CCP has elected to pander to those who don’t actually play in nullsec or to hose who have lobbied solely out of self interest. Their spring balance pass is an attempt to nerf nullsec. I live in null, let’s see how I’ve responded to the scheduled balance pass:
1.) Got a new fax alt and some more faxes. Now instead of travelling with one fax I’ll travel with two. Thx CCP for making my stuff harder to kill and further increasing PLEX prices to accommodate even more alts.
2.) Nerfing supers? That’s okay, I’ve always had two Wyverns, now is as good a time as any to inject one of my spare cap pilots into optimal Wyvern skills. Guess I’ll be flying two at the next UALX. Yay for supercap proliferation.
3.) Nerfing rorquals? Hey, that’s okay. I’ve already got my new rorqual alt ready, and with two faxes now I might not even need to siege, just dump the faxes and then my two supers once everyone is ready. Yay for increased plex prices and harder to kill rorquals.
This balance pass is best described as shooting yourself in the foot to spite your face. Not only is it self-harming, it doesn’t come close to achieving the intended effect.
This summer is going to be quite interesting with all these new supers and faxes laying about. This time next year PL is going to be crying about server crashes instead of their inability to break FAX tanks.
Thx CCP
P.S I think the HAW titan nerf was cute, we can keep it
It would actually be quite nice if CCP stopped shoving everything up the rear ends of the morons in nullsec and instead came back to fixing highsec. You had them long enough, you know?
They made everyone dumber in null, and now they’re coming back to make sure highsec screams in pain and agony gets the attention it actually deserves, instead of wasting it on cows they can easily milk all day.
And every additional ALT you fly is cash in CCP’s pocket, or did you forget that PLEX can’t be farmed in game - someone needs to purchase it with real world money.
Your post is actually a wonderful illustration of exactly how broken NullSec has become, because CCP and the CSM have been pandering to them for years. Thanks!
Except you could have done all that before the nerfs, and had even more rep power and more isk making.
Because you can obviously afford it even after the nerf.
Hence… why it’s getting nerfed in the first place.
Yup. Totally. 4 guys from Goonswarm, Brisc, Jin’taan, Killah Bee, and Sort Dragon all agreed because Goons, Init, NCdot, and Darkness don’t play in null or all have the same interests align in a way that’s bad for people like Legacy… oh, wait…
Ok, so Legacy’s resident adult-in-the-room agrees here, too…
This isn’t about nerfing nullsec, it’s about getting nullsec healthier. Stop focusing on the candy you think is being taken away, and check your blood sugar.
Maybe, but that doesn’t make them good for him. The ability to separate ‘this is what I want’ and ‘this is what we need’ is a massive part of the requirements for any kind of representation. It’s exactly the difference between them that the CSM deals in.
And I’m not saying that to be dismissive. It’s not easy. That’s why I picked that specific metaphor, in fact: I’m diabetic. I know just how hard it is to change the way you think about it all, especially at first. But you don’t do yourself any favors by focusing on immediate gratification. I wanna be here another 15 years… both, you know, not dead and playing EVE. For that to happen, both entities need to be in decent health, you know?
Yes, though ignoring that they’re incapable of realizing they’re addicted is pointless. What others think how th4y should be or live is irrelevant, hecause we can’t force them anyway. Those guys quitting is the best outcome for everyone.
There’s a difference between ignoring it, and trying to get them to see it anyway. I’d like to think any of us can be better than we are, but I’m a weirdly optimistic cat, considering how much I think humanity’s a terrible idea in the first place.
As a small corp CEO looking to expand my operations, the incoming changes the Rorqual are going to be detrimental to any chance I have at significantly growing my corporation’s ability to produce. It is now far too risky to even consider building and fielding a Rorqual because the key benefits to operation are no longer there (namely, the ship’s ability to survive while I hold out for a response fleet). It is now far too cost prohibitive to move up from the Orca into a Rorqual unless I’m part of a major nullsec alliance, and ultimately my ability to produce resources is diminished.
Are you trying to drive people to quit the game right now? Many newbros don’t have any way to make isk other than mine, and a lot of the smaller groups just don’t have the manpower to move into lowsec/nullsec where they have to compete with much larger groups.
Due to the ongoing issue of gankers, my ability to field a fleet in highsec is greatly diminished. If I try to go for yield by fielding a boosted fleet of mining barges, I have to compete with gankers. So my pilots move into higher-tanked ships and as a result, my yield goes through the floor in order to increase survival and make myself a less appealing target to a bunch of jackasses who do nothing but game the CONCORD response system for shits and giggles.
CCP, stop being nullsec’s marionette and actually consider the impact the changes you are making to the game will have on smaller corps and newbros! With this change you’ve basically said that you don’t give a damn about smaller highsec corps looking to expand on their own OR about the numerous J-space corps, and each passing update only shows that to be more true.
Highsec corps aren’t impacted since they don’t use rorqs. If anything this change benefits them due to increased mineral demand. J Space I fail to see where you are getting your response fleet from that the timer change makes a difference.
I went all over the map, into worm holes, Low Sec, High Sec (even during wars against us) and couldn’t drum up any support, I really would have tried to balance the whole map as best that I could.
Core got Provi’s vote and the other parts of space? Nothing much.
As far as CSM goes, it is a Null Sec game.
They have the numbers and they have the structure to get their hordes voting.
Three options to improve the situation:
The other types of space get more organised.
CCP makes sure all players are extremely aware of the vote and what it means.
That was being said before Brave popped up and was probably being said before TEST popped up. It takes a lot of luck but sometimes the stars align and a bunch of ships swarm together.
Brave got protected for a while, and encouraged to grow so they could be farmed.
If you are going to pre test days then it was an utterly different meta.
Not saying there isn’t space mind you, there is plenty of space now because big alliances fit in fewer systems, but you can either declare fealty to one or be used as a content farm by everyone.
Because the built up weight of supers is honestly pretty uncatchable for an actually new entity without internal betrayal or defection now. And unless CCP manage to balance them such that sub caps actually work which given their recent ehp buffs is honestly unlikely then it’s pretty much impossible to ever fight them head on for structures.
