Maya Rkell
Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2006.08.25 14:23:00 -
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Roxanna Kell,
There is a SINGLE high damage issue which stands out as breaking the effect of most of the other changes. That is T2 AMO! Fights between newer players without it DO take longer, and you are at a completely CRITICAL disadvantage without it.
Remove T2 amo, and replace with amo which is T1+a small bonus.
What your idea actually does is several-fold. First it makes NPCing much harder. Then it breaks POS combat. And then it nerfs small-group combat and makes tanking even less relevant compared to gank, gank, gank. It also dosn't stop snipers ganking in any way.
"what if? they change the game so you can only be locked by 5 ship, woot woot.
hmm, well that will be kinda crazy. jsut thinking about it, peopel would propebly exploit it and lock they re friends to mminimise damage."
Yep. Allready discussed many times and dismissed for precisely that reason :/
So, what else CAN we do?
ECM -> Partial Jams. This forces splitting fire.
Add Flare ECM. (Everyone locking or has locked the ship takes a low-grade partial jam). Forces splitting fire somewhat in fleet.
Add Global EW. (In large, 100+ man battles, you get a noticeable degredation of the ability of weapons and missiles to hit smaller ships, giving cruisers and frigates a larger role in huge battles!)
Oh, and capitals need x3 hp, no question. But that's seperate from the considerations for other ships.
ONCE this has been done, combat will be longer. But it won't be broken, either, and there will be if anything MORE and not less options.
"Combine this with sub-system targeting and it gets really interesting"
Snort. That makes combat shorter again. CCP do have a habit of nerfing their own changes, as T2 amo did to the tanking changes which most older players have not seen any effect from except more expensive tanking modules, due to T2 amo...
"vyperpit" - HI GRONSACK! You can't give up can you with nerfing smaller ships. Plus you're all for nerfing small group combat, gee! If you want a game where 5 level 15's can't touch a level 20, I hear you can play..what was it... ah yes, "DAoC".
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