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Hikari Kisugi
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.07.09 22:56:00 -
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So is the addition of heat the best thing since sliced bread?
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Cluttered, unnecessary eye candy with little difference to the overall progression of gameplay?
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Tarminic
Black Flame Industries
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Posted - 2007.07.09 22:56:00 -
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I'm gonna give this one a firm Maybe.
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Lady Natacha
Minmatar
Water and Power
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Posted - 2007.07.09 23:17:00 -
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 Originally by: Tarminic
Edited by: Tarminic on 09/07/2007 23:09:30
I'm gonna give this one a firm Maybe.
EDIT: In all seriousness, I'll probably train to use heat, though not in the immediate future. Heat is a nice addition but two things need to happen for it to prosper:
1. The options to use heat should not be visible unless Thermodynamics is trained
2. The new UI needs to be streamlined a bit to make it easier for people to tell what modules are and aren't active.
What he said.
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Benco97
Gallente
Nova Inc.
Pride - Honor - Duty
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Posted - 2007.07.09 23:20:00 -
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I have the skills (SP wise, not practically ;p) to use Overheating and I like it.
It's not intended to be something that you use all the time.
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Bekka Jae
Gallente
Eve University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2007.07.09 23:21:00 -
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Since I'm still training the necessary skills I haven't actually used it yet, but in concept I like the idea. I've been in more than a few situations where I'd gladly sacrifice a few mods in order to gain a few more seconds that might mean the difference between having to replace a rack of mods instead of an entire ship.
Still, I'll reserve final judgment until I've actually used it in combat.
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Becq Starforged
Minmatar Ship Construction Services
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Posted - 2007.07.09 23:37:00 -
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I think it's a unbalancing factor in the game, at least for small combats. If you have this one specific skill, then most of the modules on your ship perform 10-30% better, at least for a while. In small (short) combats where one side has this skill and the other doesn't, it gives the side with the ability to use heat a decisive advantage far beyond that of any other single skill.
All else being equal, the difference between a character using heat and one not using heat appears to be similar to someone who has nearly every combat-related skill at 5 to someone with all of those skills at 1-3. I don't have the numbers at my fingertips, but I believe that heat gives shield boosters 10% to boost amount AND 10% to duration, for better than 20% bonus to overall effectiveness. Weapons have something like a 15% bonus to ROF.
My analysis of it is that it will have little or no effect on mission-running (no sustainability), marginal to moderate effect on 0.0 combat (with an advantage to defenders who can count on repairs at a nearby station over interlopers who must avoid using it), and a high impact on low-sec combat, giving a huge advantage to whichever party has this skill.
In a game where most skills give measured advantages, this feature strikes me a poor addition to the game, but one which everyone will be required to train for in order to compete.
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Becq Starforged
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insidion
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Posted - 2007.07.09 23:46:00 -
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Cute idea, horrible implementation and certainly not worth the amount of work that was spent on it when there's any number of better things that could have been focused on instead.
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Crumplecorn
Gallente
Eve Cluster Explorations
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Posted - 2007.07.09 23:52:00 -
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Proper subsystem management would be nice, like kill your engines to boost your weapons. Heat seems half-assed.
But, I can't use it, and don't PvP much anyway, so what do I know? 
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Bhagat
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Posted - 2007.07.10 01:02:00 -
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Heat is a waste!
No new content till the bugs are fixed.
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No new content till the bugs are fixed
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Tef42
Gallente
CRICE Corporation
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Posted - 2007.07.10 01:05:00 -
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I was in a situation and had the skills to use it yesterday, but I forgot all about it  . I would have won the fight too.
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Blane Xero
Amarr
The Firestorm Elite
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Posted - 2007.07.10 01:07:00 -
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Originally by: Benco97
I have the skills (SP wise, not practically ;p) to use Overheating and I like it.
It's not intended to be something that you use all the time.
It is, however, something we have to look at every time we undock........
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Technosites
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2007.07.10 01:10:00 -
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Originally by: Hikari Kisugi
Cluttered, unnecessary eye candy with little difference to the overall progression of gameplay?
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Lucian Sulla
Synergy.
Imperial Republic Of the North
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Posted - 2007.07.10 01:44:00 -
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If the time spent creating Heat had instead been used to fix the desync bug, the playerbase would have been a lot happier.
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Hikari Kisugi
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.07.10 21:05:00 -
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UI remains impossible to see if colour blind for alot of folks I've been told.
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Jacob Holland
Gallente
19th Star Logistics
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Posted - 2007.07.10 21:30:00 -
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Personally I'm disappointed. Turning down your guns to overdrive your rep sounded interesting, it would have had considerable tactical implications. Turning up your guns, your MWD or whatever else until it burns out is less of a factor, less useful and less "cool" than the concept as it was originally laid out.
The UI changes were seriously disappointing, loss of the CPU and PG gauges was annoying and the fact that no change was made to the Drone UI is a missed opportunity in the extreme.
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