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Jenn aSide
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Posted - 2013.11.01 12:20:00 -
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oOReikaOo Michiko wrote:Mara Rinn wrote:I fly battleships in PvE simply because they are harder to gank. Outside the "safety" of hisec I only use battleships to bridge covops around.
I can't imagine trying to roam lowsec in a BS without a few dozen of my closest friends. Which I don't have yet. Even then, a Gila or the new SOE cruiser will provide similar DPS in a significantly more mobile platform. Do you think that needs to be changed? Or do you feel thats fine the way it is and battleships should be the niche they are currently, situational.
CCP has 2 options with battleship. Make them situational vehicles that need support to function, or turn them into "solopwnmobiles".
Before that changes to the ways things like turrets and tracking etc worked (and don't forget stacking penalties too), Battleships were expensive but once you got one, you didn't need anything else, to the point where it was FOOLISH to fly something smaller if you could afford a BS.
The current situation splits up the roles in a way that smaller ships have a place in PVP but Battleships are good (great even) in certain situations where in some cases the smaller ships aren't. And CCP has improved battleships greatly recently with a series of battleship only mods like MJDs and target lock breakers.
They are fine as is as tools in the tool box, just find the right tool to use.
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Jenn aSide
STK Scientific
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Posted - 2013.11.01 16:21:00 -
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Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:Liam Inkuras wrote:Hate to smack something down, but whatever you say, battleships are not getting changed anytime soon. They just rebalanced them in Odyssey
Edit: but I do think they are in a strong state, for both solo and fleets. Not getting changed? You might want to try to fly one on Sisi right now, and try to go more than 3 systems through gates. Then get back to me on how they are not being changed in 3 weeks.
yep, the warp speed changes aren't affecting battlecruiers at all, yep. Or other ships, it's just BS.
yep.
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Jenn aSide
STK Scientific
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Posted - 2013.11.01 23:20:00 -
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Battleships are pretty much where they can be. Turining them into "solo" ships is ignoring the history of why they are the way they are now.
They are strategic tools, they occupy the niche between Caps and sub caps in the same way that Battlecruisers occupy the gap between cruisers and battleships.
If you want a solo capable "big ship", battlecursiers are as good as it's going to get. As it shold be. Small ships are raiders, big ships need support. |
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