Here is a few more player issues we went through today, with some answers:

1. Shield Monkeys
   
   • On top of the shields getting more regen, the transference skill will be boosted to 6.5% power, 4% efficiency so their healing throughput will be greatly increased. (HAL)
2. Sniper too weak?
   
   • Skills will be rebalanced like so:
   • Combat focus: 3% shield, 1% damage, 2% refunded space on all equipped items
   • Arsenal Expertise: (5% MF, +2.5% weapon hold, equipped weapons take -1% space)
   • This should make zerks a bit stronger, and snipers quite a bit more versatile with the extra space. (HAL)
3. Zobiton not cappable anymore
   
   • Jey will give more hull
4. Emp wand does less hps than a forceful modded Armada Wand.
   
   • Emp wand will be beefed. (Voom)
5. PC's and Corsair's Converter's does damage.
   
   • Damage will be removed (Voom)
6. Put mission for Shielding 20 in Blue Photon Processing instead of Emp Bio?
   
   • Yes. (Voom)
7. Panther needs to be made better.
   
   • In built bonuses will be looked at.(SAL)
8. Shields in general
   
   • "Full regen time" will be changed from a balance around 5 minutes to a balance around 3 minutes, increasing the regen on most shields. (Jeff)
   • Also, since drones will soon be inheriting 1/3 of all owner skills, charge drones will be a very good secondary option for shield monkeys. Special ShM charge drone?
9. Rhinos don't use there Rhino Rays anymore.
   
   • DPS will be raised on the Rhino Rays within the balance sheets (Jeff)
10. Ai's with too strong shields: Basils, SawtoothX's, Goblins, Infernos.
    
    • Will be looked into (Jeff)
11. Unt Faranji Energy X. 16BIL to extract? (other ruins got way to expensive as well)
    
    • Will look at ruin prices (Jeff)
12. I think the MZ Thunder ended up at 5b+
    
    • Same as above. (Jeff)
13. Base gear
    
    • Gear will be changed, looked at, examined, revisited, and patched by Friday at 5pm (Jeff)
    • make base augs much cheaper and easier to build and make them a lot more powerful
14. Tech 20 BPs require SM 20 to equip. Should it really be like this?
    
    • Yes, but a new way to get SM 20 will be introduced.
    • ~1.5 bil commods to make: metals, nuke waste, Si, rations, babs
    • Take the commod to Blue Photon Processing to get station management 20
15. Several AIs have stopped using their special weapons (such as grem lasers)
    
    • We need a master list of all AI's, whether they are working correctly, and if they are too hard/easy
    • prog rosie, swtooth
    • Which ones?
16. Are outposts going in?
    
    • Uncomment them back into FM and add them to FM for this uni (Jeff)
17. Do we have demo kits in FM next uni?
    
    • Will add to FM (Jeff)
18. Micro weapons, like Rat Pellets produce projectiles that are too heavy.
    
    • Will change the projectile weights (Jeff)
19. Disable f2p building
    
    • Will do (Jeff)
20. Suggestion for drones: Drones should get maybe 10% of the aggro with the other 90% going to you.
    
    • Aggro is the same for drones and owner, the hostility is based on proximity and some other factors. This could be changed in the future. Resists on drones have been boosted though. (Jeff)
21. How come the titan shield/titan shield+ are so good right now?
    
    • Should be fixed by changes mentioned above. (Jeff)
22. IP mutes
    
    • Soon (Jey/Pip)
23. Why dont the stats for drones on the RWO work?
    
    • They do work. (SAL)
24. You can kill yourself while healing. Bug?
    
    • Not a bug.
25. I also think I rolled over my RoF and it turned into damage or something?
    
    • This is no where in the code. Not a bug?
26. Vis tweaks make instant 0 vis, no matter what they are. (Candy Mints and Backstabs were tested)
    
    • Will look into it.
27. Had a depuzzler fitted, then in a DG I scooped another, it stacked with the first and is online too.
    
    • Nothing in the code indicates this could happen, can't replicate.

Thanks,
pip

mercurian bulwark needs more shield bank imo its a shame
mercurian emission needs a big beef (resisted laser damage)
vazaha shields need beef (protectors, etc)

What about Oped AI...? Also, give seers a damage boost since damage augs don't stack.

The sniper benefits are decent, except there seems not to be enough weapons that fit the sniper's motto, one hit one kill that give them that versatility. And more shield bank is nice I suppose, just means when I die from being spotted, I gotta wait more to regen.

possibly remove the extra energy cost associated with the sniper class and add more low rof weapons or variants of weapons with long/medium range capability that are intended to do more damage per shot then conventional versions and sacrifice other stats for the change.

sniper is the long range heavy hitter, and seer is the short range assassin. both should have weapons/skills that reflect this better.

the increased shield regen hopefully won't screw pvai

Sniper could also be given a boost through some better sniper only overloaders, I do not consider the current ones that useful and would like a t20 one anyway

Right now I would consider there to be 3 weapons along the lines of what sniper is meant to be that are somewhat ok but need to be better, (dark fist, stygians, and zebra torp) even if the V2 was dropped to 3k damage but given a quicker rof it might be usable, for a sniper it costs somewhere around 16-17k elect to fire.

Awesome changes, especially sniper/zerker and SM one

A good weapon to make a seer lower tech thing would be the swabbies dirk and the buccaneers cutlass...no-one uses them right now, change them to low tech equivalents of the Panther Fang.


Also, the Executioner cata is sniper only, but its tracking isn't enough to be able to really hit anything, its tracking and speed should be increased.

also the styg fist and seige cata require sniper to equip the blueprint. but afterwards do not require sniper to use the actual weapons...this is kind of fucked up.. make the weapons require the skills too.

YEE Ha StM 20

March 12nd?
Come on pip. How can you do such marvelous things with code and make a newb mistakke like that? We expect perfection in all things pip related.

I like it overall but a few keynotes.

1) If you're going to leave Sniper as that and not do anything more for them skill wise then you should add more class related gear to the game, more over loaders, more weapons, etc.

2) What about the fact that drones can't energy regen their DPS anymore? Is this going to be fixed before the reset?

3) Is there any chance we can get a buildable warp 4 commod blueprint like station management even if it takes a lot of commodities?

Btw while things are big rebalanced, the Slate thorax bp is 10x too heavy and is way out of line with ither bps

Thorax bps are fucking heavy. Just leave it at that.

The conundrum thorax bp or whatever its called is like 50mil weight. Ridiculous