Mr Floppyknickers
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Posted - 2005.10.27 01:55:00 -
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Personally I think Drones are designed to protect a BS from small numbers of frigs. That aside, small guns on a BS are just not an adequate anti-frig set up. They lack range and power.
Perhaps a new type of large gun should be created with a extreme rate of fire and tracking but uses small ammo and thereby is less of a threat to other BS? Think along the lines of a navy radar guided vulcan gun that they currently use to shoot down inbound missles. Something that truely makes mincemeat of frigs, and ceptors with markedly improved range, say 30km.
You see a frig fleet should be effective against a BS, but not in the way everyone imagines. It's not about firepower, orbit speed, or module load out. Instead it's about numbers. Combined damage is part of the reason, yes I reliaze there is a resounding "DUH!" being moaned at this moment, the other part is the number of ships the BS has to kill. A frig fleet should expect heavy losses taking on a BS, especially one designed to combat them, as it is the superior number of targets that is thier greatest strength and the time it takes the bs to kill them all. The more frigs the more time and it's a battle of attrition. There is no reason why 10 t1 frigs should be able to destroy a BS. None, but there is, simply because in thier Current form BS are too limited to deal with them in large numbers even if they are fitted for it.
Personally I think BS need to be redone to have a mix of slots. So many larges, so many meds, and so many smalls. Not high, med, and low, but turrent sizes. Numbers greater than eight total. EG: the domi would have 6 high, 3 mediums, and 8 small. The domi by design is adept at dealing with cruisers and frigs, so this would be natural. More BS killing oriented BS such as the mega would be 7 large, 2 launcher, 6 medium and 4 small.
My reasoning for this is the mighty battleships of earth never carried one type of gun, they were crawling with armamanets to deal with various sized threats, the same should be said of the ships of EVE. As i said above, my opinion is standard small turrents are not uber frig guns. They are great for NPC frigs, buy any thinking player easily stays out of range, yet still in scram range, and has speed enough to negate the power of small guns. They are marginally effective and serve more to help a little than a lot. So a frig fleet would still destroy the BS, it would just actually have some risk in the venture.
Now of course someone would be well within thier rights to bring up the mini mights that are the PT boats. "They sank bigger ships!" will be the point, and it's completely correct. But look at the circumstances of that. They attacked in numbers, they attacked at night or early morning when the BS and crew could not see them, and therefore not deal with them. This only proves the point, they had to attack in numbers under stealth or amid the chaos of large ships engaging because they were going to take heavy losses in an attack under any other circumstances. Should a fleet of manitocres be able to decloak and surprise attack a BS sure, but they should also expect after the intial surprise of it all, to take loses before the BS goes down.
In the end though if anything I would like to see a truely specialized large gun geared toward small ammo, extreme rate of fire and tracking. Something designed soley to kill small fast moving targets such as MWD frigs and ceptors, and drones and the up coming fighters. The latter will make a weapon such as this very needed as will the rants about how hard it is to kill drone versus the damage they do. I wonder how many people will begin threads describing the nerf worthiness of carriers and thier only means of attack. Still I would greatly like to see both ideas come to fruitition, but the New weapon type is the one I'd expect over the other. But hey, it's not like CCP listens to me. There boys, you've got your quote, time to throw in your "thank god"'s
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