I am vehemently opposed to SP respecs.

I also think that vehicle users have been boned by CCP since Replication and the picture is still not clear as to where exactly vehicles are headed (although it is starting to look better). The question is, should we penalize and entire class for being brave enough to 'beta test' post-beta an entire class that was never ready to be released?

These aren't players who are asking for their OP cal logi and flaylocks to be refunded (some of them are I'm sure) but players who have had a broken class the entire time.

Admit vehicles were borked, throw a bone to the players still here and refund those vehicle SP.

I'm seeing lots of people saying DS look better. Maybe my math is wrong by Myrins look about 10% weaker in single hit EHP and about equal with a 2 hit EHP. Grim looks okay with the 60% resists but with weapon bonus factored in about the same as now. Sure recharge is better but I see things being different but the same. The burst heals may keep us alive but we are still very weak against current AV.

Is it the case that armor repair runs constantly in background at a low rate but increases when out of combat?

Are there going to be active repairs as they add shield boosters back?

Think it will be viable then for an armor dropship to fly with no repair, using a logi vehicle to rep up if he makes it out safe?

Yep. What I think should be considered:
* Reduce cost by a lot
* Make tanks easier to kill by just a little bit

This way, you can afford to lose a tank maybe once or twice a battle, but they also don't dominate so much. The main issue with tanks is that they're quite hard to kill, and can kill a lot -- so infantry think they're too strong. However, one tank costs multiple battles worth of ISK, so tankers think they're too weak, because one loss means a few battles of earning that isk back. You can change a lot of people's expectations by reducing their power on the battle field by just a little, and reducing their cost by a whole lot, so that losing one or two in a battle isn't a problem.

I also think that CCP needs to eat less vegetables and more dessert. I am seriously wondering if the better thing is to just keep introducing new stuff, and balance while you go, rather than removing content and balancing the core. Each new thing in the game can significantly affect the balance of a whole range of things. So even if you succeed at balancing the core, that may not mean much at all once you throw new things in the mix.

Put it all out there, let the chips (so to speak) fall where they may, and then balance. Put all the pieces you can in as scaffolding, then build up around that. Dust 514 needs more dessert.

Also, please capacitors like EVE. That sounds great.

Caveat: I have not given these suggestions a great deal of thought.

The Logistics and Assault Dropships are going to be taken out temporarily, but they should be returning in the future. As was said in the first post, we want to go back to basics and get the core interactions working first. Then we can look at branching back out once we have a solid foundation.

CCP should hire you dude.
This has been the case since beta....... yet CCP ignores the actual problem when trying to solve it.....

Time to go back to Step 1: Identify the problem:
TANKS COST TOO MUCH and are hard for non-coordinated newbie players to kill

So much bitching about CCP 'nerfing' tanks and not an ounce of feedback. You guys are doing an awesome job of the communication CCP is finally doing.

Just shooting yourselves in the face and complaining that it hurts. Pretty soon you'll be right back to bitching that CCP doesn't talk.

Here's my feedback:

- Rendering and draw distance is a major problem but I look forward to the fixes in 1.5 - maybe they'll be ironed out.
- Swarms do far too much damage for such ease of use.
- Plasma Cannons still need to be decided on whether they're anti-infantry or anti-vehicle, and then changed accordingly.
- Forge Guns are really well balanced right now but their damage might need to be turned down slightly in accordance with these new changes.
- Large Missiles need a larger splash radius for them to be suppression weapons, right now they have less radius than small arms.
- Small railguns need a complete rework as they're fair too difficult to use with too little damage for when you actually hit someone (I have yet to ever successfully hit anything with them)
- Small Blasters might need a slight range boost as giving them ammo counts as well as overheat makes them very conditional.
- Blasters need to have a slight blast radius otherwise they fall victim to hit detection issues, they previous had this and it made a Small Scattered Blaster on the back of an LAV an amazing tide-turner when aiming at the feet.
- Small Turrets (all of them) need turret shields.
- Remote Repair and Shield Transport modules need to have a better control scheme and longer range. I would suggest having them replace turrets for use with vehicles and infantry repair modules to work in a sphere around the vehicle.
- WP rewards added for repairing friendlies. Not having any makes Vehicle Logistics a tough job.

AV weapons should also be getting work done to them to bring them in line with the new numbers. Those will be posted at a later date. For now, try to focus on vehicle vs vehicle interactions.

Couple of things to keep in mind guys:

AV weapons should also be getting work done to them to bring them in line with the new numbers. Those will be posted at a later date. For now, try to focus on vehicle vs vehicle interactions.

Small arms shouldn't be able to disrupt shield recharging. I don't have the exact number for the threshold off the top of my head, but it should be enough to prevent someone from pinging you with an assault rifle to stop the recharge.

On another note, CCP Wolfman is out of his cave for a short time, so it might be a little while before he pops his head back into the thread. Keep the feedback rolling in though to make sure he's got a nice list of things to talk about when he gets back (and don't worry, there will be enough time for talking when he gets back)

He posted on this thread? Where?

Couple of things to keep in mind guys:

AV weapons should also be getting work done to them to bring them in line with the new numbers. Those will be posted at a later date. For now, try to focus on vehicle vs vehicle interactions.

Small arms shouldn't be able to disrupt shield recharging. I don't have the exact number for the threshold off the top of my head, but it should be enough to prevent someone from pinging you with an assault rifle to stop the recharge.

On another note, CCP Wolfman is out of his cave for a short time, so it might be a little while before he pops his head back into the thread. Keep the feedback rolling in though to make sure he's got a nice list of things to talk about when he gets back (and don't worry, there will be enough time for talking when he gets back)