Corey Grim
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Posted - 2006.11.23 04:26:00 -
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I have 1 point that i humbly ask ppl (and ofc Tux) to consider:
1. Alpha strike.
The "real" reason for tempests (and in near future maelstorms) Alpha strike lies in RP side of eve, minmatar has allways been the "hit and run" race when we speak "pure" matar designed ships there is Clear line of 3 kind of ships that matar has:
-Alpha ships (wolf, rupture, muninn, tempest) aka warp in, shoot one target with 1-3 volleys, warp out.
-Speed ships: (claw, jaguar, stabber, vagabond) warp in, stick some holes to enemy until u cant take dmg anymore, run like hell, warp away.
-Hybrid ships: personally i imagine that these ships have been born by matar spying every other race  and implementing some parts to their own desings (Bellicose, Cyclone, Typhoon) basicly these ships are most versatile ships in eve and also most skill intensive.
Ok now we ask how this is going to affect minmatar race ships:
well basicly more time in battle is bad for matar ships coz the whole point is usually not to hang around forever, Matar also have more HP¦s of course but that alone doesnt solve matars problems especially in alpha strike part (remember u will be warping in @ range and hoping to kill the enemy before it gets too close).
in speed part it gives ur enemy more time to get more webbers on your nice fast ship, ok this i can handle and accept for the sake of "longer=funnier battles".
back to the conserns of alpha: lets take example as previously mentioned the new amarr BS will have higher or close to same alpha strike as tempest,
the new matar BS will only have slightly higher alpha than the amarr one.
I ask you: where does this leave Tempest? whats it "role" as i have noticed every ship in eve have one but i cant see tempest fitting in any category where u would be better of flying something else.
ofc maybe im just blind and cant think role for tempest. it will not be "useless" ship in any case but its balance compared against any other tier 2 or tier 3 BS is bit off, this is the result of tier 3 battleships and HP boost.
Ofc you ask me how to fix it then ?
i believe im not capable of answering that question but i can give u my thoughts what could be done: the real problem lies in maelstorm and how its "roled" coz atm its clearly roled for npc... uhm excuse me.. both meaning its trying to be AC boat and arty boat at same time, well i believe that tempest is nice Arty platform and not so nice Ac platform.
so my conclusion is maelstorm should be nice AC boat, but sadly its 1 too slow 2 too heavy 3 missing the essential bonuses to make good AC boat (read comparable to blastermega and btw now everyone must remember we are speaking tier 3 bs vs tier 2 before the whining starts)
decrease its PG so that it will be pain in the ass to try fit 8x1400mm t2¦s
ofc this should be doable with 2x rcu t2 and AWU lvl 5 coz ppl who have spended time to fit maelstorm to alpha should get their goodie at the end (wich is long way). and forgot the shield boost bonus give it falloff bonus instead (so it would be rof and falloff) decrease the locking range a bit, make it lighter and fastest BS with mwd there is. This would prevent many ppl using it with 1400mm¦s and choose AC¦s instead, the resolution between ACpest and Artypest (artypest is better ofc) and the resolution between Artymael and ACmael would be close to the same (ACmael would be better here ofc)
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