Originally by: Plymer Ization

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I was just reading the forums, like I do every day, and I came across the Nano-Myrm thread. It makes me wonder, what has caused this massive Nano/I-stab trend where every ship that can fit lots of Nos and a MWD suddenly becomes an uber solopwn ship that can't be caught under most circumstances?

The pioneer of the trend in my mind would be the Vagabond (okay, no Nos here really). Then came the nano-Domi, then the Nano-Phoon, and now nano-ships seem to be popping up everywhere. I was ganked on the test server by a Nano-Curse on the test server the other day in a Vagabond

I guess it could be worse, ECM could still be overpowered and then the game would go to hell, but really, are nano-everythings really in the spirit of gameplay? I know the devs have stated that they will be "looking into ships that are going a bit too fast", which leads me to believe this is not where they want the game going, with battleships breaking 3,000 m/s regularly Nos'ing every ship within 25km while orbiting and avoiding tracking weapons.

I have to say, it would be quite funny to watch a fight between a nano-fleet, but I don't beleive for one second that it's in the best interest of the game if the trend continues.

I guess I don't mean this to be a rant, just a musing of sorts on where and why this came about.

Nano/I-stab ships certainly have drawbacks... Paper-thin tanks (aside from maybe a nano-Rohk or nano-Drake/Ferox), insane cap-dependancy, web-vulnerability (Huginn, anyone?), and a host of other issues, but the fact that they are SO good solo makes me raise my eyebrows a bit.

Where does anyone see this going? When will it come to a head? Will we see nano-fleets duking it out between the likes of some of the biggest names in Eve? Conjecture! Paranoia! Tin foil hats! Tux blogs!

I just think all the other races are finally seeing how much fun it is being Minmatar and are trying to compensate

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