So .. I'm sitting at work listening to the podcast. I see we're opening with corp intel now.
Does this mean that all corp drama will be in the opening credits? I already spoke my peace about the TBA thing to him (*** move, especially with dhasselhoff and trying to ninja recruit people with PMs, etc) and in corp, but it's not a big deal really since we've already got other people who have somewhat advanced research and access to other alliance corp's prototypers for what we don't have. I see you didn't mention that we caught another m2s spy, one of memnoch's alts, and kicked him after he did a really poor job lying to stay in but maybe that happened after the broadcast, fuzzy timeline.
I'd like to know what happened with Arachnix and RG behind the scenes personally. Anyone seen Jita? What happened to NUTY? Etc, etc, etc.
I agree with Styx about seeing a lot of new corps, specifically FOOM, AET, and some others. I've noticed some huge increases in numbers but people with inactive accounts also got 15 free days so I think we'll see a drop off after that expires here at the end of the week.
Listening to the blob talk .. it's pretty funny after the Brightstone intrusion yesterday with 35 vs 50 .. which was a good fight. I also agree with the interference should increase explosion damage idea, which has been posted on the forums previously as well. I don't think explosion damage even featured in to this fight at all even with people bunched up on top of each other as much as they were.
It's also true that people will always try to bring more people. Like Gremrod I prefer smaller fights, most of the time, but sometimes the big fights are fun too. Unfortunately the server lag and whatnot usually means that what happens is a lot of shuffle fighting waiting for people to get disconnected and then picking them off while they're logged out.
ERPs/Weapon Stabs: I disagree here, I don't think most people even have weapon stabilizers or ERPs first of all. Secondly it does hurt lights even more than they already are, particularly already gimped assaults. I think the devs consider this working as intended since the cost on advanced robotics is significantly higher than basic and forces you to have basic at 4 .. It seems like they consider this a natural progression and that mechs are supposed to be very superior.
Account reset: Don't care. People generally figure out who you are based on your personality and speech patterns and whatnot. The population isn't so big that you can just disappear like you could if there were 250,000 subs. As for losing all your relations .. well .. that part *sucks*. I'd like to see some skills reset options maybe in addition to a total reset, so if you drop a ton of points in to recycling for example and decide that it sucks and you're not gonna use it you can reset that skill and use the EP elsewhere. Especially with the price increases I'd like my accounts to stay viable and not have to buy more.
Mining changes: Completely disagree with everyone there. Styx "I think people should all be in one spot far away from protection so I can *** you more easily", Kalsius "I agree, we always do ops with mechs/heavies defending us so that wouldn't effect us at all". As a solo miner that's crap. For newbie miners, that's crap, for small corps that's crap. Everyone sees the game through their own experience and seems to have problems seeing it from others perspectives. I think mining has been messed with enough. Leave it alone for awhile.
As for the faction mining stuff, yes that's easy to notice if you primarily stay on one island. Attalica has barely any stermonit and liqiuzit for example.
I don't think there's been enough time to see the real effects of the mining changes. I've already noticed practically everything on the market going up in price .. hard to tell if this is people buying stuff and reselling it or not.
Taxing refinery .. taxing wastage? Really? Is every Styx idea about making the game harder on everyone who didn't exploit their way to end game?
MMORPG article. I read it, it's accurate, there are some missing types, the comments section on that article is good.
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Well, good work again, not my favorite episode but I still appreciate you guys doing them and they are getting better (far better mic/audio quality this time). Looking forward to the next one, keep it up.
EDIT: I'm basically commenting as I listen so .. lots of edits forthcoming ;D