Yes, symmetry must stop.

Symmetry is cheaper to render.

A bilateral symmetric 3D model requires 1/2 the geometry and 1/2 the texture map of an asymmetric 3D model.

So what happens when they aren't actually completely bilaterally symmetrical as is the case with the new Exequror?

Less efficient, ofc.

There are a number of shader & rendering tricks, though, which can make a model appear asymmetric, yet still benefit from the savings of symmetric geometry and texture maps.

I don't know what people would usually expect from me regarding this topic ...
... but there is not a shadow of a doubt that this is a seriously ****** up change that makes no sense in actual ingame reality.


Yes, "new player friendly" corporations get awoxxed ... and they do that rightfully so!

Because they are crap.


Unless CCP creates a few dozen alts ...
... and starts checking out all these crappy corps ...
... and then comes to a proper conclusion ...
... any proposed change based on "data" is simply bullshit.


If the Minutes actually have anything relevant to actual reality (= what actually really happens ingame) ...
... then please point me to a page so I can read it up.


Everything else is just crap and bullshit. Most "new player friendly corps" out there get killed off for the
simple reason that they are not doing anyone any good. It makes NO sense at all to remove the mechanic
just because some people get killed inside the corp.

If the CEO isn't smart enough to keep his people together, safe or gather them up to fight the awoxxer,
then it's not the fault of the mechanic! And no ******* one can tell me that a bunch of noobs couldn't
properly deal with an awoxxer. Put ten noobs in frigates with a proper FC and they kick ass.

Most "new player friendly" corps out there are only about dicksizes. How many members the CEOs can gather.
Carebear CEOs.

This is what it's really about, because no one who is actually worth running such a corp would whine about
awoxxers or would be unable to get his people together and fight whatever threat there is!

Only carebears whine about this. If CCP caters to these people then ooohhh boooyyy good night EVE ONLINE,
because we will see an influx of horrible losers this game will not survive in the long run! These people will
shape the future of this game, because they have power over new players!

It's bad enough with all the assholes in rookiecorps telling people to mine or run missions.



With such a change it will only get WORSE!




I said it before, I am saying it again:

The whole issue has NOTHING to do with game mechanics and is ALL about social engineering!

Mining changes have been talked about and thought of for a while now both internally and externally. There are thoughts on changing the gameplay of mining to make it more of a visceral experience, and provide miners with a range of passive and active gameplay that they can choose how much they engage in.
With that being said other issues are taking precedence in the near/mid future.

So as stated earlier we've revised the naming system taking everyone's feedback into account.
More specifically the naming style will now consist of three parts [flavour] [specialization] [module type]. So you will see Restrained modules, but they'll be Type-D Restrained Overdrive Injectors for example. This will also be retroactively applied to modules which lost their flavour names in the last tiericide pass so everything should be consistent.
Also note this naming scheme is only for the named modules (meta 1-4), we aren't touching the other names.

There will be a dev blog out about the module tiericide most likely on Tuesday.

Since SP clones are gone, and since the risk vs. reward of high-sec ganking is ridiculously now in favor of the reward, I'd like to suggest that pods of outlaws (-5 sec status or lower) become valid free-for-all high-sec targets, with no sec status penalties for shooting them.

You haven't actually tried this in game did you? Because anyone -5 is free to shoot anywhere in hisec, but like you said, they have little risk as they are usually in a cheap dessie, noobship, or a pod. So shooting them is of extremely non-incentived, at most if you catch one you might inconvenience them a couple minutes.

You can shoot their ship, without a sec status penalty, but not their pod.

The penalties for pod killing are suitably harsh for the effect it can have on the victim pilot. The security penalties are very steep in high security and low security space. However, there is no security penalty for destroying pods belonging to a war target or to an outlaw (a player with -5 security rating or less), nor to players in 0.0 and Wormhole Space.

Warning: Killing capsules of members who belong to NPC corporations can cause large standings penalties with those corporations, even if the person you attacked was an outlaw or otherwise legal to engage at the time. Duels are included in this.

Yeah, I got caught with that one.

I spent weeks trying to figure out why my Gallente main's standing with the Center for Advanced Studies had taken a sudden nose-dive.

Then I discovered that rule and realised I had repeatedly blown up and podded one of their members who had been misbehaving.

Outlaws should not be able to join empire NPC corps - only pirate NPC corps.

You don't get a choice of NPC corps - you can only ever be in one of two possibilities, both based on your bloodline. You either stay in your starter corp, as this guy did, or you go into your default NPC corp, always the same one, when you drop out of a player corp.

I'll add that to the ever getting longer list of non-incentives for players to handle crimewatch and policing of criminals and suspects... you know, cause the butthurt gankers always say that carebears should fight back, even though it actually costs the gankers no real losses, and infact costs the carebears standings penalties.

Will the Redesigned Exequror Hull have moving parts ?

Yes. Those "alignable warp propulsion engines" move up when you warp.


ps: CCP please stop this symmetry madness

So now asymmetry is too hard to grasp for the 15-year old grinders?