Chuxup
Born-2-Kill
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Posted - 2013.03.22 00:12:00 -
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What up CCP Rise! Grats on the new job, sad to think I won't be able to take a few shots at you in space anymore, but that's alright 
Here's what I have to add, based on my experience flying the ships you've addressed.
Attack Battle-Cruisers feel much stronger than BS because they have the same DPS and WAY more speed. Even though the BS has more potential for tank, Speed always beats tank, especially if you consider with Links, an Attack BC can easily Kite, Point, and DPS down basically any BS that isn't uber-tanked, and the BS is never going to be able to slow down/catch the BC because the BC is going to easily maintain 30k range, keeping his target pointed, and dealing next to full damage with +range ammo, with no risk of being Webbed/Scrammed/Neuted.
How do you fix this? I think one way would be to give some of the BS (Mega, Phoon) superior speed to their counterparts. I feel like a BS shouldn't accelerate as fast as a BC obviously, but the top speed could potentially be higher, and a nano should actually do something significant to a BS. Maybe balance to the point of having a Mega with 2 nanos and 100mn MWD be about equal top speed as a Talos with no nano 10mn MWD. I don't want to get too micro though.
Also consider giving all battleships bigger drone bays, and maybe being able to fit drone control units like carriers can to increase their bandwidth. 2 Frigs should not be able to easily take down a BS just by keeping high transversal and killing drones.
I'd like to see EWAR bonuses to all races of BS as mentioned.
The Apoc, Geddon, and Baddon all feel like small to large variants of the same ship.
The Maelstrom is way too slow and the DPS isn't that much better than the Nado's. It can rep like a beast with dual ASB but isn't really a practical choice against a lot of targets. It just feels like it has a hard time hitting anything because you can't dictate range like you can in a Talos or a Nado.
Hyperion needs to be sexy in some way so people fly it.
I like the idea of Domi getting a RR bonus since that's all people do with it anyways.
The game almost needs Tech 3 battleships to be honest. Same concept as Tech 3 cruisers but in BS form so you can customize a BS how you want and get the bonuses you want. I know that's not what we're talking about atm though.
Good luck with the balancing, I'm sure whatever you decide to |