i dunno the lack of dps for non kin damage will hurt the ship for pve thats for sure.

pretty sure the cyclone will be a much better pve ship now.

3. The fact that shield don't slow down the ship was a balancing thing. Armor is more resilient but make you slow and maybe with less damage, shield don't hit your speed but require a big amount of energy for active tanking and give trouble with the fitting. This armor boost will destroy this balance.

No mention of changes (removal of passive resists, improved by the compensation skills) to active shield and armor hardeners?

Have you considered using a different naming convention for the new armor reps, considering they function differently compared to the ASB's? I'm thinking the word 'ancillary' in both modules implies they are basically the same, when they have a couple of really important differences.

I am looking forward to the day when Interceptors are buffed/adjusted a little, like a little more lock range, perhaps some extra pg on some of them... and also make warp velocity (AU/s) matter more, as in acceleration faster within warp... :)

Unlike the ASBs, AARs always use the same capacitor as a Tech One armor repairer to cycle. This cap use does not change when the module is loaded with charges.

All I can confirm is that the ships discussed in Ytterbium's Back to the Balancing Future blog are still expected to be among the earlier sets of ships we work on this year.

A lot of you MIST this

So Ancillary Armor Repairers use cap from your ship or Cap charges it runs 3/4 of the same size
and/or put Nanite Repair Paste in (or on top cap charges?) you get 2.25 the amount of a T1 rep.

That is if i am reading ok CCP Fozzie

The plus side of all this is I get to watch Quackbot spasm uncontrollably.

Would you care to comment and contrast your excellent communication of forthcoming changes with CCP Greyscale's dismal responses to his changes to shield and armor compensation skills.

Should we expect a Dev Blog from his holiness Greyscale, or would holding our breath just invite unconscienceness.

Just know that the skill changes (including the Battlecruiser and Destroyer skill splits) will not be taking place in Retribution 1.1. They are scheduled for the summer expansion.

Is this a typo also or did I get it all wrong? I thought the expansion on the 19th was the Destroyer and Battlecruiser skill split!

I love the idea of the Harb being turned into a droneboat, and while missiles seem weird on an Amarr ship, I'm not opposed to the idea. What I do find slightly irritating is the fact the high-slot and turret layout basically forces you to either have one launcher or one odd turret if you go the other way.

Based on the redesigns up to this point, I thought we were moving AWAY from that sort of thing.

Edit: Well unless things have changed since the proposed rebalance specs were posted a while back. I am noticing a few changes in the blog.

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But in all cases they are utility slots.

That change doesn't really require its own dev blog in my opinion, and it's a change I fully support.

The honest truth is that I have no idea why someone back in the day would design the active resistance modules to also have a separate passive effect. It's convoluted and provides very little value.

And considering that we have generally shifted the meta towards a lower number of neuts overs the past few releases, the change helps ensure that capacitor warfare serves a useful role.

Is the old CCP just making their own decisions and not caring how they effect the game back? You are introducing yet another barrier to newer players with the Drake nerf. CCP is backpedaling on modular POS structures. You are boosting AFK Cloaking to even higher levels with the black ops changes. Next you will be saying "We have no idea why someone would design something called a local and while we are at it why are these tech moons so spread out?"

This is the issue. You are "Fixing" things that while may have been an issue are NOTHING compared to the need for Modular POS, Ring mining, and ways to actually get newer players into these vaunted Nullsec groups you keep pushing them towards. And to be something other than cannon fodder.