Fon Revedhort
Monks of War
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Posted - 2010.10.22 19:16:00 -
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Edited by: Fon Revedhort on 22/10/2010 19:18:42
Considering everything is being measured in comparison only, let's go check BC vs Field Command Ships one.
It's pretty clear that the difference in tier2 BC vs CS perfomance is lowest at Caldari pair (Nighthawk and its poor man's version - Drake - implemented like 1 year after NH with the only purpose to please penny pinchers, who still want to have a powerful ship).
How the hell is it balanced?
CCP, ffs, you can't claim that 'command ships are fine as is' (afaik Zulupark posted that when asked whether CCP planned to do something on CS issue... it was like 2 years ago) and say that Drake is fine, too, at the same time.
Either boost Command Ships (each one has to be boosted in its own way, with Sleipnir getting the smallest boost) to a proper level or just fix the damn thing already.
You've been told a gazillion times that there's always a reason if anything is that popular as Drake currently is. You can't say this is due to Caldari being the most popular race at the characters distribution over EVE - we all know how easy it is to cross-train, especially when it comes to battlecruisers.
You can't say this is due to the ship being invulnerable like the nano of the older days either.
It's cheap, expendable, mind-numbing boring to fly, yet it gets the things done and that's why folks choose it over anything else.
What's the damn point in taking Nighthawk when you can get 95% of it for a fraction of a cost? No go compare Sleinir with Cyclone and Hurricane. At the very least the Sleipnir is different to both of them (no split weapons compared to Cyclone, shield tank bonus + the other slot layout compared to Hurricane).
Go make Drake a diverse mixture of guns (or drones)/missiles and things will become much more interesting at the whole.
Command Ships are to be ultimate ships of medium-size weaponry. Not tech3 and much less crappy battlecruisers.
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