Alekseyev Karrde
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Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2013.04.27 06:19:00 -
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On moons in particular, moving the "Tech" and previously "Dyspro" bottlenecks to a general "R64 bottleneck" with T2 racial flavor providing a shifting market-based way to influence which mineral is most valuable is awesome. I supported it during my campaign and I'm pleased as peach it's the general principle CCP Fozzie adopted to solve the problem of One Moon to Rule Them All without killing off moons as a conflict driver.
But most importantly I'm encouraged to see CCP deliver on a critical promise within a year. Late 2012 after much poking and prodding by players and CSM for years CCP finally took a look at Technetium with the Cobalt alchemy process. It didn't solve the problem, but at least undercut price-fixing by regional cartels to some degree and provided a new low-level conflict driver by moving some of the value of Tech into Cobalt and Platinum moons.
But again, didn't solve the problem. CSM7 pushed hard for them to REALLY look at the underlying issues of the tech bottleneck, implement R32 alchemy as a first step to rebalancing T2 production, and include that language in the dev blog releasing Tech alchemy. Most people and bloggers thought CCP would never follow through which tbh they had good historical reason to believe. I'm sure Fozzie got sick of me poking about it but I really wanted them all to be wrong and for us to finally get the fixes this mechanic has needed for years. And sure enough, here we are! With a moon mineral production approach that at least has a chance of standing the test of time (by all means Mynnna, Akita T, etc rip these numbers apart before June to make sure of it).
A lot of that credit goes to CCP Fozzie in particular, who really took this spreadsheet on and delivered. Throughout all of it like he has with ship balancing he's really collaborated with your representatives and loves getting + using direct feedback from players.
So thank you CCP and thank you Fozzie
Now with that said, about those Apoc nerfs... ;p
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