Lotus Rose
Ascendance
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2017.02.25 12:57:31 -
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While I am not here to shoot the messenger, I do feel it is a terrible shame that CCP as a team could not predict the impact of the original rorqual buff to the game. This is made much worse because to invest in the change people have spent a lot of time, isk and real money to buy in. I do understand their anger, I truly do.
It is clear that the situation does need a fix though. What I really hope is that instead of all rorqual pilots being stuck for months in downward nerf spiral that you guys go ahead and get the fix right. Please listen to the feedback from players and work with us to do so.
I can remember when the original buff was announced. I read the post with dismay, while noting a sense of excitement from others. I knew that in any of the settings that my industrial characters had been that deploying a rorqual in that space/with those people would likely mean death. Maybe in a day or a week, but death for certain. Only in the biggest alliances with decent support fleets would the risk/reward be viable for me. I forgot about rorquals for a while, and became bored with eve. Sometime later I joined GSF to play with some friends and quickly realised that my industrial pilots could indeed be useful and actually make a decent income for once, albeit with a huge isk investment and some training. This doesn't mean that I didn't see the nerfs coming, as I am sure most people did. Unlike supers and capitals sucking on an isk faucet the ever increasing armies of rorquals are drowning on a mineral faucet and affecting the market as a whole.
Much like the booster changes, I see a one fix fits all approach to dealing with some of the current concerns, and again I see that the proposed fix will be disappointing in other areas. Until this announcement, my rorqual made around 2/3rds of a decent ratting super for around the same ratio of cost. However the super is aligned and relatively safe if the pilot has any idea of what s/he is doing and the rorquals are stuck in place. The price of the rorqual is not due to the cost of the hull and fit unlike the super, it's inflated due to the cost of excavator drones. High costs partly due to demand but also due to the fact that many of those parts drop in one region of space which surely has been heavily manipulated. It is a shame that this problem wasn't tacked in the last adjustment, people would be less angry if they hadn't had to invest huge amounts of isk to purchase the extremely squishy drones.
I am by no means an economist, but the amount of ore being offloaded into Jita is crashing the mineral market, so is there a way that this issue can be addressed without too many more nerfs to the rorqual. With the composition of null sec mining anoms you have already created an issue with huge amounts of excess trit and pyerite. Again this is something that you could address. I hope that you do look at it when the nerf bat is put aside. I appreciate that you already have plans for the future of eve that you are working on and that you could chose to tackle the current situation with harsh adjustments to the rorqual but for the sake of the player base and everyone invested in this I hope that you are wiser and more committed to improving the situation as a whole.
Perhaps you could also look at ways of making the export of huge amounts of compressed ore into high sec something that is much less appealing to the null sec rorqual miners. This isn't something that I know a lot about, but one idea would be to increase the size of compressed null sec ores. especially the spodumain. Another option is to reward mining in ways which are not directly related to the mineral faucet, so that these nerfs hurt less and improve mining as a whole. Perhaps something like a mining ESS or some kind of high/low/null sec missions which reward LP or isk, so that mining doesn't have to fall back into being the worst income of any profession in eve in all regions of space. It wouldn't hurt to buff the miners and their income without destabilising the market further. Just ideas from the top of my head, I'm sure many players have better ones.
As for the panic module, I can see why the 'locking of a rock' is an option, but I do not like the vulnerabilities which spring up. I'm sure many people see them and would be ready to use them. While invulnerable, I feel that a rorqual should have very little capability at all. It's intended to be the last stand. Entosis modules shouldn't be able to be fitted alongside panic on a rorqual. Panic'd rorquals shouldn't be able to activate ewar, at this point they should be awaiting their reinforcements while taking care of the mining fleet. This may mean more work for CCP but I urge you to make the best fixes and tweaks that you can and not be limited by the easiest possible fix which will open up more issues. |