Ernest Graefenberg
Minmatar
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2007.02.21 07:41:00 -
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 Originally by: Humpalot
What happened to "Adapt or die"?
Technical limitations in the game happen to it.
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In the American Civil War weapons had progressed beyond traditional tactics and the result was hideous casualties as generals marched massed, shoulder-to-shoulder, formations at their enemy leading to what can only be decribed as a slaughter. Eventually people figured they need to spread the troops out a bit.
So which is worse? Blob warfare or anti-blob Titans?
Titans are not 'anti-blob', they are pro capital-blobbing and anti 'anyone that doesn't have at least 1 Titan'. While with a fair amount of effort, trickery and undocumented game mechanics a super-capital swarm can be overcome, the rewards for doing so are designed to be negligible by making these capitals unscramblable. So you have a low-risk fieldable asset that allows you to blob without fear of retaliation as long as your opposition simply doesn't have Titans. Better yet, you've just removed most of the risk in fielding an offensive capital fleet as far as scramblable, regular capitals go.
Furthermore, most counters are rather tedious due to simple code issues - grid loading times most prominently. And then comes as people have mentioned in this thread, that all practical counters go out the window once they become even more commonplace (although DD alphaing Dreads dead is unlikely still). That is where the crux of the matter lies, as utilizing the limited refire of DDs doesn't really work if the refire is not that limited anymore.
The assumption that EvE warfare as a whole is on an American Civil War level is flawed - it's really highly adapted and detailed beyond your wildest imagination if you haven't had the pleasure of organizing it yet. It's not a question of "Why don't we adapt?", it's a question of seeing the methods of adaptation already (months ahead of time for most of us that have bothered) and seeing where they'll be bound to fail as time and the game progresses. At which point we're simply at a dead-end which reads 'go super-capital or go home'.
We're not there yet though, this isn't conversation about here and now and the current war.
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