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Gypsio III
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Posted - 2012.08.16 15:16:00 -
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Takeshi Yamato wrote:CCP Fozzie
Is there any chance that the -10% laser cap usage bonus will be looked at while you're rebalancing T1 ships? It's something that you guys probably want to address sooner or later, and in this case, sooner would save you some work.
It would be a complete waste of time to pause Tiericide to rework Amarr ships - many of which are balanced fine with the cap use bonus - and then have to rework them again when the delayed Tiericide was resumed. |
Gypsio III
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Posted - 2012.08.17 16:34:00 -
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Jame Jarl Retief wrote:Bottom line, in a balanced game, there would be an equal likelihood of Drake or Myrm being chosen for a fleet doctrine. Ideally, they would be used roughly the same amount of the time.
No. You have implicitly assumed that a balanced game requires all BCs to be equal in the attributes that are favoured in fleet combat. Or you've assumed that fleet combat is the only PVP, either works. Ships with good EHP and damage projection are inherently better suited to fleets. A drone-gun BC such as the Myrmidon can never hope to have the damage projection capabilities of a missile BC - and if it did, then there wouldn't be much point to the missile BC.
The more appropriate environment for the Myrm is solo and small-scale combat, as these favour its drones, high-but-poorly-projected DPS and rep bonus, so seek to balance the Myrm here, not in fleet. Does the Hurricane have too much of an advantage over the Myrm at this level? If the Hurricane is also supposed to be focused here, is it justified that it also has its own fleet doctrine? It's also arguable that the Drake is too good at small-scale combat, given its competence at the fleet level. But this criticism can just as easily be applied to the Hurricane too. |
Gypsio III
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Posted - 2012.08.17 16:51:00 -
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Liang Nuren wrote:The new drone changes makes the Myrm do 1100 DPS with a super respectable tank. It's arguably better than it's ever been. I think things have been changing so fast that it's hard to properly conceptualize where the real balance lies and what parts the metagame will adjust to first.
-Liang
It's a fair point, it always takes a good few months before things really settle down, and the rate of change recently has been much higher than in recent years, and the boosts to drone damage, blasters, null and Gallente mobility have all added up for the Myrm.
I'll be very interested to see what does get proposed for the Drake though. While I criticised Jame's methodology, it wasn't my intention to defend the Drake also, even on the fleet level - it is too popular there. But how? The old idea of changing it to missile velocity and ROF will never work and there's little point in balancing the fleet Drake/Tengu if all the fleet Drake pilots immediately just jump into Hurricanes. I don't envy CCP tbh.  |
Gypsio III
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Posted - 2012.08.27 15:58:00 -
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Mike Whiite wrote:and is this tristan update not technicly making the Worm utter useless?
Not at all.
The Worm has been utterly useless from day 1. And to think that CCP thought it was balanced with the Dramiel... |
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