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On May 01 2014 05:47 Reborn8u wrote:
The faction standing plan sucks, when winmatar went from minny to ammar we looked at every option. Just make a few alt corps and one at a time put them in minmatar faction warfare. The corp standing with the milita is derived from the average of all its members (diplomacy does not affect this!) it only counts your true standings before skills. If your standings are below 0 for the corp average, they will be kicked from milita after a week.

The easiest way is to get a friend to run fw lvl4's and share the rewards. If you can't do this, you'll need to run about 10 to 15 cycles of lvl 1's for the faction. (a cycle is going to 13 to 15 of the tribal liberation stations, accepting misisons, then running them all at once, it is the fastest way) The standings will come when you get promotions, you will get massive standings increase with the minmatar faction, your TLIB standings will go up after every completed mission. You can do it in a week or 2 just running 1 or 2 cycles per day in a thrasher. It is simply the easiest and fastest way to fix standings. The only other thing that helps is donating the proper tags to minny data centers, or so I was told, I've never bothered.

On May 01 2014 18:03 Ramiel wrote:
Currently in Iceland. It's been interesting so far. Got a special CCP van to drive me into the city, and drop me off. Thanks to the Mitanni. Met him coming off the flight, and he let me just join up with his group. Pretty interesting guy. Will post more / have some pics as the day goes on. They serve good espresso here.

On May 01 2014 21:07 Skilledblob wrote:
ask fozzie and rize when the RLML will be useful again

From what I've been able to gather from twitter:

Whiptail and Chameleon details unveiled (WormCrow and GilaFalcon)

Module Tiericide (named/meta/deadpsace/faction/officer modules to become specialized rather than progressive.

Possible named modules will be more widely manufacturable?

Major Phoenix/Citadel missile rebalance

Bomber/Recon/T3 rebalance on pace for Winter

Major Rorqual rebalance?

Major drone overhaul (we kinda already knew about this one)

Barge/Exhumer rebalance, specifically drone damage bonuses (already a devblog about this too)

Angel ships warp speed bonus (already devposts about this)

Some Sansha ships may be getting MWD bonuses in addition/instead of the AB bonuses already discussed?

No more ETC after this month, only PLEX, whatever that means?

Racial Drone design strategy:


ORE Prospect reveal confirmed for tomorrow

Game Design Panel

Exploration Scanning Overlay added a bit ago to be retrofitted to enhance D-scanning and other scanning systems. Bookmarks and other features coming to D-Scan, lots of work going on with it.
POS Overhauls are coming one bit at a time, changes coming to industry are a step towards it
They're constantly working on the camera system and testing various systems and improvements
There is a new internal team dedicated to creating design tools. At the moment a lot of content doesn't impact other content due to the fact they don't have the capabilities or technology to do so.
They want to pull more people into various content in the long term using the Star Map and other UIs. Hoping to rope in more casual/low playtime players and make them feel like they have an impact.
Every question related to Faction Battleships was responded with "Keynote tomorrow"
"They also hinted at changes to freighters being announced at the keynote tomorrow." - /u/Pie_Napple
"Also. Tiering for modules. All modules should have its usefullness not like now when no one ever uses meta 2 or 3 for example." - /u/Pie_Napple

Analytics Team

Ingame economy dips in the summers
Inflation appears to be happening when it isn't
PLEX prices have dropped very slightly this year
Odyssey changes caused a big change in the economy and they helped deflate the economy
Prior to expansion there is a price dip which slowly increases leading into an expansion and spikes at the expansion. Even with spikes and increases there is always a deflation of a slight amount by the year's end.
Introduction of salvage drones increased usage of Salvaging by 68%, then Rubican's Mobile Tractor Units increased it by an additional 20%.
Increase in salvaging reduced overall prices of Salvage, causing a deflation of the economy. This mirrors real world invention where a new invention comes along and makes something easier and drops prices.
Classical economists would think this level of deflation is too heavy, but in EVE's economy this is proof of concept that their technology and changes are very effective and they have a good grasp of economic control.
Bounty Prizes are the largest faucet of ISK into the economy by a very large margin. (~30 Trillion a year) The economy is very healthy at the moment though.
In June there is a larger sink due to people buying skill books and such following the expansion, in October there is a raise in the influx of ISK due to more stable play. More stressing that the economy is very very healthy.
PLEX usage increases year by year, prices have been increasing on PLEX steadily, but it is not a consumer good but behaves as an investment (similar to gold in the real world.) People store their ISK in PLEX when they expect inflation and for long term investment.
PLEX is not a good measurement of inflation, because it does not impact the basic flux of ISK in the economy.
"Decreased velocity" of PLEX, there are fewer and fewer PLEX on market. This increases the price.
They continually monitor the PLEX market to make sure its healthy and stable.
In 2013 they didn't intervene in the PLEX market at all, there was an alarming price increase rate in March.
There was an intervention in 2014, and they said it was noticeable and helped. They do not believe intervention is healthy and do not want to rely on it. They do not want to "set the price" of PLEX and there is no "right price" of PLEX.
Largest EVE battle ever was not Asakai and B-R5RB, but was a battle on Serenity.
They showed Titan production quarterly. Titan Production is down in 2014 and been dropping a bit. Q4 2011 was the largest. Titan Deaths in Q1 2014 was by and far the largest at 80, Q1 2011 had ~50, the rest was between 5-20 per quarter at worst.
More data coming using API, more on this during the API panel. They want more of the market and economy data in the player's hands.
CCP will allow players to submit papers to CCP's blog system for peer review on the economy and market, they want more player driven analysis.
They expect the industry changes to lead to drastic changes in the economy.
This is expected to be the year of the industrialist, and CCP looks forward to how we work with what they're giving us.

Ships and Balancing

Rapid Missile Launcher usage dipped after Rubicon, but actually has started to rise again and has surpassed pre-Rubicon levels (partially due to Interceptors coming to the forefront.)
Reveals coming! (Yay!)
Pirate faction rebalancing, they're redoing all of them in this expansion.
Lots of focus on bringing a lot of these ships up to the new Tech 1 standards with all of the rebalancing since their last changes.
They wanted to make the other factions like Serpentis, their ships should be super unique, have capabilities not seen elsewhere.
Serpentis are keeping their web bonus.
People love Bhaalgorn but no one uses smaller ships. Weird bonus combinations. Flavor is really strong and they bled the effects down to the smaller ships and improved their stats. All of the Blood Raider ships are getting an old NOS mechanic (when they use Energy Vamps they succeed regardless of cap levels of you or enemy.)
Guristas have same issue, battleship used but the rest are unfavored. They have giant bonuses to drones, they have the toughest drones. Worm/Gila have Light/Medium drone bonuses. Rattlesnake gets Heavy/Sentry drone bonus. Missile bonuses.
Sancha's Nightmare popular in PvP, strong flavor among the Sancha. Same situation as Blood Raiders, lower ones unused. 100% bonus to Afterburners being given to all 3. They basically move MW speed with Afterburners and can't be scrammed. Nightmare remains about the same.
Angels are the "OP" pirate faction, way more popular. They aren't changing a much (toning fitting down on Cynabal), all are getting bonuses to warp speed. Dramiel moves at interceptor speeds.
Mining Barge/Exhumer rebalance this expansion. Battle Skiffs!
Mackinaw/Retriever used the most by a very very large margin.
Retriever/Mackinaw are getting their yield pulled back slightly.
Covetor/Hulk getting a yield increase and are getting a bonus to mining laser range and survey scanner range.
Gang Links that increase Mining Laser Range now increase Survey Scanner Range.
Mining Crystal volume dropped by 60%.
Procurer/Skiff are going to have drone damage bonuses on top of their mining bonuses. Procurer is getting its speed brought up to Skiff levels.
Drone rebalancing coming.
Gallente drones most used, Minmatar secondary, Caldari/Amarr basically never used.
Caladri/Amarr drones being brought up a bit to respond to this. They'll be getting more range than the other two races. They'll also track better.
Drone skills penalize new players too much, they'll be lowering the Drone Damage skills to 10% from 20% but the leftover is being rolled into the drones themselves (so damage is the same, less skills required.)
Renaming Electronic Drone Warfare Interfacing.
Splitting Scout Drone Operation off to get its own bonuses and be able to balanced separately.
More Weapon Skill like.
Phoenix Dreadnought getting massive changes.
Phoenix is getting a shield resistance bonus to replace kinetic damage bonus. Taking damage bonus lost and adding it to the missile launchers as ROF. Increasing velocity of Citadel Missiles (almost doubling). Swapping explosion radius for explosion velocity.
Increasing signature radius of all POS structures in the game.
Some Leviathan changes, nothing major.
NEW SHIPS!
First set of ships today, rest at keynote tomorrow.
Alliance tournament ships. Guristas are sponsoring the tournament.
Some capsuleers claim that ECM is dishonorable or unfair. Jam those ones first, and kill them last."
"Chameleon" Cruiser - ECM/Drone Damage/Shield Resist, Covert Ops Cloaking
"Whiptail" Interceptor - Missile Damage, SHield Resistance, Light Combat Drone Damage/Hitpoints
Not all balance is being said today, Keynote will have more of it.
Rorqual/Orca getting some attention down the line.
Rorqual is in dire need of help, won't be used solely to compress (starbase structure is getting compression.)
Goal is to make a Rorqual a ship you want to put in a built, with extremely strong defenses and ability to defend miners in the area as well as providing major mining benefits. Should be safe but manageable.
Stealth Bombers getting some attention down the line.
Bombers should be fun to use and provide benefits with mastery, and make sure there are good countermeasures to deal with them.
Recon Ships getting attention down the line.
Incredibly crucial and they do what they do the best in a lot of cases. Poor Pilgrim.
Strategic Cruisers getting attention down the line.
They're not getting nerfed into the ground.
They want every subsystem to have a good strong role. There should be good choices.
Strategic Cruisers were brilliant idea with poor execution, they should be able to take advantage of flexibility.
They don't want rigs to hold you back.
Vast majority of subsystems getting better, certain combinations will be getting nerfed.
Module meta levels need a full rework, its in their "sights"
Introducing Module Tiericide starting in upcoming releases
New "Module Taskforce" to work on this.
Don't like Linear Module Progression, want to fix this.
Tech One is baseline. Named Modules will split to have separate bonuse types, Tech Two slightly ahead of Names in power level, Cosmos slightly ahead of Tech 2, Faction will split with separate bonuses and be slightly ahead of Cosmos. Deadspace/Officer will split with different bonuses and be ahead of Cosmos. Choices will definitely matter.
Named Module Manufacturing coming down the line.
Dream of a day where everything is manufactured instead of just most things.
Teasers!
Those were terrible D: They showed minor parts of ships, really hard to make out anything.

On May 02 2014 05:24 ain wrote:
Any word about off-grid boosters or multiboxing in general?

On May 01 2014 21:07 Skilledblob wrote:
ask fozzie and rize when the RLML will be useful again