How is a reduced cycle time on Reactive Armor Hardeners a good thing?

Seriously Goliath. This does look exactly like a change to suit one particular alliance.

The changes you have proposed make it impossible for a smaller organization to add significant allied numbers against an incoming wardec from a 9000 person alliance (goonswarm) without paying massively more isk than Goonswarm have to pay to make the wardec in the first place!

Your devblog could have been drafted by Mittani.

In addition the mutual wardec change means that its literally impossible to bring any kind of pressure to bare on a much larger attacker that would make them want to actually surrender at some point in the future. Because you can't bring in allies on mutual then you can't bring pressure to the table.

And if you don't go mutual then the attacker can simply stop paying the moment they want out.

You have utterly defanged the Inferno Wardec system and turned it into a joke just because one particular large alliance is currently wardecced against 70 or so allies across a couple of outgoing "griefing" decs and I have to tell you it looks damned fishy.

The Honda Accord wardec has been running for several weeks longer and has created the same precedent.



What you have done is completely remove consequences from the largest entities in Eve. You have made it utterly impractical to add enough allies into a war to discomfort a very large alliance and made it impossible to lock such an alliance into a war so they are forced to consider surrender.

And the thing is - who was complaining about the way this was working? Certainly not the hundreds of small corporations getting to try empire war against large territorial alliances for the first time. The only people complaining were ... well, Goonswarm really.

I don't think you have given the Inferno wardec system long enough in the wild to make any kind of rational assessments of how it is working in practise. And this rapid near-complete nerfing of the ally system does sound like a developer batphone being picked up and whined into.

These are changes purely to the benefit of the largest most powerful and best connected alliances in Eve and to the huge detriment of the smaller entities.

You have to acknowledge this stinks like a container of rotten fish in a cesspit.

Ok, kinda disappointing with the clothes you added. Just some more sterling red jackets and some black coat. Enough of the recolored clothes. They look bad, they look unoriginal, and it is a slap in the face that you add the same cut of cloth with a different color into our LP store and say "hey, check em out" at least give us the bondage suit or some new clothes. You want people to think that Incarna isnt spaceshit, give us some new threads already. Please.

Now, because I was raised semi decently, I will give some positives on this change.

I think it is a good idea to start adding clothes and whatnot to LP stores. Considering the price of them in the LP store, and with the SISI fw lvls being what they are. The male/female sterling clothes (which are reskinned, and dont look that bad) cost more than a spaceship. +1 on that.

+1 on starting the iteration on people actually making the clothes. Gonna be sweet.

I've seen more and more clothing assets since the incarna inception, you have an awesome amount. Why still give us the same old stuff. Instead of the sterling shirts, what about racial tats, like the ones on the brand new website thats meant to draw in new players, then see that sweet Vherikor tat, then get in game and its 'lol no tats'.

Please, more variety, stuff that hasn't been seen before should be added to the FW LP store. Or, at least give me a minnie symbol on my shirt. It doesn't scream, 'I got this from TLF LP Store!1" right now as it should. It doesn't scream that someone actually 'worked' for the shirts instead of using the NEX store.

Goliath,

any word on if we're gonna get any new goodies in 1.1 as i thought there was going to be a trickle of new modules throughout inferno?

also is that really all five-0 are doing for 1.1? 2 rollbacks?

Well obviously, CCP Punkturis.... If you took claim you took it "unsuredly" not knowing how to take it, then what gives you the idea or right that I'm suddenly taking is "as negatively [...] as I seem to have done"?

All I was responding to was towards the reaction in which the (now-decidely claimed "unsuredly taken") feedback was taken... That's all.

[sighing] Seriously, if I got this quick of a response on the 9+ Issues/Feedback forums whom I've responded to with noted issues about the UI, then I'd be happy with the reactionary results.

You, CCP Punkturis are either very quick, freshly on the job for today (coffee in hand, if so, I envy you at the present moment [smirk] ), or you are selective in which things you wish to respond and further "jab" at. Please take a jab at the factual, non-"jabbing" posts that have gone unanswered in the following posts (over the course of the post-Inferno timeline and 10+2 patches):

[constructive issues and feedback]
[constructive issues and feedback]
[constructive issues and feedback]
[constructive issues and feedback]
[constructive issues and feedback]
[constructive issues and feedback]
[constructive issues and feedback]

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And tell me when I've taken "jabs". If you (or others at CCP) can be this quick in response to the aforementioned posts, I'd be literally be "all ears"...

Because I've waited for over 3 weeks for responses.... and I have received none (lot of "likes" but no official CCP responses)... so please forward this along as an example of how quick you were able to assimilate, postulate, and publicly respond.... versus everyone else labeled "CCP _______" and I will be much more entertained by your your reponse.

No, really.... I'm being very seriously. One day i will make it to Iceland (if the game and corp still exists then) and I would love to have a beer with you and others... non-confrontational, as I seem to be "interpretted" by the vibes of...

I am just really, really trying to help, but cetain moments, or things I experience in-game or read out-of-game have me baffled at times...

I'm glad someone is working there in Iceland, right now... I just wish your dedication would be spread across the board.... However, "Thanks for responding and have a good one."

(Gods, I think I'm pulling an all-nighter going into the next day.... at past 9:30am.... ugh)

JT

If thats the case, which I dont mind either way tbh just giving feedback, should look different than the horizontal 3 bars. Cuz, when I see that, I right click. Just an idea.

@CCP Goliath. Good to know, hope you guys add them in LP stores. Or w/e you do, I think the lp store clothes is an amazing idea, and harkens back to a player driven economy these clothes should be in.

In other words: You have deleted my post because you do not want to read / hear that you failed again to implement REAL player feedback! Where is this feedback from players who wants the old UI or its behavior with their hundreds of independent windows, adjustable in size and position back? Show it to me! Show me the influence of players feedback in this waste Inferno 1.1 sh!t!

NO hundreds of independent windows? No improvements! You lied to the customer again!

Feel free to delete it again. At least I can be sure that someone reads this.

Only if its that black bondage suit. But if you throw something in there that hasn't been seen, like that Solid Snake eye patch, I am sure people would grind for it. I would grind for it.

I can see it now, have the LP/ISK for a Typhoon Fleet Issue, or that shirt that says 'Winmatar=Secksmatar'. Everyone would choose the shirt.

You've done something to your protocols again/the Socket Closed connection problem has returned. Can't keep a Sisi client connected for long. Last time it came and went with Sisi updates, so I'm blaming your end.

Then surely if only 1% of a nullsec entity lives in hisec then only 1% of their membership should count when deciding how much the wardec fee is against that entity.

With goonswarm for example rather than paying 500m isk per week on the 9000 membership we should be paying 50m per week on the 1% (90 people) that live in hisec.

Fair enough?

Not acceptable. Why must I use my keyboard when it once was possible to open a new window with mouse? NO SHIFT+X or something. No "shift +click" or "shift+key" JUST double and right clicks. CCP must implement the SHIFT per default or per checkbox within the ESC-menue

Actually, it is.

Here's the situation: 9000 members are not attacking you. Not even 1% of that number, is attacking you.
All you need is a single 1000 member ally (hell, even a 100 member ally) and you have numbers parity.

You also blatantly ignore the vast majority of wars to look at edge cases.
Fact: the trade hub gankers want to be in as many wars as possible, to enable the maximum concord-free loot pinata kills they can do.
Therefore, they will offer to ally up in every war they can see, for free.
Who doesn't want free allies? Their offers will be accepted more often than not.
A 200 vs 100 war would then quickly find itself unbalanced by even adding two of these groups.

Moreover, real mercs would find themselves edged out by these groups. And small wardecs would still get a chilling effect because you're not doing anything to prevent dogpiling. 3 allies for most wars (where the allies aren't 3-man vanity corps) are more than sufficient.

Noted and rejected? No one says something about this demand. Just noted is not enough at this state. Are you working on this or have you just noted it and laugh about me now?

Said my two cents on the FW changes - should I go bring other interested parties to the thread to post on the subject as well?

Sounds good then. Well hold on, let me ask CCP if they will nerf that too...

CCP, Goons, TEST and the mighty CSM,

I would like to create an alliance for the purpose of letting those corps willing to fight the evil large null power blocks who think the new war dec system is a toy for them. Said alliance would not charge anything to ally with a defender. Such defenders that those large alliance war dec over some butt hurt post on the forums, different play style of the game or against someone who did not welcome having their online CV hacked and molested.

Mainly just to have fun. I hope fun is still ok.

Anyways, please let me know! Feel free to openly reply right here on the forums too. Considering the forums is where the real PvP happens.

So would you like to comment on the proposal where I offer a solution to the problem of mercs and hisec war situation?

CCP adamantly defending their views and then suddenly dropping out of the discussion except to round up conspiracy theory posts and remove them (Save for Punkturis, who is cool enough not to get involved).

Your actions indicate otherwise and as your CEO says it is actions that count not words...

Time for disclosure about how many Devs are in which major Alliances - not names just a headcount because as it stands there is a growing credibility gap.

Zag

Not really an issue; just you guys never addressed the issues that were still at hand =P

Dev thoughts on making allies/mercenaries two separate entities?

Listen Golitah, forget the conspiracy theorists. It is an unfortunate but not unexpected byproduct of the gameworld you have created. In a game where polittics means what it does in EVE, its is unavoidable that such accusations will arise with every descision you make. So just deal with it, HTFU and ignore them.

I'd be much more interessted in som serious DEV communication on the real issues. Sure, I understand you want to fix the merc marketplace, and I support that. But the proposed solution seems to treat a bleeding with an amputation.

Will the updated lighting make the Amarr ships look better? like this thread if you answer so I'll know to come back and check

More Goon favoritism I guess - I never see CCP stomping up and down on any of the **** griefing bad posts the goons make.

How can you AFK cloak without local?!

I think there was a issue in one of the patch cycles that is not fixed by the launcher. I had a UI bug issue and reinstalled Sisi. The issue cleared up.