They claim that they need these changes, that they have to make the game more onerous in order to secure it for future players. But an economy where capital ships are too expensive to build, where the null sec meta is now just heavy assault cruisers and battlecruisers, where there is a less than subtle assumption that Rorqual pilots are going to happily spin up multiple accounts for exhumers to make up for the nerf of their main ship, that is an economy that makes me a bit nervous. CCP was interviewed this week and was bragging about how they hold the levers of the economy. My main concern remains the economy overall.
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The biggest thing for me out of this update is some skill points being refunded from back in the day when I was using a Hulk to mine with tech II crystals. My days of mining in New Eden are more than a decade in the past and I have never owned a Rorqual so I can’t really get mad about them being nerfed back to a support role (unless I am missing out on shooting them since they’ll be rare on the field now). Somebody else will have to do the before/after picture in detail. My guess is that the most likely use of the Type C crystals will be to grief high sec mining operations.Īnyway, my ability to care about the details of mining is limited. They continue to harbor the delusion that null sec groups are going to fly barges into each other’s space and lay waste to their mining anomalies, and act that is both impractical and would actually help raise the active defense multiplier of the space being mined. The Type C crystals remains a point of proof that CCP doesn’t play or understand its game.
The rationalization of mining crystals was probably long overdue.
Not all the changes in the New Dawn plan are bad. Prosperity, the word CCP chose, the word CCP keeps using, the word that CCP declined to define until it was crystal clear what they really meant, remains elusive. CCP’s goal remains to keep the economy at starvation levels. But the plan was being tweaked, not changed. Mining barges and exhumers got some adjustments, though their EHP remains lower than before, making them easier targets. In response, CCP said they were listening to the feedback and said they would rework some of the more oppressive mechanics they had put up on the test server, like the in-space ore compression, which was similar to a mechanic they removed almost a decade back for being incredibly unfun.Īnd CCP did rework some items. There were thousands of protestors in Jita shooting the monument. After denuding resources by 90%, including removing all asteroid belts from null sec, doubling what remained still leaves the game far behind what it once was. The devil was in the details and, upon examining the what CCP was proposing it looked much less like prosperity and more like an attempt to institutionalize the past two years to the starvation economy in the name of preserving the game for the “long term.”įor every minor buff to something there was a corresponding nerf to offset it, and even the touted “doubling of resources,” something CCP keeps repeating because it sounds good, doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. The dev blog for New Dawn opened with some big news, like the doubling of harvestable resources in New Eden before delving into less popular topics.