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Creat Posudol
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Posted - 2012.11.06 15:51:00 -
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This sounds very promising! I especially love the mention of drone-mechanics-overhaul, hope it will be possible to fit into the next expansion. Similar feelings came up when I read about the "passive versus active tanking problems", so there might be a change on the horizon as well (I hope).
Truly EXCELLENT blog! Asking us early about changes: promised and delivered! I'm impressed! |

Creat Posudol
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Posted - 2012.11.06 16:14:00 -
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Dinta Zembo wrote:So if I have battlecruisers 5 and each racial cruiser at lvl 3, does that mean I'll get every racial battlecruiser skill to 5? You're saying 'if you can fly it now you'll still be able to fly it', but I'd like to know on what level. Has been answered a couple of posts earlier: You'll get each racial BC 5. |

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Posted - 2012.11.06 18:01:00 -
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There is a lot of talk about boosting from behind a POS shield. I actually think this is fine (and should be possible) IF boosting is changed to ongrid boosting. So if you defend a POS, you can have the booster inside the shield, makes perfect sense. Obviously it is broken at the moment with Offgrid boosting, so a temporary fix might be in order that at least removes this ability for now, in other words: put it back once boosting is changed to be ongrid only!
To me it would be very sad if even people defending a pos couldn't boost from inside. |

Creat Posudol
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Posted - 2012.11.06 18:12:00 -
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Ong wrote:Creat Posudol wrote:There is a lot of talk about boosting from behind a POS shield. I actually think this is fine (and should be possible) IF boosting is changed to ongrid boosting. So if you defend a POS, you can have the booster inside the shield, makes perfect sense. Obviously it is broken at the moment with Offgrid boosting, so a temporary fix might be in order that at least removes this ability for now, in other words: put it back once boosting is changed to be ongrid only!
To me it would be very sad if even people defending a pos couldn't boost from inside. You cant do a single thing inside a pos, cant lock let alone shoot/point even agro with smart bombs. Giving bonus from inside a pos is a broken mechanic, and leads to zero risk for the ship itself. T3 links can be scaned, commands on field can be killed, everything in this game should have risk.
Well there is still a risk, but only if you defend the POS when coming out of reinforced (grated, the risk only comes into play once you fail to actually defend it). I kinda glanced over when the POS is being put into reinforced, but how often is it actually defended in that case? (Yes, I'm really asking, how many % of attacks to reinforce a POS actually encouter direct resistance?) |

Creat Posudol
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Posted - 2012.11.07 13:36:00 -
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Don Salaris wrote:I find the conversion of skills not very well explained. 'if you can fly it now, you can fly it afterwards' is only part of the story.
"Let us repeat again: if you could fly it before, you will be able to do so after the change. Technically it means if you are able to fly an Oracle by having Amarr Cruisers 3 and Battlecruisers 3, we will remove the Battlecruisers skill from your character and give you Amarr Battlecruisers at 3. If you had Battlecruisers at 3 and Caldari Cruisers 3 instead, you would not receive Amarr Battlecruisers but the Caldari Battlecruisers skill at 3 instead. The same principle work with the Destroyers skill."
What happens when you have a battlecruiser skill of level 5 and an Amarr cruiser skill of only 3? You get Amarr battlecruiser skill 3 according to the text. Just as someone who has only a battlecruiser skill of level 3. That seems hugely unfair. What happens with the effort invested in the 'extra' levels of battlecruiser skills that cannot get converted? Do you get the skillpoints back?
Now while I understand that the effort of the battlecruisers will be counted against all races and so you are getting a bonus when you have multiple races, starting toons have only 1 race developped I would say, and can have a loss of skill points as a result of this conversion.
Suppose I better start training races I have no interest in atm... This has now been answered numerous times by the devs, if you had even just checked for dev posts in this thread you'd know it. It would've been faster than typing all the text you've posted. Quoted from just one page earlier:CCP Fozzie wrote:You'll be able to use the ships you could use before, at the same skill levels you could use them at before. So if you can fly Hurricanes with BC V, you'll get Minmatar BC V IN other words: having BCV will mean you'll get ANY racial BC at level 5 as long as you have that races Cruiser to at least III. |

Creat Posudol
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Posted - 2012.11.07 14:22:00 -
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Don Salaris wrote:Thank god for people who have the time to read 25 pages of text.  I'm glad it will work as you describe...but frankly if someone makes a stupid text then I find that letting them clarify it multiple times is a good incentive to think twice next time about how to formulate things.
There is a very easy way to read just the dev posts in threads like this: Click on "Dev Posts" at the top, enter "Back to the balancing future" into the "Topic"-field and click search. You'll get a list of only the dev posts in this thread, and reading only those should be just fine since they usually quote the stuff they're responding to. Just open them all with middle click (or your browser equivalent for 'Open new tab in background') and voil+á.
I do agree that CCP should've added that information from the beginning to the blog, or at least after seeing it constantly asked even after it has been answered 4 times or so. If I recall correctly this was one of the most asked questions for the last blog where this subject was discussed, where they (or players who read all posts) also had to constantly answer it. So it was quite foreseeable that this would be a frequently asked question again.
CCP, just add it to the article, maybe in the form of CCP Fozzies line from a page or two back. That should do just fine. |
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