EVE Search - Inferno - a bit gimped?

ElQuirko wrote:

CCP Goliath wrote:

As promised, here are a list of the features that are going to Sisi this Wednesday afternoon. Most are still work in progress but please give your feedback in this thread and the teams will monitor it as best they can.

Game of Drones:

Revamped the Inventory:
This affects:
-Managing corporation items in a station
-All item management from POS structures done in space on grid
-All Inventory management in space (wrecks, opening other ship locations, etc)
-All Inventory management in stations (items, ships)
-This change does NOT affect the ASSETS window

Revamped FW:
-LP for kills
-Bunkers are now infrastructure hubs
-LP for all FW actions (capturing complexes, capturing infrastructures hubs, etc)
-New FW front page
-Consequences for capturing systems/regions (benefits for you, grief for your enemy)
-Capturing FW system affect SOV ownership
-Map filters for FW have been revamped

TriLambda:

GÇóNew missile launchers and launch effects
GÇóNew missiles, trails and explosions
GÇóNew Stealth Bombers
oManticore
oNemesis
oPurifier
oHound
GÇóAmarr V3
oAll sub capital Amarr ships, excluding T3 cruisers.

Avatar:

"14 different skintypes have been added to the Character Creator. This allows all bloodlines to have a wide range of skincolors.
These skintypes replace the previous skintones that allowed players to modify their skincolor a little bit.
A character can keep his/her current skintone, but as soon as a skintype has been applied and the character saved, one of the new skintypes has to be used.

The skintypes can only be applied with full recustomization, that is when you also have the option to resculpt your character, but the plan is to give everyone an optional full recustomization when this goes on TQ."

Super Friends:

GÇóUpdated Kill Reports (aka Kill Mails)
GÇóDifferent war cost
GÇóCorp CEO/Director declares wars, no voting required
GÇóAlliance wars transfer to corps leaving
GÇóNo automatic war retraction by aggressor
GÇóWars last for week by default
GÇóEither side can offer surrender in a war
GÇóThe defending side can get allies to help
GÇóThere is a place for people to find prospective allies/clients
GÇóPlayers can now more easily track the war in the War Report
GÇóAll corps have publicly viewable war history
GÇóDrone Damage module (Extrinsic Damage Amplifier)
GÇóCPU Rigs (Small/Medium/Large Processor Overclocking Unit)
GÇóFueled Shield booster (Small/Medium/Large Ancillary Shield Booster), using Cap Boosters as charges
GÇóLight and Medium Web drones
GÇóResistance shifting armor hardener (Armor Adaptive Hardener)

Super Friends have their own dedicated feedback thread here: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=104114&find=unread

Seems to me like the biggest updates in this expansion are visual and fixing what needed to be fixed. Fixing what needed to be fixed - great, but hardly the "massive revolution" CCP claimed Inferno was going to be, and not quite enough to fix the system. Visual? Woo! Space barbie! We all know where that went last time...

My point being - this expansion seems to leave a little to be desired. Sure, some people might like the game to change a bit and make goonswarm cost billions a week to wardec (not that there's much point doing it anyway). Me, I like shiny. The new BCs were nice, but why not follow up? Titan tracking changes still give us no counter. How about some shiny new caps? And what happened to the new "ship lines"?

All in all, a couple of modules, some visual effects and some gameplay changes don't really constitute an expansion, unless you're following the model of games like The Sims. Pretty sure EVE is better than that.

Also, y u no cap booster for armour rep module?