When I left Eve

[Beast_of_Revelations]

…they were nerfing carriers in PvP because of economics. I thought it was asinine and unforgivable to nerf a ship because of economics, instead of fixing economics (ratting etc). So I left (no I wasn’t a capital pilot).

Question: Did they ever do a rethink, un-nerf carriers, and just fix ratting? I’d bet ‘no,’ but need to ask before contemplating a return.

Also, strategic cruisers were being redone, which I supported, but I didn’t get to see the finished product.

Question: Was the strategic cruiser redo well-received? What’s been the shakeout on that?

[Rivr_Luzade]

@Beast_of_Revelations

Question: Did they ever do a rethink, un-nerf carriers, and just fix ratting? I’d bet ‘no,’ but need to ask before contemplating a return.

Kind of. They only reduced DPS by half of what they originally planned, and they did not increase aggro from NPC against fighters.

@Beast_of_Revelations

Question: Was the strategic cruiser redo well-received? What’s been the shakeout on that?

Nothing much. We still have Legion/Proteus fleets, but we now see more Loki fleets which is kind of the king of the hill. Apart from that not much has changed because the promised HAC refurbishment has still not happened, and considering how useful the Loki is, I doubt that it will have a positive effect at all.

[DeMichael_Crimson]

Hello, hope you decide to come back to Eve as an Omega Clone.

Here’s some Dev Blogs about the T3 Cruiser changes:

Rebalancing Strategic Cruisers | EVE Online

https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004114569-Strategic-Cruiser-Rebalance-July-11th-2017

And here’s the forum thread listing all the stats of the T3 Cruiser changes.

July Release - Strategic Cruisers

Hi everyone! This thread will continue the discussion of our upcoming revamp of Strategic Cruisers from the previous thread on the old forums. The basic outline of our goals and early plans can be found in the balance presentation from Fanfest as well as the dev blog. We have an ongoing focus group running on this topic that has been extremely valuable in refining and improving the design over the past several weeks. The focus group was selected from a public call for volunteers, and like all …

[Beast_of_Revelations]

@Rivr_Luzade

Kind of. They only reduced DPS by half of what they originally planned, and they did not increase aggro from NPC against fighters.

Increasing DPS from NPC against fighters was fine in my book. Nerfing the thing in PvP (reduce DPS) wasn’t. I guess that went through and was never rectified.

Nothing much. We still have Legion/Proteus fleets, but we now see more Loki fleets which is kind of the king of the hill. Apart from that not much has changed because the promised HAC refurbishment has still not happened, and considering how useful the Loki is, I doubt that it will have a positive effect at all.

Ha, hilarious. All that work and entire fleets of these things are still roving around because they are that good?