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I just read the dev blog about how the "balance" changes are taking away from the release of Shiva. WOW, you really have no clue what you are doing do you? Honsetly, all the players have asked for over the last year is more content, you got a big influx of new players from a game that failed because of these kinds of things.

Correct me if I am wrong but didn't excessive nerfing kill E&B? I know this is CCP's first attempt at a MMO but there is no excuse for this, look at what happened in other games, learn from their mistakes. Eve is a great game, it has alot of potential, you need to make a FEW SMALL TWEAKS. The tracking/falloff formula is fine, just change it so that wrecking hits are only calculated on shots that connect. Speed up light/heavy missiles, lower agility on cruise and increase their speed. Increase damage on lasers by 5%. Make drones follow the rules, give them real tracking.

The thing you really need to do is release Shiva. Your veteran players are getting bored, soon so will your new ones. You are proposing changes that are not needed, you have lost touch with the players and it will be your end. There is not one player in Eve that will not be alienated in some why by these changes, they are clearly lazily thought out and hastily put into testing. This is not beta, figure out what you are doing.

The biggest problems in this game are not even balance related. How about you actually fix the session change bug rather than telling me to fasten my seatbelt? The cop-out message isn't funny anymore. The lag-lock issue, FIX IT. How about FIXING THE GANG BUGS!?!?

I have spent the entire course of my training for a Raven, essentially that is my main ship, you are talking about 1st, removing it's defence and 2nd removing its offence. I have learned how to fly that ship, I know what it can do, DO NOT CHANGE THAT. Don't make us re-learn how to fly our ships, give us new content to adapt to instead.

Over the course of a year you have done a good job making small changes to unbalanced things, the game is very well done atm, sadly people that are too lazy to work with what they have get on the forums and whine about balance because they lost a ship.

I don't really know what to say other than this, I have almost entirely stopped playing eve, our ventrilo server is empty. My wingmates are off playing other games, we play BFV now because we see that Eve is going nowhere, the Devs have no clue what is going on and if they even talk of such radical changes there is no point in paying them, we can spend that money much better in other places. You have already insulted us with these proposed changs.

SO: this is your last chance, if you mess this up. I'm out and I now alot of other people are feeling the same way. This is it, make or break, nerf the game and die. OR continue as you have making SMALL changes to the few bad things.

Since I know the devs won't answer maybe we can get some player reactions. Do you think CCP are doing the right thing here? Do you think they can re-do a year of work in 2 weeks? Will you stay in Eve after this disaster? Do you think the changes are needed? Or will small tweaks do the job?

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