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Sanguine Belroth
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Posted - 2010.10.29 16:03:00 -
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FC's should be able to form Formations. Just like the game homeworld. The Wall, the Disco ball of death. An FC should have access to a menu that allows him/her to select parameters on a formation. Such as a sphere of X diameter. And the pilots in his fleet should automatically position themselves. Easiest thing in the world computer X-Y-Z, but really difficult to do over comms. This would be a tre-sexy and a big help in fleet battles.
Make it happen please.
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Slade Hoo
Amarr Retired Gunslingers
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Posted - 2010.10.29 16:10:00 -
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Edited by: Slade Hoo on 29/10/2010 16:11:22 Formations were mentioned one or two years ago on fanfest. Don't expect that kind of feature before 2013.
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Von Kroll
Caldari Kroll's Legion
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Posted - 2010.10.29 17:18:00 -
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It would have zero tactical relevance in a game where line-of-sight is never an issue, where turrets have no blind spots, and there are no weak points in a ship's defenses. There's no "crossing the T" in EvE.
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Mia Restolo
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Posted - 2010.10.29 18:15:00 -
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Originally by: Von Kroll It would have zero tactical relevance in a game where line-of-sight is never an issue, where turrets have no blind spots, and there are no weak points in a ship's defenses. There's no "crossing the T" in EvE.
It would have uses, stealth bombers wouldn't accidentally decloak each other at gate camps or warping being the major one. Any group of ships using short range guns could possibly benefit if they need to cover a larger area than just blobbing would allow. We could also make way cooler vids and screenies!
You can "cross the T" in EvE, but it's 100% based on range, most people just blob but I have seen a conga line of battleships try to attack a blob of equal size. Bad FCing, a badly dropped bubble and an unaligned fleet resulted in them being spread out over 30 km of space while we mowed them down as they entered our entire fleet's optimal one at a time.
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Grut
The Protei
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Posted - 2010.10.29 18:42:00 -
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Originally by: Sanguine Belroth FC's should be able to form Formations. Just like the game homeworld. The Wall, the Disco ball of death. An FC should have access to a menu that allows him/her to select parameters on a formation. Such as a sphere of X diameter. And the pilots in his fleet should automatically position themselves. Easiest thing in the world computer X-Y-Z, but really difficult to do over comms. This would be a tre-sexy and a big help in fleet battles.
Make it happen please.
Soooo you want to take away one of the very few things that needs to be done in a fleet fight, and remove some of the skill from it at the same time ....... mmmmmkay. Kinsy > deadman you there? Kinsy > are either of us in pods, becase we dont know...
Mostly harmless [ 2005.12.09 19:22:50 ] (notify) You have started trying to warp scramble the Dreadnought |
Pinky Starstrider
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Posted - 2010.10.29 19:18:00 -
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yes it requires so much skill to click on target keep X distance and let the ship float itself. If anything it just removes the need for a 400 man group to get organized so they can go have a little fun.
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Quendishir
Caldari The Immortal Dawn
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Posted - 2010.10.29 19:26:00 -
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Originally by: Grut
Originally by: Sanguine Belroth FC's should be able to form Formations. Just like the game homeworld. The Wall, the Disco ball of death. An FC should have access to a menu that allows him/her to select parameters on a formation. Such as a sphere of X diameter. And the pilots in his fleet should automatically position themselves. Easiest thing in the world computer X-Y-Z, but really difficult to do over comms. This would be a tre-sexy and a big help in fleet battles.
Make it happen please.
Soooo you want to take away one of the very few things that needs to be done in a fleet fight, and remove some of the skill from it at the same time ....... mmmmmkay.
Don't be hatin' 'cus my stealth bombers in claw formation be ownin' your battleships! Pew pew die vile Taidanii!
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Gecko O'Bac
H A V O C Cascade Imminent
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Posted - 2010.10.29 20:38:00 -
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Formations were mentioned in the last fanfest (which is now about one year ago IIRC). There hasn't been any other info since that... Dominion, tyrannis, Incarna, Incursion, Dust and a lot of other things have(/had) priority over that.
That said the idea was to make them have some "bonus" effect beside looking cool. Ofc that is fan fest talk so, as always: linky
Also there are many cases in which "hard coded" formations would be useful... Keeping spacing to avoid bombs/smartbombs, avoiding fleet decloaking, creating a net to block blockade runners (not the ship class, the tactic) and stealthers and so on. That's BESIDE any other bonus.
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