Asuka Solo wrote:
Humor me.
Why are we proposing yet more sub capitals that can magically gank supers... instead of expanding existing capitals to give us this pure super ganking pleasure at a fraction of the cost of a super... without further throwing rifters-online a bone....
That having been said... why don't we have capitals & supers whose only viable targets are sub caps at the expense of getting owned by capitals and other supers?
As far as I'm concerned, sub capital ship's damage and threat levels to capitals and supers should be revisited, in much the same way as the Titans and SCs were nerfed with regards to attacking sub caps.
Don't get me wrong... I'm all for capital killer hulls. But why the fek are we making them sub caps?
Although I have symphaty for the idea that CCP populate the capital class with additional ships I think there are 2 good reasons to include a sub capital capital-killer ship.
Firstly, its about the continuing health of the game. Nullsec is today divided between the haves and the have-nots with regards to a super-capital fleet big enough to successfully vage sovreignty warfare. These entities have virtual monopoly on the strategic income assets (moons) that ensure that this distinction between the haves and the have-nots will continue for eternity.
Breaking into the nullsec game is virtually impossible for truly new entities today, and - unless something is done about it - this situation will remain unchanged. Introducing capital class supercapital killers would not do anything to remedy this situation, as the only entities who could afford these new capabilities in significant numbers would be the same entities that would have the target ships. At a game level, nothing changes.
Secondly, its about game design. Today, supercapital fleets can move about with impunity because there is no capability - save another equally big super capital fleet - than can threaten them. The strategic bomber works assymetrically. It present the super capital fleet with a threat they cannot handle on their own, neccessitating defensive measuers in the form of a proper sub-capital support fleet to protect the super capitals. This is how it SHOULD be.