Originally by: RogueMind

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I'm really having a hard time understanding this latest approach by CCP to correct past issues with unbalance by apparently making everything suck.

You've had a dedicated team of developers trying to adjust what delegates from every major nullsec alliance have agreed at one point or another too - flaws in the combat system.

We're getting a new Sov/Claim Marker crap system thats going to throw the entire game into utter chaos for the first few months - WE GET IT.

We're going to have the Titan redesigned to be more of an Anti-CapShip DeathStar Gun instead of the AoE of Doom - WE GET IT.

But this wavering on MoM's, fighter bombers and this full blanket shift from sorta-cool to absolute fail courtesy of Nozh is a spit in the face to the combined efforts of every Dominion developer and every *paying customer* who gave a damn about the game enough to try and give feedback for better overall improved play.

I realize that my post will probably deleted and the sheer idea of censoring people who pay your salaries (in an economic world when you need all the money you can get) is apparently a good thing.

Someone from CCP please, step in and stop Nozh before he kills Cap Warfare and in turn does extreme damage to the game design, morale, and overall style of play.

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Originally by: CCP Nozh

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Let's see...

"Target Painters Do NOT Work on Titans, Supercaps, Structures, or Sieged Caps"

On Titans and Supercapitals that doesn't matter as their Signature Radius is already very large to begin with. Dreadnoughts and Carriers have the ability to enter Siege mode / Triage mode; both modules vastly increase your tanking and in this case the amount of damage they receive. Thus the large explosion radius scales the damage dealt to capital ships.

The Citadel Torpedoes don't do their full potential damage to Dreadnoughts, however they were balanced to do similar amounts of damage towards Dreadnoughts as XL Turrets with this in mind. Citadel Torpedoes have the ability to do more damage to larger targets.

To illustrate how it would have worked with Fighter Bombers, you can take a look at these graphs:







"Capital ship fights rarely if ever happen at short distances."

What I meant by this is that there aren't many situations where you get to fully utilize the short range weapons (especially the "6x2500mm Repeating Artillery I" and "Ion Siege Blaster Cannon I"), due to their poor optimal range and the fact that you can't dictate range while in siege mode. With high damage ammo on Tranquility, your damage output starts dropping rapidly at ~5km, in which case you might as well use the long range weapons.


"Docking games"

We can all agree that docking games are, well, lame. But this problem is across all ship classes, regardless of their hit-point count. Thus, this problem has to be solved by some other means than to limit docking for the capital fatties. We'd like to work on other solutions for this problem.


"Titans"

As stated in the blog, Titans primary role should not be direct damage. We still feel like they need more defined roles, this will be worked on along with proper Mothership changes.

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Originally by: Battle Tested

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I would just like a straight up answer from CCP Nozh....What part of CCP Abathur's proposed "Supercarrier" was overpowered or broken? I want to hear it directly from you Nozh...tell us!

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Originally by: CCP Fallout

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Posted - 19/11/2009 22:12:00 - Quote
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What will happen to capital ships with EVE Online: Dominion? Get the skinny from CCP Nozh's newest dev blog.

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Originally by: Vincent Gaines

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Originally by: Kraken Kill

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Just do this.

Motherships Get Dread Jump range.
Motherships get 20 Drones at Lvl 5 carrier.
Citadel torps AND Cruise get 1500 Explosion Radius, Torps (and compact get roughly 60ms explo velocity).
Motherships get a EHP buff.
Fighter Bombers (with 20 fighter bombers and lvl 5 fighter bomber) do roughly 8000 dps+
Motherships cant dock
Motherships dont get build costs reduced
Motherships lose triage and clone vat to balance the increased damage.

Titans Get 5minute DD timer.
Titans get the same damage as 2-3 Dreads (8-12k dps) with lvl 5 Titan.

Naglfars dont get a split weapon bonus (the dread with 4! weapons should be doing the most damage. Currently the Nags artys with EMP (20 shots) has to reload every 5 mins, which is sooner than every other dread and it requires carrying more ammo types).

Phoenix should get a 5% ROF damage bonus and a 5% bonus to ALL missile damage types.
Cit Cruise and torps should have 1500m explo raduis, being make smaller with skills for the cruise so they are effective against large pos mods and small pos. Right now Turret ships can still hit medium and small pos mods for massive damage while missile dreads FAIL extremely FAIL at this.

Do this and ALL problems will go away. Everything will be good. Harmony will spread out among the player base.

This is TESTED BY THE PLAYERBASE and everyone was in agreement. Only your shortsighted Egomania felt that Capships being used aggressively was a bad idea.

Also- I think you are out of line starting your post with a 'Lets see' as if the players are all idiots and have missed something.

You CANNOT impliment ANY of these Titan changes if you are going to leave motherships as they are.
You have also forgotten to do any work on Triage- It was said originally that Triage duration would be cut to 5mins and strontium consumption would be reduced.

Why you feel Torpedos need something so bizarre as a 3000+ explo radius ive no clue, you are terrible for causing more problems with your problem ideas.

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this.

THIS.

THIS.

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Originally by: CobraStylez

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Has there been any response from the devs on this?

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