What a bullshit of a statement. Tier 3 "worked" exactly because of it being tier 3. Outperforming everything by a huge margin. Argumenting this way earn you no credibility at all.

Perhaps 10% - 20% more tank overall for BS?

Generaly i have no problems with these changes, but the performance gap between BS and BC is allready low... Some Battlecruiser reach allmost as much tank as some BS.... And the damage you gain by flying a battleship is not THAT high... Something has to make up for the lack of agility and speed.

Just make them a bit more tough. These are ships designed for direct face-to-face standoffs and should be able to take a beating (or more of it) ;)

No, some people are just oblivious to the real world and like living under a rock. They are also the same people who cover their ears.. say, I cant hear you and scream lalalalalalalala over and over.

The dev blog is pretty clear. CCP wants the battleships to cost more because eve players are rich.

The spin about making sure that mineral usage would change if they reduced the build cost to tier 2 levels is just spin. if they were honest about the subject they would just determine what the actual average mineral usage for battleship manufacturing is and set the number at that point. Sounds like it should be easy to quantify and still be able to make happy hour.

Instead they state in the dev blog eve players are rich they can afford it. If people don't like it don't buy it.

Insurance better damn well cover these price increases, and I mean an exact relative refund to the increase so the %payout of insurance increases a little from current payouts (so the isk loss per hull remains the same).

If not:

Congratulations on a futile effort.

You boost battleships by a tiny amount. Then you increase costs by a significant amount.
Seem fair? I think not!

Hell the rokh was nerfed, the scorp gets a low slot and the raven gets a med slot and loses ehp. (But their sig got better!!!11) The domi loses a damage bonus too.

And then you increase huge price hikes like this!??

Raven was what (correct me if wrong), ~140mill, Scorp was ~100mill. Now they're ~230... TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILLION??

NO ONE will fly a raven, scorp, mega, domi etc. etc. etc if you don't increase insurance significantly.

This may actually hurt producers if no one will buy their product!

What a waste of time this battleship reiteration was, we were better off before

You want a bigger isk sink? Guess what, the average joe of Eve isn't some multi-billionare moon miner that can throw away their isk, you're not helping anyone.

/rant.

That's happens when economist start saying what the game should look like....
I'm having more doubts that CCP at all plays the game. You need to stop watching the excel and try to play the game....
Yeah you might say it's balanced but it's f... useless at that price.

This will really hurt newer players.

If they are smart and follow the 'don't fly it if you can't afford to lose it' - it will be a lot longer until they can get into a battleship hull than it is now. If they are foolish and get into a BS hull before they can afford a loss, the likely loss will hurt them even more.

Given that, for ~4-5m SP pilots, battleships are by far the best PVE ships available to them, this will hurt PVE oriented newbies badly. And it will also result in less battleships fielded in PVP engagements - players with 1-2b in assets won't be able to shrug off a Dominix loss the way they can now.

This will lead to more risk aversion, just as the changes to t1 cruisers have made newer players less willing to risk one of those in PVP than they were a year ago when the boats were a lot cheaper.

:)
Oh i love that dread boost , the naglfar will be so minmatar , with being just better than the other dreads it is so minmatarish.

Also love how the loki became the no1 t3 ship for pvp too, ccp-s quick reaction to nerf the tengu payed off pretty well.

Isnt it strange when a caldari boat shows up on top 20 it suddenly gets a nerf?
Falcon->nerfed
Drake-> nerfed+will be nerfed as it still shows up on the list
Tengu->nerfed
Rokh->soon to be nerfed
Naga->probably will get a nerf soon^^

but when minmatar ships are there nothing is done as they work as intended,intended to be the superior ships for pvp