Eve has been and always will be in constant development; it's a fundamental aspect of the game.

Deal wiz it or just move on.

nerfing. I once knew someone that quit playing having spent months training for a Gallente T2 BC that then got nerfed. True story.

That said, nerfing is good. It accomplishes the following:

deters players from training FOTM
stops weapon power creep through buffs

nerfs are nearly always better than buffs in this game.

Nerfing is the sad, misguided attempt to make things that are not equal...equal. Unfortunately, more often than not, it breaks some things, or removes a niche use from a ship or mod, essentially rendering it useless. Some nerfs are necessary, yes, but a good three-quarters are knee-jerk reactions by CCP in response to a chicken little, easy mode, strawman argument.

* AI changes - some players state drones get obliterated some state you are just dumb and not recalling drones right.

* AI changes - ecm extreme, td extreme, room aggro hosed

Mission runners (people who ONLY run missions) cried out for more challenging missions and AI, then changes happen, they whine incessantly about it. Nothing to see here.

* Heavy Missile Nerf - reduced range for all of those afk tengu's in lvl4 missons?

HM Nerf was due to their excessive use in PVP, and they were deemed as 'too good'. Not that I agree, but it now gives chances for other weapon systems to be used, which is never a bad thing.

* Incursions nerfed..

Players were claiming that they ran them for the community and not the ISK. However, turnout rates dropped when ISK was nerfed. Also, as an ISK faucet (where ISK is injected directly into the economy), it was too high in the relative safety of hisec, and CCP needed to address the massive influx of ISK cuasing inflation in the EVE economy.

* Exploration? was this ever profitable in hs or did it get nerfed at some point?

Don't really do much exploration apart from when I'm bored, so no comment on this one.

* Racial BC/Destroyer skills introduced - longer for new players to cross train now

A bit annoying, but no biggie to me since I had Destroyers 5 and BC 5 trained up already, just needed to train the racial cruiser/frig skills. No idea why they did this, but easily adapted to.

* T3 - getting nerfed..

Haven't flown them yet so no comment.

* Passive resists skill useless for shields now?

Silly change, but there are arguments for and against such changes. Also, the passive resist skills are not useless, they merely will not affect inactive hardeners. However, they would not be that big of a concern for new players, since they take up a lot of training time for very little benefits, and the difference would not be that significant for a new player (by the time you're neuted out, most liley you would die to the lack of other skills rather than the difference in resists).

* skill training time boost nerfed - now uses neural remaps..

This makes no sense. Actually, this was a boost for most players (apart from the minority that trained all basic and advanced learning skills to 5 IIRC). This 'nerf' (boost) actually meant that new players did not have to spend 1-2 months training up learning skills just to train at the same speed as vets. Also, the neural remap thing was a result of CCP balancing out the starting races and bloodlines, since you used to get standard starting attributes which would stick with you for the rest of your eve life, so people would choose 1-2 races/bloodlines with optimum stats.

* researching datacores - nerfed with introduction of dc's into fw

No comment as never got started in R&D.

I'm sure I am leaving off many many more.. my point is most if not everything done in this game from a career path perspective for a new player pretty useless.. If the intent is to attract new players to the game why not introduce content that can be both profitable and fun? I'm sure the risk vs. reward argument is coming here but honestly how many brand new players come into the game and go straight to null/wh's? .. this isn't a troll post I would really like someone to explain these concepts so I can understand why profitable content is nerfed..

I would like to point out that all the changes targeted at new players over the years (since I joined) have actually made the game easier for new players.

Hell yes. I started playing in 2005. The tutorial sucked. There were no corps for helping new players like say Eve U. The only ship worth flying was a raven, and everyone flew ravens. Rats were a lot tougher, and it took weeks to make your first million isk.

You are overwhelmingly focusing on the negatives. Have you seen what a celestis can do recently? We've got so many improvements flowing down the pipe that I'm honestly thinking about quitting because it's shaking my worldview when CCP does something competent like create a new player experience that doesn't suck instead of say making pretty dresses for people to wear in space stations.

Edit: I mean I'm honestly grabbing a celestis and going to crap people up with it over my falcon because holy hell is it effective.

I would like to see a general nerf to all Caldari vessels and possibly a double nerf to the tengu. I feel this would make the game a bit more balanced.

nerfing. I once knew someone that quit playing having spent months training for a Gallente T2 BC that then got nerfed. True story.

That said, nerfing is good. It accomplishes the following:

deters players from training FOTM
stops weapon power creep through buffs

nerfs are nearly always better than buffs in this game.

As I browse the forums I read post after post of the player base that is extremely unhappy with the recent nerfs/future nerfs occurring in this game.

Caldari isn't good at pvp? Thank God. I would still like the double nerf on the tengu it's currently OP in relation to other Caldari ships.

The tengu is pretty well in line with the other T3's now. Maybe you should be calling for buffs for the garbage ships.

Nerfing is the sad, misguided attempt to make things that are not equal...equal. Unfortunately, more often than not, it breaks some things, or removes a niche use from a ship or mod, essentially rendering it useless. Some nerfs are necessary, yes, but a good three-quarters are knee-jerk reactions by CCP in response to a chicken little, easy mode, strawman argument.