Renier Gaden
Exanimo Inc
Anger Management.
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Posted - 2012.09.12 15:10:00 -
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Jame Jarl Retief wrote:My immediate gut reaction was "Well Done!", this certainly has the potential to shake up frigate combat and introduce some very fun mechanics into smaller hull combat. Needs testing though.
One concern I have is that this is going to further encourage multiboxing. Where currently everyone and their grandma has an off-grid booster and call it "solo", now they're going to have one more account for this "pocket healer". I mean it's great for CCP income-wise, but this will wreck a new player experience. Remember, no sane new player is going to pay for 2-3 subs (edit: especially now that F2P+store is becoming the norm, see SWTOR, GW2, etc.), and he won't be able to PLEX his account for a while, probably a month or two at best. When most people a new player fights, even at frigate level, are off-grid boosted AND logi-repaired, even ignoring the obscene advantage that the SP they have gives them...well...it just ain't gonna be fun.
Yes, I know, "join corp", "make friends", etc. All valid, but it still makes me ponder if this is pushing the game a little too much in the direction of "mandatory altagolism".
GÇ£further encourage multiboxingGÇ¥
- I have multiboxed two combat ships, and I might consider multiboxing two logistic/support ships, but I donGÇÖt fancy trying to multibox a combat and a logistic/support ship at the same time.
- It would be quite a challenge to multibox two frigates in combat. I donGÇÖt think I could do it effectively.
- Logistic/Support ships are dog meat unless there are at least two of them to support each other. How many people can effectively multibox 3 frigates in PVP?
Effect on solo PVP:
- As Fozzie said 1v2 is not solo.
- Kill the support frigate first. Unless there are two support frigates, they should be an easy kill. Even if you loose your frigate, killing the Support frigate in a 1v2 should make you the winner in Points and often in Efficiency as well.
Off Grid Links:
- I thought they were planning on nerfing that? Multiboxing on-grid ships will not be the same as having your second account sitting at a safe spot. |