... a very long, but well thought out, series of posts...

Good job nerfing every single cloaking ship in the game

This is a sad day to Cov op pilots and I was counting the days on when you will tackle black ops... pls don't touch black ops It seems any sense regarding how cov ops fleet works nor have the courage to ban ISBoxing and you took the easier route..GJ CCP.

I love these changes! Many more ship types will be flown now and that is a good thing for EVE! There were just to many ships that could not be flown in fleets because bombers would way to easily destroy them all. More varied fleets compositions can now legitimately be fielded. Battleship fleets are now more viable.

Small gang roams and gate camps are also heading towards getting boring as everything was getting too "cloaky" and "nullified". I am 100% in favor of a cloaked ship decloaking each other. This is a step in the right direction.

I like every one of these changes because I think they will make the game MUCH more diverse and healthy.

So you either sacrifice two highslots on the Carrier (why are you even bringing one then?) or you have to position ships around it in all directions (you don't know where the bombs will come from). This would require a lot of ships and is not really feasible, especially in wspace.

Could you please calm down people ?

CCP Fozzie has the hardcore almost impossible task to please everyone each time his team changes a game mechanic.

Back in the days, effective bomber fleets were rare and elite. When I was part of True Reign, we used to bomb Red Alliance & cie blobs. Setting up our bookmarks and warping hours before the fights, coordinating our moves to avoid decloaking each others. Despite the efforts, a successful bomb run meant something, it meant eliteness. Those were the days.

Nowadays, its way to easy and accessible. And please dont throw me the dictors bubbles shield around fleets or the lag, we had to manage it too in the past.

Godspeed CCP

Edit: More clothes on the market plz

Not everyone has hours to spend getting ready for a fight that may or may not happen. [...) won't be l33t enough to get to fly with most groups. Not a very social way to play an MMO.

I was really looking forward to seeing more triage carriers used with 20-50 man gangs, but with ONE bomber being able to nuke 15k cap it's no longer a viable tactic.

[Q] Would you consider adding void bomb resists to cap batteries and maybe adding capital size cap batteries?

Cloaked ships will once again decloak each other if they come within 2km.

I mostly agree that these changes are needed. The agility and warp speed is one of the main things that tipped bombers over the top recently. Making them easier to defend against is good.

This does NOT address the huge imbalance of bombs against certain types of ships. The 100% dependence on sig radius is bad, in my opinion. Augoror Navy Issues can take around 112 shrapnel bombs with full boosts and heat. A shield rupture can barely take 7 - less with a MWD on. There are problems with the Megathron vs Rokh and battlecruisers as well.

You'd have to tweak the numbers, but why not drop the sig radius of bombs from 400 to ~250-300 (thus making sig tanking ships a bit easier to hit) while adding an explosion velocity attribute? If this was the case, fast-moving ships (read: shield ships which generally have higher mobility) would take less damage than today, assuming they're moving, but sig tanked ships like Augorors and Megathrons would actually be killable in certain situations. Shield ships can use their higher mobility to protect themselves, armor tanks can use their superior sig. I haven't run the numbers on this, but it seems a reasonable way to balance this problem out. It would also mean frigates which are moving at MWD speed may not take damage at all, unlike today where a fleet can be stripped of their light frigates quite easily.

The above could also potentially help shield BS, which are all but useless right now, and battlecruisers, which are vulnerable due to their sig.

Lockbreakers are still in a bad place and won't see any usage.

It looks like the Nemesis is still completely awful PGU wise, at least it isn't the slowest to align anymore.

At the same time, the cloaking change doesn't really do anything other than make life miserable for everyone, including blops drops, cloaky gatecamps and other roles.

I'm fine with cloaked ships decloaking each other, but it has to be done with fleet members able to see other cloaked fleet members, otherwise this change is dumb as hell

Great. Another wide sweeping change from fozzie that once again fails to take in the big picture. Just because some people use bombers via isbot in nullsec and someone cried that their fleets died doesn't mean you have to nerf every single cloaked ship in the game. Terrible idea to have cloaked ships decloak each-other (without even letting you SEE other fleet members). Like some have said this effectively kills ALL fleet warps of cloaked ships, even non bombers eg. T3s.

In WH space where cloaked ships are pretty much essential this feels like a big middle finger to us especially after the mass changes (and the ignored feedback). I can only hope, probably in vain, that this time you might actually change your mind.

We are playing EvE, not World Of Warcraft.

We had enough contents added for the casual players by CCP.

We'll be watching these changes very carefully on SISI, and if this hits bombers too hard we can easily make adjustments. .

I was really looking forward to seeing more triage carriers used with 20-50 man gangs, but with ONE bomber being able to nuke 15k cap it's no longer a viable tactic.

[Q] Would you consider adding void bomb resists to cap batteries and maybe adding capital size cap batteries?

All the other peasants should find there way to an instanced foam covered themepark rather than dirty up your tear farming utopia?

no sure if SISI will give you any usable data for balancing SBs.