Don't be too harsh on yourself

Before launch, you might try to find some time for one helpful thing though: a confirmation box with some warnings about the rules of mutual wars. Right now it's VERY easy to get your corp locked into a mutual war if you're not careful.

Another thing: it might be a good idea for mutual wars to ask confirmation after a period of time (like 6 months or so). I noticed when the '50 most recent wars' filter was broken and it showed 555 of them instead, that there are still hundreds mutual wars open of corporations now long dead and forgotten as far back as 2005! It'd be nice if mutual wars with empty shells of corporations clean itself up at some point (without needing a petition).

And for something in the future: adding the way how wars ended (retracted, surrendered, disbanded, etc.)

I think the war dec must do 2 things, one denied insured to the opponent
Yes denied, all the contract will be suspended, and consider not only the contract but also the basic 40% until the war is over
Consider that when war is declared not only alerts you to the concord but also to the insurance company

The other thing is, no one likes the troublemakers, for each ship you lose in empire, the corp and you will lose 0.1 of the faction and 1 point for NPCcorps residing in the systemGÇÖs loss.
So the war ended, or because the defender surrendered or went to low sec or the attacker can not enter into the defender's living space.

You clearly don't understand why wardecs are a necessary part of hi-sec.

Why nobody may answer to this question?

@SoniClover.... please could u explain how exactly capacitor batteries work?

ie: i should neut 100 cap.... i neut 100 cap but 12.5 is also neuted from my cap (as reflection)?

OR

i should neut 100 cap... i neut 87,5 AND ALSO 12,5 is neuted from my cap?

thanks in advance.

@CCP SoniClover:


I notice the new shield boosters don't get affected by

A) Ship Boost Bonuses (Making them directly less useful on Minmatar instead of Caldari for example) (Intended to nerf Winmatar?)
B) Are not affected by Blue Pills ?

Any comment. I realize it's late to post any changes now, but you could explain the intention for all to see ? :)

- Riv

We already HAVE a method to counter missiles in the game. It just needs to be implemented properly.

It's defender missiles. The problem is that you have to manually target the incoming missile(s), every time, which is horrendous. If they automatically targeted any and all incoming missiles, then the solution would be to fit a few on a ship in your empty high slots to mitigate the damage.

Since most people group damage, you can SORT OF get away with targeting the group, but all it takes is the guy to do the old school finger across the keys trick and you have a chain of 6 or 8 missiles incoming and no way to physically click and target fast enough. Defender missiles are so useless in the game that I've never heard of anyone ever using them in PVP. Even newbies figure out that they are broken in minutes.

The "rats" do this automatically. This needs to be fixed. Then we'll not need a "nerf" by CCP. Then, if you don't like missiles, fit a defender or two in a small launcher.

Further on the defender missile idea -

IMO implementing a specific 'Defender Missile Launcher' as a utility high, automatically shooting down oncoming missiles would be nice. Even better if it had the capability to target another ship to 'defend', or if there is no ally being targeted, automatically 'defend' your own ship. Make it easy to shoot down light targeted missiles, harder to shoot down HMs and HAMs, and really hard to shoot down Cruises, and almost impossible to shoot down Torps (which already have high HP) - might address some of the other problems seen with the PVP viability of the BS sized launcher weapons.

I'm against the idea of having a module in high slot that can protect your own ship, EvE is not working like that :)
Look at the reps for example, logistic can't heal themselves. I think that beeing able to protect other ships is a great idea, and it would create a 'weakness' in your fleet if one of these ships is not protected against missiles. The attacker would have to find who is using defender modules and kill this ship.
Of course, we are talking about reducing the damage of incoming missiles, not creating a module that can simply erase all missile dps. And of course, this would remplace the strange tracking disruptor change originaly planned. I believe that EvE is designed like chess : The main goal is to plan enemy's gestures and counter them. Having a mid slot that simply counter any types of weapon is against this idea. (ok you can still dps with smartbomb )

(Also : Bad idea to add T1 without associated BPOs !)

@CCP SoniClover:


I notice the new shield boosters don't get affected by

A) Ship Boost Bonuses (Making them directly less useful on Minmatar instead of Caldari for example) (Intended to nerf Winmatar?)
B) Are not affected by Blue Pills ?

Any comment. I realize it's late to post any changes now, but you could explain the intention for all to see ? :)

- Riv

Yes, this was an oversight that I have rectified. Thanks for the heads up.

I asked this else, and will repeat it here. Considering that the Drone Interfacing skill increases the mining drones ability - could the DDA be expanded to include this?

I see a lot of dev responses here, but nothing about crap web drones being crap :p


Any word guys? Do you consider these drones balanced? Do you think the introduction of scout drones will result in more use of web drones?

I didn't notice (correct me if I'm wrong) an NPC cost associated for defending another Alliance. Won't this open up the field for defender corp griefing and dodging the war-dec cost by simply signing up to defend another alliance?

Yes, but does it matter? You can't pick which corps decide to be the aggressor against your target. So if you try to go the "get hi-sec wars for cheap by being an ally", you're going to have limited selection of potential wardecs to pick from.

(I still think there should be a 10-20M ISK NPC fee, paid by the defender, for each ally brought into the war. Maybe even a 5-10M ISK NPC fee for the ally to apply to participate in a war. Mostly as an ISK sink and a minor limiter on the number of allies brought in. But I don't feel there should be limits on # of allies accepted or the # of wars that you can join as an ally. Not until the system matures and we can cancel ally contracts and ally contracts have contracted time limits of 2-7 days with renewals.)

The wars in the 'all wars' and corporation's war history should also show allies. Currently this is only show for the 'our war' tab of the corp panel. So basically only the parties involved are able to see the current allies, but I think this should be publicly available for obvious reasons.

it is available for all.

I'm guessing you're a director so you'll get the window to send your ally offer to the defender if you click the ally button, but the mouse hint tells you how many allies are at the war.

If you double click on the entry you'll get a war report and there's also a ally button you can click to see the allies at that war.

If you're not a director, the ally button will pop up a list of allies.

It's on my backlog to make it easier for directors to see the list of allies from the war list

By the way, the team is gathering data on wars.

Ah I see it now, VERY NICE!!! I was confused mainly because of the nested view of 'our wars' showing the allies and didn't see something similar with the other wars.

While I'm totally against public killboards for the amount of effortless intel and the incentive to stupid e-peen behaviour they provide, I'll admit that the war-report looks very good.

But the goal of setting empire ablaze certainly seems to work. There are so many wars, the '50 most recent wars' only goes back a single day. It would be nice if we could scroll back a bit further then that, perhaps similar as to how we can jump back to earlier entries in the transactions log of the Wallet.

I hope to see that data shared with the community. I'd love to know if any corporations are using the 'mutual' option to nail the attackers to the wall

I do think however that the kill-categories are a bit poorly organized. Having T1 cruisers, HACs and T3 in a single category doesn't makes it very useful. Better would be allowing the main categories to fold out further into subcategories.

And perhaps adding a button on the entry for opening the war-report? It shames me to say it, but I wasn't aware of the war-report, simply because it didn't occur to me to try double-clicking it. And the entries don't have any context menu's either.

whaaaaat! your new mantra should me "when in doubt, double click"

we're trying to stay away from too much right clicking

Nit-picking here: Double-clicking on the entries opening the war-report a tad of loading-lag feels a bit unresponsive. So I still think adding a little war-report button to the right would be nice. That would also take away right-clicking. Besides, I like the new wardec icons, they look very good.