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Miss Mass
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.04.08 23:26:00 -
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Onnen Mentar wrote:You're being slaves of the tiericide right now.
I'm finding myself agreeing with that comment...
Add me to the list of folks who aren't happy at all with the Phoon changes, especially the drone b/w and bay size. It's odd to see BS's losing drone flexibility given the recent NPC AI changes that impact drone us.
Also add me to the list of people who feel like a lot of the uniqueness of the various races is being lost and that a lot of ships are getting a much more generic feel to them.
When I started playing EVE, I had a clear idea of how each race played: Gallente with drones, Minmatar were fast with a small sig radius, and so on. All of that seems to be getting blurred now.
I will also say that when I was a noob and read the description of the Phoon, I knew that it was the ship I wanted to be in. And before someone goes down the "bittervet tears" path, it's not that I regret training all the skills that made it viable as my workhorse. Rather, it's that I feel the loss of what was such an important part of my first year or two of playing: skilling up to make a Phoon sing. If I were starting in the game today, that particular challenge would be missing, and with it, a lot of the enjoyment I experienced in this game. |
Miss Mass
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.04.09 17:37:00 -
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Ranamar wrote: Additionally, you really don't need extra range on cruise missiles, and torpedoes desperately need the reduced explosion radius to get anywhere near their paper DPS.
The Phoon's proposed new bonus is to explosion velocity, not explosion radius. As someone pointed out earlier, since torps are a short range weapon, targets are often in web range anyway so the explosion velocity bonus isn't as meaningful for torps as it is for cruise missiles. |
Miss Mass
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.04.09 18:50:00 -
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Ranamar wrote:That said, I generally figure that explosion radius and explosion velocity are still often pretty fungible with each other, and an armor Typhoon has enough mid slots it seems like it could easily fit a target painter along with tackle. (Although I'm half expecting you to inform me that I have no idea how to fit armor ships and they all need two cap boosters...)
I've got a TP on mine.  |
Miss Mass
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.04.10 16:54:00 -
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One more vote for restoring the Phoon's original drone bw and bay at the expense of the guns, or even one launcher. |
Miss Mass
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.04.15 21:10:00 -
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Garresh wrote:Kinda sad how few people are defending the old typhoon. We really need some feedback from CCP Rise on what's gonna happen. I really want to see minmatar keep at least one utility battleship. Though I think some of the comments that have been made, including yours, were quite persuasive. Unfortunately I'm not having the feeling that that's going to translate into any changes to their plans for Odyssey.
I've become somewhat resigned to simply hoping that the Typhoon Fleet Issue will maintain to the character of the Typhoon that we love. |
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