Hybrid weapons balancing

What, no blackops buff? It's a travesty, I tell you... a travesty!

Holy crap! It's like christmas in october!

Hybrid weapons balancing

Factional warfare

Assault ships

Capital ship balancing

New T2 modules

Starbase logistics management

New EWAR-Drones

T2 Rigs manufacturing

Ship spinning

New font

More captains quarters

Time dilation

Hybrid weapons balancing

Factional warfare

Assault ships

Capital ship balancing

New T2 modules

Starbase logistics management

New EWAR-Drones

T2 Rigs manufacturing

Ship spinning

New font

More captains quarters

Time dilation

I'm a born skeptic, but with the recent changes on Singularity and these last two blog posts, it's hard to deny that there are good things in the oven.

Looking forward to this next expansion.

Hybrid weapons balancing

Just one question... that all means that the development of the rest of Incarna (establishment) is being paused? stopped? scrapped?

What, no blackops buff? It's a travesty, I tell you... a travesty!

Seems you guys are starting to go back to the right track.

TY CCP

hey look zulu finally learned how to post

2. to make bot ratting less actratice and harder: remove the bounty from the rat and set a price for hand in tags, either in isk or LP

ItGÇÿs time to get serious about these spaceships.

Short Answer is no, its been faucted down to a trinkle.

CCP has certain personell that are experts in one area or another and are not jack of all trades.

The people CCP specifically hired for Incarana are probably going to continue to develop on incarna making station interiors, assests, clothing, and more engine improvments as these people will be the ones working on world of darkness as well or at least training the folks that will. None of these people are really required to be used in FiS features and are really a small part of the puzzle.

Where most of the core groups of develops are being shifted into the next expansion for. These guys go out and have thier own artists developers and directors and arrange themselves into thier expertice fields and mix them up into assestability in what a feature requires. They go as far as concisering game balancing and palyer feedback programming and internal testing and toying around. Where the incarna only folks are only just building assest they woulnd eat too much of the core teams time up anymore as majority of the backbone is there now a foundation that is now easier to build off of. The next time theyll barrow resources is probably when they open up the rest of the station when they focus on what the rest of the station is going to do for players. That would be mostly talks, planning, then coding followed by QA the event feature would be significantly less than Super Capitol ship balancing.

I'm still wondering how hybrids can be fixed... By removing them altogether? :toot:

immediate refocusing of all the EVE development teams on EVEGÇÖs core gameplay: spaceships.

Your welcome, EVE Online community.

(white tree for csm 7)

Just one question... that all means that the development of the rest of Incarna (establishment) is being paused? stopped? scrapped?

There are alot of items promised in this blog.

Let's see how many make it to patch notes.

+1 to CCP
+1 to CSM

Starbase logistics management

Oh please tell me this means removing the current itteration of POS's and completely redoing the entire thing

Because we all know there's nothing about POS's that's worth saving.

This thread makes me happy.

Where is the establishments and multi-player WiS? Who cares about spaceships, I want to sell boots.

The change to Factional Warfare will be the ability to cash in victory points at the NeX.

Yes hybrids!

But if you could, could you look at black ops and maybe increase the base jump range 0.5 light years so the base is 2.5 rather than 2.0 or maybe add a little more resists?

Thank you \o/

Hey Hybrids, imma real happy for you, and imma let you finish. But black ops need the most buffing of all time!

Maybe you should ask them to look at POS access rights as well, its something you have struggled with in the past

I want to make it clear that this is not a final list. As we go through design and implementation phases some things may require more work than initially expected and others may not hold water in the design phase and therefore may not make it into this particular expansion. Similarly some things might get added to the list.

In the winter of new cosmic nebulae would not? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXFuMyuWFDU

EVE. It's.... alive?

From the sound of the post, it seems like CCP has finally put its finger to the pulse of the community and are making serious efforts to refocus their priorities back on what the current community wants. There's still room to improve and things to be added to the list, but this sort of thing gives me a feeling like we aren't all being ignored or having this game we invested this time in to be turned into some completely different game that is completely out of focus with what the players are expecting.

Give em credit mate. Where it's due, seriously. Hybrid buff? Hells yeah! Assault ship bonus! WEWT! It's like they're finally listening.

And.. AGAIN its PVP that gets some fixing.. if its not PVP, its Null... hey - dev's.. gues what.. there are actually spaceship that ISNT PVP... *OMGOSH* surprise i guess.. so.. when can we expect to see some fixes to Industrual Spaceships.. like.. the Orca... "hint" for a fleet mate not in corp to use a orca, u need to configure it each time u leave a station/jump a gate *DOH*

And lets not mention the "new feature" added in latest updates - the auto-close window of the Ore-hold when u undock.. excellent feature.. what's its use anyway.. it only holds 50 K ore.

Then we have the wish for a Gas mining ship on one side, and the utterly useless, thow rather cute Procurer... and the list goes on.. but i guess thats not really relevant, as im still to see a single GM/Dev to step up and admit that he has a industrial alt, and never PVP/are in Null - and are proud of it.. Somewhre on the line - the GMs and devs of this game went off track, when they all tend to be focused on PVP/Null - and ignoring prolly a very large part of this game.. the PVE Industrial.. go figure..
And no.. fixing 1 indy thing, each time u fix 100 pvp thing, or add 50 new things to null, isnt good enuff, and its certainly not focusing on us that are NOT interested in PVP, Not interestd in Low Sec, NOT interested in Null sec..


And off i go..

Thanks for this CCP, you-¦ve restored my faith in the game, hopefully the hope is not misplaced.

If I could make one wish, to complemented the great things you-¦ve already have planned, is to give us new T3 ship class to play with. T3 frigates, T3 battleships or even T3 carriers would surely keep us busy, same way as T3 cruisers have for this long.

Hybrid weapons balancing

Factional warfare

Assault ships

Capital ship balancing

New T2 modules

Starbase logistics management

New EWAR-Drones

T2 Rigs manufacturing

Ship spinning

New font

More captains quarters

Time dilation

C) needs to show other players docked ships. That would just liven up the space so much, the old hangars (pre-Trinity) had visible docking pads for several ships. I always wanted to see other ships entering and leaving. Heck, even if they were just on a script and not representative of players.

here are the fixes for hybrids:

blasters:

concept shotguns (short range arties...)

1. Increase base damage by 50%
2. Decrease rate of fire by 30%
3. Increase base tracking by 15%
4. Increase falloff by 50%

railguns: Concept long range auto cannons

1. Increase base damage by 15%
2. Increase rate of fire by 15%
3. decrease activation cost by 40%
4. increase falloff by 50%

ammo:

Simular boost that projectile ammo got

concept choice between what damage type you want to do between thermal and Kinetic (i.e. antimater does 80% thermal damage 20% kin damage, uranium does 80% kin damage and 20% thermal damage)

also include a tracking bonus built into the ammo

Caldari boost:
remove the optimal range bonus for hybrid turrets and replace with a rate of fire bonus

gallente boost:
remove the falloff bonus and replace with a mass reduction bonus

change the internal rep bonus to include a bonus incomming remote rep

General fix:
change the speed reduction affect on armor rigs and replace with an agility reduction
change reload time from 10 seconds to 5 seconds

How about if it showed some of the other ships we ourselves had in that station?

I hate to sound like an old door or a stuck taperecorder, but Zulu; 13 days. How can you accept a working environment where you give promises, then two weeks of purely insults and silence, just to be followed up by :words: and no content? I would feel sorry for you, but you could've had some integrity and put the foot down. And most of all, you could've avoided insulting the playerbase.

The CSM and former CCP employees usually have mainly good words about you. But your public posting is beyond horrendous.

This blog is one of those standard 'intent'-blogs we expect from you guys, but we havn't seen any progression at all, yet. Until you guys (the staff at CCP) stop lying, stop the silent treatment, stop running past CSM (and at the same time try to use "we ran this by CSM" in some cases, while in others you ignore them), stop insulting and attacking players on forums, stop banning people you have a grief with (even tho they havn't broken any EULA or forum related rules, i.e. t20, Helicity, etc), and most importantly: goes back to developing the dangerous space-MMO we used to play; we have no reason to feel anything but distrust and disgust.

Your list of Winter Expansion goals btw, it sound awfully populistic (hybrids, AF's, Capital Ships, t2 modules, could use improvement but isn't gamebreaking), the only big real fix there seems to be starbase logistics management. You didn't mention either of some major PvP buffs you could do:
1) completely removing 'upgraded systems' for sov nullsec, as it just blobs people in one system rather than spreading them out.
2) highsec being way too safe, and in many means really easy to dodge wardecs by repeatedly jumping corp, where's the dangerous EVE we had the first five years?
3) means to attracts players to low- and nullsec rathern than keeping them in high in the first place
4) nullsec logistics being way too easy and safe, jumpbridges among the real big pvp killers

Those are some major concepts that would have alot more impact on PvP then either of the stuff you mentioned in the blog. Your choices are pure populist choices, and the real core PvP issues (small- and medium scale, and in a sense easy-access, PvP being irrelevant and overlooked for years and years) are not even looked at.

And the safety in highsec, combined with the reluctance of forcing people out of high-, just makes :tinfoil:-rabble-folks like me wonder if you are more keen to keep the subscriptions of carebears (who break the economy btw, producing way more than they are losing and plowing isk into the market from their PvE activities) than to actually maintain a functioning ship- and market PvP. And in a longer timeframe: the game as a whole.

how bout you add balancing moon goo throughout the regions and nerfing RMT and botting? Also can you add a dislike button so people can dislike my biased post.

this is the hybrid fix you are looking for:

Things like the Cyno effect and engine trails are obviously high on that list.

I don't agree entirely with your changes, BUT I like where your focus is. On the other hand, I also would like to see assault ships and hybrids get some love (personal bias, since I've invested however many SP on Gallente ships and weapons).

CCPers have said that a null-sec revamp is being worked on, will take some time, and no-doubt will include a proper roll for jump-bridges and capitals and supers and freighters. One would hope they'd tackle low-sec at the same time, not to add complexity but actually to reduce it.

Anyways, still in wait-and-see mode.

I think Rails just need some tinkering with their stats. Blasters however, are the tricky part, since their problems are partly born out of the platforms which use them (the ships I mean). I am kinda convinced, that it's not a good idea to be a mainly armor-race with close-ranged weaponry as the mainstay of damage-dealing. FIxing could include:
-Redoing active armor tanking to work similar to passive shield tanking aka constant replenishment of HP instead of x amount every cycle, so the repping kicks in the very moment the damage is there and not when the mod cycled. This way active armor tanking is more viable, so Gallente could profit more from their bonuses and slot-layouts without having to suffer as much because of the superiority off Buffers in larger fleet engagements (not a magic solution though, of course, but it helps with the scaling imo and this not only on Gall-boats) - active tanking needs a redo anyways
-Tinkering with agility and speed of the Gallente blaster-platforms, so they actually can charge into melee like the knights they are designed to be
-Tinkering with tracking, optimal, damage output and falloff of the Blaster-turrets (your mileage may vary on parts of that, depending on what school of thought you come from - personally I prefer more agile Gallente-ships with a boost to damage output or appliance ratio at current ranges)
-...

There are numerous ways and I am curious what way CCP will go.

Your welcome, EVE Online community.

(white tree for csm 7)

Hybrid weapons balancing - don't give a damm

Factional warfare - double don't give a damm

Assault ships - huh?

Capital ship balancing - don't give a damm

New T2 modules - huh?

Starbase logistics management - don't give a damm

New EWAR-Drones - huh?

T2 Rigs manufacturing - don't give a damm

Ship spinning - so...

New font - nice

More captains quarters - eventually

Time dilation - don't give a damm

Sensible, lower NEx prices - never coming

New solo content - never coming

Capital ships for solo players - never coming

Endgame content for "casual" players - never coming

Interactable NPCs for Incarna - never coming

"Socializing" for Incarna - never coming


Am i making myself clear on what do i think that i may get from giving to this company 340 euros a year?

CCP have made it quite clear for a long time they consider the nullsec blobwars to be "endgame" content, and looking at how safe/dumbed down highsec is - combined with how CCP want to "force/lure" players into corporations (extra bonus for making big coaltions easily control vast space).. it's quite clear CCP envision EVE to be a nullsec blob game. Everything else is irrelevant.

Cool.
Minmatar: Best for PVP
Caldari: Best for PVE
Galente: Hybrids boost
Amarr: *WHERE'S OURS?*

I think Amarr is being left behind in the dust. My suggestion, create crystals that can deal kinetic and explosive damage as well. A particle beam would fire particles, which should create kinetic damage (could deal out high amounts of EM, some amount of Kinetic, and a little amount of thermic). A highly concentrated beam should be able to combust materials on the target ship, creating explosive damage (so this crystal could deal out Therm/Exp). Just my opinion on things, because Amarr is too limited on what types of targets it can shoot against.

I would also appreciate a slight boost to Energized Adaptive Nano Membranes, anywhere between +5-10% boost to the resists (instead of 20% to all resists the T2 offers, it could offer from 25-30% resists) to counter that of the popular Invulnerability Field (which the T2 version offers 30% and the Navy version offers 37.5% compared to the Amrr Navy EANM of a much smaller 22.5%).
This armor boost would affect more than just Amarr, but Galente and Minmatar that use armor as well to rival the popular shield tank.

There are alot of items promised in this blog.

Let's see how many make it to patch notes.

he also seems more interested in solo'ing EVE, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game.

granted that having more solo content is nice, but this is a game in where you're supposed to cooperate with other players.


so yes, miss Ishtanchuk Fazmarai, you should've never left X3 - Reunion. Why don't you go back if you don't like playing EVE at all?

he also seems more interested in solo'ing EVE, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game.

granted that having more solo content is nice, but this is a game in where you're supposed to cooperate with other players.






so yes, miss Ishtanchuk Fazmarai, you should've never left X3 - Reunion. Why don't you go back if you don't like playing EVE at all?

We're still looking into what graphics and visual aspects we can get in there. I'll make sure we update with that information as soon as we can.

Things like the Cyno effect and engine trails are obviously high on that list.

Your welcome, EVE Online community.

(white tree for csm 7)

Would fixing missile animations and making missile launchers actually show on one's ship happen to be on that metaphorical list as well? Caldari pilots are still feeling left out because of the new turret engine and animations.

Excellent devblog.

I agree with what others before me have said about being careful not to bite off more than you can chew. Don't try to do a full rework of factional warfare between now and Christmas for instance (although by all means go after any low hanging fruit related to it you can find).
Looking forward to more blogs with info on the specific changes, but what I would really like to see is a blog describing the personel shuffling that's been done to get these extra resources aimed at FiS.

Thank you very very much for making the CSM a part of the blog process. As this thread shows, taking time to solicit feedback and get it right will generate a very different community reaction than what earlier blogs recieved.

There are some things i like in EVE. This is why Iv'e spent more in this game than in all other games I have bought in the last 20 years. But now i ran out of goals and content and a faith that they may come in the future.

As for EVe's goals, if they wanted to keep people with a life out of their game, then they should put a sign: "Hey, you got a life? Can't play for hours each bloody day? Then get out, this is for lifeless gamers". Seriously.