Cpt Branko
The Scope
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.08.25 11:27:00 -
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I mean, I would love another Hurricane hull, because it is the best looking hull in game (and on par with T2 Rifter hulls for pure style), and even if it were overpriced, cost-ineffective or even utterly rubbish I'd own and occasionally fly one.
That said: Adding (expensive) power level +1 ships which outclass their T1 counterparts is really only to the benefit of old and wealthy players, and further robbing the new and poor of competitive options. Which is bad; if competitive PVP (by which I mean, flying something in which you can fight a good amount of the ships you see in space with, with a decent hope of success) requires a Tier 2 BC which costs to lose maybe 50-ish million but drops about 15 million on death, it's something which is largely attainable for a pilot which is reasonably new and entices PVP and actual :good fights:.
On the other hand, if high-grade implants*, 1B ships and loki booster alts** are required for competitive PVP, then it is not conductive to actual interesting PVP at all and is very "closed" to newcomers, but is largely conductive to ganking (for which we have better tools now then we used to, for some reason), and people shy away from actual reasonable fights under such a system. This is something which is flat out overlooked by the proponents of shiny "new toys", but undock and compare and contrast to say two years ago, you'll find a lot less people willing to actually fight unless they have or think they have an overwhelming (not some - which is to be expected - but overwhelming) advantage.
I don't expect CCP to understand that, however - they're thinking about how to fix this or that minor imbalance without thinking about how will the players adapt to it, and finally, is the way the players will adapt to it in the "right" direction for the game. Everyone is excited about Tiericide, of course, because if done right, a good number of T1 ships might actually have a reason to exist which they previously didn't - and that is a good thing.
In the last few years, the introduction of badly-thought out and ill-advised T3s, then the (overdone) Tier 3s, boosting warfare links, introducing ASBs - the general direction of the changes, ever since (and including) the nano-nerfs, isn't in the direction of "more fun and attainable PVP".
* Which I have and are largely too damn good.
** Even a normal covops alt - which I didn't bother to resubscribe because I hate dual-boxing nonsense - gives you 10% to some very important stats which you could not have otherwise. Having a cloaking probing boosting loki alt (which used to be unprobeable, to make things better) is just... sick. And that particular evil was brought to us by T3s. |