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SFM Hobb3s
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Posted - 2014.10.09 18:59:00 -
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I do wish Phoebe was released as originally planned without these compromises. I guess I'll be crossing my fingers too on this one.
Donut looks up to CCP and shouts, "Save Us!" Greyscale shoulda looked down and whisphered 'No'. |
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Posted - 2014.10.09 19:51:00 -
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Then lobbest thou thy Holy Nerf of Greyscale towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it. |
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Posted - 2014.10.15 17:14:00 -
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I both wonder and hope that CCP's success with Phoebe is measured in how much of the blue donut starts burning. Things are starting to look meaningful CCP...keep it up! I for one get more excited by the day for Phoebe to land. |
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Posted - 2014.10.15 19:47:00 -
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And St. Greyscale raised his Nerf up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy Nerf that with it Thou mayest blow thine enemies SOV to tiny bits, in Thy Mercy."
And CCP did grin and BL did feast upon the hobojammers and SBU's and Station Services and Ihubs and TCU's and exotic dancers..
.And the King of the North spoke, "Three shall be the number of the sieging, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four thou shalt not count, neither count thou two, except to proceed to three. Five, is right out.
Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, thou shalt siege green, and lobbest thy ammo at our foe, who, being PROPER NAUGHTY in My sight, will snuff it.
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SFM Hobb3s
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Posted - 2014.10.15 21:35:00 -
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Bezdar22 wrote:im expecting heavily camped low sec gates and protest blob in JITA...
this change will ruin all ur surprise attract like bops or dropping caps such as Black legion does allot ... sad they wont be able to do that anymore..
I wouldn't be so sad. If you look at it the way things are now, we are a mercenary alliance, in an environment where being a mercenary is meaningless.
Now with Phoebe...a mercenary alliance can be very valuable. I can foresee us actually taking space, or destroying assets for our Retainers, whereas I doubt we could do that before (generally we leave when the 200 usual archons show up). So the potential for us to have a meaningful purpose is blossoming. |
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Posted - 2014.10.16 19:41:00 -
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I think CCP played it right, dealing with cap mobility first. It was very likely the easiest task for coding also. The playerbase demanded action from CCP, and they have obliged us.
Before Phoebe, a war on two fronts was never very successful. The same caps always showed up at both objectives.
Now, the cap fleet will have to pick its engagements carefully, and is extremely unlikely they'll be able to pick more than one. That or they'll be splitting up their fleets, making them quite a bit easier to counter.
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Posted - 2014.10.17 20:57:00 -
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IRC did it (local industry) for years...even after the drone poop nerf. We did find we had to make the occasional wormhole voyage to grab some hac hulls here and there. And everyone knows that was an alliance that went through a lot of ships ;) |
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Posted - 2014.10.20 17:24:00 -
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Seems to me that every change that's getting announced recently is technically a stealth buff to the resurging viability, and survivability, of battleship fleets. Definitely liking this. |
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Posted - 2014.10.20 20:47:00 -
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Eve Phoebe: Didn't want those regions anyways
Say THAT enough times and I'll bet you'll convince yourself that's true too. |
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Posted - 2014.10.21 16:21:54 -
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Serendipity Lost wrote:kneecap force projection
kneecap SOV structure hitpoints
kneecap cyno jammers
kneecap passive isk
It's all on the napkin. I'm not sure if you guys don't know or don't believe.
Hopefully its denial. Many of us are hoping the blue donut will actually put up a bit of a fight before it shrinks. |
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Posted - 2014.10.21 16:52:28 -
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That's still pretty one-sided thinking, which agreed does define goons combat history in a nutshell (ie piling all into just one system). Yes, you can definitely 'reset all progress' at one objective. Let's see how well it goes when you have more than one objective on the line at once. It will be much harder to reset that. That is the goal here....break apart your one big blob and either force you to stop depending on your caps and supers and start relying on subcaps, or force you to devide your forces, which reduces your combat effectiveness considerably given your combat history. |
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Posted - 2014.10.22 19:57:27 -
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Guess I was right about it being denial. Deciding to abandon three whole regions (and its not even Phoebe yet) is already a considerable bite out of the donut.
Damn these are gonna be two long weeks....go by already!!!! LOL. |
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Posted - 2014.10.22 20:30:00 -
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Jean Luc Lemmont wrote:SFM Hobb3s wrote:Guess I was right about it being denial. Deciding to abandon three whole regions (and its not even Phoebe yet) is already a considerable bite out of the donut.
Damn these are gonna be two long weeks....go by already!!!! LOL. Who's abandoning what? I know PL sold Drone Lands. Did something else happen?
Goons Abandoning three regions South of Fountain |
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Posted - 2014.10.24 20:59:37 -
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I think whether or not this game becomes 'Alts Online' depends on how good, or how bad, some of the former coalitions are at their sub-cap game. CCP was quite clear about their goal and how they want it to shake up nullsec. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if they upgrade their nerfbat if people are making the changes for naught by just stashing caps and alts everywhere. They are not looking for a continuation of the status quo. Prepare to be borne into Phoebe kicking and screaming. Or like many of us, laughing. |
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Posted - 2014.10.28 17:27:18 -
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Komi Toran wrote:CCP Greyscale wrote:All that said, on the wider topic of capital alts, if alliances have the capability to fund many new capital alts, what's the reason they're not already doing so in the current system? Because it's not needed in the current system. ROI is pretty much nill on such a thing when you can jump across the galaxy in five minutes. But this system now creates a demand for capital alts, so capital alts will be purchased/trained. They might not be a common sight at the beginning, but players will adjust their training queues accordingly. Right now with MCT, I'm in the process of divorcing my capability to earn ISK from my main, so that my main essentially becomes a capital alt (and you're forcing that change on her, too, as with carriers taking gates, we know what the new meta is going to be). And then I've got the MCT alt's capital training planned out on top of that. Give it a year or two, and the capability will be commonplace. This is why what you're doing now is just a temporary disruption. And my cynicism regarding your changes emerges from the fact that overcoming them means I have to give CCP more money. CCP Greyscale wrote:
Secondary goals:
- Make disruption of logistics a more viable weapon for nullsec alliances, on the grounds that it opens up a more interesting range of options for waging war, provided that we don't make the experience of managing alliance logistics too negative
This seems to run counter to your stated goals to make nullsec more self-sufficient. You make logisitics vulnerable now, but then in the future it seems you want to make logistics less important. Especially as you're considering seeding the various isotopes/ices into a more homogenous distribution if this change proves too disruptive. Have I misinterpreted your goals?
...Or you can do what CCP intends for you to do, function as a local alliance and not a region-hopping coalition. |
SFM Hobb3s
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Posted - 2014.10.28 18:15:23 -
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Personally I just loved the use of the phrase 'overcome' in the context of dealing with the upcoming changes. Seems like everyone is grasping to hold onto their current meta at all cost.
But then again some .MEN just want to watch the world burn. |
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Posted - 2014.10.29 21:56:39 -
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Gah quotes gone, this was in response to Andy
Definitely worth considering. Don't blame the messenger, blame the coalition. You know, the one that you joined.
I wonder if non-aligned corps and alliances don't take this into a little deeper consideration before you join something bloated. |
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Posted - 2014.11.05 22:25:06 -
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An hour is more than enough time for shenanigans :) |
SFM Hobb3s
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Posted - 2014.11.06 21:33:41 -
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Doubt you'll see any letting up on the jump fatigue. They might make it worse though. Remember what they are looking for as an end result. Coalitions with much smaller footprints that have to divide their forces up to defend their borders. This isn't happening yet...most are still clining to the pre-phoebe meta. Gonna take some time to see results. |
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Posted - 2014.11.07 16:16:18 -
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Yeah 150 in fleet is usually a good size for us, though often we field just over 100. While I don't mean to have narrow vision, there are lots of entities out there, I do think CFC vs BL is going to make a reasonably good test case for how CCP's intended vision for Phoebe and beyond works out. We're basically two parties from the opposite ends of the sov spectrum duking it out. Should be neat to see what 'equilibrium' looks like in the weeks or months to come. |
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SFM Hobb3s
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Posted - 2014.11.18 15:01:42 -
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Confirming fights are so much better up here in the North...even considering we haven't had to force issues by dropping sbu's (excepting a couple in MTO for S**** and giggles). CO2 have been fantastic hosts, and apparently a bunch of other alliances are being recalled to help provide content.
Thank you CCP :) |
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Posted - 2014.11.21 18:11:57 -
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Going with the logic that the jump changes were implemented because the end result of power projection allowed 'coalitions' to expand too large, I'm wondering where we'll see the next changes. I bet, before we see any more big sov changes, timers will be the next thing to get adjusted. It would not surprise me to see all sov timers be reduced to less than 24 hours (ie a just a few hours to go from shield reinforcement to armor, etc). No more day and a half between reinforcements. This might be a way of introducing 'occupational sov' without having to rewrite all the current mechanics, buying them time to do so as the landscape adapts.
A lot of people might freak at the idea of systems changing hands in just one day or less, but Phoebe is about local military power. If you live locally, you should be able to defend locally. If your primary military forces have to travel 35 jumps to respond to a timer...well...my guess is that is not the intended spirit of Phoebe. Might even inspire further nerfs. |
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Posted - 2014.12.05 19:23:36 -
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CCP Manifest 2014: "obviously we need to move Venal further away"
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SFM Hobb3s
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Posted - 2014.12.08 14:34:51 -
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Rasha Maklawa wrote:
Finally jump bridges aren't free or invulnerable, and they have a fair amount prerequisites that needs to be in order before they can deployed, so...THERE WHERE NOTHING WRONG WITH THE JUMP BRIDGES! STOP FKING THEM UP!
What ever unbalance in 0.0 you think you are fixing with these jb changes, you are not!
You clearly have too much space if you are depending on jump bridge use for anything other than emergencies. It's not CCP's fault you haven't adapted to Le Tired like everyone else...its yours. |
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Posted - 2014.12.10 14:56:05 -
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...and 'Vengeance' has so far cost CFC more than 1 trillion isk (almost a trillion just counting the loss of three destroyed titans, and the expense of 'replacing' them). Op success! |
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Posted - 2014.12.18 21:55:02 -
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Alavaria Fera wrote:
The addition of the "instantly pod yourself" option in station is nice.
When the sov changes eventually hit, Goons will surely use this feature with 600+ in local in an effort to manufacture tidi...buying whatever system they are trying to save time for more reinforcements to get there.
So yeah, CCP should probably put a deathclone fatigue timer on this too. We can call it, Le Dead Tired |
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Posted - 2014.12.18 22:46:08 -
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...and if Incarna ever gets finished, Le Walking Dead Tired. |
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Posted - 2015.01.12 18:56:52 -
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rofl. I've been curious how much fatigue got racked up by those carrier pilots who kept having to cyno to dc'd supers this weekend. |
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Posted - 2015.01.14 18:31:14 -
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Fatigue was a necessary evil, and a good first step into creating localisation in null. I suspect in the long run, after the sov changes, it will significantly reduce the likelyhood of things like BR ever happening again...but on the other hand, is starting to open up great small and medium-scale battles :) |
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Posted - 2015.01.15 22:35:03 -
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You should be thankful its not worse, like getting jump fatigue taking a cap through a normal gate. Hell, if we weren't due for some drastic sov changes in the near future everyone could have got much much worse.
I'm happy with the changes. I'm all for CCP having killed off spontaneous cap movement. Now its all deliberate pacing. And while subcap movement was also nerfed, its still more than enough for most alliances to be able to move considerable sized fleets more than a region away for some pew pew without them all complaining about it. |
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