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Ulstan
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Posted - 2010.12.07 03:52:00 -
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Originally by: Liang Nuren
- BCs are much more mobile than BS's - which enormously helps both offense and defense - BCs lock much faster than BS's. - Cap/Supercap proliferation make it stupid to field a BS fleet. - Cap/Supercap proliferation make it generally redundant to field a BS because they do more damage and have much larger tanks. They're also significantly more mobile than a BS.
Basically it boils down to mobility. Battleships don't have it, and they don't bring much more to the table than the things that do have it.
-Liang
Well put. It's ironic that a BS fleet is the least mobile of any fleet you can put together. Speed counts for so much in this game...and ships that are tactically slow tend to also be operationally slow. What if BS entered warp and warped much faster? It would make tooling around in a BS fleet less agonizingly slow compared to ...well, any alternative, while not making BS able to suddenly start outrunning cruisers on the battlefield.
Also, I find it odd that BS lock things so slowly...it makes perfect sense and is balanced for ships smaller than they are, but a BS has far more room for advanced electronics than a tiny frigate does: It should be locking equally sig sized ships (so, shield extended BC, BS) very fast indeed.
And I yearn to see some significant reduction in supercap power/availability/ubiquity.
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Ulstan
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Posted - 2010.12.07 14:35:00 -
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Well BS have a hard time swatting smaller ships, but it's quite easy for moms to swat the smaller BS :p
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Ulstan
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Posted - 2010.12.10 22:43:00 -
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Big ships locking smaller ones fast would be highly imbalanced. Suddenly you don't need small stuff with your BS at gate camps.
Big ships *should* lock other big ships extremely quickly, I think. Both for balance reasons but also because of the aforementioned 'realism' issue.
We kind of have two different discussions going on. I think there are more problems with BS than them not being very good solo platforms, and the problems aren't necessarily the same.
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Ulstan
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Posted - 2010.12.20 17:51:00 -
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Originally by: Omara Otawan
Originally by: Liang Nuren
Pray tell what the statistics are for small gang combat.
Its overall, so that includes small gang combat.
Well if it includes all the BS running L4 missions in high sec it's not that useful a metric.
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Ulstan
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Posted - 2010.12.20 19:05:00 -
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Edited by: Ulstan on 20/12/2010 19:05:57
Originally by: Anubis Xian
Hotdropping is the most carebear form of pvp ever invented in this game.
I wouldn't be sad to see it pretty much go by the wayside entirely.
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