"Vigilant

Fittings: 1050 PWG(-150), 360 CPU"

"The Vigilant cruiser needed the most help and is receiving significantly more powergrid, targeting range and speed"

Ok Fozzie whatever you say

Will we be getting low slot drone module variants of the mid slot modules - ala TC / TE - in the near future? They were hinted at in the drone changes.

Yes indeed! We discussed that in the drone section of this blog instead of the module section, so it would have been easy to miss.

Omnidirectional Tracking Enhancers will be released in Kronos and you can try them out on our SISI test server right now!

no one uses them anymore

Are the tracking numbers on Fighters correct on the updated spreadsheet? They are almost 3x as much as in the original spreadsheet.

"When the Venture mining frigate was introduced in late 2014 it quickly became one of the most popular ships in EVE Online history."

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Yes they are correct. Effective tracking is calculated from the combination of the trackingSpeed attribute and the optimalSigRadius attribute. We increased the optimalSigRadius (signature resolution) on the fighters from 125 to 400 so we adjusted the tracking accordingly.

The Rise of Cheesy Devname Puns: Pirate Faction Ships

I'm impressed with the amount of work you guys at ccp are putting into Kronos! I look forward to seeing what you do in the next expansion.

You will be waiting a long time for the next expansion since this is the last one they do. Things are changing after this expansion to have rolling "releases" every 6 weeks, so they are likely going to be much smaller in scale and scope compared to this one.

Crius might be the exception given they are delaying part of what was slated for this expansion to the next release.

400 .. seems odd that fighters being cruiser sized uses battleship sig all of a sudden??

the ascendancy of pirates and mercenaries

Besides cost...is there any reason to operate a Venture over the T2 equivalent? T2 is just supposed to be more specialized in a certain area, but it seems like in this change they are tops on everything.

Isn't that true of all T2 ships? Except for cost, why would you fly a Covetor over a Hulk? Or a Caracal over a Cerberus? or a Vexor Over an Ishtar...etc..etc...

Yes they are correct. Effective tracking is calculated from the combination of the trackingSpeed attribute and the optimalSigRadius attribute. We increased the optimalSigRadius (signature resolution) on the fighters from 125 to 400 so we adjusted the tracking accordingly.

Nothing to fix afk mining. Fail.

You will be waiting a long time for the next expansion since this is the last one they do. Things are changing after this expansion to have rolling "releases" every 6 weeks, so they are likely going to be much smaller in scale and scope compared to this one.

Crius might be the exception given they are delaying part of what was slated for this expansion to the next release.

400 .. seems odd that fighters being cruiser sized uses battleship sig all of a sudden??

[quote=CCP Fozzie]
400 .. seems odd that fighters being cruiser sized uses battleship sig all of a sudden??

Join The Code then you can put your one track mind to use in their group think.

Seems odder to me that Capital ships use BS sig for their weapon system actually. Don't complain too much or it might change to actual capital sig res.

This may be the wrong place to post about it, but in the patch notes for June 3rd,

you have omitted all Warp speed data for Transports, either old or new values........

Seems more odd that capital ship weapon system only does battleship level damage. This ridiculous nerf to fighters just ensures that all carriers continue to use sentries, and only in slowcat blobs.

We'll be keeping a close eye on Fighter performance and making adjustments as necessary.

However Fighters are receiving a pretty massive buff in Kronos so if there's a problem with them it's more likely that they will be too strong rather than too weak. We'll see how things go of course.

We'll be keeping a close eye on Fighter performance and making adjustments as necessary.

However Fighters are receiving a pretty massive buff in Kronos so if there's a problem with them it's more likely that they will be too strong rather than too weak. We'll see how things go of course.

[quote=CCP Fozzie]

Dear Fozzie, is there any chance for a drone AI upgrade soonish? - After the drone changes, fighters has been pretty much useless because all rats switch to them instantly.


Edit: Actually when i think about it, i find it odd that you balance drones completely, but neglect the very primitive AI there was made a few years ago

That reminds me... will the drone navigation issues be fixed in this patch? Currently they switch their MJD off when they get close to a target, and faster moving ships just burn away.

Whats hells

its nerf freigher ...
we gain 3 low slot and loose more than 400k m3 with a charon

charon before patch => 950k m3 / 90m/s (with skill) after 558 k m3

now we need to use cargo expander for recover cargo and speed decrease lower than 60 m/s

before the patch freigher have some small cargo for large trade operation between system , now its a hell

Do you plan to introduce new freigher category ? Or you have to confirm the death of trade betweenr station for the benefit of hub