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I am still hoping one day he quits CCP and brings Veto. Back
Some of my best memories of EVE
I'd never do it with lowsec meta this way it is right now, the corp wouldn't be able to function and would die in a matter of months.
I am still hoping one day he quits CCP and brings Veto. Back
Some of my best memories of EVE
I'd never do it with lowsec meta this way it is right now, the corp wouldn't be able to function and would die in a matter of months.
I mean, you'd have to package it as part of a suite of changes to make lowsec more viable though, right?
yeah but ccp has shown zero interest in that and they havent meaningfully revisited lowsec for so long that im not sure theyd be able to make a good change as i doubt they understand it
There's only so many hands that we have to work on things, and you gotta set priorities man.
I'm right with you on lowsec, it needs some serious love to bring back the yarr-harr-fiddle-de-dee but there's been other stuff to work on.
Well I could had sworn you were already in CCP back in 2007 (trinity) when I joined the game.
Or maybe I'm just so used to seeing you around all these years.
Nah, I joned in late 2012 - October 15th was my first day on the job and Retribution was my first expansion with CCP :)
Damn! Also, did you forget to switch accounts?
Damn!
Nope, I'm all good, just talking shop and having fun :)
What do we needa do to get this threw? Low sec piracy is all I've ever enjoyed and it's become so stagnant and empty that I've resorted to high sec ganking...uhhg...
I miss lowsec piracy so much.
Holy shit... WHERE DID HILMAR AND FALCON GO!
Still here, been here all the long.
It'd screw logistics a little and gimp jump freighters, so I'd look at giving JFs the ability to travel via covert cyno, and probably investigate what impact allowing them to use a covert ops cloak would have, although that might end up being a bad idea haha
It would almost immediately make it more viable to live deeper in space without having a long network of friendly citadels between low and wherever you were.
This is the main thing that pushed me and my alliance out of nullsec, getting cut off from logistics routes when standings were reset. If we were able to run covert jump freighters back and forth through potentially hostile or neutral space, that would have been a game changer.
Doesn't even have to be a full on jump freighter. Something with ~100k m3 would have been more than ample.
Yeah, I'd love the idea of covert logistics runs - sh*t, that'd make flying a jump freighter super fun tbh :D
It's great to make things more unpredictable, but you've got to put the carrot on the end of the stick to get people out there.
Why was this sort of perspective completely ignored with Blackout? I can understand the desire to see more destruction, but I can't welcome it when the change is so clearly biased in favor of hunters. Especially when we've seen an almost continuous stream of nerfs to ratting/mining in the last year.
Have you SEEN the ISK faucets in the MER? The carrot on the end of the stick is the size of the f*cking Titanic.
Damn right the blackout is biased toward the hunters for once.
People who live in nullsec always talk about risk versus reward, and while there's risk in taking sov and defending space, it's far too easy to sit in nullsec, get fat and complacent, all the while making ISK and getting rich with little to no risk.
Yes, it's not the only solution and the ISK faucets need some work, but (at least in my opinion) it's a good start.
The blackout also kicks botters in the balls too, which I'm more than happy about.
I'll ship you as much salt liquorice, midget porn and heroin as you need to get this done.
I hate liquorice - it makes me chuck haha <3
Harbo Starmix is awesome though! :D
don't know about putting it in low sec. Maybe we could have it delayed (as in literally, 60 second delay or something) , but having full blackout will:
Make low sec feel even deader than it is
increase blobbing shenanigans in FW (anti-fun for solos/duos/trios, FW being the only place we can actually enjoy the game this way now)
be practically un-counterable as we can't drop bubbles to defend gates/increase reaction time
the only benefit it has is it would make hunting a little bit easier but honestly low sec is so dead that it won't matter much, and I worry it will scare away the targets i'd hunt anyway.
For the record I am a solo low sec PVP player.
I mean, you'd have to package it as part of a suite of changes to make lowsec more viable though, right?
It's great to make things more unpredictable, but you've got to put the carrot on the end of the stick to get people out there.
Ore re-balance to bring some profit to lowsec mining, improvements to FW and rewards, maybe some low to mid end moon mining in lowsec and a pass on loot drops and NPC spawns in lowsec, maybe some nice anomolies too. Maybe making some resources unique to lowsec would be interesting too.
Of course, if it was up to me I'd also ban supers from lowsec and only allow covert cynos, forcing regular capitals to use stargates if they wanted to move around. They're big and tough, why not make them a little more vulnerable?
It'd screw logistics a little and gimp jump freighters, so I'd look at giving JFs the ability to travel via covert cyno, and probably investigate what impact allowing them to use a covert ops cloak would have, alt...
Read morePlease don't hurt my heart like this
I have lots more bad suggestions of how I'd like to see EVE.
I'll let you rest for now though! ;)
Step 1 - Move to Russia.
Read moreKIA are a group that played in beta and added their elite gamer tag Killed In Action to their names - some of the best early PvPers. They were part of Curse Alliance (alliance mechanics didn't exist in game at the time) who were widely regarded as The Best. They became the military wing of an industrial group (and had a short-lived merger where they became RONA-KIA) known as The Phoenix Alliance which went on to become the Northern Coalition. They kinda dropped a bit after this, but had a brief resurgence and joined MC to create Tortuga (a freeport led by mercenary alliances)
Mostly Harmless - Part of the Northern Coalition (not the alliance with the same name that exists now, but a group of alliances that dominated the early part of EVEs history). Their POS passwords, and trademark local call, was o0k. The alliance basically died when the DRF invaded the Northern forces, and the rest of the North kinda merged into the CFC (or moved to Delve to quietly die). One of th...
Killed In Action
Killerz In Action ;)
There were a few people in KIA who used to go mental when I got this wrong and used Killed In Action to troll them :D
I asked Hillmar about cynos in response to this on Twitter
Edit: Hillmar liked my post asking him to delete cynos!
I'd love it if there was a spool up timer on jump drives so that it took longer to drop on people. 15-30 seconds would be good.
Oh also, no more supers in lowsec... and only covert cynos.
If people want to field regular caps in lowsec, make them use gates to move them around.
This is why I'm not a Game Designer ;)
To be fair, he's been getting fed BS intel for years.
One of the funniest looks of shock I've seen from him was a few years back at a Fanfest speech (long after the 'Summer of Rage', as I recall), and he asked the room if they should 'open the door'... There was a resounding 'yes', with maybe a dozen 'noes'. The look on that face was priceless. Clearly his intel had told him to expect the opposite.
(Personally, when it comes to WiS, I hold Torvi to blame for a lot of it - but CCP in general, for their hubris in thinking they could actually pull it off with their new tech, instead of settling for something lesser.)
Personally, when it comes to WiS, I hold Torvi to blame for a lot of it
Your "blame" is entirely misplaced.
Also, "blaming" people does nothing but form a culture where thinking outside the box never happens and progress is heavily stunted.
Accountability is everything and learning from mistakes is key, but blaming people and chastising them for trying something new is a decent way to kill a project.
Blackout - Why is this a thing?
Why not?
We’re trying something different to see what effect it has.
Personally if it was down to me, it’d be permanent and extended to lowsec too.
It looks like the issue is that the latest wine version does not recognize quite a few graphic cards/adapters and the client is therefore unable to assign the card.
We have added wine-1.9.17-143-g91037ca-ccp-master-72 back in for those of you affected by this issue.
The problem with that one is that while it will recognize your graphic adapters it can not run 64 bit clients so you will need to stick to 32 bit clients while we work on fixing the issue with the latest wine version.
