Kallevra
From Our Cold Dead Hands
The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2015.03.01 19:16:36 -
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Capitals in general have already taken the nerf bat the to balls with the overkill jump fatigue timers and stacking. Now CCP is taking the laziest possible way of "fixing" fighter assigning instead of actually doing it properly like they loosely out lined in an earlier post.
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/balance-changes-coming-in-scylla ,scoll down to the picture of the nyx and read the first line of text. Then continue on in just that first paragraph where it says basiclly says 'screw the data'.
All this change will do is cause even more people to take a look at the accounts that have the carriers and thier carrier pilots and question why they even need to continue to keep that account active. Every person that has a super carrier has a highly skilled pilot locked into that 1 ship that, when these changes come into affect, will effectively remove super carriers from almost any form of game play in eve. Supers will have IHUBs, POCOs, SBUs, TCUs, Stations, and the very rare capital ship to be used against, all of which, in the current game mechanics, are better attacked with dreads that still have the ability to attack POSs.
Yes i do agree that fighter delegation needs to be looked. The ability for a fighter to follow its target to destination to continue the attack, even if the target warps off to a safe/unkown location that even us capsuleers have to scan down is a game/lore breaking mechanic. The ability for the fighters to warp with it's controlling ship (carrier or delegate) is a good thing since fighters travel at the speed of sludge to begin with.
The changes that i have read in the posts before mine that seem to be a mid-ground for both sides of the argument seem to be:
1. Ability to delegate fighters/bombers needs to be moved outside of POS safety/weapons
2. Remove Carrier module bonuses from assigned fighters/bombers
3. Remove the fighters 'magical' ability to follow a target that warps off to an unknown location
4. Only be able to assign the amount of fighters/bombers up to the delegate ship's maximum bandwidth
5. Players need to have the ability to web/scram/tackle/whatever the fighters preventing them from warping off grid
CCP needs to take an actual look at this issue, instead of just a brief glace long enough to line up the nerf bat again. |