In this thread, I've read several very good reasons why the fighter change is a bad idea. You are right. Fighters should stay the way they are. The change would be unfair for carriers.

The poor performance of Minmatar capital ships is being looked at and was already being looked at before the blog was posted.

Pointing out flaws and issues with the balancing plan is very much appreciated. I will look into the issues and make changes where they are needed.

Once this hits SISI, I will start a thread in the test server feedback forums. Your concerns will be listened to and acted upon if necessary.

Normally I don't say this, but damn, these tears are delicious.

You whiners realize that people flew moms even before they were buffed? People complained back then, but they still built them and put them into an alt, albeit motherships being useless crap.

Back then, there were two major reasons for supercap rebalance:
1. AOE doomsday was killing EVE
2. Titans were destroyed in under two minutes.

Both of these things did not relate to motherships at all. But CCP was nice and sort of introduced a new ship class, but completely overshot their goal and made motherships even matches for titans, despite them costing only a quarter of a titan.

The fact that EVE has 2-3k super pilots and even the poorest faggots fly them (I'd say 4 of 5 pilots could not easily replace their moms without alliance help) just shows how out of balance they are. It was obvious for over a year that they were due for a nerfbat, yet people still trained for them and are now crying that suddenly and totally surprising they're getting nerfed.

Tell you what. A mothership does not cost 20 bil, it costs 10 bil (k more like 12b after other costs). It is as strong as a ship with four times the material cost. It costs just 15 times more than a carrier, but does 8/10 times the DPS, has 20-30 times the tank. It costs 5 times more than a dread, but has 1.5 times the damage of a dread and 20-30 times the tank of one.
Plus it has invulnerability to any forms of EW but neuts, it can defend against any ship there is in this game.

If you're crying about your shiny values being devalued, ask them for actually balancing that value and give moms 7 times the EHP of a carrier with 8k DPS to reflect their 15-fold price. Fitting 2 bil worth of rigs, 3b worth of low slots, a 2b implant set and paying 5b over build cost is your own damn problem.