Astecus
Astral Sanctuary - 7th Division
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Posted - 2016.02.13 16:00:15 -
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As someone using EFT/Pyfa a lot, I love DCs becoming more optional on most ships. This makes fitting more fun! It becoming passive is also a very welcome change, and also makes them more interesting to fit on cloaked ships.
As the creator of the Anti-ganking channel and Anti-ganking.net, I must admit I'm surprised by this sudden significant buff to freighter EHP though. It makes me wonder if this is a workaround for having trouble finding a good fix for horribly overpowered bumping that often supertackle freighters for hours. Bumping seems difficult to fix, as I still haven't heard about a solution that I really believe in. But it really needs a fix, and when it gets one, I believe freighter ganking will change quite dramatically, more than this big buff to EHP will cause. But until then, this EHP buff might serve as a workaround, albeit not a good one, as it for instance doesn't affect the orca or bowhead that much, two ships that are also often supertackled by bumping (since they should always fit DC previously anyway).
Regarding the IFFA, I do believe raising it from 17 to 20 CPU will break several of my fits. That said, a CPU difference of over 43% between it and T2 is quite a lot, so it's understandable you want to close this gap somewhat. And since some hull resist will be kept, breaking some fits might be an acceptable loss. And I just realized that it might take some time before I get used to all the new options from new faction/officer DCs.
A comment to some gankers here - freighters should never be balanced around being profitable to gank, as this turns them into mainly a resource to be exploited, similar to rats. The thing about rats is that they don't have feelings and a playstyle that should be respected. Sometimes freighters decide to haul enough to give gankers a profit opportunity, but balancing should never be about giving gankers the ability to expect a steady stream of such opportunities. That would turn ganking into 'ratting'.
Creator of the Anti-ganking channel, Anti-ganking.net and AstralServices.net
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