Mrs Poontang
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Posted - 2009.06.30 04:53:00 -
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Edited by: Mrs Poontang on 30/06/2009 04:56:19
 Originally by: Mos7Wan7ed
THEY DON'T NEED BUFFS!!!! THEY NEED TO BE USED IN THE WAY THEY WERE INTENDED.
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- They die so easily its not even funny.
They are not solo pwnmobiles they are support ships. you wouldn't take a Oneiros or a Falcon on a solo roam would you? Supper caps are support ships made to assist off grid more then on grid of a conventional capital fleet. They support with either bonuses like the titan or with massive swarms of fighters like the mother ships.
think of it this way. would you want to put wheels on a aircraft carrier and have it drive on land and directly support tanks and troops where it would be a huge lumbering target? Or, maybe would you keep it 5 miles off the coast and hundreds of miles out from the war zone delivering death from afar? If your answer is death from afar please, then why would you want to do this with a mother ship then?
The biggest effect Titans can have on a large fleet engagements are not the Doomsday's, its the fleet bonuses it can supply to the fleet, and the logistic support of the titan bridge.
how often do you see titan death mails with gang links attached, or mother ships with clone vat bays? NEVER!
It would be absolutely scary to find a null sec alliance that understands how to use a super capital, and uses their super caps the way CCP intended.
What you don't get is that CCP has continuously enhanced the problem of blobbing. Now for most ship classes, this is bad, but not impossible to work against. For motherships especially, it is.
Inside of a cyno jammed system, Motherships do fine in their intended use. Outside of that, they cannot hold up well at all. Unlike titans, Mom's don't have a DD saving grace. They are an on field tool if you want their full effect.
The problem with that is, 10 dreads focused fire can PoP a mom quite fast. 20 Dreads can break it fast even if it's receiving significant remote reps. 30 or more dreads and you're talking 30 second death.
YES, IT'S A PROBLEM WITH BLOBING.
But more to the point, for a mom, it's also a show of it's flaws. Titans to a lesser extent unless they forgo the proposed changes in which case they'll be just as suceptable. Moms cannot hold up at all on the front lines outside of very isolated situations. They are far from useful in any capital engagements, and they're just a joke when used outside of a jammed system.
Now I differ from most. I hate Remote Repair, especially on carriers with their huge range boost. I think spider tanking is a shameful cry for why people choose to blob in cap warfare. I would rather mom's get a significant bonus to personal tanking to make up for their lacking atm.
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