Ten Bulls
Minmatar
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Posted - 2011.04.23 11:46:00 -
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(imagine reading these forms 3 months after eve came out)
Welcome to Battleships Online.
CCP, good job on buffing Battleships to make them used more. Battleships are an great idea, but you're 'lets not make them the swiss army knife of eve' failed. At this very moment, Battleships are used for pos bashing, station bashing, fleet busting, and cruiser killing. No cruiser fleet in eve wants to fight 8 guardians and 20 battleships.
No more are the massive battles of Eve, why build 16 cruisers when you could build 1 battleship with the same minerals and put out tons of DPS, and have (x)k+ HP on-top of that.
Lets look at it in a different form, one Battleship costs ~100M. One cruiser is around ~6M (Source Vale of Silent). Now I'm no EFT warrior, but for raw numbers it works out well. One battleship with drones puts out 1,000 DPS (All skills at 5). One cruiser (no drones, things going bang, all skills at 5) 400 DPS. Battleship surpasses the HP of the Cruiser, eliminating the ability for alpha from a cruiser fleet (Old tactic). For the cost of one Battleship, you can get ~16 cruisers. You have to find 16 pilots to fly them, form them up, fuel them, fly them and call targets. With bangy things they put out much more DPS (Most Battleships use saucepans), but cost effectively it's easier for one corp in an alliance to form up one Battleship. As most corporations in Null-sec have more then one battleship, the need and viability for cruiser fleets are now obsolete. The now (I.M.O. Over use) of battleships in the current role make smaller alliances struggle against already impossible odds of other larger alliances. CCP you are trying to figure out how to make Null-sec less dependent on huge coalitions, this seems counter productive as these alliances have to band with other alliances just to survive.
No one wants to form caps up anymore. Normal capitals have been made obsolete, and what should you do about them?
(IDEA goes here)
Something MUST be done to curve this trend. I played for the cruisers of Eve slugging it out in space... not battleships almost instantly popping cruisers.
;TLDR;
Battleships are over used, making regular cruisers obsolete with the 100k hp and ~1k dps
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