Originally by: murder one

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Originally by: Malthros Zenobia

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murder one, considering that CCP is making it rather clear that they want combat to last longer, which will make system tareting, and heat, doable in the future, it'd make no sense for there to be some sort of 'buff' to ships to keep them being able to wtfpwn someone in mere seconds like you can do now.

Yes blasterboats are getting nerfed, however in a small gang blasterships are still going to make short work of people. It makes sense that when they do a tanking buff, any situation where a person tries to simply tank you, that they'll win more often due to increased tanking. Not to sound like an old record, but fly with friends. I can't imagine too many changes are made with solo play in mind for an MMO.

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I don't have three or four people at my beck and call to kill someone whenever I want. 90% or more of my kills are solo kills. I hunt, I find someone, I kill them. Whenever I drag around four or five people with me, everyone always logs/safespots/jumps out of the system the instant we're in local and comes back with a twelve person gang to fight.

And simply adding more people to the mix isn't the answer to make the Hype/Mega competitive. It needs to work 1v1, at close range. In it's operating range it needs to dominate. Not just simply kind of maybe sorta work ok, it needs to be outstanding. Right now it just does the opposite- fails miserably.

The only reason a blasterthron/hype works is because it can do more DPS than a target can tank, before the target can pop it/make it run out of cap. As soon as you reach that critical point where you can tank 100% of it's DPS, the Hype has lost, because now it's a war of attrition, and the Hype (and Mega) will always lose.

Frankly I'm sick of people telling me to 'get a few more people'. Every other ship works fine solo. Why can't the Mega/Hype?

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