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Posted - 2010.12.13 15:46:00 -
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 Originally by: Jorn Dwer
Originally by: Debir Achen
Originally by: Princess Morenta
Not our fault you new guys don't know or read up on the mechanics..
Personally fought 3 ravens and won with a CNR and 2x well timed faction smartbombs :p
Funny you should say that. I've never tried it (nor currently can afford to), but I had wondered whether it would be possible to protect against a Drake blob by sticking an 8-high-slot ship loaded entirely with smartbombs and cap boosts in front of your turret fleet, and ripple-fire the smartbombs every second or so. Assuming lag didn't get you, is this even practical?
I'll just leave this here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9uVtP7IQ4&feature=related
 I'm so tired of people who had nothing to do with this trotting it out over and over as if it still works. I can criticize you for this because that's me sitting in the middle of that fleet. It worked pretty damn good the first time. However, there are lots of problems with getting it to work, addressing counters and such, which I don't want to go into here because it could still work for INIT again.
But, if you were folowing the INIT killboard over the weeks since that shiney video you'd notice that Firewall fleets dropped out of favor. And what is INIT flying now? . . Drakes  So, please everyone who is tempted to do so stop being simpletons and posting this video as proof that Drakes don't need to be nerfed, or whatever you are posting it for. It was a fun moment in time in EVE tactical fleet development that may reemerge but for now is largely abandonned.
Nice blogs. Missiles deserve to be in the game, server CPU load or whatever. It's great you are fixing some of the problems with them. However, it still won't address the changes and other problems in game that have brought the Drake, a single BC out of 8 let alone 12 BSs, into the top spot in the serious fleet battle ship choice position. Even if you fix missiles here you will still have a Drake plague which might even get worse. So instead of Drakes figuring on 3 times the kills v the next closest competitor you will soon have 4 5 or 6x representation of Drakes over the next competitor. Other threads have discussed nerfing Drakes, which I hope you devs continued to read. Nerf the ****ing Drake as you have hinted at. You know you've got a problem with that ship as you jokingly included them in the title for these two blogs. Thanks. |