Tech 3 is awesome

Tech 3 ships are just as vulnerable to attack and destruction as any other class of hull in the game.

Sure, they have an edge as they're far more versatile in terms of customization, but in the same respect you take far more risk flying them due to their cost and the fact you lose skill points when you get asploded.

My job isn't to balance ships, so that's my personal opinion after having been a PvPer for best part of 10 years

ccp fozzie seems to have concluded that it's heavy missiles that are overpowered.

T3s are awesome.
Generally people who complain about them come in 2 varieties:

1. people who have no clue how to fit them
2. people who can't afford them

it comes down to a similar argument as 'titans are overpowered, they're so much better than dreads!!'

They do, but that is a scaling thing coupled with diminishing returns. The higher you go up the power ladder, the less power additional ISK buys you.

It's not a no-questions-asked-design-religion, or every ship in EVE would cost the same and they could just throw out faction ships, since they are all about raw power increase at extra cost.

Anyway, you are hinting at things they mostly talk about when we discuss multi-billion ISK supercaps. When we are talking sub-caps, risk vs. reward is just as significant.

Versatility, let me repeat it to you: VERSATILITY

Negative points:
Command sub ->quite ridiculous this sub does not limit fittings and slots so they are not better than Command ships and still profit from some ridiculous sign radius still making them IMPROBABLE when you put the money for.

From expensive to extremely expensive if you want to get the best out of those

SP loss

Extra SP training

For the last part "uber battleship in a cruiser desguise" you clearly haven't flown battleships these days. Show me the T2 fitted Tengu with over 1K dps hands down and please explain me the mechanics and sign radius influence on applied dps.

You have about 1h and I want at least 10 pages. If you're good you'll get cookies.

Tech 3's are too good at too many things, they make T2 cruisers almost pointless.

Tech 3 should be jack of all trades, but master of none.

Tech 2 should be specialized into specific roles and be the best at performing those roles.

To me, arguing about the cost of T3 and T2 in the current state and using that as a reason for gap is pointless, as the current price of the ships reflects the ships current performance. If you were to boost Tech 2 the market would soon start to reflect those changes and the prices of those ships would go up.

I don't get the reasoning behind most of this nerf T3s sentiment. T3s cost more, people who own them are more inclined to put better mods on them. Just the fact that it is T3 means > T2. You are risking more too, iskwise, plus the desire of other people to get that shiny ship on their killboard.

If this line of reasoning is pursued then everyone will be flying T1s because now that T3s have been nerfed to be similiar to T2s we still have a problem, T2s are too much better than T1s............and so on

There may be some balancing issues with them. I am not sure that they were meant to fit BS afterburners but overall I think they are working as intended.