Merdaneth
Amarr
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2009.03.01 11:04:00 -
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Edited by: Merdaneth on 01/03/2009 11:03:59
My perceived design Philosophy of T3
The power does not lie solely in its stats, but in the suprise setups and configurations. Finally, cruisers that are able to effective use small guns, shield tanking Amarr ships, Minmatar neutralizer boats etc!
T3 design philosophy in practice
The promised flexibility is not there. Somehow the designers made all the designs be heavily biased towards the racial properties. Since the Strategic Cruisers are 'locked' into racial preferences players will be only to effectively build ships that are oriented towards these racial preferences. Most viable builds turn out as expensive alternatives to existing HACs, Command Ships, Battlecruisers etc, and that is why people are comparing them to these.
Amarr ships are still very much fixed into medium-laser-using, armor-tanking, low CPU and low sensor strength ships. Caldari ships are still shield tanking, ECM-ing, high-sensor strength missile boats. There are simply no surprises there. By and large people do not have to adapt their tactics when facing a T3 ship. Amarr? Put on the tracking disruptor and/or neutralizer and get an EM/therm tank. Caldari? Find a way to bypass the passive shield tank or guard against ECM.
Their predictability is is a major loss for the T3 designs at the moment. CCP, there is only so much flexibility a player can put into a ship when you lock its primary properties to fixed racial characteristics. And you already have explored much of these designs into tweaking the current racial ships.
Why do you think the Arbitrator is one of the most flexible Amarr ships? Because its properties are the least racially fixed. An Arbitrator can be armor-tanked, shield-tanked, a neut boat, speedy or slow brick, active tanked, passive tanked, fit all kinds of EW, fit all kinds of weapons, simply because its cpu/grid/slot layout and racial bonuses allow for that. The Legion merely gives me an expensive Zealot/Omen Navy Issue at the moment.
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