EVE General Discussion

http://strawpoll.me/5559952

I have spent the better part of 4 years frequently visiting F&I and the GD forums, like many of you I've had the relative misfortune of watching threads get reposted over and over again. People it seems are notoriously fickle and that there are as many currents drawing on the development team as there are human beings at a keyboard.

So today I have thought to post a strawpoll on the matter of what the general populace thinks they want from the game. Please do link and spread the poll to your corp/alliance mates via the appropriate channels your group uses, let's get as many people in on this as we can. CCP already know about the EVEo forum regulars and their opinions - it's really crucial we start polling the rest of the population whom may or may not be under instruction to avoid this place (allegedly RAZOR frowns on it, I'm not actually sure, YMMV).

It would also be great if respondants could be encouraged to write a paragraph or two detailing their choice and the reasons for it.

Of course this requires me to go first;

The ship rebalance.

Let's look at a few outstanding cases here in isolation and then weave them back in to the greater whole. First up is T3Ds. As the newest member of the EVEo family they have created massive waves across the universe due to unparalleled and frankly in the svipuls case unbalanced performance for cost. At merely 33mil/ship they were possibly the most cost effective sub-caps available, with entire fleets of them being deployed in nullsec and lowsec to abuse their unique versatility and cheap price. Since that day they have been toned down where necessary - but with svipul and confessor occupying both first and third place respectively I think there is a strong case to be made for further work to be performed on at least these two vessels. I'm not advocating a buff to the other t3d's, I'm advocating nerfing the svipul and confessor more so that they are balanced against what the game is designed around (which is not T3D combat).

Additionally there is the long overdue T3C rebalance. This is a real doozy, there's so much to say here but it's just running over old ground. Most combinations of subsystems are without merit. CCP aren't publicly prototyping other ways of running these ships and frankly I don't think they should keep the subsystem mechanic in place. Do I want mode switching for T3C? No, because if T3Ds are anything to go by the T3C will just become even more horribly broken in the process. T3C's are a milestone for many players and deserve being dealt with and soon.

Capitals. I will talk strictly about dreads and carriers here; apart from the revelation most of the dreads seem functional. They do their job. Whether that job merits expanding on is a matter for debate and one that has commenced in smoke-filled rooms beyond the eye of regular folk. Carriers are another sensitive topic. For me I would have said these ships could be limited to just deploying fighters and doing their logistics tasks. Compensate for this by expanding the radius of their refitting ability and dramatically increasing their internal storage. It would be nice to see some more mobile fleets with perhaps a carrier or two at their centre. Do carriers without sentries and non-XL drones merit an increase in their jump range? Who knows. At least we should be able to debate it.

Supers and titans; another sensitive topic. CSM member Mannfred Sidious created his own thread on the matter but I fundamentally disagree with everything he said. As a member of PL (which owns one of the highest concentrations of supers and titans in the game) he stands to benefit from this far more than anyone else he posits that proposal to. No I think Supers and Titans should be done last, as they are the crest the so called pinnacle of ship flying then it stands to reason they should only be touched once all underlying mechanics and ships are strong underneath them. I would remove all highslots from supers bar 1 each, and remove jump bridging from titans. These are combat vessels. They have highly specialised weapon systems, they shouldn't be getting used for anything but shooting other ships.

That's my feelings on the matter, please do post your own thoughts on what you chose on the poll, spread the link to your friends and let's get a grass-roots look at what we want done. CCP say they are metricing data but from who I have NFI.

Aside from ongoing improvements to the Sov system and balancing issues, I think the UI really needs some love. Not graphically, but the UI framework needs love. It needs to be more customizable in where you want to display information and needs better support for multi-monitor setups. More freedom to decide for myself on what screen I want the Neocom and current system information. More freedom to resize windows beyond their current minimal sizes.
The client fully supports bold, italics, underlined, so buttons for these things would be nice. Inserting a URL into anything still doesn't work and adds a redundant HTTP:// to the front (has been like that forever, no-one has ever remotely bothered to fix it).

All those tiny things that would just make life that much better.

Eve.

33 votes, only 5 comments.

Not a feature
or
an idea.

a haiku from me to you.

Bullshit that's a haiku - where is the 5/7/5 structure? Where is the implicit reference to the seasons? You need to brush up on your Japanese poetry, son!


e: to answer the OP, I think we need to buff buffs :)

CCP should buff nerfs and nerf buffs.

Wis restart,even more ship skins and more clothes.

My gripe that admittedly isn't interesting to many in the playerbase is that I want CCP to do anything else with the Tier 3 BS model..

The Tier 1 and Tier 2 ships get so much love but the Tier 3 have got sod all since they were introduced. (ship skins don't count in my world)


Domi - Navy Domi, Sin
Mega - Fed Mega, Navy Mega, Kronos
Hyp - Hyp..

Scorp, Navy Scorp, Rattler, Widow
Raven, State Raven, CNR, Golem,
Rokh - Rokh

Geddon, Navy Geddon, Bhaalgorn, Redeemer
Apoc, Impoc, Navypoc, Paladin
Abad - Abad...

Etc for the minmatar rust

You get my point

C'est la vie, it isn't a priority :)

NPE > Nerf ISK faucets > Ship Balance > Other