Hon Kovell
Gallente
Intaki Peace
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Posted - 2007.02.15 23:25:00 -
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Speed:
I think that reducing agility of the nano BS would be enough to solve the problem of their effectiveness and balance them better. They could still go at 7km/s but would have to start on the next grid to build up speed and go in a straight line to reach it, though.
There's several ways to do that but I favour the over-complicated way, that adds work for you, of adding an agility penalty to the mwd. It could vary depending on MWD size or even ship mass/mwd mass - the latter method would mean that lowering ship mass would increase MWD speed at the cost of lower agility with MWD on.
Converting speed mods to a percent bonus instead of fixed has a certain elegance to it, but removes some variety. If overdrives gave a fixed boost and nanofibres a percent boost it would keep some of that variety in fitting choices. It would also mean that the biggest speed boost to a BS was from the mod that lowered agility, which goes well with the mwd penalty above. Frigates would gain the biggest boost from the mod that increased agility further.
Amarr:
It would be great to be able to use Medium Beam Lasers on a frigate.
I don't think the Geddon needs to be able to fit Tachyons without big sacrifices. It seems reasonable to me as is. The Apoc is a great ship with good bonuses - except in the current world of Nos and Cap Boosters. Nos effectively removes the capacitor advantage in close combat. The current fad for short fights then running lends itself to packing all your cap mods into the one cap booster. That reduces the capacitor size advantage again. I don't see any need to change the bonus, though. Fads will change, nos will be nerfed and capacitor will be popular again. Some more grid would be nice, though, to help fit tachyons. The Apoc is a ship that should be able to fit them with little effort.
The Maller and Omen need work. A bit more tank might help - the Maller would be a more effective tank and the Omen could go all gank and still survive a mosquito bite.
Have you considered raising EANM cpu? That would make it a less obvious choice.
I love the cap bonus for lasers, by the way. Adds variety and fits the Amarr cap specialty. |