Aglais
Caldari
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Posted - 2011.07.30 17:56:00 -
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Why no new frigates or cruisers?
Thanks, you're stifling the role I've personally set for myself, and essentially forcing me to work with things I don't like in order to experience more content.
I have to agree that some frigates and cruisers need to be looked at for sure. Caldari in particular. Eagle in particular. But the Caracal can't hold ANY tank as something that's not spewing AMLs. The Navy Osprey is... I don't even know. A faster Caracal, that still has difficulty being resilient? What about the Hawk, with it's misplaced Minmatar shield bonus? Also Retri. Why one med slot? Punisher had two, where'd the other one go?
I would be overyjoyed with T3 frigates and destroyers. I would not give a flying **** about T3 battleships, because they're slow, it takes upwards of ten seconds to align and the Caldari ones are **** anyways. (Before you say "BUT THE SCORPION ISN'T"- It is. At least for my preferred style of doing things. I hate flying ewar because when I get fits for ewar ships, that's all they do- they are dedicated ewar platforms with no 'direct' weaponry. Call me a munchkin, but this role doesn't appeal to me.)
We do not need more battlecruisers. They are already the most common ship class, and there needs to be an incentive to fly cruisers still if you have them. I thought this was a sandbox, where you could do whatever you want to succeed. If you have to be in a battlecruiser gang in lowsec in order to actually stand a chance of doing something, then it's no longer a wide open sandbox. What we need, is a way to make them less of a 'do everything' ship, as is the case of the Drake, and make them excel in a particular role rather than just do everything better than Cruisers and make them and HACs less useful.
I do think that the tier 3 battleships (rokh, hyperion, baddon, that other Minmatar one) could use T2 variants, and I'd support the addition of these. Just please don't make the Rokh's T2 variant a Lai Dai ship. Lai Dai has the fugliest color scheme I've EVER seen.
I would also strongly support the addition of all the other ships used by the Pirate factions. Of all ship classes.
The Angel Cartel has so many different frigate models, it's insane. It'd be interesting to see new frigates come in with new roles and specialties based on them for the Cartel, as well as the other variants of ships (like Gurista Kestrels and Serpentis Tristans) that function in another way linked to the faction of their origin as well. This would be far more interesting in my opinion than a bunch of new battleships.
But still. One thing I really want to see, is the ability to apply more Caldari ships to PvP. I guess you could fly a Merlin or a Moa but other than their defences there isn't much of a reason to do so because other ships (GODDAMN RUPTURE) just do it better in most situations. The only Caldari direct-combat ship that sees any use in... Any PvP is the Drake. (don't say I'm ignoring the ECM boats, because I'm not.) Being able to use ships that are already there for more things than mindlessly shooting little red crosses would be wonderful.
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