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Blancanieves
Increasing Success by Lowering Expectations
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Posted - 2008.07.09 13:35:00 -
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Ok, I checked a bigger killboard for Recon Ships killed in the last week. Result: 15 Falcons killed, only 9 Rapiers killed, and here's the important bit: Falcons had less involved parties on their mails on average.
What does this tell us:
- Falcons die as easily as or even more frequently than Rapiers - You don't need a big gang to kill a Falcon - You even need less ships to kill a Falcon than you need to kill a Rapier
Is the Rapier overpowered? I think not. Ergo, the Falcon isn't either.
Now look at the involvment of Falcons in kills on the killboards. You will notice that the Falcon isn't very prominent there either, despite its ability to get on as many killmails as it has jammers at the same time and still be of use (in contrast to a damage dealer that spreads his weapons among enemies).
I think it is just the feeling of being helpless or useless when jammed that makes people think ECM is overpowered. Now think of it this way: An Astarte that is attacked by 20 combat Frigates could well annihilate all of them one after the other. So the Astarte is a powerful ship. Now let's put a Griffin to the mix of frigates who luckily gets to permajam the Astarte with its 4 Gallente jammers. Wow, the Griffin is more powerful than an Astarte, which is more powerful than 20 Frigates! It has to be overpowered! Is it? No. It's just a more complex game of scissors paper stone. The 20 combat Frigates are the scissors, the Astarte is the stone, the Griffin is the paper. Scissors paper stone is a perfectly balanced game. -
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Matrixcvd
Caldari Rionnag Alba The Requiem
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Posted - 2008.07.09 14:18:00 -
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Great analysis, ECM is a very important part of the PVP repetoire you need to compete with people in EVE. Where falcons excell is at the long range jamming 200+ and you have to account for that.
its hard for people to understand and its kinda funny that most nubcakes would whine about 1 falcon warping in at 200+ and jammin peeps causing them to lose the fight, but can't or wouldn't whine against another 5 hostiles joining the fight through the in gate and thus getting outnumbered and blobbed. Falcons are force multipliers, make sure you have TYPE set as a column and prosecute them on grid as quickly as you can.
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