Openus Legimus
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Posted - 2015.05.30 23:34:45 -
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Your main premise is that slaves sets are broken and have had a major affect on Eve, thus they need to changed/nerfed.
This premise is incorrect, thus your everything that follows it is null.
Slaves have had very little affect on Eve and how Eve is played.
1. High grade slave sets only make consistent appearances in super pods. It hasn't broken super warfare. Outside of this you won't normally find slave sets in any fleet comps or doctrines or even in solo heads. Too many ways for a pod to die.
2. High grade slaves are used rarely with active tanked no buffer solo ships like the Hyperion to make up for their lack of buffer. Solo has all of the cards stacked against it anyway. Additionally this has had 0 affect on Eve, doctrines, or related metas.
3. High grade slaves are used more commonly with pirate battleships in small and midsized low sec gangs (Bhaalgorns, Vindicators) because you get more bang for your bug due to the EHP, because of the need the enemy has to get them off the field, the cost of the BS and its desire to be protected etc. This hasn't broken the game and has had very little affect on the game. BS, even slaved faction BS still get destroyed blap dreads, and plenty of other things. They aren't invulnerable and the slaves aren't causing people to sit around and try to figure out a counter for them (Ishtars anyone?)
These are 99% of their current uses in Eve Online, and in none of these examples are people sitting around talking about how broken they are, on either side.
I think you had a bad experience with a small gang who was all in slaves (like Exodus flying only snake heads) and now have a skewed view of Eve.
If you had tried to make a different point, with a different premise, perhaps that a general balance was necessary because some things about implants, and which implants exist doesn't make sense, and could overall be better implemented, then you could have made that point, and it would have had some merit.
As it stands, high grade slaves are not having the negative and imba impact on the game you think they are. |