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Gevlon Goblin
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.05.17 18:47:00 -
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Before all things: I support nerfing freighters and JFs. JFs made low/null hauling risk free, Freighters made highsec hauling effort free. I'm happy about these changes.
However, this not a rebalance and CCP does a disservice to itself calling it that way. "Rebalance" is "this ship was a bit out of line, let's fix it". You are not changing a ship, but the gameplay status quo: "get everything in Jita an jump it to our HQ" will be changed to "mine it locally, build it locally, move only speciality items". This should be announced and explained like you did with drone assist limiting, because these changes are at the same magnitude.
About the details: I'm not sure that people who casually throw "with T2 rigs" around notice that T2 capital rigs are 0.5-1B. T2 rigging a freighter will surely cost more than the hull. Even with full T1 tanking rigs, the EHP/ISK of a freighter will likely be worse than now. Remember that you can't insure rigs, while the T1 hulls or Freighters were pretty well covered.
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Gevlon Goblin
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
198
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Posted - 2014.05.17 19:13:00 -
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The whole drama is based on bad CCP communication. They should stand out and say "we don't like everything built in Sobaseki, sold in Jita and moved to everywhere else. We want you to build stuff locally. Hauling from Jita is meant to be an auxiliary source of items. Because of this, we nerf Freighters and JFs to the ground, like we did with AFK-sentry fleets and AoE Doomsdays"
Again: I like this change and I believe it will revitalize industry in nullsec, which is very much needed.
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Gevlon Goblin
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.05.21 20:04:00 -
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Many people mentioned that Armor freighters will be ahead of shield ones, but the situation is worse than what a raw EHP calculation would say. Shields have a 0% EM resist hole. In the OP resists were mentioned, but only Nomad gets EM resist. On the other hand the armor has no such resist hole. Any reasonable ganker would open with a few tornadoes with faction EMP L to eat the shield and then the Taloses finish the armor and hull.
My point is that it takes about half as many ships to remove the shield of a Charon than to remove the armor of a Providence.
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