HP 9: Always Have More Guns

Recorded August 26th, 2014


Direct link: http://dl.hydrostaticpodcast.com/HP_9_Always_Have_More_Guns.mp3




Introduction

Guest Expert: CCP Fozzie, spaceship developer extraordinaire.

Fozzie takes us to task for our discouragement of mixed gun classes on a ship fit.

Question for the Panel

What feature of Hyperion are you most excited about?

Lockefox: New BPO API endpoints

Phyridean: Wormhole changes (you can direct complaints about Phy's views on Wormholes to any of the correspondence links below)

Ashterothi: Burner missions! (Apparently, CCP Delegate Zero and CCP Lebowski came up with some innovative strategies for dealing with these that CCP Fozzie didn't expect.)

CCP Fozzie: Shareable overviews

Mechanics Drilldown

Ship Balance

"A good balance change is one that...opens up decision space" -CCP Fozzie

The Metagame

The Alliance Tournament

• Around 47:00, Fozzie mentions that there will be "really cool stuff" for tournaments coming up in the next year.

Know your Lore

The Seyllin Incident

• The series of chronicles leading up to the Seyllin Incident:
• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/The_Spiral_(Chronicle)
• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Half_a_Life_(Chronicle)
• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/1_(Chronicle)
• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/The_Great_Harvest_(Chronicle)
• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/We_Humans_(Chronicle)
• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/World_On_Fire_(Chronicle)
• And the excellent wiki article on Shattered Planets
• The Empyrean Age Trailer, cued to Jamyl Sarum's use of the Terran superweapon

Closing Thoughts

• A rare event: Children of Light on the Perimeter stargate in Iyen-Oursta
• The chronicle was originally released more than 10 years ago
• @webspaceships can't find it, but someone sent him a screenshot
• Three or so years ago, people weren't optimistic that it was actually a real thing
• The reddit thread: apparently people enjoy this kind of thing!
• Slack Chat, Aideron Robotics' preferred Google Hangouts and IRC replacement
• Locke's alternate Alliance Tournament commentary can be found at his channel, twitch.tv/hlibindustry
• Fozzie gives a shout out to all the Alliance Tournament teams, and Phyridean suggests you look for a local group and watch the AT together.

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Contact Information

Send Feedback to hydrostaticpodcast@gmail.com
Hydrostatic Podcast: @hydrostaticcast on twitter
Ash: @ashterothi and ashterothi ingame
Locke: @hlibindustry, Eve Prosper blog, twitch.tv/hlibindustry
Phy: “Phyridean” everywhere (twitter, gmail, ingame)

Music

Introduction and transition music: Hyperion Release Theme by CCP Games
Closing music is also the Hyperion Release Theme, as we ran long, and it is relatively short. If you have any suggestions for Eve-related music, please let us know!