Manfred Rickenbocker
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Posted - 2009.10.19 17:20:00 -
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Edited by: Manfred Rickenbocker on 19/10/2009 17:20:51
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* Q: The Rattlesnake is as useful as an unplugged microwave in the Sahara desert.
o A: While it does less damage than the other pirate battleships or even a close range fitted Dominix, remember it can project damage further with the missile velocity bonus, while having an amazing shield tank. On a passive tank configuration, it can hardly be stopped with ECM (drones and high Gravemetric sensor strength), sensor dampeners (still drones), tracking disrupted (no turrets), cannot be energy drained (passive shield tank) while itself using energy neutralizers and hardly feeling the side-effects.
So are you saying we can actually fit a -decent- passive shield tank on a battleship? Sign me up! This'll give me an excuse to train missiles.
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* Q: Can we have ships from mini-factions like the Equilibrium of Mankind?
o A: Offering EoM ships to players would either mean having them drop through loot somehow, which is not really acceptable, or require them to be a fully fledged pirate organization, with territory, asteroid belt infestation, LP stores, agents and complexes. Doing so is a tremendous task which is not planned or even considered at the time being.
I like the idea of adding them to the random rat-spawn table to be on par with Officers and named rats. I mean, c'mon, Amarr ships with pretty blue hulls? Who doesnt love that? Besides, there's no Amarr/Gallente hybrid design, so it would fill a gap. Not sure about its niche, aside from being Amarr with Hybrid Blasters.
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* Q: Why are Rogue Drones not offering me ships?
o A: Rogue Drones do not care about politics, marketing or profit and as such you can't have their stuff, no matter how cool they may look. More accurately, they literally are the ship they infest, so any cohabitation with a pod-pilot would be short at best.
If the Rogue Drones can be reprogrammed to do some nefarious bidding, Im sure pod-pilots can figure out a way to get it done. Besides, it doesnt have to do with marketing or profit, it has to do with taking the scraps of super-powerful drones and re-applying the advanced tech to current designs.
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