What ship are you using?

Seems most anything "can" work but to take advantage of the rat preferences - they hate logi / indy ships most - and they despise any form of active logi or boosting. The noctis doesn't have enough tank at least the way i've tried so far to just sit and take it, but if I manage it while I manage the carrier I can clean the anom as I do it. I'm thinking of maybe trying a scorpion next to see if I can still generate the same agro while passive tanking the dps.

Ridiculous preteen Mentality....


I give it two months when number of subscribers have dropped along with the revenue, then coax them back with a buff and an admission of 'we got it wrong' subtly placed somewhere in the patch.

Target the problem of the loot drop in the first place and the bounty.

Next it'll be ' we dont need guns anymore on ships, start throwing buns instead'


Do you really think this is the way to assure game longevity? come on devs, do the right thing

Ridiculous preteen Mentality....


I give it two months when number of subscribers have dropped along with the revenue, then coax them back with a buff and an admission of 'we got it wrong' subtly placed somewhere in the patch.

Target the problem of the loot drop in the first place and the bounty.

Next it'll be ' we dont need guns anymore on ships, start throwing buns instead'
Ratters will keep on ratting but you've upset the pvp population way more imo, unjustifiably

Do you really think this is the way to assure game longevity? come on devs, do the right thing

As we now know from CCP datawhoeverguy, they don't even play their own game for sure. I would be suprised if they know what you are talking about.
They only see numbers, data and diagrams.
They don't care about player morale and customer statisfaction.

Peeps, we are getting off topic here. This thing is not about making more isk or at least the same ammount of isk...it is about killing a capital class in a second. This s not about the "too much isk is in the game bullsh*t". It is about something else.

Btw...deleting posts shows that at least one dev/mod reads our comments here...still no statement from CCP.

they dont want nerf all ratting, just carrier/super-ratting thatw OP.

I've been watching PLEX prices since this 'uprising' and guess what they are steadily rising. no indication of significant loss of subscribers

This trend is unsustainable. Having such a large ISK faucet is bad for the economy, and this ISK faucet is concentrated to a relatively small number of players.

if the observation is that this is a SMALL NUMBER OF PLAYERS causing the problem battering a HUGE amount of your player base with this nerf is in no way a resolution to the issue.

that said as CCP never reply to posts other than to tell you to stop trolling and don't actually listen to their player base they just do what they want (i mean they make the game why not do what they want and forget the people who actually pay them to play) we just have to suck it up and crack on.

i only recently came back to eve and moved to null.. as a player who's solo most of the time i don't make DANK ISK like whom ever these "small number of players" are but i assume i deserve the nerf too afterall i do pay for the game

Oooo i hear world of warcraft is nice these days

but by doing so they upset us PvP players, there's easier ways to target the problem rather than apply a quick fix that affects other player types

Reduce anomoly sites and the loot table. there's a big void in the balancing between a sub-cap and say a dread and then a Titan.
A Friday announcement for a following Tuesday patch? very sneaky and underhand imo. some would'nt have even skilled into/bought/built a Carrier. what a waste

This is the second largest thread in the section. Do what's right, devs.

Work?

This is the second largest thread in the section. Do what's right, devs.

they dont want to nerf all ratting, just carrier/super-ratting that is OP.

I've been watching PLEX prices since this 'uprising' and guess what they are steadily rising. no indication of significant loss of subscribers

PLEX prices wouldn't be an indicator this soon anyway. Before leaving I put all my ISK into PLEX and other investments I expect to increase in value, because I have 0% confidence in CCP's attempts to stop inflation if this is what they're trying. I probably bought 3-4 months worth of my normal PLEX consumption so my disappearance actually contributed to a temporary increase in PLEX price at the moment.

Right then. There's practically no point adding to the mountain of **** that's gone down already, but here goes:

So I'm a new cap pilot, just bought myself a shiny new thanatos. I've spent a year training for this, and I've spent just shy of 5 billion ISK on it. I look forward to ratting with it, possibly make back the time and money I've put into this thing.

Suddenly - "Fighter damage reduction", and I think "Oh. It'll be something like a 5% reduction. 10% If we're being serious."
Hmm.

I don't understand what CCP are thinking. A 20% nerf to fighter damage is insane. I've only just got my hands on a carrier, and I'm having 700dps just lopped off of my initial 3500dps. I've been training for this for a third of my EVE career, and I've been grinding for this thing, only to have it stomped on as I get it. Thanks. To make things easier, someone has obviously had the great idea of "Oh, lets give everyone 5 days notice before we drop this!" Just enough time to do... oh wait. Nothing.

I must admit. I was worried that it was the 1st of April, and I'd just gone mad. But at this point, it looks like those damned "Biomass converters" might genuinely be added, which would still be more balanced than these fighter changes.

The forum post mentioned that "This ISK faucet is concentrated to a relatively small number of players." well, I'd like to point out that this is called "Progression"! This is what makes EVE actually fun! There's always something bigger and shinier, and carriers are a large part of the higher up progression elements of EVE. This is the point - for a relatively small number of people to be at the top of a progression distribution in terms of players by character skill and by extension, age.

Now, I am highly against the idea of just un-subbing, it seems a damn sight close to blackmailing the developers into giving us what we want and not thinking about the overall balance of the game. But when such an obviously harmful nerf is dropped with 5 days worth of notice, that basically makes the last year worth of grinding and skill training redundant, I am furious. And that's extremely difficult for a British person to say. I have dropped my subscription, with the only regret that my re-sub happened too recently.

CCP, please genuinely listen to our feedback. We have a wonderful game which has been built by both developers and the community. Do not **** it up like this.

TL:DR - These fighter changes can **** off.

I've friends that were training and having supercarriers built, only to have the same happen. Their 20bil ships will only be worth 15bil, as well.

so, effectively, you are not leaving. Just pretending so, by temporary disappearing.