Savira Terrant
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Posted - 2012.09.21 13:51:00 -
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CCP Fozzie wrote:
The Nighthawk died the day the Drake was introduced. Resurrecting it is definitely on the to-do list but first we need a relatively stable platform upon which to build its bonuses.
Hey CCP Fozzy,
I am not sure at all if the proposal is any good at all. Might be good, might be bad. Who knows?
The reason why I can't have an opinion - and basicly no one can, at least not, if it is not the general whine or people who hate caldari or missiles screaming hooray - about all of the missile changes yet, is because I can not fathom anything without knowing what is going to happen to all the missile platforms out there - balancing wise.
What I want to say is: You guys speak about babysteps when balancing, but with the missile proposal you leap forward changing a system, that cannot be balanced, without changing and balancing every single platform that uses this system.
Now I don't have any experience or knowlage on balancing processes, but from my perspective you can only upset people by doing things the way you are doing now.
I propose you put the missile change aside for now, until you guys have time to have a look at the big picture of missile platforms. Please let me make clear that I am against missile changes per se! Just sometimes babysteps are counter productive.
I mean, make babysteps in things you consider in need to balance. That's good.
But please change the whole apparatus at once, if you consider it broken - as you said you do with the missile system.
See, I rather have you hammer me with a big change "missiles and missile platforms", than have you change missiles now and leave missile platforms broken for months - considering battlecruisers, let alone T2 cruisers and T2 battlecruisers won't make it into [Winter Expansion's name here].
As I can see it, you want to get away from the whole 'Caldari - best PVE race' thing. I don't mind. But as it stands Caldari is apart from Ewar, Logistics (not really) and Drake-blobs, the race that only really excells in PVE. Please don't take that away from them, without 'bringing them in line' , which you would do, if you don't balance the system together with it's platforms. ( I like to use Caldari at least for something, before all the missile platforms get a look at.) Of course I do exaggerate and be biased here, I am human after all.
So in short, please take a step back, balance everything else - and when you are happy with that, feel free to thresh the missile apparatus (again system and ships together) with the 'nerf hammer' as some might call it. I wouldn't, because how would I know?
Regards,
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