hmm. Powerful, but not too over powered, if they can effectively counter each other's effects. And it's not like it's only a subset of people can take it.

Too bad they are still illegal

Too bad they are still illegal

How is the already limited supply keep up with the suddenly huuuuuuuuuuge demand?

Too bad they are still illegal

Wrote an essay on the test server feedback about this, but this is actually a nerf to may situations.

With skills, the side effects were rare, and those that happened rarely mattered in the situations where you used boosters. When you needed 30% more tank or 30% more tracking, armor/cap/tracking penalities rarely mattered, since taking the booster was the difference between tanking incoming DPS or popping. I'd wager that I didn't care about almost every penalty of boosters in the situations where I used them.

The main barrier to drug use was always their illegality - if they lose over 50% of their potency (as they have now on Sis) I'll no longer consider them worth the cost and hassle. Don't nerf their effectiveness, even if it means keeping the penalites - or keep higher grade boosters in that retain the penalites (risk versus reward, 30% bonuses with the old side effects).

I agree that taking away the drawbacks of boosters has made them lose some of their special "flavor". Simply dumping down a game mechanic is not necessarily an improvement and rarely a great one.

Drugs weren't being used in the numbers and manner CCP wanted, they've been stating they wanted to make them more attractive to the general population, Im not sure if you've ever tried drug manufacturing, but its tedious, and generally is always performed at a loss after taking into account time, fuel, and everything else.

You are completely wrong on almost every point you site.

I mean, how can you actually be this wrong?

The side effects didn't matter? Are you serious?

Here we go:

Blue pill: Shield boost amount is the bonus, possible side effect, less total shields. HOW IS THAT NOT AN ISSUE.

Exile pill: Armor rep amount, possible side effect, less armor

X-Instinct: Sig reduction, every penalty it has sucks.

I could go on, and now lets address your second paragraph, where you claim they are 50% less effective. Well in the first paragraph you already claimed you had the skills trained, shocking news incoming: Having the skills trained to near max returns the drugs to their original strength, and now they can last almost 2 hours.

Literally, without checking any facts, you simply made up something to complain about, which normally is ok, but your information that your basing it off of is completely false, which makes you ********.



Drugs weren't being used in the numbers and manner CCP wanted, they've been stating they wanted to make them more attractive to the general population, Im not sure if you've ever tried drug manufacturing, but its tedious, and generally is always performed at a loss after taking into account time, fuel, and everything else.

You are literally better off mining veldspar in empire than producing drugs. This should spike the prices on them as more and more people get into using them, which will make more people want to make them.

Low sec is the primary factory for drugs, so in this, CCP are increasing drug productions profitability, thus buffing lowsec.

Sooooo ... what's the deal with Nanite Control and Neurotoxin Recovery now? They were hella useful (and expensive) and I hope it doesn't turn out to be something useless/negligible/refunded SP