Ulstan
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Posted - 2010.12.10 22:10:00 -
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Edited by: Ulstan on 10/12/2010 22:15:32
 Originally by: Hitman107
I think the idea of Tiers makes sense. The ships in the different tiers definitely have different roles and "flavors". It's just that they aren't balanced very well vs each other and ships in other tiers because of outside game mechanics.
I'm not sure you understand what the tier system is.
The tier system refers to what level of spaceship command skill you need to be able to fly the ship, and how in many cases, a ship requiring Level II of the skill is in all ways worse than the ship requiring level III. So, for example, Auguror requires Amarr Cruiser I, so is a tier I cruiser. Omen requires Amarr Cruise II, so is a tier II cruiser. Maller requires Amarr Cruiser III, so is a tier III cruiser.
Way back in the day, there were no implants, no neural remaps, no archura, and people hadn't trained the learning skills and no one had any idea wtf to do.
So you might learn at a mighty 800sp per hour at stuff you were GOOD at. Back then, actually training up a new level of cruiser or battleship (there were no battelships yet then either) took longer than it did today, and the 'tier' system was mildly defensible.
But now that training is so much faster, there's no longer any reason to have whole classes of ships to tide people over for the couple hours it takes to train their spaceship command skills up another level. Instead we have all kinds of potentially awesome ships that are redundant.
Ships having different roles is good. However, when a tier 1 ships role is 'tank/dps' and a tier 3 shps role is 'tank/dps', the tier 3 ship is going to be better at it, because he has mores lots, PG/cpu. Referring to our previous example, the Maller, tier 3, has 15 slots and 900 grid. The Omen, tier 2, only has 13 slots and 730 grid.
That's what should be fixed, and I think it would be wonderful if it was fixed. Then, as you say, ships like the prophecy or omen which are considered terrible, might actually see some use.
The ships could still maintain all their unique roles, to the extent that they have them. They'd just get the slots and fittings to be competitive with their peers.
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