Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.09.10 18:17:00 -
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Lilliana Stelles wrote:The new "marauders" should be renamed to what they do.
Bastion.
I think "marauder" is a more appropriate term for some sort of covert/blops ship or hac.
Well, indeed Marauder and their role explanation in Eve is a bit "messed" up, specially for ships that are mainly focused in pve for a very simple reason: sensor strength on top of some other minor weaknesses.
By minor weaknesses I was thinking about capacitors cpu/pg mids for shield ones lows for armor ones of some specific modules (not the bastion one) to improve their dmg application: low for shield ones and mid for armor ones, racial of course.
What makes this ship that bad for pvp?
Sensor strght x 1000000000-¦, this is the most important factor relegating these ships to pve mainly, then dmg application followed by survivability for hulls worth of a huge amount of isk.
Again, doesn't matter what Pierre or Jacques might think about price/balance and other shiftty economics/market arguments, as players and users or future users we care about price/performances point blank, and atm Marauders are most probably the crappiest ships in eve to even think pvp in for the major part of players.
Navy ships and pirate ships are way much better but then we get in to another problem with current CCP design form, if T2 ships are supposed to be very specialized ships doing something no other hull can do as well then marauders are what?
T1s do as good, Navies are better, Pirate ones are way better and worth of their performances despite their ridiculous prices -maybe Ratlesnake needs a good buff and Machariel a little nerf specially to its ridiculous agility.
This latest proposal (version 2) is a bit better however it still doesn't make Marauders a better choice considering cost/performances, which is what we as users are concerned about. Even the "Transformer" thingy doesn't bring the bang for the buck yet.
yep might be funny a couple times then you pick cheaper doing as well and your Marauder goes to high sec kill rats or gather dust, just like before changes and this is what needs to be changed about these ships, they need to become something you want to undock with and do something else than just kill stupid red crosses.
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