Anthar Thebess
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Posted - 2015.01.30 10:32:09 -
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Battleships need love.
Every one know this.
From the start battleship Vs hac/ T3
What is working:
- battleship is slow , cruizer sized ships are fast
- mass of a battleship, and his size blocks big relocation of fleets - while fast moving cruisers can travel easily by gates and wormholes
What is not working :
- battleships should out match T3 Cruisers and hacs on battlefield
- battleship survivability should be grater than T3 Cruisers and hacs
What is partially working
- battleship alpha doctrines , you can still get more alpha strike if shooting big target.
How this can be fixed.
It cannot be without big nerf or big buff to one of the ship classes.
For example one of the most annoying ships in eve :
ISTHAR
Possible fix that i see :
- reduce Heavy drone bandwidth to 20mb/s
- reduce Ishtar and Vexor navy drone bandwidth to 100mb
So they still can deploy 5 hvy drones, but only 4 sentry drone - so 5 sentry drones will be only viable on the battleship class.
Tech 3 cruisers.
Probably the hardest to re-balance - you can easily store ammo , depot and extra subsystem and mods in cargo bay.
So you can travel few regions in a nullified ship, and refit it to combat 1j from destination.
But this is not only the issue, next is resistance profile, so you can get on Tech 3 cruiser EHP bigger from most of the battleships, while still having very small signature. What is more important - this high resistances allow for much bigger survivability as your logistics needs to fix much less shied or armor.
People use this ships not only for PVP , so lets try something very nasty.
Due to wormhole nature , tech 3 cruisers outside wormhole space are penalized and receive -40% less remote aid.
So remote armor repairs, remote shield transporters, energy one give you 40% less.
This don't impact local repair systems.
Why this?
Because those ships are used all around eve not only on big fleet engagements.
But also, for hunting, exploration, ratting, taxi, hauling etc.
The issue is in abusing them for fleet pvp, so lets only hit this aspect , and at the same time mess with other broken mechanic.
Logistic ships. |