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The following implants have been moved to slot 6:

* Shaqil's speed enhancer

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All missile types have been balanced to ensure that oversized missiles do not have too much of an effect on smaller ships. As before, ships are still protected from larger missiles by their signature radius. When going sufficiently fast, the damage taken from missiles is reduced by the signature radius to speed ratio, rather than just speed. Going faster or reducing the signature radius will reduce missile damage further. For a ship with the same signature radius as the missile's explosion radius, the missile's explosion velocity indicates the speed at which the missile damage starts to get reduced. The new formula allows for speed tanking using afterburners. In fact, afterburners will in general be more effective than micro warp drive for speed tanking missiles.

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The micro warp drive is now vulnerable to warp scramblers (the 7.5km version). If you get scrambled your MWD will immediately end its cycle. You won't be able to activate it until you're out of warp scramble range, and the reactivation timer has expired. In addition, all MWD's now give you a 500% speed boost, regardless of meta level.

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Originally by: dojocan81

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i cannot find any Black Ops changes !!

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The docking radius of the Minmatar Research station has been adjusted to prevent ships being forced out of docking range immediately when undocking.

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Originally by: CCP Oveur

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Just donæt forget the reach-around.

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Originally by: Haradgrim

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erm...what happened to the black ops/SB changes?

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Originally by: Arkady Sadik

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The docking radius of the Minmatar Research station has been adjusted to prevent ships being forced out of docking range immediately when undocking.

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After tests on SiSi, it appears still impossible to get your ship to stop within dock range (same as for the very similar "Minmatar Station"). What was the exact intention for this change?

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Maximum top speed has been reduced across the board along with changes to how micro warp drives operate
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Changes have been made to all Frigates, Interceptors, Stealth Bombers, Destroyers, Cruisers, Battlecruisers and Battleships regarding base speed and micro warp drive speed. Rookie, Industrial, Capital and shuttle class ships remain unaffected.

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Originally by: Grath Telkin

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Originally by: Arkady Sadik

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The docking radius of the Minmatar Research station has been adjusted to prevent ships being forced out of docking range immediately when undocking.

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After tests on SiSi, it appears still impossible to get your ship to stop within dock range (same as for the very similar "Minmatar Station"). What was the exact intention for this change?

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Awesome, docking games are stupid, imo, they should all spit you out, outside of docking range.

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Originally by: Estel Arador

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"Jaguar bonuses have been clarified, and resistance bonuses have been removed."

Can anyone tell me how/what/why this is?
(I'm sure there's a good reason, it's just that this comes out of the blue for me.)

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Originally by: Caiman Graystock

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So nothing will be changed about the ANYTHING since its announcement? None of the suggestions or feedback have been taken into account?

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Originally by: Estel Arador

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"Jaguar bonuses have been clarified, and resistance bonuses have been removed."

Can anyone tell me how/what/why this is?

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Originally by: Needa3

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great job ccp, turning Eve into an blobfest infested, carebear loving game in which absolute n00bish gameplay is promoted and the only tactics will be: the bigger blob, the better

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Originally by: Wrayeth

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Edited by: Wrayeth on 08/11/2008 13:54:30
I still can't believe this is being released as-is. This patch is going to make solo PvP pretty much impossible except in a frigate, discourage small gang play, and make battleships irrelevant except in blobs. With all of the people who've been pointing out the problems in the upcoming changes, one would have thought they'd be tweaked before release. Instead, it's being pushed out as fast as possible in some sort of lame attempt to compete with WoW's next expansion.

The only people I've run into who truly like the changes are frigate pilots and people who enjoy no-skill blobbing.

EDIT: I had been looking forward to the speed nerf to restore my love for the game. Instead, I'm taking a serious look at cancelling my account. GG, CCP.

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Originally by: ForgeTrader

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Looking at the changes in SiS on missiles.

NPC battleships can speed tank cruise missiles!

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Originally by: CCP Nozh | Speed Rebalanced Dev blog 7/25/08

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Mmm, beard

Yes flock, the dev giveth and the dev taketh. And surely, many will lament that he is heavy on the taketh this time around. But let us not succumb to exclamations and ôI quitÆ threatsö just yet. These changes are of many dimensions, and even though there are few actual statistical boosts, each perceived nerf levels the playing field in such a manner where overall variety and inventive gameplay is being boosted. The battles will hopefully once again teem with ships of all sizes and makes, giving added weight to strategy and tactics (our very favourites).

We are fully aware that such complex changes can have unforeseen results, especially since such an agglomeration of them is difficult to test without the participation of a large number of players. Thus, we urge you to log onto Singularity (our test server) this Monday, July 28TH to give them a spin and spare us no feedback or thoughts on these issues. We're allocating a long time (a month or more) to oversee the changes because we are open to further tweaks, based on your suggestions.


-Nozh, bringing balance to the galaxy

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Originally by: Innaara

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Obvious conclusion reading the nerfs:

- CCP wants to attract new players by giving them a chance to survive in 0,0. Eve is not like WoW where you not lose anything after being killed.
- When new players have a chance in 0,0, so will Chinese isk farmers.

Gameplay wise:

- By nerfing like this, targets can almost always get back to gates.
- Minni boats are next to useless (Vaga, rapier) while other races are intact.
- Blobs will emerge
- Small roaming gangs will not survive
- Sniping HACS can be an option but HACS will not be used much anymore.
- No more roaming fun. We should all join GBC or the NC so we can see the stackless bla bla crap that does not work.

CCP is a company that is all for the buck. New players that can go into 0,0 with limited amount of SP and will stay a bit longer in the game (that's CCP's aim; More money). Although CCP will not listen to me or anyone else, we will see how this turns out. CCP is not the only player in the market for a Space MMO.

As for the new content: Lame.

You really want something for the press so you won't be completely in the shadow of Wrath of the Linch king eh?

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Originally by: Gaelenus

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what the hell ccp still nothing about blasters? you seem intent on breaking them, seriously what happened to the

Attention! The modifications discussed below are all subject to change, based on player input and testing experience.


that was in yellow writing at the top of the dev blog on speed rebalance huh?
Well you got your feedback a 33 page thread on do something about blasters and a 70 page thread on scrap the nerf altogether and yet you pay noo attention. WHat can you honestly say youve changed about the nerf based on player feedback?
It remains to be seen for me at least how badly you've nerfed gallente ships but as somone whose invested time and skills on them and who quite liked playing them i wont be happy (as i'm sure a lot of other people will be) if that all goes out the window.

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Originally by: Leyline777

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Originally by: Innaara

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Obvious conclusion reading the nerfs:

- CCP wants to attract new players by giving them a chance to survive in 0,0. Eve is not like WoW where you not lose anything after being killed.
- When new players have a chance in 0,0, so will Chinese isk farmers.

Gameplay wise:

- By nerfing like this, targets can almost always get back to gates.
- Minni boats are next to useless (Vaga, rapier) while other races are intact.
- Blobs will emerge
- Small roaming gangs will not survive
- Sniping HACS can be an option but HACS will not be used much anymore.
- No more roaming fun. We should all join GBC or the NC so we can see the stackless bla bla crap that does not work.

CCP is a company that is all for the buck. New players that can go into 0,0 with limited amount of SP and will stay a bit longer in the game (that's CCP's aim; More money). Although CCP will not listen to me or anyone else, we will see how this turns out. CCP is not the only player in the market for a Space MMO.

As for the new content: Lame.

You really want something for the press so you won't be completely in the shadow of Wrath of the Linch king eh?

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key issue WoW is now becoming better than Eve due to ignoring player issues and test results... at least Blizzard isnt cheap on customer service. They value your money and addiction :P. I had quit WoW cause of the perks of eve... due to the fact that soloing (minus either luck or frigates) and gatecamping are going the way of the dinos i cancelled my account and will be going to warhammer online ;) Hope you get fired Nohz.

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Originally by: ForgeTrader

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All missile types have been balanced to ensure that oversized missiles do not have too much of an effect on smaller ships. As before, ships are still protected from larger missiles by their signature radius. When going sufficiently fast, the damage taken from missiles is reduced by the signature radius to speed ratio, rather than just speed. Going faster or reducing the signature radius will reduce missile damage further. For a ship with the same signature radius as the missile's explosion radius, the missile's explosion velocity indicates the speed at which the missile damage starts to get reduced. The new formula allows for speed tanking using afterburners. In fact, afterburners will in general be more effective than micro warp drive for speed tanking missiles.

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Looking at the changes in SiS on missiles.

NPC battleships can speed tank cruise missiles!

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Originally by: Mara Kell

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"Rocket, assault missile and torpedo javelin missiles will now do -10% less damage but range has been increased by 50%"

Either you mean: They do 10% less damage than assault missiles and have 50% more range than those.

Or: They do 5% more damage than before Quantum Rise and range has been decreased by 63%.

Both ways an unneeded nerf to short range missile ships.

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Originally by: Oftherocks

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I coulda sworn that it was stated that new missions would be released with every new expansion now.

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Originally by: Estel Arador

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"Jaguar bonuses have been clarified, and resistance bonuses have been removed."

Can anyone tell me how/what/why this is?
(I'm sure there's a good reason, it's just that this comes out of the blue for me.)

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