Lua Mioukl
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Posted - 2013.07.24 06:41:00 -
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It seems like people who designed the first "assault" ships didn't have the same idea as most of the new developers.
To me, it's quite evident what "assault" means. if we take a look at an assault frigate, we immediately see that they are more durable and overall more powerful version of their t1 version. they take what in essence made its t1 version different from the other t1 frigates and improve it. But assault doesn't seem to simply mean more dps and more ehp. a destroyer is hardly an assault frigate and a bc is hardly an assault cruiser.
Assault simply means it can get in a fight and actually survive because its more durable, can pack a bit more punch than the t1 version while retaining the same kind of speed as the other hulls of its size and the same signature radius.
What i see assault frigate have over t1 one that HAC don't have over the t1 cruisers is significantly more survivability. Assault frig have more slots and can focus more of them on what the ship is good at but HACs don't have more slots, and in some cases, they literally lose slots that would let them be more survivable.
The prime exemple of that is the muninn. Honestly take a ship that have bonus to EM resist and making it a ship with a low amount of medium slot is quite ridiculous. it doesn't make it more survivability than a rupture. One great thing that could be done with the Muninn is making it a small sleipnir; more med slots so it can take advantage of its resist bonus.
The bottom line is, t1 cruisers gained more slots, in order to make HAC substantially better, I would say add 1 slots to every HACs and basically leave them as they were. If you think about it, the Sacrilege for example, would be fine with 1 more low slot and the same old drone bay. If you add 1 more slot to every HAC where their t2 resist profile tells you to add them, they all become balanced.
Some would say that adding slots to every ship every time there is a patch is insane -it is- but the t1 cruiser were buffed beyond what was needed and therefore HACs need considerable love or they just won't be considered worthy of their price tag. |