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Tuxford
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Posted - 2006.05.31 09:58:00 -
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Some few points I have to add.
Hawk gets four launchers but loses a turret hardpoint, this I think we forgot to put in the patch notes
We also forgot to put the tracking bonuses increase in the patch notes, thats happening as well
Both of the information links were kind of borked. The electronic superiority one was supposed to give bonus to ewar strength, but it gave bonus to sensor strength which is the same as the sensor integrity one. I tried to fix it so it actually gave to all the ewar modules but there was a problem. At least now it does partly what it was supposed to. Recon operation was supposed to give bonus to scan resolution which is the same as the leadership module so either the module or the skill would override the other one so that bonus didn't make much sense. So we changed it to EWAR module range.
I probably have something more to say but can't remember what.
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Posted - 2006.05.31 10:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Gariuys
So now there's 6 11 slot AFs, and 2 10 slotters? Yeah sounds awfully balanced...
The only 10 slotter is the Ishkur and are you seriously gonna tell me that its underpowered.
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Posted - 2006.05.31 11:42:00 -
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See the thing is with Amarr is that they don't really have a "flavor" like the other races. The Caldari have missiles and rails (people have different opinions about which is the caldari weapon system). Gallante have hybrids and drones and minmatar have well speed. Amarr on the other hand tank and gank that makes it pretty hard to make to combat ships that are similar but yet different, this holds especially true for Assault Ships and Heavy Assault Ships.
One way to change this is simply by taking the Khanid design to hard and really go for it. For example we could make some changes to Vengeance, give it 3 missile hardpoints, change the laser cap need bonus to armor resistance and then give it 5% em missile damage an 10% missile velocity. Not quite as good as the hawk but probably has more tanking potential and by keeping more of its med slots free. Similar things could be done to the Sacrilege.
So some of you might have the question "why the hell don't you just do it?" Well the problem is that these are still Amarr ships even thought they are made by Khanid. Is it fair to ask an amarr ships that he has to train for a different weapon system just to get use of both their AS/HAS. Well Caldari need to do and so do Gallente. Minmatar partly have to do, they can ignore missiles but there are so many ships that have missile hardpoints that probably not many do.
So you see this is not really as simple as just making Vengeance a missile boat and everybody is happy because not everybody would be.
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Tuxford
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Posted - 2006.05.31 11:55:00 -
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Originally by: Alex Harumichi
Yeah, I can see the reasoning. But on the other hand, pretty much everyone else has to train multiple weapon systems if they want to use all their racial ships -- why should Amarr be different in this regard?
Yeah I agree with that partly. The thing is that missiles don't become a secondary weapon system for Amarr until in the elite ships. The thought of a missile spewing armor tanking cool black looking ship makes me happy in the pants so you might imagine the total self control I'm showing by not just going ahead and do this  ... well I would need to clear this with some other devs first.
As for nos and web defense then currently its not in my power to do that. We've thought about some kind of "cap resistance" but thats still in some sort of "brain storming" stage.
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Posted - 2006.05.31 11:57:00 -
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Originally by: Testy Mctest
Originally by: Tuxford
and minmatar have well speed
That there kind of sums up the entire reason why we have so many gimp ships - even the Devs don't really know what we're meant to be doing.
LOL no its not that. Speed just isn't a different weapon system. Minmatar do need to train for more weapon systems than any other race but speed doesn't really exclude them using weapons, so its a flavor that isn't as easily explained as drones and missiles/rails
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