Phinger
Trantor Mentalics
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Posted - 2012.05.10 07:48:00 -
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Affinity, Nice to see you you watching the results of the incursions.
And a lot of good thoughts and suggestions have come up in here, and glad your talking to the major FC's.
One thing I have noticed you havent spoken to at least the Main Armor channel "The Ditanian Fleet" Cozmic Cowboy. This channel is even listed in the "ISK" guide for entry to armor fleets.
Reason why I suggest its important you talk to both sides? Well for while now sites fell on of two positions with regard to Vanguard sites. Shield fell mostly towards OTA's Due battleship/cruiser heavy NPC and long range. And NCO's with all the frigates suited the cruisers of armor....fast lock times, and close targets/good tracking required. And NMCs were sort of in the middle. Max/min meant BS Shiny fleets would never beat a shiny legion in an nco and vice versa in OTA. Kitchen sink fleets would make for more interesting competitions in sites.....and the min/max fleets sort of knew where they stood as soon as you saw who you were competing with.
it was an interesting side effect /dynamic that grew out of the site composition. And whoever designed the original sites must have seen or forsaw this outcome.....well done.
But now you have sort of thrown cruisers into the mix heavy repping maras and frigs and fleets now have to mix it up and have a broad composition. A VERY GOOD THING.
The downside.
Armor in a flat out ship for ship with A shield ship will always suffer from the lack of ability to place a tank and dps modules....very few instances of ship types can pull off comparable dps of same shield ship. Its one reason why we see OTAS though not very well liked Shield fleets can bring a higher dps to bear on targets, and on average will down it faster than a armor fleet, I have seen both sites from being in a shield fleet and armor fleet and atm armor just dread the OTA horribly.
Change and players adopting strats has changed but slowly surely I see the future of armor fleets drying up to shield fitted BC's tier 3. Watched a shield fleet compete armor fleet with us in an assault NCN last nite....(which was lame considering these sites take 17-20 mins to complete and find you have lost is annoying, and there were 6 empty other sites up)...cruisers side we were up against shield tornadoes and Talos with just armor legions and lokis. Only tier 3 BC i Can see that can fit armor is the Oracle with any decent EHP but will only pull at best 600 dps, a shield fleet tornado will pull close to 1k dps with good skills.
You will make your adjustments, players will make their adjustments. I started in Shield fleets when i first started doing incursions, moved to armor fleet and enjoyed it a lot more in that smaller community. But I suspect Armor will slowly dry up and we will all become shield fleets.
I hope that any adjustments you make to incursions takes into account the different fleet styles so competition can be regained between the two communities.
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