Can't wait until p19! sounds awesome

Since f2p can now get piloting 19, and several of the t19 ships require some sort of ancient culture skill, there should be some way to either get that or make it a different requirement in order to fly those ships (unt faranji wingship, bule abadi spectre, mzungu frigate.)

Or we could just not give ftps powerful t19 ruin ships.

Twentieth

I had a hand in the Reaver aug rebalance and I can say as someone who actually uses that aug that I do not expect any current users will require an aug reset. It was always intended as a glass cannon augmenter with some really nice utility bonuses (hull, speed, range, tracking) and that is how it is going to stay. I would liken it to the Wattage augmenter which is similarly powerful for T19 and which was also rebalanced some time after its release. There was the usual bickering but things settled down pretty quickly. Of course, in an ideal world we would not have to make adjustments like this after the fact. For now you will have to be content with the assertion that we do our best and that the dev team is full of people like me who use the content we are working with on a daily basis and have the players' interest at heart.

I will also make a point of requesting a higher tech cloak with properly elevated elec cost that would give the 10% critical chance originally given by Mzungu Cloak. We'll have to see whether the rest of the dev team feels that would be appropriate, though.

Pre-nerf:

Speed +9%, Damage +27%, Thrust +27%, Hull Space +9%, Tracking +9%, Range +9%, Hostility +27%, Critical Hit Percentage +27%, Critical Hit Strength +27%, Resistance to Damage -5%

Post-nerf (given stats on test server is accurate)

Speed +9%, Damage +27%, Thrust +27%, Hull Space +9%, Range +9%, Hostility +40%, Critical Hit Percentage +27%, Critical Hit Strength +27%, Resistance to damage -7%.

So you will loose the tracking bonus, get more hostility, and less resistance to damage.

Now to wait and see if test server stats is the same as the post-patch stats.

So good job making it even harder to be a berserker.

So you're saying... this makes Snipers take even more hostility which makes it harder for a Berserker to hold aggro. That's like complaining that you augged your DM for drone DPS and now your squad has no one to hold Heph. If you gear a ship that doesn't fit well into your squad, that is your fault.