Derran
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Posted - 2005.05.09 20:24:00 -
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 Originally by: ElDiablo
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IMO Missiles were never broken. They were just as they're supposed to be: Self-driven explosive payloads, just like they're supposed to be.
This whole idea that a TORPEDO, a huge massive explosive payload on a slow drive, can't blow up a tiny little ship that it hits is completely idiotic. For that matter the same goes for a cruise missile, which was designed to engage small, fast targets. BIG engine, smaller payload.
This new change completely defies logic, not to mention physics, making small targets almost completely unvulnerable to great big explosions. Heck, with logic like this every human should have walked out of the Twin Towers because they're too small to be hurt by 200 tons of high explosive.
If any 'fix' was needed it should have been to make missiles MISS, not to castrate them. How, then, does a Raven expect to survive a rat spawn in 1.0? Death by arrogator because missles have been utterly neutered.
We will adapt, we're being forced to, but this is one of the Devs' dumber ideas, really.
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Exactley, I personally am going to try to adapt, but to think I spent all those days training cruise to 5 and torps to 5 just makes me sick in the stomach now that they are deemed useless.
This is by far the the Devs' lamer ideas......I can see me firing back up my EQ account and leaving this game unsubscribed
Actually, I think the point is that missiles weren't working the way they envisioned them to work as so they are adjusting it to what was originally planned. Most software never works once it is in the hands of users, who find ways to work around or abuse it. And this should also be looked at it from the other side of the coin. You are Joe-newbie is flying along in his interceptor alone. Big-bad 2year veteran like me (happy eve b-day to me, btw, 2 years this month) comes along, and thinks 'I don't like you', and launches a full spread of cruise missiles. With my caldari BS skill at 5, my cruise missiles go at 2240 m/s. So unless he has a MWD, he can't possibly defend against that so he's toast unless he reacts quickly and warps out before those speady missiles hit him. Chances are he is dead. The same is true of torps but even with only a AB, you can probably outrun them no matter who you are unlike cruise missiles. It sucks to be a newb but that happens and it isn't quite fair and really true to the way Eve was planned if you ask me. It is better to think of the missile change as a way to put them to come close to turret functionality. While turrets can often do the same thing to smaller ships that missiles can, missiles also have a much slower rate of refire than most turrets do and have a fair chance of missile small targets when it is a large turret. Missiles hit 100% unless speed is a factor regardless of the target's range, unlike turrets, and do consistant damage. No glancing or excellent hits. The whole formula used for hits is non-existant for missiles so you got to do something for making them on par when they are one race's primary weapon.
I'm fully trained on all Caldari ships up to Level 5 and have all missile skills up to almost 5 (Torps is 5 already) but I won't be shedding any tears or quitting because now my ship is no longer king of the castle. Anyone happen to remember when they said L4 missions would not be possible to do alone when they first came out? I sure do. Well guess what? I do them alone all the time and I can sleep through most of them. I'd rather not be doing the grind all the time. Heaven forbid they should make it, you know, not easy anymore. The only concern I see about small ships is that you can't take them out on L4 missions as easily which goes with what I just stated, they weren't supposed to be able to be done alone anyway. Well, that was the original intent anyway, people just found something to work around it and have been doing that for awhile. For against player pilots in interceptors and frigates, well, it would take one player's interceptor a very, very long time to even come close to even scratching a battleship's shields if that battleship pilot wasn't a complete imbecile.
If I wanted to be able to throw the beat down on every single thing that crossed my path and do it alone, I'd go join WoW, become a level 60 character, and go pick on stuff much lower level than me, both NPC and PC. But I am not going to do that because I got bored of the grind. That game lasted about 2 months for me.
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