know… it's a different type of content.
Derdrom Utida
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#52 - 2013-06-05 23:33:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Derdrom Utida
Sergeant Acht Scultz wrote:
Derdrom Utida wrote:

No one's stopping people from running 3 and 4/10 DED's with Gila's or other blingy ships. CCP agrees with my sentiment that there was a problem because they nerfed specifically T3's in those DED's. Bringing strategic cruisers into lowbie sites isn't this genius idea that only idiots don't do, it's what everyone did, and thus, warranted the nerf.

Level 4's shouldn't even be in this discussion because they can't be solo'd in a Caracal, unlike 3/4 DED's.

EDIT: Spelling


I understand you point of view, thing is that by that logic CCP are not being logic, what about ban from lvl4's Marauders/Navy ships/Pirate ships?

By that logic then why not ban T2 links/OGB and T2 mining ships from high sec?-those have a well known huge impact

By that logic again why not ban from high sec POSs?-those clearly have a huge impact

It's exactly the same problems but a lot bigger and having a greater impact than T3's running 3/4 anoms, instead of fixing anom difficulty or the mechanic it's easier and faster to script ban an item, and this is silly.


It's as if you're implying CCP hates your freedom and ingenuity and seeks to ruin your fun.

All they did was not allow a beastly monster of a scanning/clearing combo ship to enter lowbie sites.
Koz Katral
Collapsed Out
Pandemic Legion
#53 - 2013-06-06 00:19:50 UTC
Hisec exploration is boring and dull and you shouldn't do it. CCP has done you a favour.
Copper Rei
Copper Corp
Aggressively Passive Bears
#54 - 2013-06-06 01:31:14 UTC
There is so much to say but I won't bother to say too much since it will fall on deaf ears anyway.

I would like to point out that I do have a toon in null sec. I use him for mining and pos defence for the alliance that supports me in my exploration of null sec.

I have had toons in militia for over a year before finially giving that up since I pretty much sucked at it.

I have had POS in worm space for six months or so...right up to the point that CCP changed the fuel cells and the customs offices and cut all profits from that operation to almost zero.

I found many good people in game and I enjoy playing with them.

High sec space is where this particular toon stays. I have always tried to make the best of the sites I have found. I run them and have fun doing it. I do not steal and I will always try to help people in local. I take time to offer gravs to miners in local and to offer any and all wrecks WITH loots to new players who are willing to fleet and come salvage. I ask nothing in return.

I have given away many of my finds including ships.

There are many people who know me and know this to be true.

I just play a different game than the majority here.

I have another main toon on another account that has built up skills to manufacture t3 and has been doing so for a short while. More time wasted.

This 'nerf' has hurt in many ways. I was not ranting to rant. I honestly think that exploration changes were needed but not to the extent of destroying what the exploration career was all about.
They have made it into something else and it is not good.
Tea Leaves
Abyssus Spatium Exploratorium
#55 - 2013-06-06 01:54:13 UTC
OH NOES. Well guess what, now nobody else can use T3's in your precious 4/10 farm either. This levels the playing field for everyone in high sec. If you don't like. Feel free to biomass yourself and give somebody your stuff.
tanju1982
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#56 - 2013-06-06 02:48:58 UTC  |  Edited by: tanju1982
So after reading all the posts and reply's something has occurred to me. No one has yet to acknowledge the fact that some, not all, but at least some of the 4/10 sites have the ability to brake the tank of even the toughest T3's.

Now i know some of you out there are immediately going to say when you must not have a good fit for your T3.. You may be right. so i would invite you to link me a fit that get better then 890 dps (hams), 1400 active repping tank, and goes faster then 1200ms. (YOU HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED)

Now considering those spec for a simple high-sec lvl 4 mission and exploration **** you would think it would sweep the floor with all high sec sites. In most cases it does. Yet there have been a few 4/10 sites in which the speed at which my ships ability clear the field or burn off from the npcs has been the difference between living to collect the loot or dieing in a ball of fire.

I tell you this not because I am some how pissed at the changes or feel slighted by CCP for making the changes they did. in the end i only run the sight on occasion and just for fun. I've been playing the game long enough to find another ship to use or something else to pass my time.

I tell you this because if players with nearly 9 yrs of EVE game play, flying ships that filled with bling have troubles somethings; what will happen the genuinely new players who are most likely barely able to fly there T1/ cruisers and BC's ( even if they are faction) going to do in these sights?

After all they are intended to new players right? That is the argument on why T3's have to be banned..
Ris Dnalor
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#57 - 2013-06-06 03:25:03 UTC
Copper Rei wrote:
why? this change makes no sense to me. I trained to fly a scanning frig...found I needed to also be able to run the sites if I wanted to make anything out of the sites I found.....so I trained to skill everything I needed for exploration to lvl V and then I trained combat to be able to fly decent cruisers...this didn't work as well as the frig due to loss of scan bonuses....so the long awaited t3 which offered scan bonus options........I trained to cruiser V and weapons and all subsystems so I could fly a decent cruiser with scan bonus comparable to my frig........
I just found a good fit that holds all my gear for scanning....analyzer, salvager, codebreaker, and launcher as well as having weapons enough to run the site so I didn't have to fly a second account and tag along another toon while dual boxing and all that..........
I finially get there and you block my access to every known site in h-sec.

I am a 3+ year pilot with no ability to PVP and I enjoy solo exploration.

I found a game I could play and have fun and I have tried damn near every aspect of the game.

This move to eliminate the t3 from the only available sites in h-sec SUCKS MY ASS.

I have never been so pissed.

I am forced into l-sec. and ALL my training is out the window.



If you find an easy button ( and yes, to be clear, I'm saying that's what this was. ) You should enjoy the ever-luvin-**** out of it while it lasts, because it will go away. Also, tell noone about your easy button, as that will ensure it goes away faster.

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Ylariana
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#58 - 2013-06-06 06:06:07 UTC
Jonas Staal wrote:
Ylariana wrote:
(you know, actually RUNNING the site instead of cherry picking).


I understand what you mean, but cherry picking is refered to as using DPS to only scan possible DED4's.

Exploration in high sec is all about competition. It *IS* part of exploration. If someone enters "your" site (since it's in no way your site) and you are in high sec you lose the loot, in low sec you die.

This also makes the Gnosis a bad choice imo, as it's slow as ****.


At no point in my post did I claim any right to ownership. What I referred to was more a point of manners and courtesy. If someone else is already running a site, I leave. Manners and Courtesy.

If someone else is running a site and you choose to blow past them to the shiny drop container at the end, that's Greed and Selfishness.

See the difference ?

Cant believe I actually had to spell that out
Mnemosyne Gloob
#59 - 2013-06-06 07:25:29 UTC
CCP saw something going on in highsec exploration. They saw it involved (mostly) tengus and also deep space probes. They fixed it.

Now - they could have done better, because tengus were not the problem, nor were deep space probes (well they were, because people are lazy), but they did something! Could have done better, but at least they did something.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#60 - 2013-06-06 07:34:36 UTC
Cant wait for the t3 nerfs.