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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2011.06.24 03:37:00 -
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Hi CCP Manafest if I could take a moment of your time. Micro Transactions are a big deal and Game Breaking(not used lightly) if they involve an In Space Advantage as shown in your Memo. Before that there were complaints about Incarna. Team BFF has fixed as they like to say a lot of the small stuff which is good.
But I see EVE's Problem like a Cancer deep inside the body rotting at it's insides if you will excuse the Anology. What you have been doing as doctors to this Cancer has been proscribing Skin Cream to make it look fine as it goes through it's(New Shiney Features like CQ, Turrets and Incursions) and Giving it Pain Pills so it can walk around in public. The game needs more then that, you need to go in and get this Cancer as a priority.
If you peel away at every situational complaint(MT, Station Screens, RMT, Bugs and the res) you are left with one presistant thing that pops up for 20 pages disapers and reappears a week or two later. I am talking about Balance Issues with the in Space Combat, basically FOTM. This term is inaccurate because it has been a lot longer then a month that this has dragged on. The Primary Issues documented are as followed.
With Battleships you have 2 main choices Abbadon and Mealstrom. Abbadon for it's Brick Mega Tank and Heavy DPS/Range and Mealstrom for it's Alpha/Range with a Average Battleship Tank. Outside of these 2 ships there really isn't anything to compete in there respective Fleets Sheild and Armor.
HAC's the Zealot and Vegabond Dominate while the Muniin and Cerb do ok for the most part. The Sac, Eagle, Diemos and Ishtar on the other hand...
Battlecruisers you got the Drake and the Hurricane. Drake for long range Mid DPS with a solid Tank and the Cane for High DPS and Speed. The others are rarely used and fill niche roles that just don't match there Drakecane kin.
T1 Logi's are not used as such and have fitting/cap/slot/split bonus issues. 2 of the EWAR Cruisers barely have a role, Caracal fills and Anti Frig slot, Arby, Rupture and Vexor for Combat and the BB for EWAR. This leaves the rest as Meh not that the whole Class doesn't suffer under the Nano Cane.
You know the problem with Supercaps.
Part One, Continued
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2011.06.24 03:39:00 -
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Edited by: Alara IonStorm on 24/06/2011 03:41:50
Post Part 2
Then if you dive into the Turrets. While Amarr and Gallente are fitting Focused Pulse and Electrons/Nuetrons, Minmatar is fitting 425's. Many of the solutions to fitting problems has become fit Minmatar. Autocannon Punishers/Vengence/Maller/Prophecy/Ferox/Myrmidon and Arty Abbadons/Rohks being the most obvious. This combined with choosing a Race that has the highest Speed and Agility while holding near to as much of a tank as the others is the serious issue. There are effectively to types of Combat types in EVE which are Kiting off of Scram and Web Range and running away when you can't win which Minmatar do best and hitting from 50-90km while having a tank with long range tackle ships and T2 Logi which Abby's Meals, Drakes, Zealots do best. Everything else falls to this strategy, ships that are Niche like DPS Brutix, Triple Repydon, Blaster Ferox, Non Meal/Abby Battleships fail when met with a real setup.
Now don't think I am shoving this in box and saying thats it thats all situation described. There are Cov Op's Wars, Frig Gangs, Station Camping certain EWAR to counter strategies. But for the most part are talents are limited to a very small section of the ships in game. There are the effective for most things ships and the ones that just don't measure up under extreme conditions.
I will bet you I am not the only who thought YAY Rocket Fix. I will bet I am not the only one that checks every Dev Blog for Balance Changes and scrambled through the Incarna Patch Notes for various balance fixes. A lot of us are waiting on these changes because Combat is the Core of the gameplay and we want to utilize every ship for a purpose. We want mixed fleets that don't just bring 1 type of DPS Ship or 90% that type and the other 10% are the 5 other types that people say why the hell did you bring that instead of the good one.
I am posting this because this is the underlying issue, the big one. The one everyone wants addressed when they say in Space Features. It is the one we want you all to be working on and it is the one we need the most. I am sure everyone would rather go back to the Old Ship Graphics if they could all be flown effectively and back to the Old Turret Model if they could all be use. Everytime we see new changes to the game that don't have Balance Changes it is like removing a Block from the bottom of a Jenga Tower and putting it on top.
Please CCP, this is your Core Game Play Issue.
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2011.06.24 04:09:00 -
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Nice of them to Unsticky the Thread!
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2011.06.24 04:14:00 -
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 Originally by: FugginNutz
Originally by: Zleon Leigh
Originally by: Alara IonStorm
Nice of them to Unsticky the Thread!
It hasn't been stickied yet...
Train Sarcasm I now.
No I was Serious, I thought it was Stickied. 
I guess it has been at the top so consistantly one could make that assumption. 
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2011.06.24 04:19:00 -
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Originally by: Kallynda Nai
From CCP_Manifest's twitter:
@Thorvik_EVE Oh, I understand passion. THere's of course a lot of logic people are missing, but that's ok.
Pray tell, what logic is missing here?
Logically he thought no EVE Players followed him on Twitter and would catch the post.
Logically when CCP says they won't do something and stabs the Players in the back, logically we should not ask them to stop twisting the Knife let alone pull it out.
Logically you should bend over now.
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2011.06.24 04:46:00 -
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Originally by: ELECTR0FREAK
I think the problem is that CCP thinks that we, the playerbase, is going to take the, "Well, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" approach to AUR and, to an extent, CQ.
Originally by: Cave Johnson
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take back the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What the hell are these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! WITH THE LEMONS! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!"
^^^
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2011.06.24 05:57:00 -
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I can not wait for CCP to clear this mess up tommorow, like a Company should.
My Father once said that companies don't think like the consumer, he gave me this as an Example. A Hotel gets hundreds of complaints about how slow the Elevator is. It has become a major concern that the old Elevators are loosing them money. Most people think the Solution is obvious, fix or Replace the Elevator. They decide to fix the Issue's of the Slow Elevator.
They put Mirrors all over the Lobby, most people check the Mirror while waiting for the Elevator. The complaints go down to a managable level.
I wonder what kind of Mirror we are getting tommorow?
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2011.06.24 17:44:00 -
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Originally by: Tugrath Akers
Originally by: leth ghost
lol perpetuum is full of people speaking about leaving eve
All 19 users?
I find it cute that the more this game has been mentioned the smaller it's user base seems to get.
5000>2000>500>250>50>19
I wonder when people will star post in - Users.
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2011.06.24 17:53:00 -
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Originally by: Shadow Lights
When was the last time a CCP guy posted in this tread of damage control?
Damage Control???
They are hoping to Nano there way around the issue and didn't fit one so they could add more Banstabilyzers.
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2011.06.24 18:00:00 -
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Originally by: Republica Winder
THE BANNINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES!
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2011.06.24 19:30:00 -
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Edited by: Alara IonStorm on 24/06/2011 19:31:08
Perimiter 549, It is so crowded at the gate. O.o
Edit: Theres like 20 Freighters here, when they get back from being AFK this is gonna be a big WTF Moment.
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