Heres the thing. These DEVs have always failed when it comes to game balance. Why? They always have tended to make LARGE changes to the game instead of small tweaks to game mechanics over a number of weeks until the right equilibrium has been hit.
First off. Terra Forming. As it is now is sadly under powered / horrible to use. what would have been nice to see was some tweaking of those mechanics over a little bit of time to something was is enjoyable to use but not game breaking. I think where TFing is now is actually a good place to start. its under powered & its always better to Buff a mechanic rather than nerf it. Players like getting a buff
Second. Bots / Mech Balance. AGAIN the DEVs went for MASSIVE changes not small focused balancing. During one of our podcasts gremrod & I talked about a few bots we thought were underused & that could do with some love.
Taking a small number of bots or a class of bots like say light bots & buffing / balancing it the best way to go. It lets you make some changes & see how they effect game play & if you happy move onto the next class or group.
What we have now has just reintroduced new problems & imbalances that could have been avoided if they were smart.
Hate to say it but CCP has nailed this approach really well & its a good lesson for any DEVs to take note of.
Perhaps the only they they got Kinda right was the PBS rework. I think they is P nice. tho it seems the energy wells need more attention & HWYs are broken as hell & useless.
An all or nothing approach will tend to annoy your players base more than make it happy.
And we wont see anything done to fix any of the above now due to the DEVs attention on PVE (which lets be honest is needed really badly) but i fear this to probably will be a let down with the same old boring style of game play. I hope they have more planned than just a mission revamp & that they actually introduce more open world & Group PVE content
True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds,
The rest of you guys are Hacks
PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?