Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you.
If you don't agree with constant play balancing you're bad for the game.
If your crying over your Titans inability to blap everything with your guns: welcome back to the game.

There is also another question CCP should think about:
Should Eve be all about spamming drakes or should the entitiy with the better and forwardthinking strategy be rewarded?

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There is also another question CCP should think about:
Should Eve be all about spamming drakes or should the entitiy with the better and forwardthinking strategy be rewarded?

Honestly, this probably had nothing to do with goons and everything to do with PL hotdropping titans on the CCP subcap fleet.

Guys,

It's easy to solve this problem : Open a new server for goons. Goonity. Stupidity. The name is up to ze mittani. Will be his server after all.

good luck with keeping your job once the amount of accounts drop because of boredom and what follows when you allow for one big power block to control all of EVE

I would like at this point again to deliver some mathematical basis for any discussion. With current DPS and fast projection of force you can easily imagine around 100-150 dreads deploy to gank your 25 Titans.

150 Dreads cost around 400 Mio each or 60b in total due to insurance, easy production, low-sec construction etc etc ...

25 Titans cost around well 1250 B isk taking the current price of 50b at which some believe they will stop and a large amount of chars bound to the ships, extensive complicated production etc etc ...

Even if in a hypothetical fight 150 dreads all 25 DD where pointed at different targets, you would simply lose around 10b of isk with the shots from the dd's which is actually not such a big deal.

What matters in such a scenario is the fact that with your dreads you only need to take down 2 Titans and you are on the plus side of the equation. Every Titan blowing is additonally a moral factor, bringing more people to the fight.

By changing XL Turrets it becomes hard to hit even a dread, thats not such a big deal since they are in siege. But on the other side hitting a Titan becomes much easier since there is no more Malus from Siege module.

The scan resolution change adds additional help for the dread in that scenario. While the titans will need around 106 Seconds to lock up the dreads, they on the other side can already fire from 30 secs on. Thats about 70 Secs fire without defence on the titan side.

Guys,

It's easy to solve this problem : Open a new server for goons. Goonity. Stupidity. The name is up to ze mittani. Will be his server after all.

Guys,

It's easy to solve this problem : Open a new server for goons. Goonity. Stupidity. The name is up to ze mittani. Will be his server after all.

I'm almost at a loss of words here. Almost, therefore I am going to speak my mind.

So now capitals are basically structure grinding machines and you only deploy them if you have something to grind down or if someone else is grinding stuff down and you catch someone else grinding down something. This is not a solution, this is a plaster for a symptom. There is now ZERO reason to deploy supercapitals except to grind down a structure. Do you really want structure grinding to become the motivator for people to build and create supercapitals in EVE? I mean, I don't believe you have thought at all about the consequences of these changes.

EVE is now effectively sectioned off into two tier combat systems. Capital combat and sub-capital combat. The difference is, capitals cannot touch sub-capitals, but sub-capitals can, in the numbers that are brought at the moment, almost 1-3 volley capitals. The titans were a workaround for that because numbers were no longer the only deciding factor, your playing time, your assets and your skillpoints actually played a role. Now we are going back to a time again where the only effective tool, a VERY limited tool might I add, against blobbing is a damn stealth bomber. No more force projection by taking advantage of the many years you have spent in the game and the money you have pooled into a titan, you are better off selling off said titan and joining the nearest Maelstrom fleet.

What am I meant to aspire for in EVE in terms of combat? What is my incentive for actually training all these skills. To fly the next flavour of the month subcapital ship?

EVE is now a numbers game when there is a large effort to remove counters for large fleets. If this is the direction we're going, we're going to see a bipolar political landscape because being a small alliance, you can now only exist if you are a part of the inevitable two powerblocks that will come to dominate EVE. If you can't match the numbers, too bad... join or die.

Let's get a rethink of the roles of supercapitals and not a temporary plaster that will reduce supercapitals to nothing but ihub and station grinders.

The result will be a more accessible, dynamic, and fluid nullsec populated and controlled by people who actually use space and log in more than once every two weeks to blap 500 subcaps and log back off.

Well this seems slightly short sighted. It would have been interesting to see if titans are truly imbalanced or if people were just unwilling to commit fleets to counter them (dreads and supers). I guess we'll never really know though as this nerf seems like it could be a huge game changer, especially for an alliance like Raiden dot.

Btw does anyone notice that about 95% of the people cheering on this nerf are part of CFC?

who cares about raiden

Can't beat something? Whine until they change the game about it

who cares about raiden

TL;DR: Everybody should just give up and join goonswarm now.

Can't beat something? Whine until they change the game about it

Dreads are mainly antistructure, with a bit of anti-cap. Carriers still do pretty decent damage against subcaps AFAIK. Supers can switch between anti-cap and anti-subcap depending on their choice of fighter drone. Titans are pure anti-cap.

With regard to the cost and effort of getting into a super, the general design intent of EVE is that you get diminishing returns for progressively higher investments. If you look at module progression, from T1 up to high officer, you'll see that how it generally pans out is that you get a roughly linear increase in power for a roughly exponential increase in cost. Similarly with ships, a T1 cruiser is not equivalent to ten T1 frigates, and a T1 battleship is not equivalent to twenty T1 cruisers. This makes stepping into a larger more powerful ship an interesting cost-benefit decision rather than an obvious no-brainer. Supercaps should continue this trend.