Bridge to Me
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2017.06.10 11:48:23 -
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Hey CCP.
First and foremost, I play this game to PVP.
I don't have anywhere near as much spare time as I used to be able to dedicate to the game, because real life has been kicking my ass lately, so at best I might get to play for say 10-15 hours a week to spend gaming.
Now, I'm a member of a small nullsec sovholding alliance (~500 "members", maybe 100ish real people across multiple timezones). We don't have SRP (it's simply not big enough for that kind of thing) and doctrines tend to be fairly fluid as we respond to different threats.
As with any alliance, we have various frig, destroyer, cruiser, battlecruiser and battleship fleets. Along with entosis, counter entosis fleets, etc.
Due to the number of members that may or many not be available at any one time, people also have to take into account there may just be 8 people in fleet, there may be more when coming up with useable doctrines.
Faction ships have often been used, because well, they tend to put out more damage and be more useable in smaller groups.
Since your announcement on the changes to faction battleship BPC drops, the prices of faction battleships have skyrocketed. So now we won't be running a faction BS comp anymore and have to find something else viable to use.
So, new ship comp to buy? Okay. Well, you have to make some money somehow, time to go grind the (for arguments sake) 300m for a ship or two for this new comp.
Now I hate ratting, but okay I'm going to have to go out and do that to pay for some new ships.
The only worse thing than ratting? Doing it with no engagement in the game. So no, I'm not going to go afk rat in a VNI/Ishtar.
Okay, I'll go sit in a carrier that involves actually playing the game and having to pay complete attention to it at all times, because now thanks to your last changes if you're not paying attention for more than 2 seconds you can have a fighter alpha'd off field.
If I'm lucky, I might make 30m ticks off running havens (before corp tax comes in to play, that's 10%, so I'm actually making 27m every 20 minutes).
At the moment, that means I need (after tax) 12 ticks to make that 300m. That's 240 minutes of ratting, or 4 hours.
That means I now have just 6-11 hours left a week to spend playing games after ratting.
Now, you're saying you want to reduce the damage of light attack fighters by 20%. For arguments sake, let's say that simply means I make 20% less each tick. I've now got a 24m tick before tax, 21.6m tick after tax.
It's now taking me 14 ticks to make that same 300m. That's 280 minutes, or 4 hours and 40 minutes of ratting. Now leaving me between 5h 20m-10h 20m left to play each week instead.
This isn't even taking into account that you might have to look away from the screen for a couple of seconds during this time and end up having to replace fighters, which means it'll take even longer to make that ISK you needed. And that's before these changes. After fighters get shot at "15% more" I hate to think what that'll do to how many die each time you rat.
So potentially, I end up having to spend almost as much time ratting which I hate, as I do actually being able to do something I enjoy in the game (PVP).
This isn't even taking into account that sometimes those ships will end up dying, and you'll have to repeat the process over again to replace it.
At this point it gets seriously tempting to say you know what? Time to ask CCP to refund the remainder of my subscriptions. I'm just going to spend my gaming time playing PUBG instead. |