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Fon Revedhort wrote:

Misanth wrote:

Fon Revedhort wrote:

That's a bullcrap to be honest.

To begin with, the very need in such a ship can only arise if the game is OVERTANKED. You were boosting HPs several times back in 2006 and later introduced current fubar rig scheme which clearly promotes tank over anything else (50 calibration per EHP rig which aren't even stacking penalized; 200 calibration per damage rig which is stacking penalized and is a lot harder to cram in due to increased PG usage - LOL?)

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The concept is; violent, fast and fun.

So now you ******* admit the game was spoilt back then. And instead of addressing the CORE ISSUE (overtank) you decide to 'mask' it with a new ship, which

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[10:32:15 AM] CCP Guard: The Tornado will nerf the drake
[10:32:16 AM] CCP Guard: In the face

most likely will become a new FOTY and overpowered to the brim?

Instead of rebalancing existing stuff (like tier2 BCs; tech3; CS) you decide to widen the gap in popularity between proper ships and dirt-cheap OP crap even further? How cute.

Pretty good post Fon, you highlight one thing: does CCP have a vision/clear view of development, or are they still just producing :toys: with no real thought behind?

One thing tho, regarding the 'overpowered', and other peoples comment about 'why fly other bc'. Well, for one, bc's of today have cruiser sized weapons and hit frigates/cruisers quite well. Will these new ships do? If CCP's blog comment about these new ship producing battleship dps, then we can assume they can fit the largest weapons too. A torp-bc, or 1400mm bc, or tachyon/megapulse bc, or lolblastersheh bc - either hitting frigates/cruisers?

There'll be scenarios where these new ships will be damn powerful, but a roaming gang of these will still die to a bunch of frigs, or a well armed POS, or a blob with tackle support, etc. It won't take long before we see fleets of 40-50 of these dying to ten frigs, a single dictor and scimitar..

I'm pretty sure they don't have any clear vision on what they're doing. I mean, come on, you guys could have easily redifined TIER 1 (!) battlecruisers to fit this newly invented role and NO ONE would have noticed their absence in their own class of complete fail. Alright, Cyclone is somewhat different, but the remaining 3 are utterly pointless. Brutix? Come on, get a Cane instead.

I surely might be mistaken and they may indeed be doing some hidden work to rebalance current broken stuff, but somehow I'm sceptical about it. Dramiel and Logistics changes were announced like 5 (?) months ago and what exactly have we got so far? Nothing. And these are merely 2 minor issues.

It's only few months left prior to next expansion and even if they do release some balancing plans we're unlikely to get them properly tested.