Posted - 2009.10.19 13:53:00 - [2]

 

Edited by: Avan Sercedos on 19/10/2009 14:02:31
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also reservation

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So are you sure we can't have Voltron-esque rogue drone ships?

Posted - 2009.10.19 13:58:00 - [4]

 

Please Please fix the tier 1 navy cruisers, everyone but the Navy Augoror really dont perform any job :P Otherwise pretty good changes, still would like to see the firetail even faster than a inty :)

Posted - 2009.10.19 14:04:00 - [6]

 

Edited by: Pattern Clarc on 19/10/2009 14:08:59
I'm really not happy with the Fleet tempest changes. Most would probably agree.



To clarify,

If the player base has a choice between the XYZ turret and armour tanking ships, including the new Machariel, why on earth would they bother with the New fleet pest?

I like how you've offered some explanations to your judgments however, this dev blog was very much needed. (10/10 rating)

Posted - 2009.10.19 14:12:00 - [8]

 

Edited by: Ulstan on 19/10/2009 14:15:34
Good blog.

Highly agree that the navy scorp shouldn't be an ECM boat. Glad you made it the way you did instead.

Also glad to see the drone/missile/shield direction the guristas are taking. That's much better than just another set of shield/missile boats, which caldari already have tons of.

I do wish the fleet tempest could be a shield tanking turret boat. We have lots and lots of armor tanking turret boats.

Also, the hookbill is, IMO, by far the weakest of the navy frigates because it doesn't have the fitting to do much with standard missile launchers (and rockets are crap!) This could be a problem with frigate sized missiles in general, but both the worm and the hookbill have fitting issues trying to use SML's. (And rockets are in no situation worth using)

Posted - 2009.10.19 14:33:00 - [10]

 

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Q: Why having camouflage skins on navy battleships?
o A: The black and white skin you were used to on the Megathron Navy Issue has never been the proper Gallente Navy version paintjob and this is why it was changed.

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Poor form on this also.
I would have been happier if you just admitted that you just didn't have the art assets to work on the re-skin however suggesting that green was the official gallente navy colour seems like a cop out, especially when the DEIMOS HAS THE EXACT SAME COLOUR SCHEME.

Navy Comet would probably be considered as the best option (black with white detail).

Posted - 2009.10.19 14:38:00 - [12]

 

Wait, does this mean that some time in 2012 dreads will be able to turn into huge robots with vacuum cleaners?

Posted - 2009.10.19 14:55:00 - [14]

 

If one would be reading the test server feedback, one would know this allready.

TWO weeks without any communication and finally the silence gets broken,... for this?

Still not even a post for the bi-weekly chronicle...
As I allready posted in general: Are you guys running out of material to tell us or are you afraid to tell us anything since the SiSi all Level V debâcle?

(faction ship changes were nice btw, been folowing it from the start)

Posted - 2009.10.19 15:09:00 - [16]

 

I hate the idea of Guristas being the new drone experts. Gallente are now kinda "defunct", especially since blaster tracking just gets worse and worse relative to other offensive weapons from various factors every patch, while other races get more buffs.

I despise the Navy Megathron skin change. You've made possibly the prettiest looking ship, one of the ugliest. What next? Baby-blue Nyx? Oh and I love the way you dont listen to your players telling you it looks crap and not to change it, for the sake of the 20 or so people that bought desk models.

With the exception of the new tier of Navy ships I dont see these changes improving Eve at all.

Posted - 2009.10.19 15:20:00 - [18]

 

Vanilla.

Make em overpowered and expensive.

Posted - 2009.10.19 15:35:00 - [20]

 

Originally by: Mookuh

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So, shieldtanking is not an option in PvP? I think this argument is nonsense, not only because you could use a Tempest Fleet Issue for e.g. PvE, but also because people do indeed PvP with 6-midslotted Shieldtankers... or even less :o

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BrB Paging Zulupark

Posted - 2009.10.19 15:49:00 - [22]

 

Originally by: Dev Blog

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Gravemetric sensor strength

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Gravimetric sensor strength.

Posted - 2009.10.19 16:01:00 - [24]

 

Am I wrong, but isn't Ytterbium contradicting him with the Machariel?

He says it's designed to be a Kiting ship while also a PvP tackling one. Are you saying that this battleship can tackle and kite? Those two things seem totally opposite in regards to bships.

Posted - 2009.10.19 16:05:00 - [26]

 

Originally by: Caldor Mansi

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Nice.
When will be Raiding and Purple gear introduced..?

Go ahead and make EVE dumber and dumber, you're doing it well.

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Whatever you are smoking, hand it over.

Posted - 2009.10.19 16:18:00 - [28]

 

to bad u didnt listen to a lot of players in regards to the fleet pest, it will still by far be the worst of the navy battleships.
it needed 7 mids and a dps boost so we could have had a good shieldtanker.
this game is filled with armor tankers as it is.

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However, we feel the current slot changes (5 med/ 7 lows) and the shield/armor hitpoint swap will help more as the almost mandatory PvP med slot equipment would inevitably conflict with a shield tank.

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if that was true i wouldnt see as many maelstroms in pvp as i do

give us 5 lows and 7 mids so we can make a proper shield tank with good damage

Posted - 2009.10.19 16:30:00 - [30]

 

Edited by: Reten Kip on 19/10/2009 16:30:40

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* Q: Why having camouflage skins on navy battleships? o A: The black and white skin you were used to on the Megathron Navy Issue has never been the proper Gallente Navy version paintjob and this is why it was changed. As some of you guessed, the correct one was already used on the EVE store Megathron Navy miniature. We are deeply sorry you may not like the new skins, however this unfortunately remains a matter of taste. But if you ask me, my preference would be that dreadnoughts in siege mode should transform into huge space robots with vacuum cleaners.

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MAY not like the new skins? 90% of the responses to those skins say they're JUNK. Why not just make it hot pink, at least then it wouldn't be trying to be legitimate. Better yet, just take the damn ship out of the game entirely.

You guys used the same excuse when you knocked the Helios out of the park with the ugly stick. You could have swapped Imicus/Maulus/Keres/Helios around since nobody flies the Maulus/Keres, but NO. You decided it would be better to kick all the Gallente pilots in the nuts and to hell with what your PAYING CUSTOMERS thought about it.

Now, you're going to do it AGAIN. Do you guys not understand that the camo skin is horrid? Whatever artist thought it looked good doesn't deserve the title and should be demoted.

You've been given many suggestions that DON'T SUCK. Allow me to reiterate a few:

* Leave the damn thing alone. <-- BEST SUGGESTION
* Roden style paint scheme <-- SECOND BEST SUGGESTION
* Naval camo that DOESN'T SUCK
Examples of Naval Camo that doesn't suck, pick one and use it:
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/3995/50819321pv1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/USS_Louisville_CA-28-600px.JPG
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/military-camouflage-6.jpg
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h92000/h92362.jpg

As it stands now I'm either going to sell my salad issue Megathron, or just trash it. I'm leaning toward trashing it.