Ewar seems fairly balanced to me post patch. There's a distinct reason to use mechs over heavies now. Heavies are still able to cope with ewar if fit properly. I would like to see more difference between light and mech sized ewar strength but no real complaints.

My main challenge for the ewar change was the nerf to demobs when used on a zenith. They nerfed a play style there for no reason. It would be nice if the new ewar mech addressed that.

It's a fine line to draw really but boring people out of the game or time zoning isn't beneficial.

I can tell you now that it won't be used for armor, its just too risky. It will make a decent shield tank alongside an evasive nexus and all the other possible ways to improve it. I'm more concerned about its damage and speed. Not sure zoom ran the numbers on possible damage output when compared with its competitors and the lack of low slots will really make a shield tank difficult as its so vulnerable to demob.

All in all I think the assault is a miss and won't be used other than novelty.

That said, apparently its still open to change. I'm not sure how open to balance ideas zoom is of course given what happened last time.

But no industry, skills, research, exploration ... It's good content but it would be nice if it was inclusive. No big criticism though, it's the best content for years. I just hope they milk it like hell because there's not gonna be anything this good for a good while.

This kind of content doesn't warrant it? People have waited years for new mechs and bots. Don't sell it short, this is the best content released in years. Spreading them out over a year would give someone a reason to log in for a year. It would be a shame to have everything in the first four or five months and then no new bots for years and several months to new content. Players get hungry.

Eve released the t3 destroyers one at a time with a couple of months between. They did a great job teasing them and talking over the content to build anticipation.

Will they be spaced out a month a robot or are you releasing three at a time? Given that by the end of three months you've lost 80% of any influx I'm hoping every month. I'm also hoping you space out the good stuff and release the mediocre with one good.

Given the games history I'm thinking that I'll be wrong.

Every patch brings back 50 - 100 people, they just don't stay. If they know something new is coming the following month and the stuff thats actually interesting is spaced out (instead of putting all the good new bots in the first couple of months) then some of those will stay as some new ones come back.

If it can gain a hundred people the first month and then fifty a month after that for the first six months you might end up with retaining 150 – 200 people. At that kind of population the fights and politics should bring in more veterans. What kills these veteran corps is the inability to keep recruiting to replace the burnt out people and if that steady stream of new folks keeps coming with the new bots I think we could be at 400 by the end of the year. The crucial part then will be what the devs do next year – new bots will still be needed but it can’t be the same kind of thing. Maybe one a quarter and a new weapon system? They were discussing the new randomized mods so perhaps.

One syntec miner module on a riveler will still last all night

Join another Corp and then get kicked

Its supposed to but did anyone test it?