GothicNightmare
Stealth Tactics and Reconnaissance Service
Racking Discaprine
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Posted - 2015.02.27 23:31:28 -
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Ok... this... this cannot be. Fighter assist is a unique and viable option and should remain. When the drone bay of supers was nerfed to ONLY fighters and fighterbombers you removed their flexibility to do anything but slap another capital around or take a nap while shooting a stationary object (structure grinding). Titans took a hit when their weapons vs. subcaps was nerfed into the ground. The Phoebe patch took a huge chunk out of roaming and ganking with supers (am I the only one who's noticed its taken longer for caps to show up as the top kills on EVE Kill). What I'm saying is, supers have already lost a lot of usefulness and taken away a lot of fun and diversity and seeing action, to the point its almost not worth owning or logging on. The problem, is not fighter assist, it's what you can assist your fighters to.
A fleet of 30 stealth bombers killing a TCU on a gate with a dozen carriers/supers assisting is a little absurd. How about this... no drone bay, no assist. You can already assist 50 drones to any single ship but the ship is on grid and still using your bandwidth. Fighters take 25 bandwidth, use that. If a cruiser only has 25mb drone bay, it can only recieve 1 fighter, a battlecruiser with 50mb can only recieve 2. This diversifies who all can recieve the assist. You already can't assign fighterbombers you have to be on grid to use them, but fighters should remain unique on how they can be used over other drones. This would also reduce the amount of carriers fielding fighters, instead of 1 carrier giving 10 fighters to 2 people, if he has to give his fighters to 3-5 people that heavily reduces the presence of overwhelming dps.
Also, I hate to be "that guy" who cries for the little guy but... think of the little guy! A larger corp or alliance can affordd the numbers to not need a defense like that, but smaller ones use whatever force multipliers available (#suddenlyfalcon) to give themselves a fighting chance in gate camps or other attacking forces. You take away fighter assisting and you severely impair any ability to give the little guy a fighting chance in a situation that by normal standards they could not. If you have access to a carrier or a super, enjoy the available options it provides. #NB4Death2AllSupers |