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A few things to throw in.
Botting should be punished brutally, there are null sec regions that are huge botting havens deep withing sov space. CSM members saying "they add to pvp" is garbage. The bots auto dock when you enter local. My guess is they are trying to keep their illegal income alive by spewing such lies and don't want to upset their alliance members (many of which are botters). Some systems, I've seen have tons of bubbles on the gates to slow you down so the bots have time to dock. They are cheating, ban them. I've played plenty of other games that have been ruined because of cheaters. If you don't put fear into cheaters you only harbor it and encourage more players to cheat. People who cheat shouldn't be getting an unfair advantage over me or any other honest player and the CSM shouldn't be sticking up for them. When the CSM says this it is clear they are putting their own alliances desires over that of the general player base. Besides less bots would mean less supercaps, where do you think they all came from?

Large alliances being able to disable services at NPC stations would be a nightmare. It would drive all the small gangs out of null/low sec. There are a lot of small gangs who take on these big alliances in pvp vastly outnumbered, in enemy space and they come out on top. If you allow them to use their numbers and influence on the CSM to change this mechanic they will be able to rule everything that isn't high sec. Which will just make it that much more comfortable for their botting hordes.
This also why they want a way to detect cloaked ships, because they harass their bots.

In general I think the CSM needs to be more balanced. It should be split 3 ways, a high, low, and null sec delegation of 3 members each. The large alliances shouldn't be able to use their numbers to have their voices heard over the entire player base of eve and skew the discussion towards the interests of null sec alone. (Botters have better representation on CSM than anyone!)

ECM is broken. It allows dirtbag/no skill pilots in their blobs, to fight much more talented players with a huge advantage. I've been in fights where we had 10 guys in our gang and the enemy wouldn't even leave dock until they had 100 people and enough jams to neutralize our entire fleet at absurd ranges. ECM removes piloting skill and decision making from PVP it should be riskier, because in small gang pvp the payoff is ridiculous. Look at shortening the range of them, so ECM ships can actually be dealt with and not sit in the back of a fleet making the enemies ships into flying paper weights. Also, doing missions or ratting vs ecm is agonizing. Sitting there getting perma-jammed and spending 30 minutes to kill 3 npcs is atrocious. Please fix.

If you want to get more players into low sec, then they have to be able to get into low sec. News flash CCP all the gates are camped. You should seriously consider putting lots of gate guns on the low sec gates that lead into high sec, or something that stops you from being tackled the second you break cloak. Losers camp them all day every day. Seriously, get in a cruiser and fly around the map a little, and try to get into low sec from high sec at a bunch of different locations, you'll see what I'm talking about. Also, if you want more people in low sec than put more money there, more incursions, more sites, better missions. It's kind of a no brainer. Honestly, from a lore point of view it would make sense that there be a lot of guns on the low sec => high sec gates and that these would be where more incursions occur.

I like a lot of the discussion concerning new player experience and retention. I suggest you have some more optional missions that teach the advanced aspects of pvp and relate more to what a new players role will be in pvp (tackling, lots of tackling) Make the missions challenging and also teach the mechanics of aggression and docking with regards to how they function in high/low/null sec. This will also help get people to leave high sec (they need a way to experience the aggression mechanics without throwing away their hard earned isk over and over.

A cool feature I'd love to see is some battle arena's. A place in high sec where frigates or cruisers could duel and participants or observers could wager. Make it low risk (maybe allow a payout for winner and loser to cover some of the cost of ships lost) More people in high sec could learn pvp and see how fun it is.

I like the ideas put forth about teaching new players skill plans, this is needed badly. Consider adding something like EFT and eve mon into the game and giving people a place to find solid advice (the forums are full of morons!)

Another random idea I had is how nice it would be if there was some kind of NPC shipping mechanic. So that all the piles of good stuff I got in null or low sec could get into high sec where it can actually be sold. It's really problematic for newer players to sell goods they accumulate in low/null sec (especially when you consider all the gate camps) It's hard just to get any ship through some of those gates, let alone a freighter that you want to use to get your stuff out. It should be slow as snail ****, (taking perhaps 2+ weeks for delivery) because anything less would put the hard working freight corps out of business (which would be really bad, they worked hard to create an industry from nothing) but many players simply can't afford their services and time isn't a huge factor.

As far as UI it would be nice to be able to lock certain things to the top of the overview, like gates for example. It gets unnecessarily difficult just to click on something you want to warp at, when there are 100's of ships constantly changing range, entering and leaving the field, and the things your trying to click on are bouncing all over the overview.

I'd like to add I only play this game for pvp. I have to grind a lot to support it, I don't enjoy grinding.

So RnK want a 'WH mass stabilizer'...
Just goes to show how little they get WHs.

Hell, wasnt very hard to evict RnK from their WH.
All we had to do is warp a fleet around HS for a couple hours and they moved to C2 within a couple of weeks.

The thing about living in an impregnable fortress is ... you're stuck living in an impregnable fortress. It's the cap ships that make the fortress, and they aren't/can't go anywhere (easily). To get the large numbers of caps means you need large numbers of pilots which saturates the WH, reducing income per-pilot. So there is already tradeoffs.

Any WH stabilizing is likely to be exploited by the more powerful. The larger C6 WH alliances will use it to their advantage over smaller WH players, and null blobs can use it to roll the larger WH players.

My HAMdrake approves of this buff.

Then get out of that SC and train for that HAC...?!

You very well know that when these things were introduced that you can't dock them and would need an Alt to 'park' them if you wanted a tight grip on that machine.. LIVE WITH YOUR DECISION AND TAKE IT LIKE A MAN.

Dockable supercaps... I'd prefer not.
Security... need to be overseen and beefed up for sure.
Bots... start ban accounts pls.

and more.

/c

Wouldn't it be nice if the Gallente commandship could have a bonus to armor ganglinks?
The other commandships get a bonus of some sort to tanking and Gallente gets some lame ewar bonus ganglinks.

Everything is self serving nonsense.



Fit two or three ECCM's and counter ECM, also field 50 Titans and shoot the ECM boats first.

Only solution to Titans camping stations and obliterating fleets is to nerf their tracking so they can't track, even with 5 tracking mods.



PL and the DRF would love that wouldn't they?



Hai PL.



Why nerf the DRF's income when you can dangle a carrot in front of everyone's noses? Those holding moons will simply lower their prices so everyone else is cut out. Job well done.

Change moon materials and nerf technetium!

EVE veterans/loyalty program - I have received all kinds of hanger queen ships that never are used and other various items that are unique. They hardly get me to want to play the game more or anything like that. The only reward us veterans want is for you to listen to us and play the game yourself. Most of CCP should be classified as EVE veterans, but that title could probably be counted on one hand the number of you who have been playing for a long time.

The PLEX - This is a tough subject. I was originally behind PLEX 100% due to it allowing players who could not afford the subscription and option to still play the game. Now PLEX is on the verge of breaking the 500 million ISK mark due to players gaming the market, Aurum garbage and bots riding the free game subscription. The end result is players who could only stay subscribed via PLEX are forced to quit the game. Are you OK with this outcome?

Security - I can understand not wanting to divulge the methods you use to find and catch bots/RMTers, but if you can't show us a body; how do we know there really was someone killed? You have to understand the humans that play this game ******* hate bots and RMTers. We NEED to see bodies or else your efforts will become more and more nonexistent to us. Also you need to do more. The entire game is riddled with bots! Some so obvious that it is a gigantic slap in the face when we report the same bot over and over and over and over only to keep seeing them log in everyday.

Crucible wrapup -

Doing any kind of skill respec outside of removing a ship completely and giving the related skills back is a massive mistake. How are you to determine who qualifies? I owned a Nyx myself, but have sold it. Do I get to respec all my drone skills to other skills??

Do not even consider allowing any super capital to dock. That would compound the problem 100 fold. You would have hordes of players with single accounts buying one, more players who would not due to the current non-docking situation and like mentioned before; unless docking games on steroids like none we have ever seen before.

A spool up timer sounds good at first, but only delays the current issue of ultra blob hot drops. You need to have the cyno only allow a certain amount of mass to jump through based on a multiplication of the mass of the ship opening the cyno. A frigate opening a single cyno and an armada of capitals and support coming through is so stupid. Even if it is delayed by 60 seconds. Wormhole mechanics on how they work is a good example of having players make strategic decisions and risk management. I would disallow capital ships from fitting a cyno too to keep any kind of leap frog cyno chain from happening. With a set timer, you would lose out on potential quality fights and fun. The point is, the ship opening the cyno should be the key to what can come through and adding some investment into the cyno ship. Not some crap 5 day old alt that risks nothing, but allowed billions upon billions to enter a system in one go.

Adding the ability for supers to tackle other supers is bad. Like already mentioned; you completely remove the need for hictors and dictors. You need to understand that if 100 people are available for an op, 100 people are coming. By you taking a sub capital off the field because it is no longer needed, you encourage that pilot to fly something else -- most likely another capital ship. You need to figure out a way where the most optimal fleet has way more sub capitals to support the capitals. The super carrier and titan still needs a bit of a nerf. All titans should always have the siege pently of tracking and explosion velocity dreads recieve while in siege mode. Super carriers still have high slots easily fight of tackle with smartbombs and neuts while sacraficing little damage to gain that. A good solution is to change the fighter/fighter bomber per level from 3 to 1 and give it a bonus to field 3 fighters/fighter bombers per drone control unit fit. If they still choose to fit anti tackle in the high slots they are giving up a lot of damage, if they go with more damage then they make themselves more susceptible to tackle. Also do not allow refits on the fly if they are being aggressed by players.

I would love to make command bonuses work only on-grid




I imagine You would say that :)