For those of you not familiar with the current anchoring animation, there is an "egg" - I believe it uses the generic racial bunker model - that pops up as soon as a structure is ejected into space. Anchoring it currently causes the tower to "materialize in" with a spotty pattern around the egg. Looking at that gif, it seems like they just changed it to be generated from the top and bottom rather than all around at once.
Some other stuff:
Lowsec DDs: I still don't understand why this is going in. It doesn't add anything to the lowsec environment, in my opinion, and only encourages people with titans to tool around in low getting easier ganks rather than moving on to null. Especially since they expect null to become more evenly populated, I don't really see the point of incentivizing lowsec titan gameplay.
Long-distance travel changes: Fozzie updated the plans; tl;dr of new version is that JFs will now go to 10 LY, all hauling-role ships will get a bonus to fatigue reduction, and Black Ops can go to 8 LY while anything going through a B.O. portal gets a fatigue reduction bonus. These look good for me, as they at least somewhat resolve many of the issues I had with the original plans (large portions of null being cut off from resupply, black ops being painfully hard to use, etc).
Hobo jamming dies: Good riddance. Why they didn't treat this as an exploit is something I'm not totally sure of.
(Potential) nerf to stealth bomber wings: Mixed feelings on this one. To summarize, on SiSi they've rolled back the change that caused cloaked ships to not decloak each other. This was largely done in response to complaints about single players using multi-client programs like ISBoxer to deliver perfectly-coordinated bombing runs with up to 40 bombers at once. While I agree that was a serious issue, I'm not sure rolling the change straight back to "all cloaked ships decloak each other, all the time" is the right answer either, as it pushes stealth bomber usage all the way over to the other end of the spectrum of difficulty ("all but useless except in the hands of an elite few").
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Topic: [Dev Blog] Coming in Phoebe - Nov 4th (Read 5740 times)