Guess what. All MMOs remove stuff. Most of them make your gear useless every expansion. It’s called the gear treadmill.
All MMOs also rebalance. The VNI was too good, alphas were too good on drone ships.
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Another paid Omega player comments… again.
Ccp i suggest nerf all drones and remove race galente.
Go about it in the least efficient way, expect if to be commented upon.
Not just payed Omega FIVE payed omegas btw.
How strange. I hadn’t noticed alpha or omega status showing on the forums…
Alpha clones shouldn’t be allowed to post in forums. 
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Nice work CCP - Removing level 4 missions for alphas, and now nerfing one of the best budget anom farmers in the game.
Can’t wait for the moment you realise you’re killing the experience for new players and your numbers begin to tank even further.
I think it could be argued that level 4 missions are a long way from “new player” material. If Alpha is to be seen as a demo rather than full game access then I don’t see the problem. The game shouldn’t be balanced based on people trying to play for free forever.
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I agree.
If some players choose to remain Alpha- for whatever reason- they should realize a lot of capabilities just won’t be available.
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To be honest I’m not buying your reasoning @ all. There have been many suggestions by the community on how to deal with boting. If this company actually cared about its customers, why not implement any 1 of those suggestions? Instead you come up with a new solution nobody asked you to. To be frank I’m quite disgusted.
Why don’t you try something new? Why don’t you fire whoever comes up with these dumb ideas, hire somebody new to actually read comments and figure out what we want from your game and then implement that instead?
Nobody asked me my opinion. There was no poll where I could voice my opinion. Now that the eve lords have decided on their opinion, nothing that I say here matters or changes anything. The fact is, so many people fly the VNI and not the new Triglavian ships that you are trying so desperately to force down our throats. So you will keep changing it (2 times already this year) until it becomes so spoiled that people move on to something else. That’s just what this company does. Instead of trying to find out what people love about their game and improve on it, they spend their days making their ships worse until nobody flies them anymore. Instead of trying to genuinely figure out what is good about this ship and make other cruisers just as good you pull the same old bull you normally do and even have the nerve to say that, “it’s good for us” or “we were only thinking of you” and the recently “fighting evil boters with unorthodox methods”.
At the end of the day, it’s your game. You can do whatever you want. It’s not like there is any competition right now. Let me just state my opinion:
I never ever asked you to change the VNI. There are so many things wrong with this game I find it hard to believe your are seriously paying people to do this instead of fixing your damn game. On a final note, when it comes to boting in eve, why don’t you just do as we suggest and stop coming up with dumb ideas that will have no effect whatsoever. This will change nothing. I know this because making bots is what I do for a living. Even though I’ve never made one for video games before, you’re better off firing whoever you have in charge and paying me 10 cents for every bot account deleted from your server. Hell, I’d find them all and your server bills would go down (win-win)
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Which are almost all terrible and would be far worse than a much needed balance change.
Should I get on my paid account and post the same things as before in relation to my alpha account that I play too?
This game shouldn’t be balanced about alpha clones, and I guess most of Eve community got rid of their comments … so yes!
What balance changes? The VNI is a T1 cruiser that does over 600 DPS. All they needed to do is reduce that to around 400 DPS. They could have reduced the drone bandwidth by 10 so you can only field 4 heavy drones or reduced the drone damage bonus. It’s not rocket science. Instead they do the same thing:
How not to balance a game (by Some Idiot)
Step 1: Reduce speed of ship
Step 2: Increase signature radius
Step 3: Try to change weapon system
Step 4: Screw with alpha accounts if it is a T1 ship
That’s not balancing anything. They do the same thing every time. That’s not even an attempt to fix anything. Also instead of balancing ships that people fly why not make the other ships more attractive. That’s what they do in every other game. If a character becomes to popular they give the weaker characters a boost. Why not just make all cruisers able to do 500 DPS or give them added EWAR capabilities? Did you really think this comment through at all \o/
Power creep is bad
VNI did 800 dps in afk mode. That was a way too strong. That’s the simple reason … no need to explain …
And if you fit blaster, you can still do 750 dps with a nice tank, or even 900 dps without lowslots. Not afk anymore, and not suitable for ratting (with this dps numbers), but for pvp. The difference is, that you have to fly manually very much, to apply that damage. But that’s still a way too strong imho. And we will see another nerf coming soon.
If you would make other cruisers more attractive, you would start to balance the whole game about the VNI. Every ship had to be balanced with much more dps, and an afk mode. Is this your intention? Any questions?
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Part of the VNI issue was it’s ability to sig speed tank the anoms. While projecting all it’s dps to a long range. So yes. CCP addressed the balance issues.
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To be fair, in “afk mode” it did 800dps and could be killed by a solo frig. In brawl mode it did 800dps and was a tanking beast. NOW it can no longer support two reps long enough to run the ancil out of paste. Even dual cap injection giving up its web isn’t enough to keep it repping like it did before. Sure it reps harder, but it caps itself out so fast its ■■■■■■■ useless. The extra gun fucks it over.
I’m in the same position, dont like the vni nerf but what option do we have except ishtars online like everyone has mentioned.
I guess I just wish rather than make this one worse approach they could balance a bit with make this/these a bit better as well, would’ve felt a bit more thought out.
(Yes they did a now it’s better in pvp than pve switch but really just comes off as a nerf IMO)
It is less effective all around now. This is not a pvp buff.