At the 20.30 mark, Rise states that if a 20% increase in MWD speed is too “egregoius” they could just adjust the stats on the base module from 500% speed increase down to 450% to balance it.
The abyssal mods themselves did have they potential to be game breaking (I was trying to keep an open mind based on their hopeful rarity), but if they start wrecking balance on ordinary modules to keep abyssal mods “under control” they have literally gone mental.
What balance we do have will be screwed and if mods are nerfed on the basis of the high end stats of abyssal mods, they will become garbage and abyssal mods will be the new normal.
Get ready to grind or open your wallets people, EA have spoken.
The consequences are huge to the game … higher priced faction/deadspace/officer modules will become worthless. There will be an optimal input item, maybe T2 or one of the specialist metas, making that spike in demand. PvE will be centered around grinding abyssal pockets. A lot of addicts will gamble in Jita all day long, as there is no entry barrier for the new slot machine except money. A lot of hand-crafted OP fits in small-scale PvP, forcing everybody to do the same, because it’s affordable.
Maybe this while thing is designed as a giant FU nerf to null-sec. This is, after all, where the vast majority of Deadspace and Officer modules are farmed.
Now its all going to go to hell again just so Player NS can sink their T2 mats/modules into “super modules” while the price of T2 stuff goes through the roof.
Its win/win for them.
I strongly recommend CCP changes Plasmutids into a consumable with an effect on overheating of a module.
Ie: A temporary boost that consumes Plasmutids per cycle on the module, that extends overheating.
This will impact PvP, but less of the rest of the game, especially its econony.
It will just shift, people stop farming DED sites and escalations, but T4 PvE instances in future. A lot of previously diverse and useful gameplay will be scrapped, and replaced by a uniform riskless grind + slot machine requiring no skills.
Indeed.
Plasmutid modified modules stand to kill the DED module market.
Depends on the cost/availability of plasmutids, the rng of a desired mutation.
But Player NS already is the source of T2 mats/modules and best officer/DED mods, which they can transmute, leading invariably to them being the source of those, as well as getting rich off higher T2 prices as they are sunk for mutation.
IE: Plasmutated modules will supplant/depricate DED module value on the market.
Yes, it looks like they stopped cariing about balance long ago, they did stop rebalancing modules and probably with intend to make this RNG stuff that is going to replace previously seen ISK/h balance with a luck/ISK stuff, and in future plasmutagens for PLEX.
You’re 5 years too late with that one. I’ve got to admit that it’s somehow funny that people suddenly have their doomsday moment about things others have told them about for years.
It’s the same with Facebook right now. It really wasn’t a secret what they’re doing and how far-reaching and invasive it is, but people all just disregarded it as “conspiracy theories” and now they’re screaming that the sky’s falling down on our heads.
EVE’s been dead for a couple years now. It’s just a rotting corpse on life support that’s left.
Heh, better late than never ? True though, I was really trying to keep an open mind about this even arguing against some naysayers in another thread on the basis that these would be rare (a point that many people seem to be using to “ok” this idea). But as we heard from Rise himself, mutaplasmids and good rolls are to become common enough to be affordable for most players.
I’ve just heard (while re-listening) Rise discussing his confusion over the push back against RNG stats while the game already has examples of randomness. He then goes on to try to draw a comparison between stargates spitting us out in random positions around the exit point.
Wat ?
There’s literally no comparison unless you could pay isk and make the jump again when you don’t like the position you end up in. This lack of nuanced thought is pretty disturbing from a dev.