Gul Amarr
Orange County Cruisers
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Posted - 2013.05.08 21:26:00 -
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All the BS changes are underwhelming, but yes, Amarr were hit the worst.
Initially, the concept was that Amarr get the laser cap use bonus snd tremendous fitting requirements, so other ships couldn't fit or use them on their hulls because the" weapon mods" of lasers were - so to speak - built into the turret, becaue their design philosophy made it impossible to fit enough weapon and cap mods.
The cap bonus made them usable on Amarr hulls only and thinhgs were fine.
In 2004, people started whining that lasers were OP. That may have been true if one disregareded the fact they could only be fitted on Amarr hulls who coherently lacked one entire bonus except for the one making their guns only usable on their ships and due to the lack of available lowslots (thanks to being Armor-tanks and laser fitting requirements).
CCP gave in and brought Lasers "in line" with other turrets, completely diregarding the original design philosophy, thus nerfing their ships into Oblivion for a decade to come (yes - not quite yet, but soonGäó).
Moreover, the Amarr sub-BS T1 has always been weak whereas Minmatar have always been strongest in lower level ships. The Guerilla insurgents fighting in small, versatile ship vs "The Empires" Battleship lineup, whereas the Empire lacks proper cheap ships makes sense from a lore perspective. Amarr BS were quite viable for a long while, despite their main wepon having been nerfed to death.
Nowadays, lasers were 'brought in line' with other weapon systems *cough*, whereas all Battleships are in the process of being nerfed, because "bigger is not better" (okay - fine - but why does it cost more then?).
I have crosstrained years ago, not regretting a single day of it, but actually flying an Amarr ship again would have been fun after years of exclusively flying Minmatar/Angel.
I hoped that occasion would reoccur enventually - unfortunately, that's not the case in this expansion - maybe in ten years...
(hey - one may still hope ;)).
Edit: Oh - and regarding the last couple of posts: Who gives a **** about PVE? It's an irrelevant constant influx of isk, stupidly easy with any kind of ship. |