Fester Addams
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Posted - 2005.08.13 13:53:00 -
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Its a balance issue, not a reality issue.
If CCP had gone for reality alot of things would be very different.
CCP wants you to use small missiles vs small ships and large missiles vs large ships.
Sadly for a very long time all but the torps were pointless as the torps outperformed every other missile in every way, this has now changed but I still hear people complain they do very little damage with torps against fast friggs.
Torps are not designed to be used against friggs, think of it as the torp haveing a tough time tracking the frig and thus its proximity detonator tends to detonate too early or too late meening the frig in reality is almost out of the blast radius, this could be true even for a stationary frigg.
Nomatter how you explain it it all comes down to one thing, balance.
Under the old missile version the torp was a sure thing, launch them at an NPC and it would with 100% hit and do full damage nomatter what the target is.
This has now been modified so the missiles will be more balanced as compared to other weapon systems, they may not have landed spot on but then how many of you helped balance the new missiles on singularity?
It hasent been much of a secret that the changes were comming and I read quite a few posts about them pre patch but seeing as the average number of players on singularity seem to be constant at round 50 I very much doubt many of the missile users were testing out the new rules to be able to help the devs pinpoint where missiles should be.
Thus the devs did what they could and now we have to live with some balancing after the patch.
Personally I use missiles on almost all my ships and I feel they work very well, they sucked old sox just after the patch naturally but after training the new missile skills upp I have found them to work very well indeed, some of the missile types are actually better after the patch than before.
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