did you see that thing at fanfest where rise said he's ok with garmurs, because occasionally a very bad garmur pilot will die to a T1 frig?

the fitting gap between ACs and arties is something CCP doesn't seem to care about, even though it's really dumb.

Hey everyone. As we mentioned on the o7 show today, we're making some balance changes to the Confessor and Svipul in our April release.
We are extremely happy that so many people are having fun with these new ships and we are committed to keeping them powerful and exciting, but we ideally want that power and excitement to mainly come from the new mode switching mechanic, and less from the base stats of the ship outclassing its competition. At the moment these ships are a little bit too strong and provide a bit too much vale for their cost. We've been listening to a lot of feedback on these ships from many players (including at Fanfest) and we're ready to make a few tweaks.

The biggest area of change in this release will be in fitting. Both the Confessor and Svipul will be losing some powergrid to ensure that fitting choices for them are interesting and to pull back the power of some very high-PG fits.

We're also increasing the build requirements of both of these ships to bring them closer to our original target price and to help ensure that the value you get for the cost of the ship is reasonable.

The rest of the changes are more minor, but they involve small reductions in speed, agility and mass, as well as capacitor and shield recharge rates.

Confessor:

• Powergrid: 71 (-9)
• Max Velocity: 250 (-30)
• Mass: 2,200,000kg (-200,000)
• Shield Recharge Time: 800s (+175s)
• Inertia: 2.4 (+0.25)
• Capacitor Recharge Time: 320s (+20s)

Svipul:

• Powergrid: 68 (-10)
• Max Velocity: 270 (-20)
• Shield Recharge Time: 800s (+175s)
• Capacitor Recharge Time: 240s (+15s)

Material Requirements:
+1 to each of Electromechanical Interface Nexus, Fullerene Intercalated Sheets, Optimized Nano-engines, Reconfigured Subspace Calibrator, Self-Assembling Nanolattice, Warfare Computation Core

These changes are intentionally limited in scope as we want to take advantage of our rapid release cadence to make small changes and observe effects. We are very interested in hearing your feedback!

Then it will take a couple of more similar passes.

However, I fairly certain that the outlined changes are what CCP thinks will balance these two boats.

I think CCP is of the even the flutter of a butterfly's wings can cause a hurricane on the otherside of the world. philosophy, hoping that this will have the desired effect, and also they're very careful about over-tweaking most things nowadays.

Most things don't include Megacyte and Zydrine, however.



Has been the case since New Eden was discovered, sista. If you fly Minmatar, you fly with multiple Reactor control units that are about to explode any moment.

115,481 total Svipul kills
10,975total Svipul loses
since release (mid-Feb)
20.2k KILLS IN INTRODUCTORY HALF-MONTH

120,007 total Confessor kills
10,842 total Confessor losses
Since release (December)
9.5k KILLS IN INTRODUCTORY FULL MONTH

ok but how about you just get rid of them entirely instead, they've always been full cancer

Not so sure about making the confessor faster than the svipul.

Svipul 1MN MWD:

293 m/s base speed * (1+(6.25 MWD boost * (1,500,000 thrust / (1,500,00 shipmass + 500,000 MWD mass))) = 1,666 / 2499 OH m/s.

In Propulsion mode: 2766 / 4149 OH m/s.

Confessor 1MN MWD:

299 m/s * (1 + (6.25 MWD bonus * (1,500,000 MWD thrust / (2,000,000 shipmass + 500,000 MWD mass))) = 1424 / 2136 OH m/s.

In Prop mode: 2373 / 3560 OH m/s.

The build cost changes in this pass are pretty significant, I don't think we'll be likely to go further all at once.

What second bonus does the Confessor get for its T3D Skill, with Svipul having the Proj Optimal Range?

You guessed it.

10% reduction in Small Energy Turret activation cost

/Amarr

I understand that Optimal is useless in the case of ACs, but at the same time is great for Arties, not being forced to switch between Prop/Sharpshooter almost on CD in some cases in order to merely to project damage.

I don't know, just give Svipul a small innate Tracking bonus, with a decent, not equal, Fall-Off bonus in Sharpshooter mode - Make them conceptually the same.

I await eagerly eagerly what you come up with for the next 2 T3Ds. ( -í~ -£-û -í-¦) ( -í~ -£-û -í-¦) ( -í~ -£-û -í-¦)