Originally by: Alkeena

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Originally by: Tarminic

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There's nothing killing EVE - it's been growing consistently for several years now. People are whining, people have whined, and people will continue to whine. If CCP decides to nerf something it will be due to the massive amount of data they have on how various ships or modules are purchased/lost/used primarily and input from the community secondarily.

If the Myrmidon is 3 times as popular as any other battlecruiser despite only 35% of players being Gallente (example numbers) then they figure it needs to be balanced. Of course this won't be popular because unbalanced ships are popular for obvious reasons - they kick ass.

EVE will survive the carrier nerf, will survive drone bandwidth, and will survive any future nerfs unless they're truly short-sighted and idiotic, which I don't think will ever happen.

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I appreciate the candor of your response. The position I would take with regards to that is that it doesnt matter if the myrm is overpower (to an extent), so long as other ships are differentiated enough to make them worthy of flying on their own merits. The trouble we've run into, in my opinion, is the obsession with DPS. It's all that a lot of people see and so when a ship class is made essentially homogenous (I'll grant a happy exception to the tanking ability of the drake) the slightest difference causes people to rush to ONE ship, such as the myrm due to it's elevated DPS. If the other BCs had a role that was sufficiently differentiated they'd be flown more as a result. Instead, because they are percieved as being so similar it becomes 'easy' to pick out the 'best' one and everyone flocks to it.

Note my use of the word percieved above. There's another issue at work here, and that's that a lot of players are note terribly astute. Vagacanes = awesome. Also, pop the damn drones and your problem is solved.

Finally, when I say that something is killing Eve, I mean in the sense that REALLY sets it apart. Let's face it, the more mass market appeal you have the better off you are financially, that doesnt necessarilly mean it is a better game, just that it can attract more rabid mouth breathers. I think a lot of people that respect the complexity and depth of Eve hold games such as WoW in disdain, yet it is many times more successful.

It is not the true death of eve, it is the spiritual death of eve.

~Alkeena

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