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Exodus expansion
stav1
Member Posts: 282
in EVE Online
THinking of returning to Eve.
Just wanted a few opinions form those playing in relation to what the exodus expansion adds.
Has it been received favourably by the community?
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Stav,
Are you the very same Stav of M00? infamy?
Regards,
Riotgirl
"If you think I'm plucky and scrappy and all I need is love, you're in way over your head. I don't have a heart of gold or get nice. There are a lot nicer people coming up. We call them losers."
er no i'm not (I don't think).
Was he a bad man??
Any answers on the Exodus question appreciated...
If he was in MOO rest assured he was a bad man. Stav Exodus makes the game so much better believe me and that's what I like about Eve, they add and improve, basically because the devs are enthusiasts rather than just out to make money. Exodus had a lot of faults at the start but it's all fixed up now, there is room for improvement obviously but it IS a lot better. :-D Oh and you can mine more than twice as fast as an Apoc which is kinda good hehe.
Neo
Exodus, added POS's, assault frigs(i think), level 4 agents, complex's and since then TECH 2 HAULERS("screw teir 3 and 4 battleships, lets implement tech 2 hualers"). The POS is the biggest diaspointment IMO. I was expecting real stations such as the NPC controlled ones, but that proved to be a broken dream. Supposedly we will one day be able to build full stations, but I doubt it, plus I can't imagine the mineral requirements for a full station. A pos is a huge resource and brain drain. Hope you like ice mining at a whopping 3 pieces every 7 minutes. But a POS is essential if your corp wants to do tech 2 production. I say corp because there is no way one man could run a pos themselves unless contracting the resources needed out to others. Assault frigs are nasty, kill any frig or inty in seconds, all around fun toys if you are a frig pilot. Level 4 agents are nice. Can be done solo or with a group. Solo means you get all the isk, bounties, and bonuses; but doing them in a group increases your mission output per hour, plus you will never miss a bonus deadline. As for complex's, havent done one yet, so can't help you there. And dont get me started on tech 2 haulers.
I'm not working at CCP but I tend to think that POS will be more balanced. I think that CCP was afraid that POS could be too powerful in terms of money making tool and they boosted their cost to the point of not being profitable. I think that CCP will decrease little by little the fuel requirements until the POS become interesting without ruining the game balance.
Exodus has many flaws but overall you have many improvements and I would be sad to get back to the previous version (that's a proof that Exodus is nevertheless a good expansion).
Many features have not been implemented but some of them are scheduled for the upcoming patches and CCP has many more cards to play (they started talking about atmospheric flights in late 2005).