The primary goal of tiericide is to eliminate any explicit power difference between ships within a class. If the power within a class is more or less level across all ships (which it is after the rebalance), the price should also be level.
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but we looked into some metrics around player wealth and income and found that EVE players are making money faster and faster, and even new players should have no trouble enduring the bump in cost.

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No, but SOME devs were concerned that it was going to be too hard on players with less income.

As a result we spent quite a bit of time talking about how quickly we wanted BS to be accessible, and we also looked into metrics around player income in as much detail as possible. It was easy to establish that people simply have higher income than they used to across all character ages. With that information, everyone agreed this was the best way to move forward.

Adapt or die. Things happen, things change.

Or my original prediction back on page 2 ("Around 185m for Combat, 175m for Attack, 165m for Disruption, assuming jita buy price for minerals" which Ruby's numbers actually get very close to anyway for the most part) is a more accurate reflection of the price.

And second, minerals are going to drop post-Odyssey anyway, which will help counteract some of the price rise.

I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding, but couldn't I just buy a load now and sell the ships themselves off at ~40mil extra later on?

Price for supers must be increased by 1000x. They still keep building them double it, then triple etc.

There seems to be too many of them at the moment.
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Kinda fascinating how that is working out...

Maybe the CCP guys like flying Minmatar. Hate Caldari and Amarr. And decided to help their in-game personal-account allies the gallente. Seems like a conflict of interest to me. Also raises the question of their professionalism.

SInce it is finals weeks for many people, CCP here are your grades over the last year:

Retribution Expansion
85% or 'B'

(Reason, didn't like the HML nerf when a change of missile mechanics would be common sense first step)

Retribution Devs
90% or 'A'

Odyssey Expansion
50% or 'F'

(Reason, ship 'reblancing' is bullshit. Winmatar and Gallente are buffed. Amarr and Caldari are shafted to put it gently. UI changes and stargate-cinematic are good. Again missile changes avoid the glaring issue that you seem to be ignoring in a biased manner)

Odyssey Devs
15% or 'F'

Reason: The only points being awarded are for UI and stargate-cinematic changes.

Any of my fellow Eve Players disagree with my grading rubric?

I'm fairly new to production. Won't this mean I won't be able to build Battleships for a profit for quite some time? I still can't make money on procurers. In fact I'd have to sell them at a significant loss.

And it is supposed to be so. A battleship should be a serious step up, a ship you should cry about losing. It used to be so that people mined for weeks and months with Miner I:s and cruisers to be able to get a battleship. I'm glad if this change is a small little step back to that past.

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There is a reason why noobs are often pathetically bad in battleships. They race to it. They try to get it as fast as possible, without spending the time needed to skill up on ship integrity, gunnery, armor or shields, and navigation. They think a battle ship is so bad-ass. Big is beautiful.

If there's a high price tag, maybe the new players will spend some time getting ready for it.

Well for 750 mil you could fly instead 3 falcons. I would have to point out, afterall, that being a "battleship" is not advantage. For applying ECM there are other ships already that do the job pretty decently. Or you can have your main fleet carry swarms of ECM drones.

What is going for a scorpion, in general, is the range and hp buffer in combination of its price. If the price increases to the level of Falcons you are much better off using these for the ECM stuff in most cases.

Large EHP does nto encurage blobbing. The whoel GAMe encourages blobbing. Large cost encourage blobbign because failure has a higher cost.


That is not an issue with EHP, its an issue with the game not havign been designed to handle with too many players on combat. ANy game where all weapons do damage on any ship they hit and the ship has hitpoints and the effect of guns is only hitpoint loss will have this issue.