Please release 1.9 quickly. Focus only on balancing numbers based on player feedback and data from 1.8. The changes in 1.8 are mostly excellent, but I suspect with so many sweeping changes we will need more refinement. I know you have a lot of big ideas planned, but don't delay what could be small balancing tweaks for months waiting on new content. AV/Vehicle balance is still a major problem, it would be very frustrating to wait many months with constant tank spam, and unbalanced weapons/suits for big new things.

+1 if you agree.

Please release 1.9 quickly. Focus only on balancing numbers based on player feedback and data from 1.8. The changes in 1.8 are mostly excellent, but I suspect with so many sweeping changes we will need more refinement. I know you have a lot of big ideas planned, but don't delay what could be small balancing tweaks for months waiting on new content. AV/Vehicle balance is still a major problem, it would be very frustrating to wait many months with constant tank spam, and unbalanced weapons/suits for big new things.

+1 if you agree.

AV/Vehicle balance is still a major problem.

I believe that AV balance will stay a problem until we see changes to game mechanics which cannot be made quickly or by updating values. Otherwise CCP probably would have made some changes already.

Part of the point of the current balance was to explore a new dynamic for vehicles and to iterate on that with larger, more costly development when they had the numbers they need. I agree that in the meantime vehicle balance has become an embarrassing joke but the pit CCP have dug for themselves isn't one they can just pave over with a hotfix. They need to develop new mechanics to make this stuff work and the associated outlay requires solid justification (now more than ever). It sucks that this beta testing BS comes at the expense of the player base of a 1+ year old game but that's what people get for not going and playing something with competent designers.

Basically there aren't any easy/quick fixes at this point, not even at the expense of temporarily halting the introduction of new features.

dont forget bug fixes. every patch brings new ones.

Fair enough, I'm not saying things can't be improved at all by making value changes. I'm just saying that an update with no new content is a big sacrifice just to get a partial band aid fix that doesn't really complement the long term strategy already intended to address these issues.

... the next thing you know it's late July or early August and we're still complaining about how the Magsec is totally OP out of balance (just an example, it might actually be fine), or the buffs to scouts still aren't enough to counter heavies and they're unchecked and out of control, or Mass drivers were buffed too much and it's MD spam left and right.

I don't like the petition format of this post... But there is going to need to be some AV balance changes soon to counteract the ~25% damage reduction that AV weapons should see against shield tanks.

This isn't a game breaking thing, because most AV weapons were already broken, but it certainly goes against the flow of positive changes of 1.8

1.9? what 1.9?

1.9? what 1.9?

It's the balance pass that CCP ought to release between 1.8 and whatever big things they're working on for Fanfest.

Talk to CCP, make it happen!

Please release 1.9 quickly. Focus only on balancing numbers based on player feedback and data from 1.8. The changes in 1.8 are mostly excellent, but I suspect with so many sweeping changes we will need more refinement. I know you have a lot of big ideas planned, but don't delay what could be small balancing tweaks for months waiting on new content. AV/Vehicle balance is still a major problem, it would be very frustrating to wait many months with constant tank spam, and unbalanced weapons/suits for big new things.

+1 if you agree.

1.9? what 1.9?