Valea Silpha
Black Aces
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Posted - 2012.08.06 12:51:00 -
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Ptraci wrote:Sigras wrote: you would either see T2 go to 0 No, you would see a drop in T2 prices fuelling a vast increase in the use of T2 ships in combat, which would help keep the T2 price at a new equilibrium. Imagine a T2 roam for almost the current cost of a T1 cruiser roam. Delicious...
Exactly. Supply and demand works that way. If t2 cruisers are cheap, people will fly them. Perhaps not all of them all the time, but there are plenty of them that are fine ships and if t2 cruisers were the equivalent cost to battlecruisers, I bet ya that people will roam in them. They are tougher and better used with logistics and have small sig and are generally faster than their BC counter parts. That sounds roamtastic no ? As it stands, there is little reason to use HACs over BCs purely because of risk vs reward. People do care about their killboards and particularly they care about not bankrupting their members. The minor disadvantages of using BC hulls is more than made up by their cheapness. If you whelp all your canes, you lose like 50mil per guy. No big deal. If you whelp HACs its a minimum of 200mil lost.
As should be evident from the old insurance estimates on t2 cruisers, they were supposed to cost like 30-40mil each (in 2008 isk, when a billion was a serious achievement) with performance balanced to that price window, then the prices never ever ever ever got there. Blueprints limited them, and t2 goo, and then alchemy wasn't great, then invention guys could barely break even, even with max skills. EVERYTHING done to t2 manufacturing so not been enough.
Rather than nerfing the bejesus out of BCs, or boosting HACs (or otherwise directly adressing the whole 'Why should I bother training HACs when BCs do the job with practically no skills' issue) it looks like CCP is going to take another swipe at getting the economy balanced so their current performance window is balanced by their cost. Particularly now that t3 ships are de rigeur for srspvp, t2 ships need to get cheap or just be totally forgotten. |