TheDrinker
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Posted - 2005.06.19 17:43:00 -
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I think we have 3 problems here:
1. too much damage per second, by far
2. too powerful tanking (active i mean), in certain situations its a question of a few modules if you CAN destroy a ship or NOT
3. hit points are not enough, for sure, when we take in consideration point 1. the fight time reduces to some seconds, which means that LAG has a too great role in fight, and also hundreds of millions (earned in days/weeks) can be lost in seconds
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ideas:
- more penalty on stacking damage mods
- more tanking skills
- increase hit points by 10 times
- decrease active tanking by 2 or 3 times, and cap usage of it too
- with more HP, fights get a longer duration (more fun, MORE TACTIC) and less active tanking is possible ... you cant have a ship with 5000 armor, and you repair 200/s ... so it means that if you had to build an enitre battleship's armor, you could do it in 25s - which is illogic
- less active tanking would prevent the situation, where a ship can tank more than it takes damage - which is also illogic - EVERY ship MUST BE ABLE to destroy another ship of SAME class - it'd be just a matter of time, this is only possible with increased HP otherwise repairers wont make the difference, also a balance between cap usage and ammount of armour/shield repaired should be found - in fact, active tanking should work more as an improved passive tanking (only shields can be passive tanked atm) and not with "bursts" of repaired armor/shield
- more penalty on stacking means that mounting some repairers instead of all damage mods, should give you advantage on those who have only dmg mods
This way you get longer fights, situations with no winner cannot occur coz nobody could tank more damage that he takes, and your lifetime relly depends upon your capacitor, armor and firepower ... and not only on firepower like now. And stacking dmg mods would still be usefull in gang/fleet battles where tanking doesnt matter.
However ... a lot of other things need to get balanced if such changes occur
ok, just my ideas :) im not even sure if i explained what i wanted but ...
sorry for my bad english ;)
TheDrinker
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