Tilly Delnero
Licorne Ventures Ltd.
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Posted - 2013.06.10 18:32:00 -
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Tiberu Stundrif wrote:The Supercapital problem will not improve by simply nerfing these ships into uselessness as CCP has intended to do. My Avatar is a giant logistics cannon and mobile jump bridge. It is a 80-100 billion ISK sink that simply isn't worth what it is intended for.
- The power of the Doomsday is fine as it is, but when you look at the numbers of Titans owned by any one corporation/alliance, it is unbalanced. When an alliance can drop 50 titans on an opposing fleet, there is something terribly wrong.
- I don't want to bring tracking titans back. This was a stupid mechanic and far too easy to make subcapital fleets inferior.
I want to bring back Dreadnought slugfeasts and the days when Carriers were considered something amazing. Remove Supercapitals from the game completely.
I agree, NERF PL!
On a serious note, there are also plenty of people who want all capitals removed and want to revert to the days of old where battleships were the dominant heavy combat platform. Times change, capitals and supercapitals are part of the game and many alliance logistics and (IMHO) should remain so. Removing titans means removing bridging, and that would be a nerf too far for many people (unless POS bridges didn't require sov anymore). It would also make large, well-piloted pantheon/slowcat carrier fleets virtually indestructible, since the only real way to kill those is via massive alpha (doomsday) unless you happen to have a ridiculous number of dreads at hand. In which case people would complain about the number of dreads. 
IIRC supercaps were a response to this type of capital escalation. If anything should be done about their proliferation, personally I'd like to see something more along the lines of supercapitals being subject to some form of ongoing tax like the alliance/sov system. Not necessarily ISK-based though. Maybe for the mechanics to treat them as a corp/alliance asset rather than a ship - perhaps even have ongoing fuel costs like a POS while they are online/in use?
Whatever happens, I'd like to see supers reclaiming their 'special' status as end-game goals and something unique people really go 'OOH' at when they see them. At the moment they're far too common and lack anything that makes them really stand out. Except titan bridges, which are awesome. 
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