Mr Floppyknickers
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Posted - 2005.07.23 16:29:00 -
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Leave the Thorax alone. It's fine. No nerf, no boosts. Remember: if you think the thorax is some OMGWTFPWNDing ship then it is only a simple matter of spending a week to have the skills to fly one. You don't have to have hybrid skills, you don't even need the drone skills. just G-cruiser 3 and G-frigate 4. Once you've got those you can fly it anyway you want (save missles), tack howies to it, Lasers, hell use it to run cargo with 5 expanders. (be a tough nut to ***** and fast as hell but the best i can add up it would have around 600 cargo  ) The point being is if you think the ship is great, and I believe it can be but so can any ship, you can do whatever you want to do you with it. That's the great thing about this game, no skill, ship, or tactic is beyond you. So for once people drop the Nerf bat, the wand of whiney sissiness, pull off your tutu and go get the ship and enjoy.
Do I fly it? Yes, just started. I got it because I love it's style. IMO second coolest looking ship in the game. Unfortunately even with eng-4 it's a pain to fit without wasting lows on PDU's and RCU's, especially so if you want to use each high on a med hybrid of any kind. So I'm training eng-5 to make it a bit easier and free up a low for another plater or a damamge mod. Notice, I'm training up to be able to fly it better, no griping that the grid should be bigger, or that another ship with a bigger grid needs to be nerfed or that the rax needs to be boosted. My grid issues are my own fault since I'm not the type that runs small guns on it, only med rails or med blasters for me hence my self imposed power issue.
Currently I have two raxs, one for short range and one for long. I'm still experimenting with the thing, but as of yet I don't see the where all the nail biting comes from. It's all about learning how to get the ship to do what I want it to do the best way it can, not having CCP alter code to do it for me.
It's a cruiser like any of the others, each one having strengths and weaknesses. Calling for a nerf because you think the rax is to powereful is like me calling for a nerf of the BB cause I want more mids on the rax or asking for the cacaral to only have 3 launcher points because the rax has none. Like I said before, if you think it's some god like ship, quit crying about it and fly one, then you can reap the benifits you see in the ship for yourself.  It may be hard to actually jump over the fence between you and the greener grass, but you'll manage.
As an aside, how nice is the BB? I ask because those extra mids look mighty appealing for trying out the new archeology and hacking modules.
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