Misanth
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Posted - 2011.07.26 10:14:00 -
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Three years ago I'd thought outposts should've been indestructable. As it is today.. well just look at regions near highsec. It's getting ridicilous. So yeah, destructible outposts would be one of few improvements.
Another would be boosts to nullsec mining. That does not mean a nerf to WH mining howevever. Rather that null could have components that are so big (volumes), and can't be reprocessed through modules, so that you are more or less forced to mine 'at site of production' when you build supercaps (just one example).
Jumpbridges, both the static as well as the titan ones have made defending (as well as blobbing and bait-/counterdropping) ridicilously fast and easy. Those needs to be gone from the game, completely. There's really no option to it.
The supercap warfare is being looked at already, but the changes that has been mentioned is quite offputting as well. Motherships were weak years ago when I picked up my first. They got a health buff (a must when dreads just killed them in seconds), they got a jump range (CCP wanted supers to commit to fighting, so this was necessary as well). They also got fighterbombers.. and that's where we are today. With 20 fighters, and the regular drones, and the hp/range buff, the moms would've been fine. And the changes they're looking at now is to.. remove regular drones and make them FB/Fighter only, and instade make a specific supercap-killer.
The effects of that is quite obvious, you'd think people realise that if supers keep their damage, they'll still be ace for sovgrind. And without their smaller dronebays, they will keep moving in giant blobs and/or with support fleet. If anything, this is promoting blobbing. Removing FB's, will make it more a skirmish logistic ship for smaller alliances. It would mean less chance of blobs of them, it would mean alot less damage from them. And it would mean it actually is the "mothership" (logistic/support) boat it was originally. Hell, even the new 'supercarrier' name suggest such a role.
But hey, OP's ironic post with hints to the past is alot more fun to read than me putting the finger in the eye of the carebearblobs that inhibit null nowadays.  |