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When they are publishing dev blogs on further ship balancing, and not even the ships that NEED the balancing (hint tengus and ishtars online, or bombers and battleships), it certainly does seem like they have their development energy committed in the wrong places
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My point.
Tech 3 destroyers - they are fun! , but at the same time issues like Ishtars , need of bloob to defeat bloob are much more important.
What those tech 3 destroyers change in this issues?
Nothing.
When compared to isthar , tengu and logistic ship swarm in a fleet - they are simply useless.
Some things can be easy to solve.
For example people now keep -0.1 systems because cost of their maintaining is equal to nothing.
Sov cost was not touched for years.
Escalate cost of sov bill so all small groups can claim those -0.1 and state : " We are sov holders, we have space"
If base sov bill for each system will be around 1bil/month many groups will have to reconsider if they really need all this unused space.
Tie this cost to activity system in a system, and -0.1 unused will cost not 1 bil, but 3 ... and this will speedup the process.
Limiting Jump range to 5LY - super, nice move.
Yet we have border connections that allow to travel capital fleet 3-4 regions while just making 1 jump, and rest traveling by gates.
Those gates should not allow any capital movement.
JF range still not 5LY , and at the same time CCP have to solve issues for big NPC null space like Venal or Stain - they really need lowsec gate connection.
Many new groups where forged there , and they need a way to move pilots, and basic supplies there.
This is to big and important space for new and small groups to leave it without any normal supply lines.
Fixing motherships ... i know that those ships where nerfed few times already, but they cannot be used as a logistic ship for rest of the fleet.
Currently they are I WIN button in this role.
Why. Because we have logistic ship that have :
1. Mufti million EHP
2. immunity to EWAR
3. 3-6k dps from fighters
4. jump drive
5. ability to reship fleet on field.
Total nonsense, take 10 motherships in your BS fleet and you have :
Up to 60k extra DPS that will be able to take out enemy logistic ships, or any other ships
25.000.000 m3 of ship hangar space ... so you have 50 battleships to reship, or tons of other stuff - like dictors, ceptors, etc.
Over 20 capital reps on field
10 remote ECM Bursts
CCP IMPORTANT STUFF PLEASE....