Originally by: The Bill

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I've just done a comparison between the Drake and the Nighthawk and now I would dearly love to find out what was the point of me spending some two and a half months training for these?

With that extra medium slot and launcher (and rig slot) the Drake seems to be almost on a par but for a fraction of the skills and cost.

This is surely absurd.

Field command ships have the same number of gang mod slots as the Battlecruisers with only a slight advantage to their effectiveness.

While I agree that the nighthawk has extra resistances, with that extra medium slot this is largely negated. The additional bonus to RoF isn't much of a compensation either - a 25% increase in rate of fire on 6 launchers = 7.5 launchers, whereas the drake has 7 from the start.

So please tell me why I've spent months of training and millions of isk on the skills and ships to have whatever slender advantage they offered negated by a ship that costs maybe a fifth of the price and can be trained in about a month - maybe less with the new skill advantages of new characters?

How is this recognising that my character has invested heavily in the skills required to fly such a ship?

The argument that "now HACs and Command ships will get cheaper" just doesn't wash - the reason that this will happen is that simply - no one will see the point in flying them.

Additionally the argument that "if you can't beat them, buy a drake too" won't wash - there has to be something that players can aspire to and this seems to have been utterly swept away.

Does this remind anyone else of the time when SWG made it so every consle owning child could be a jedi in a week? (I know, I exagerate) Eve certainly picked up a lot of new players when that happened, I just hope that they put a sensible balance on things before all those players that have invested so much time and effort leave.

There are a lot of nice things in Kali, it's just they are nearly all for the player that is in a Capital ship, or only a few months old.

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