Jayce
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I wouldn't bet on that. My guess is that this skill loss thing is their answer to the fact that if there are finite skills, there will be characters that will learn every skill in finite time. Either they keep adding new systems, or put some sort of system that keeps on giving (and taking).
So I'm arguing that this skill loss thing might be a keystone of the expansion, to provide a skillpoint-sink.
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Amarr HM
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Probing is pretty sweet looking now it's been totally revamped. The launchers only use 15 CPU so you can fit all sorts of other stuff to your covops you only have one type of probe available you change the range of it in the scanner screen. The probe scan range sphere on the map has been updated nicely and it's seems to be a lot faster I'm just getting my head around it now but it's all looking good so far. Not to mention being able to recall probes and switching between solar system map and universe map is a helluva lot faster than before.
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I'm going to escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it and you with it.
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Goumindong
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Probing is pretty sweet looking now it's been totally revamped. The launchers only use 15 CPU so you can fit all sorts of other stuff to your covops you only have one type of probe available you change the range of it in the scanner screen. The probe scan range sphere on the map has been updated nicely and it's seems to be a lot faster I'm just getting my head around it now but it's all looking good so far. Not to mention being able to recall probes and switching between solar system map and universe map is a helluva lot faster than before.
The launchers only use 15 CPU for the ones that only scan for wormholes/plexes. Its there so that everyone can fit the requisite scanner required for you to actually go into wormhole space and successfully leave. |
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Pax
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So a recon/combat probe launcher is still a separate module?
Ugh, if so.
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Mia san de Borg. Aichan Widastaund keannt's aich ind' Hoar schmian.
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Teleku
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Wait, can I still launch all my probes from one launcher (like my sisters scan probe launcher), or do I need a special launcher to look for wormholes now?
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Goumindong
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Wait, can I still launch all my probes from one launcher (like my sisters scan probe launcher), or do I need a special launcher to look for wormholes now?
No, if you can fit the high CPU one you can launch all your probes from the same launcher. |
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Amarr HM
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Probing is pretty sweet looking now it's been totally revamped. The launchers only use 15 CPU so you can fit all sorts of other stuff to your covops you only have one type of probe available you change the range of it in the scanner screen. The probe scan range sphere on the map has been updated nicely and it's seems to be a lot faster I'm just getting my head around it now but it's all looking good so far. Not to mention being able to recall probes and switching between solar system map and universe map is a helluva lot faster than before.
The launchers only use 15 CPU for the ones that only scan for wormholes/plexes. Its there so that everyone can fit the requisite scanner required for you to actually go into wormhole space and successfully leave. Ah I see. Currently placing a probe is identical to placing POS modules so it's kinda finnicky in other words. |
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I'm going to escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it and you with it.
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Fordel
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So have the SpreadSheet gods figured out if the new or current new character system is superior?
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Goumindong
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So have the SpreadSheet gods figured out if the new or current new character system is superior?
Respec is better for non-achura. Current Achura are still maximized. New players get nearly universally fucked on skills in the early part of the game. Makes making fast purpose built alts stupidly easy. |
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Fordel
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Achura being the 99993 gods with tiny tiny heads?
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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sanctuary
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^^ and big noses. Female achura can look alright. Khanid aren't quite as good as achura stat wise but imo look alot better.
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Fordel
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Male Khanid have that psuedo stormtrooper look going for them, with their hood/mask thing.
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Goumindong
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Male Khanid have that psuedo stormtrooper look going for them, with their hood/mask thing.
They look pretty good without it. See; My avatar. |
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Fordel
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Male Khanid have that psuedo stormtrooper look going for them, with their hood/mask thing.
They look pretty good without it. See; My avatar. I can't actually see your avatar here. :( |
and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Pezzle
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List of things not normally found in Providence:
Arkonor
Bistot
Crokite
Mercoxit
Officers
Gas clouds
*New gas clouds
*New gas related npc's
* indicated recent addition
We are anti booster, so I guess it does not matter. Maybe one day ccp will give us a bit of a boost, after all, not every system has an outpost yet. This expansion has nothing of interest for me =(
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Pax
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For all you know, a wormhole between Inflatable House or Deliverence Reclaimed and Amarr could spawn  |
Mia san de Borg. Aichan Widastaund keannt's aich ind' Hoar schmian.
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eldaec
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We are anti booster, so I guess it does not matter. Maybe one day ccp will give us a bit of a boost, after all, not every system has an outpost yet. This expansion has nothing of interest for me =(
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Gets
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Predator Irl
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I initially read it as New Blog About Scamming...  From reading that, I get the impression that you can launch probes from your current position and warp them to target areas to scan, rather than warping there yourself and launching the probe. Am I reading this correctly? |
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Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one!
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TheDreamr
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I initially read it as New Blog About Scamming... From reading that, I get the impression that you can launch probes from your current position and warp them to target areas to scan, rather than warping there yourself and launching the probe. Am I reading this correctly? Yes exactly like that, initial impression is that it's closer to the previous scanning system (triagulation, overlap, personal skill etc) as opposed to the current system where probe strength is all important. Also being able to recover probes rather than just tossing them away is rather tasty if you're rather frugal or in a situation where resupply is a pain (null sec) |
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Predator Irl
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Patch is available for download now, time to see if Eve has been destroyed!!!
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Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one!
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Thrawn
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Also being able to recover probes rather than just tossing them away is rather tasty if you're rather frugal or in a situation where resupply is a pain (null sec)
Or stuck in a wormhole you haven't found the exit of yet.  |
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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Surlyboi
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Patch is available for download now, time to see if Eve has been destroyed!!!
And, as usual, the manual patch process is again a big bag of fail here. Guess I wait 'til they put the autopatcher up again or I download the whole client yet again before I get back to my pew pew lazors. |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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ajax34i
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BTW, they do have a story running via news, just like with the last expansion, but it's a little bit buried within the Apocrypha website. Here. |
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Reg
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Well my main character can't log in anymore. I just had to petition about it on an alt. Hurray for database problems!
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Thrawn
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Well my main character can't log in anymore. I just had to petition about it on an alt. Hurray for database problems!
It's a new feature, you have to use your alt to probe out a wormhole for your main to get onto Tranquility with. |
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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Viin
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30 mins on my download, totally forgot to start this when I got home earlier.
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Grand Design
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Same. Two of three installed so far. |
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sanctuary
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Anyone notice the prices for the skillbooks for the strategic cruiser. Amarr is at 14M, while gallente et al are 1.4M. The Amarr cost seems reasonable, when you include the cost of the subsystems is about 25M. But i'm reluctant to buy it if the price will go down to match the other races.
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Phildo
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Took me several hours to download the patch. It was corrupted.
Several more hours to download it again. It was corrupted.
Welp.
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Falwell
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I musta got lucky on this. This is my first real patch day in EVE and it went damn smoothly. Brought the patch down at almost 2 megs a second, installed and fired up without a hitch. I was pretty impressed.
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5150
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My first PC took about 7 hours to auto patch, other than needing to retry several times around 75% it went smoothly
My main PC however wasn't even starting the download so eventually after 4 hours I just started downloading the full client and went to bed :-(
I'm slightly concerned that I could only see a download for premium when I actually want premium lite
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Goumindong
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I'm slightly concerned that I could only see a download for premium when I actually want premium lite
Its the same client, if you can't run SM 3.0 you will run SM 2.0. Game will run faster and look a lot better after the patch |
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Gets
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