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Rroff
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Posted - 2017.04.15 11:38:50 -
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As much as it would be cool on the one hand - the game works quite well progression and balance wise without them in high sec.
However in some ways it would be nice if there was some way to mix them into the gameplay a bit more so that people can experience and potentially aspire towards them right from the start.
(That and owning a capital in highsec is still an exclusive club). |
Rroff
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Posted - 2017.04.15 14:17:59 -
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Beast of Revelations wrote: About the most I'd want to do with a capship in highsec would be undock and test the thing out a bit before actually using it in a real setting. I guess that makes me a carebear.
You can do that on the test server and better than high sec. |
Rroff
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Posted - 2017.04.15 15:17:29 -
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Jenn aSide wrote: The people in high sec who think capitals are a good idea just don't understand how super rich 'bad guys' could use those to screw over everyone else (if you think it's bad for 'new players' right now, wait till that get blapped by a carrier's fighters when the carrier itself is 1000 km away).
If you want capitals, go to the 87% of New Eden space that isn't high sec and have a blast. I do.
I'm not sure on that argument - someone flying a pimped out vindi or mach or whatever is going to rip a newer player a new one just as much as a carrier or dread could rip them a new one - it is just another step up the same ladder.
In general though capitals would give older more experienced players the ability to leverage power that could significantly shift the balance of highsec especially as they would have far more control over who they are exposed to than when flying them in low, null or w-space. |
Rroff
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Posted - 2017.04.15 16:05:43 -
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Beast of Revelations wrote: Look, at the end of the day, it's no big deal, and I really don't care that much either way. But it's kind of a shame that I've never even actually seen one of these things (yes, I've been to lowsec, nullsec, and wormhole space many times). I'd wager that most others haven't seen one either.
That is the other thing - capitals should be something special(ish) sort of - if they were made even more of a next logical step above battleship, etc. it would lose even more of that.
Dunno how you've managed to play eve that long without running into a capital though heh. |
Rroff
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Posted - 2017.04.15 17:19:40 -
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Arden Elenduil wrote:and perhaps occasionally mine with them.
Mining Ninazu best Ninazu http://imgur.com/BKyQ86i
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Rroff
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Posted - 2017.04.16 10:20:51 -
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Infinity Ziona wrote:Hello Meow Kitty wrote:Why are cap ships in the game at all? Its a long story. Short answer - The reason you have battle ships with 200k ehp and then a weird jump from that to 2000,000 ehp then 20,000,000 ehp is CCP didn't have a long term plan and certain now fundamental mechanics like alliances, POS and their 10s of millions of HP were afterthoughts. You also had a very vocal group that developed who wanted carebears forced out of highsec for ganking purposes and demanded no new toys for that area. Very messy ad hoc development, worst I've seen in any game.
In what way are you saying this? it makes perfect sense to jump up significantly in EHP from sub-capitals to capitals and largely they have it about right though I'd personally slightly increase carrier/dread EHP. |
Rroff
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Posted - 2017.04.16 10:46:37 -
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oiukhp Muvila wrote: I'll say it again, Dominion Sov destroyed Eve Online's future.
The rigidity and predictability of Nullsec rather those mechanics as such is the problem. Without going full wormhole space there should be much more of nullsec that isn't so mapped out. |
Rroff
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Posted - 2017.04.16 11:45:02 -
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oiukhp Muvila wrote:
Captials and Supers should not have been so unbalancing to Hi Sec that it made in necessary to prohibit them.
BS / HAC fleets should be the mainstay to Eve combat, not Capitals.
Capitals should be powerful enough they are unbalanced in high sec :D always.
I think your perspective is a bit skewed on what is used - the headline fights tend to escalate to capitals, the big hell camps, etc. which will be prominent in people's minds but much of the day to day fighting is cheap high mobility ships like HACs (though usually t1 or faction equivalents, etc. as HACs are still a bit in no mans land) sometimes escalating to the likes of machariels or rattlesnake fleets, etc. |
Rroff
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Posted - 2017.04.21 16:51:32 -
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^^ True but things like tier 3 BCs, bombing runs and carrier fighters have kind of tilted the balance a bit, compounding the warp speed changes to make BS quite a lot less desirable to bring to a fight. |
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