Valea Silpha
Death Monkey's With Knives
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Posted - 2007.01.18 00:10:00 -
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 Originally by: j0sephine
Edited by: j0sephine on 17/01/2007 23:21:58
"The nanofit battleship has revived the 0.0 experience. It has breathed life into an otherwise often predictable and unoriginal combat experience. It has strengthened team bonds, and created new 'super-baddies' who's names are whispered with a sense of fear and apprehension.
Why people insist on crushing the life out of such a great and varied gaming experience is beyond me."
Because people already 'been there, seen that' when the earlier iterations of this particular tactics kicked about in EVE. And the ideal of "ultimate single super-baddy ganker" that gets you at the moment starry eyed because you actually manage to kill one of them every now and then which makes the effort worth it... is just early phase that turns quickly into ugly reality of 5+ such gankers operating in gangs that your 'small gang of frigates and 1-2 battleships' stands no chance against, after the possibility of losing ship while flying solo becomes too large for the nano pilots. And from there it only goes downward to what we have already and what you dislike -- hostiles moving around in gangs and blobs. Except it's much harder to catch gangs and blobs.
The nano-ships do highlight potential problem that's clash between game mechanics which render numbers the (nearly) ultimate strength, and people desire to be winners even against the overwhelming odds... but they're not answer to this problem in the long run :|
This is true. Its great to see some solo pvp happening, but once a countermeasure is developed it will go back to wherever it was before hand.
Oh and also, is it just me or does 1 bs needing 4 ships (from the OPs example) to take it out seem a little unbalanced. Perhaps it speaks for the skill of those pilots flying the nanoships, but if its an indication of the wider issues, it would mean that nanoships are in fact the bane of solo PvP becuase they would have nothing to fear from any one ship they could ever come up against.
<Hammerhead> TomB is doing the nerfing
<Hammerhead> I just stand behind him, look at his monitor and shake my head |