Jade Constantine
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Posted - 2003.09.05 16:28:00 -
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Interesting discussion all round;
From personal perspective I think the EW and tracking angle does provide balance and dynamism to conflict, certainly means its not a simple progress of smaller to bigger and redundancy of frigates and then cruisers as people gear up.
It does require a lot of thought to build the sexiest ride and there is no real perfect solution.
The absolute draw of this game for me is that the strategic nature of warfare makes all ship classes meaningful; in a large regional conflict there are places for commerce-raiders, hit and run squads, ships of the line, and wide range of specialisations. The variety and intelligence of the challenge is superb, and raises the game well ahead of the simple pvp best ship owns paradigm.
Of battleships; I still feel as Jade I am only just qualified to fly one to full effectiveness. Though I'm a week 3 character and have quite a lot of skills, I do feel the lack of specialisation in pure combat. I've gone down the route of all-rounder, and taken all three gun types, drones and missiles, partly as insurance against the whims of fate (and patching) and partly for variety and the fact I love flying different ships.
Downside of this is that without lev 4+ gunnery general skills and large turrets, I do feel I am sometimes letting the ship down through lack of piloting and combat skills.
Still, the length of time high level training takes does need we are always progressing and always have something more to aim for.
Re the loss of ships; battleships are painful to recover from, but its pain that teaches us to be more careful and better combatants in the future. 100m isk is significant in anyone's wallet ;)
Re looks, I am torn between Armaggedons which do look absolutely lovely (and thanks Wretch, I'll try your config next) and Scorpions, which really remind me of a midway Battlecruiser class. My Scopion "little earthquakes" is a lovely runabout. Fast and nimble, and very capable besides. And all those running lights make it look like an amusement park in space!
Anyhow ... love and peace m'dears
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