Ima Nutta
Insidious Existence
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.10.21 13:24:00 -
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OK, this is either a really sick joke, or someone at CCP hasn't been taking their medication properly.
You want constructive? How about this:
Make the changes, but reduce the training time from at least 1 year (to be useful) in a carrier to say, oh maybe 3 weeks. That way we can have all the logistics ships YOU want us to have.
Seriously though, what ever happened to the ideal of the players creating the gameplay? I really am disappointed with the almost continual marketing hype about how EVE is a sandbox and CCP doesn't decide the path the game takes. Seems like you guys are only interested in getting everyone to play they way YOU want.
Why not spend less time ****ing off paying customers and more time in fixing things that are either broken or patently stupid. For example, why is it that a mothership should be able to sit at a low sec gate with impunity and nuke small ships and pods? Restrict super caps to 0.0 - that's where they belong. Leave carriers alone, they've been nerfed enough already.
If you go ahead with these changes maybe you should have a buy-back scheme where all the players (like me) who have invested a lot of time and isk and real money (by way of subscription), can be reimbursed for all that effort once you make carriers useless.
Carriers/mum's are big...that's the whole point. A few battleships should not be able to kill a carrier, a large group yes, but not a small group. And by limiting the number of fighters to 5 you are basically saying "leave your fighters at home" to the many capital pilots who don't actually get much of a chance to fly in fleet ops due to real life constraints or timezone differences within corps/alliances.
While you're at it, how about having realistic insurance for capitals? Since you're gonna take away my only real means of defense, maybe you can drop my premiums by several orders of magnitude as well?
When I first started playing EVE I was literally awestruck by what CCP had created. Since that time (almost 2 years) I've become so disillusioned by the number of nerfs that I'm wondering whether I should bother playing any more. I have several accounts with toons from different races. I trained up that way so I could try different ships, and get the full enjoyment out of the game. So far almost every ship I've trained for has been nerfed to the point that I'm not really enjoying EVE any more.
I hear torps are gonna be nerfed again in rev 3...great, there goes my mission running. Oh look, nosferatu got nerfed...there goes the Curse I trained for....I'm afraid to train any other races ships for fear of the almighty nerf bat!!! 
My next question then is simply this: will there be a single ship that you want us all to fly so there is total "balance"? How about an Ibis?
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