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On the test server on Monday.

First reactions are as expected.

Its good to see that ccp sees the benifit of the NGE that sony used hopefully more change will come to make the game more fair to new players. Good move.

be nice if they decrease the effect of a webifier that they increase the range a bit on them.  I also always thought the webifier effect should be inrelation to the size of the ship you are using it on.  A tiny drone should not have the cap to keep a web from slowing a battleship so much...I can see it slowing them some, but seems power supply should be a factor.

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Originally posted by Horusra
be nice if they decrease the effect of a webifier that they increase the range a bit on them.  I also always thought the webifier effect should be inrelation to the size of the ship you are using it on.  A tiny drone should not have the cap to keep a web from slowing a battleship so much...I can see it slowing them some, but seems power supply should be a factor.

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I don't know as much about the game's mechanics as I'd like, but I would think webifying a bigger ship would have less effect than webifying a smaller ship. I mean, sure it's a static 90% but the 90% for the smaller ship is going to be a lot more speed reduction overall than the bigger ship. Plus, the larger ships are easier to hit anyways.

Regardless though, you're right, it is pretty strange that the mod works the same regardless of size. Just one of those things we have to tolerate in the name of fair mechanics.

Hehe .. those changes will make alot of ppl cry . I actualy am glad, as i never liked the whole nanofa****ry business

Originally posted by Elsabolts

Its good to see that ccp sees the benifit of the NGE that sony used hopefully more change will come to make the game more fair to new players. Good move.

i can only pray to heaven that ccp realizes they have far more customers CURRENTLY than swg ever had... and that they never even pretend to joke around about contemplating something as incredibly STUPID as the nge.

ya know what REALLY gets me...

why doesn't anyone sit there and whine and whine and whine and whine about how unfair it is in a game like eq2, or wow, that you have to work up to level 60/70/80/400 and THEN start grinding for your gear and that it's so totally unfair that a new player to eq2 or wow, can't just go kick everyone's ass the first day.

that makes as much sense as the quoted.

Originally posted by Horusra

be nice if they decrease the effect of a webifier that they increase the range a bit on them.  I also always thought the webifier effect should be inrelation to the size of the ship you are using it on.  A tiny drone should not have the cap to keep a web from slowing a battleship so much...I can see it slowing them some, but seems power supply should be a factor.

All I can say is about time they addressed this issue.  People have been abusing it a lot recently.  When a cruiser outruns my interceptor something had to be broken.

As to the web changes, you obviously did not read the blog very well, if a ship fitted with a MWD gets hit with a web it stops immediately.  Hence the only effect that a web will have now on a ships speed except from stopping it dead in space is for those fitted with AB's.  You don't need 90% speed reduction against an AB, 50% or 60% will still do quite well.

Because of that, the web effect will be just about the same as before since the people using AB's in this game were normally just created.

i suggest you to read better and ranme your thread is

Speed changing.
nerfing speed that should e some like nerfing polycarbons add mass on vaga and other nano ships(things like that the community expected and asked) wee cant call this nerf is just a new way to rethink the combat on eve and this will not be like that just cant be
remember that this dev show up whit carrier nerf and he eat hes words this will happen again

/me train recon ship to lvl 5(17 days left) lalalalalala
Lachesis will be te next FOTM

Wrong. Warp Scrambler will turn a MWD off. So you will have to decide what' to use -a distruptor with long range but no effect on mwd, or a scrambler with short range but with ability to kill mwd....

From what I have read, these changes will in effect, correct a violation to one of EVE's cardinal rules:

No upside shall be without its downside.  Or, no advantage shall be without a balancing disadvantage.

The ability to stack speed mods to ridiculous levels with no downside is something that goes against that cardinal rule, so, I think the changes that are coming will be a good thing for EVE as it will bring things into closer balance.