Jet Collins
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Posted - 2006.04.28 14:45:00 -
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Ohhh Boy !!!! I can't pass up this thread but where to begin  .
First off new BS Skins tier 3 or not are so welcome to this game and not going to nerf the other ships. Yes at first you will probably see a crap load of them flyig around because they are the newest and greatest thing. But they will find thier role and people will fly the BS that suites them. As for them being over powered I'm sure CCP can manage making them a balanced ship, and from what I have heard if anything the only thing these ships may do better then thier counter parts is tank. I persoanlly havn't heard much in the favor or more dps. But that was a while back and things change.
Now for people whinning about a rail boad Cal ship which would requirer them to train more skills... me a river. But persoanlly I wouldn't want them to have more than 6 turret hard points. Actaully 5 but I don't want people to hate me to much. The only way I would except it is if the minmatar get atleast 7 turret hard points 
Now lets look at a skill intensive ship.
The poor Phoon.
Possible setups.
Siege and Autos,
Arti and Cruse
Auto's and Nos
Amorr or shield(yes this can shield tank quite well)
A full drone bay.
Now these are just some basic setups that can be done with the phoon.
So if you want to take full advantage of the phoon you need good gunnary skill, good missile skill, good Armor skill, good shield skill, good drone skill, and even good EW skill for Nos and some other stuff.
And I will stand by that everything skill group needs to be trained well to make the phoon just a desent ship. At the very least I guess you could just train Armor, drones, (Missles or gunnary), or(Gunnary or nos), or missels or Nos). BUt thier are cases when the resitances for shield would make this ship a much better shield tanker, besides Minmatar are favoring sheild tanking on many ships anway.
So to compair the raven, Gunnary ya sure why not, missles yes, shield yes, Armor ahh ok but not like the phoon, Em yes(probably more so than the Phoon)But Drones NO only have half the size so training heavy drones not the best idea t2 mediums is your best bet and t2 heaveies tank alot more time(maybe I'm wrong here but I think 5 mids are better than 3 heavy espaically when you lose one you still have more mids.
As Tux said you can go through the racial ships for the Cal race and stick to gunnary or Missles. On Minmatar ships we can try to go gunnary but we have so many ships with launcher hard points we really need to train missles as well. Same goes for shield and Amor.
*Jet wishes my race had a path which only required a couple skill groups. Hey but now I guess no one can easly perdict what my setup will be.
Anyway I welcome with open arms new BS's.
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