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nice post zoom

"As a result of this change, intrusion events should be more fast-paced and straightforward as defenders won’t have to stand around for two hours waiting for someone to come, but it will also require more effort to keep an outpost stable."

^^    nice change, been looking forward to

Zoom - rough target date to 2.5.3?     ("soon")    got it

10% discount  ...

Likely the last week of October.

We need a push in the player base Zoom, I know your not going to listen anyways but anyway we can get this game under $20?  On Steam when EA ends? 

It would be nice to see new accounts get a 5 - 10 day booster.

I would like to see ICE return to redistribute the wealth to new players and adding an additional service to your game.

ICE would cost $11.99 and give you enough credits to boost for 30 days.

We need a cash shop, thank you for not being greedy people, but, you need to make the absolutely peak amount when you pull EA off.  I'd suggest Highly having a system that lets you buy things for credits, (PC).  For example:  Faction ammo,T3-,syndicate supply crates that have decoders, minerals with a rng proc for epi/nora/colixum. Or even rare mk2 Cts or regular Cts.  Stuff like that.

Ville: this isn't about listening or not, this is about timing, holidays, seasonal sales, other game releases, and so on.

Even more range to EW mechs? Seriously?

from top to bottom:

New mineral system

oh... where did THAT come from.  I had the feeling that this change wouldn't be that unrealistic after the gamma higway painting system was implemented, but hey... it gives me a feeling that posting game mechanic related stuff on forums isn't useless at all.
Can we hope for a un-retard change to the geoscanning mechanic after this?
also, the mineral balance, will hopefully reflect in the production requirements too.

Intrusion and gamma changes

it does not affect me much, but for what reason do you keep stability increasing and decreasing events synchronised?

Robot balancing

There are some nice changes in that list, but some i dont really understand:

why so much bonuses??
you get the same by simply removing the existing bonus in the first place. Unless your goal is to widen the gap between those with EP and those without EP.

The second change makes only sense if implement something like armor classes or something similar, so small weapons are weak against mechs, and medium wepons are next to useless against bots.

third is another bonus that sounds like another EP sink

the last hopefully means the removal of detector modules as such. it kinda makes no sense when half of the community asks for nerfing the *** out of the extreme fast high detection castels, and then you announce to increase their detection even more.

industrial bot changes - industrial lights don't need more surviveablity, or accumulator stability - they need a reason to exist aside from beeing a steppig stone to the mk2 heavies.

thats your side of the story - for the other side its the speed and visual range it has.
while your masked light ewar is hard to see, it has to run around more to find targets because of its own gimped detection.

and you wrote it yourself, if you don't bring someone to neut, you cannot kill that thing. So why do you just bring DPS then? Oh wait, because DPS works against everything BUT that thing and an armored TP.
Since its a rebalance patch, i wouldn't bet on using a shield castel in the future anyway.

yeah, but what does it help to have a cycletime bonus on ewar bots, when the combat bots have
1. more weapon slots by default
2. get even MORE damage bonuses

and when you look at all bots, there are those with only single weaponslots that cannot even use it because its futile.
i once killed an arkhe with an argano. took me like 30 minutes. the arkhe can kill a gropho mk2 in that time.

and if the industrials only usefull DEFENSE is still shield-tanking, then shooting back will stay no option.

just in numbers, when you compare currently an EWAR mech with 3 weapons, and no weapon bonus, with a combat mech with 4 weapons and the 50% bonus - the combat mech has exactly twice the DPS. the only difference is the number of headslots.
There is a theoretical choice to fit weapons on the ewar mech because it has a higher masking and is eventually 2kph faster, but for that it has a fraction of the hitpoints and half the firepower.
thats why noone does that.

We bring Neuts, always have.  The New guys, well they are learning first hand everyday that in order to PVP you are FORCED to play ONE specific way.  Because once you are Demobbed it is pretty much over. 

70% masking with a masker versus a 40% detection bonue + 20% Decrease in masking.  Guess who sees who first

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Wouldn't another variable added, like chance based demobbing, together with the speed decrease sound like a good idea?

So what exactly does the change accomplish, baring in mind resource would still be infinite?

Wouldn't it be better to make refines of factional commodities better depending on faction island, that would be interesting too.