Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Look at the plus side… While you wait for the jump to complete you can watch your dog run for miles and miles...

Hehe you clearly don't know a thing about how BS interact with frigates in the game... It's far easier for an Arty Mach (just to name one BS) to instakill a frigate at 100km than at 1km, so next time you make a statement like that make sure you do some fact checking or run it by someone who has some understanding of the game mechanics.

Also. your suggestion of "don't travel in battleships" is as dumb as they come... you can do better than that.

If the numbers in my head are right, this adds more than ten seconds and less than a minute to an interceptor circuit from Dodixie - Apanake - Hek - (undisclosed trade station) - Amarr - Jita - Dodi.

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(w00t, actually found a safe for work version of that image!)

Not sure about this.

If there is a problem, why not tell us what it is? You'd get better feedback. Assuming there is a problem with certain hulls, maybe address that problem on the hulls?

Last week: "We're going to change warp speed rigs to make them stacking penalized with each other."
FanFest: "We're going to allow freighters and jump freighters to use rigs."

The question begs to be asked if this isn't being implemented solely to neuter freighters and jump freighters to some extent.

You forgot to crop out being on the test server. =P

Cheers for the set buff.

Umm as to the rigs, if you could perhaps look at reducing the CPU fitting requirement that would be much appreciated. We used to often fly mixed group fleets in low sec, with a BS or two and the rest of the fleet made up of other ship types.

BS now get hopelessly left behind on a long roam and are starting to get dusty in our hangers. The warp speed nerf is no issue to 0.0 titan bridging fleets but it's a pain the in bum to low sec groups that like to fly them.

So \o/ to the set buff. The stacking penalty changes to the rigs is not an issue as even when we do use them it's usually just the one rig. a reduction in the cpu requirement would be most welcome.

BS nerfed effectively by other ships increase in warp speed. Don't need to lose more CPU in an attempt to keep up.

Thanks

If your Frigate is still within 100 km range by the time it's locked you do something wrong.

and whether or not "some BS are able to insta pop a frigate shouldn't be the issue a ABC has access to the same weapons with more speed.


the whole thing with the speed balance is that it has no trade off. The mass and size affect the time you need to get to warp , your max speed and warp speed, though when something small bumps in to you, mass and bulk do nothing for you, or if someone webs you for that matter.

Now it doesn't seem realistic to expect CCP to install real physics rather soon, though it would be nice to give some trade off to the larger ships. things like warp strength would be a nice start.

Hey everyone. Thanks for the feedback so far.

I just got back to work after a bit of post-fanfest death plague recovery. I'm working through a bunch of threads to catch up on what was discussed over Fanfest and the last two days.

I'm all caught up on this thread and I want to quickly address a few things mentioned:

The stacking penalty for warp speed rigs is something they should have always had since the beginning. Stacking penalties go a long way to making rig and module combination choices interesting instead of just slapping a max number of one thing onto your ship, and this change will keep warp rigs competitive while also providing some more interesting choices around what your third rig should be. For the record, the stacking penalty only applies to other warp speed rigs, not to the warp speed implants.

Battleship use is very healthy since the warp speed changes. We're keeping a close eye on how people are using the ship classes most affected by the changes and of course many people in the office use battleships for our own activities ingame. So far we are not afraid of battleships becoming uncompetitive.

We'll continue to look at the stats of the Ascendancies and the WS- implants. It's possible that these changes don't go far enough, and we're open to making more.

lel, spend most of your roaming in warp tunnels

Btw return old light rapids.