Daneel Trevize
Give my 11percent back
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Posted - 2012.11.05 17:00:00 -
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"Stay on target!"
Forget about the OGB for this thread.
Fozzie, you're doing great work, maybe you need a little rest, we hope you don't start slipping.
The reason people reject the idea of 4 racial skills for sensor strength and the opportunity cost of training them vs e.g. surgical strike, is that ECM is a terrible mechanic that is no fun, and too likely to result in a player unable to even take down 1 enemy when engineering a situation when they might otherwise have time to. Be that in a drawn out 1v1 or a 1vMany where some are split by aggro/positioning.
You admit ECM is the most broken EWAR and state you intent to significantly change the mechanic, in such a way that would require more work than is deemed reasonable to dedicate to meet a Dec 4th completion date. Thus these 4 racial skills are proposed as a stop-gap measure.
Before you can reasonably offer them to the player base you need to make clear and commit to the fact that:
- either the skills will really be as useful as any other multi-ship skill of such rank & mapping once the proper ECM fix is produced. this will require the playerbase to trust CCP on such a judgement like almost never before (though you're record's getting better);
- or state now that SP put into these skills will be reimbursed (or transferred into some other equal game-time reward) should they become a hinderance to the future ECM fix.
If you can't do either of these, then you seriously need to look into merging the skill into 1 while it's a stop-gap measure, or the other suggestions of straight-up reducing ECM strength and/or jam time (effectively giving everyone the effect without the wait for the pvp-mandatory training). And/or just strongly nerf/remove the meta0 tech1 EC drones of utter hatred.
At least you can see if a falcon's following a gang as it jumps gates. You can't know everyone's fitted EC drones until the ball of them pops out or you start trawling out-of-game tools like killboards. And then you can't reposition against the little ******* or do much but try kill them asap. Their chance of jamming you far outweighs their tradeoff in potential dps.
I am of course only restating what many people have already directly said and obviously think. |