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No. Go read the dev posts

It all sounds great to me.

Just do it right and **** the people who end up bitching about it let them unsub and then welcome the new people who replace them.

Did you read the blog?

They acknowledge that Battleships have the smallest tier problem because the proportional difference of slots and EHP is the least in that class!

Where as for frigs, cruisers and battlecruisers the tiers make more that half the ships ridiculous to fly in combat or their current role.

I just plain don't see the point. Destroyers are special frigates, battlecruisers are special cruisers. We've never had "Minmatar Assault Ships" or "Amarr Covert Ops", so what isn't arbitrary about these changes?

What's been suggested doesn't add anything to the game, it only causes confusion and stress for most players.

Wow so you've spent the last little while trolling the playerbase left after :last year: by arsing around with module/missile names and general ui trashing, that hasn't been bad enough so now you want to screw not only with pretty much every ship ingame, but the skill system as well?
Everyone could talk forever on which ships they feel need a tweak one way or another, I don't think there's many would say you need to tear it up and start from scratch with a new design concept for ships of EVE (basicly what the blog seems to suggest. And maybe I've missed it, but please enlighten me and point out the epic threadnaughts on the forums about how terrible the skills system is and how we need to totally redo that as well (other than the people that want to be able to grind max sp in everything by leaving abot shooting stuff for a few days). Again you take a part of the game that maybe has 1 or 2 little curiosities to work out, and throw out the baby and bathtub along with the water.

To be slightly constructive at least in this post, please just outright promise (and then DELIVER) that you'll grant everyone every new skill that they'd have to retrain, to the level they have it atm. To be perfectly, mind numbingly clear, if you do actually go ahead and make racial destroyer/bc skills, you need to give someone like myself all those new skills to 5 right away, same for every ship that might become inacessable due to revised skill reqs.

Requiring new skills/training for new ships is all fine and to be expected, if you expect people to want to retrain to fly hulls they've had avalible for #sometime# you're incredibly stupid, even for the standards of CCP.

First generic and lazy sounding modules, now dumbing down the ship system and making it even harder for young players to be versatile. What you see as streamlining many see as cheapening the game into a cookie cutter form that is sacrificing player knowledge and innovations.

Again this.....

CCP! This is a genial move!!! You guys are realy doing it right! By balancing the game this way you will expand many times the game content, as you are bringing back to life everything that was obsolete, and making them count!!!!

ALTHOUG CCP, WE REALY NEED A CLOAK HUNTER SHIP ASAP! CLOAK IS UNBALANCED THE WAY IT IS NOW!

Now cloak is used as a griefing tool known as AFK Coaking, this prevents people from minning and rating on null-sec, sending many players back to hi-sec, also force all industrials and minners to stay on Hi-sec. This colls down the whole game!! Whille the afk cloaker just sits there as a bot ( afk playing ).

No ****. So we agree that more slots allow for more versatility and are a good thing, because they allow different ships to be used in different ways.

Solution: Introduce Lines of ships. With a dedicated role and slot layout to be only useful in that role.

Now that you pointed it out, yeah, totally makes sense. Or wait - no it doesn't.


Now, this is just an idea, we could go back to my original point that ships should be carefully balanced. This can include slot layout. Or giving Tier 1 BCs an advantage over their Tier 2 counterparts. It makes no sense the Hurricane packs more DPS and is exactly as fast/agile as the Cyclone. There's a ton of tweaks that could help. Screwing over EVE's core gameplay is not one of them.

As a veteran, I feel I must be bitter about this, regardless of what the changes are all about and how they will affect me.

Nothing personal, it's in the global rules of MMO participation that all changes are to be despised and fought against with all kinds of bitter hatred and rhetoric, going to ALL CAPS if necessary per the Geneva Convention.

Reading about the actual changes is not even required.


So... uh...... let me begin....

These changes suck. They will ruin the game. My brothers sisters cousins roommate with the 25 accounts is going to unsub and single-handedly bankrupt CCP. Armies of darkness will march across the face of the earth and puppies will be sad all because of CCP, and .....Marsha Marsha Marsha!

Forgive me if I missed anything.