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Jerick Ludhowe
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
Verisum Family
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Posted - 2006.07.25 19:17:00 -
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I liked everything said about this ship aside from the god awfull MWD bonus. If the ship has 4 midslots then the bonus is rather pointless as your cap will be limited more by the number of cap booster 800 charges you have rather than your max cap. If the ship does not have a 4th midslot then it is beyond useless. Then again the devs are not stupid so I'm very confident that the ship will infact be granted a 4th midslot.
I think it is time that Tux take a look at the bonus as a whole and change it to 7.5% or 10% per level across the board. This would include a change to both the Deimos and Thorax as well. Personally I think the bonus as a whole should be scrapped and replaced with something that decreases cap use or increase thrust amount per level.
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Jerick Ludhowe
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
Verisum Family
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Posted - 2006.07.25 19:33:00 -
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Glad to see I'm not the only one disapointed with thes proposed bonusses.
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Jerick Ludhowe
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
Verisum Family
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Posted - 2006.07.25 19:57:00 -
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 Originally by: Hllaxiu
The higher your capacitor capacity, the longer it takes for you to be nossed into oblivion, and the longer into the battle you have to start using your cap boosters. This is good.
Fair enough, however the bonus is still by far the worst bonus proposed in the dev blog.
I hope people don't get the wrong Idea about my ranting. I do not think the bonus should be changed to something tanking oriented, nor do I think the ship should have a tracking bonus. I think that a MWD oriented bonus is the perfect concept for a ship that is designed around getting in the targets face however the 5% bonus to cap when fitting a MWD is just an awfull bonus. It has been an awfull on the Thorax, and it has been an awfull bonus on the Deimos.
Now the reason that this bonus is bad is because it is only usefull for the first few seconds of the fight untill you have burned the little bit of extra bit of cap it grants you. After that point it is almost as if you are flying a ship that only has a 5% bonus to hybrid damage per level. I'm sure someone will tell me that the increased max cap has an effect on your cap charge rate however cap charge rate means very little when your ship is cap injected or eating cap as the rate the Thorax and Deimos do.
I'm going to propose some replacment MWD bonuses as me sitting here ranting for the sake of ranting has little to no point.
1. 10% bonus to cap when fitting a MWD. Same fundemental flaw as the first however it does not suck quite as bad.
2. 15% reduction in sig radius per level when activating a MWD.
3. 5% bonus to MWD thrust per level
4. 10% less cap used when running a MWD
5. 7.5% reduction in ship mass per leve when running a MWD
/rant
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Jerick Ludhowe
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
Verisum Family
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Posted - 2006.07.25 20:02:00 -
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Originally by: Nebuli
Anyone else concerned about the fact this ship is faster than the mega, yet doesnt have ANY tracking bonus?
Not really as you just stop your ship and web the target once you are in range. Hitting Cruisers will probably become a rather large problem however the Megathron has to be better at something.
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Jerick Ludhowe
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
Verisum Family
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Posted - 2006.07.25 20:09:00 -
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Originally by: Pattern Clarc
not when you can fit electrons, +amazing tank +MWD with grid to spare....
but what about the drones!!!!
Thron can already do that :P
I think this ship is going to be able to mount Ions with a strong tank.
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Jerick Ludhowe
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
Verisum Family
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Posted - 2006.07.25 20:16:00 -
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Originally by: Ismern
Thron can already do that :P
To an extent however It is not the plated dbl rep goodness that is an Electron Bthron.
Fitting Ions + a dbl rep setup stil requires a cpu mod or some nice low CPU faction ANMs. Anyhoo, I'm going to stop before I derail this into a "How to fit Bthron best" thread, my apologies.
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Jerick Ludhowe
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
Verisum Family
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Posted - 2006.07.25 20:36:00 -
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Originally by: Emeline Cabernet
whats the point of the mega now? outranged and outblasted..
It is a more well rounded ship as it has more drones and better tracking making it extremely lethal to cruisers while still being able to break most BS tanks. However if the Hyperion gets 5 Mids allowing it to fit a tracking comp and the standard 4 mids then I agree with you completely.
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Jerick Ludhowe
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
Verisum Family
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Posted - 2006.07.25 22:21:00 -
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I personally think a 10% decrease in cap booster duration would be going overboard. However I do like that bonus idea, it is unique and would obviously be very effective, make it 5% per level and that bonus has my vote.
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