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Swiftstrike1
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Posted - 2014.03.09 13:12:00 -
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I have often thought about this myself and would like to know others' opinions on the subject. Why is it that Titans and Black Ops can create a "bridge" with only 1 end? Surely a real bridge requires 2 ends, otherwise it doesn't go anywhere does it.
How would it affect the game if Jump Bridges needed 2 bridge capable ships at either end to make them work?
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Posted - 2014.03.09 14:43:00 -
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M1k3y Koontz wrote:I'm rather partial to the idea of having a fleet "moor" onto a titan, then the titan jumps to the cyno, bringing the fleet with it. It has the same impact, forcing people to risk their titans, but doesn't double the amount of isk needed to bridge.
That's a very cool idea. +1
I sympathise with concerns that certain changes would impact smaller entities more than it would the big power blocs, but isn't that always the case? And even if there was a way to nerf large entities without nerfing smaller ones, would it be fair or balanced to penalise players for creating large-scale organisations?
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Posted - 2014.03.09 14:57:00 -
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Lephia DeGrande wrote:I know i will drop a bomb but could someone please Tell me what is the Problem with "Power Projection" i know sorry i am dumb but anyone pls?
The problem is that it's too quick to move 1,000 players in whatever ships from point A to point B that might be 50+ jumps away by stargate. This makes it possible for a coalition to mass all of their assets in one place (making it nigh impregnable) while still having the ability to deploy an overwhelming force on the other side of New Eden ridiculously quickly.
For the sake of a real world analogy, it's like the US being able to put a million boots on the ground anywhere in the world within an hour. Terrifying and more than a little broken.
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Posted - 2014.03.10 19:56:00 -
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Lucine Delacourt wrote:Alvatore DiMarco wrote:Any titan that opens a bridge should absolutely be required to go through that bridge. I was all for this at first. It was pointed out to me though, the actual effect this would have is ruinous. People wouldn't bridge fleets unless they had the system the Titan would end up in completely secure, but if the system is secure why would they need to bridge in a subcap fleet? The end result is that people would end up using jump gates for subcap fleets and Sov warfare would return to "whoever gets their guys in system first wins". Any Titan balance has to bear in mind how risk averse corps are with their titans. Finding a balance between reasonable safety but still getting people to get their titans all the way out of the forcefield is always going to be hard.
There is no balance between "reasonable safety" and getting the titan out of the POS. If a change to bridging mechanics makes it so that people are too afraid to bridge at all, those who take the risk and do bridge will have a massive advantage over those who don't. That's a perfectly reasonable state of play to aim for.
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Posted - 2014.03.10 23:10:00 -
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So imagine a world where you have to risk your titan in order to bridge. The argument many of you have put forward is that nobody would take that risk and titans would therefore become useless.
Here's my counter-argument. If titans became useless there would be a lot of characters stuck in useless ships. Nobody would want to buy the now useless ships so the only way to make use of those characters would be to use the titans regardless of the risk. The only risk would be losing the so-called "useless" titan, but how can it be a risk at all if the titan is "useless"? Once that idea catches on, everyone with a titan starts using it again. Suddenly titans aren't so useless after all...
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