Red Crown
Kudzu Collective
Knights Of the Southerncross
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Posted - 2007.05.02 22:29:00 -
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Thats rapidly becoming the sentiments of many thinkers in EVE's community. "50dreadscapitalyardstitanmotherships8carriersbuffniddnerfDDs".
(Put a * before your post if you could read the above quote)
Eve is rapidly becoming a rough game for the little guy. The question is, can you tank a DD? Two? Three? This may be an issue now that BoB has inherited LV's titan.
DDs are -
WTF overpowered BBQ rays (See many other posts)
And most importantly, lag bombs. Face it, if your ship does survive, your systems won't just boot up again and you can start shooting. Your out of it for minutes at a time. I hate lag storms. Everyone does! And unless you take a lot of time, and some money, your not going to fight past that doomsday. Not everyone is ready to sacrifice battleships in fleet engagements, and thats what you need to live past that first DD.
Now, this weapon, this vessel which can cause players to whine, seriously consider "Screwing" fleet fights and going to rat instead, and send fear into their hearts must be one whollup of a something, right?
But, it really isn't. 120B gets you a titan from start to finish, IIRC, and thats not much. 2, 3 months savings for a major alliance followed by 2 months construction. Considering your Titan pilot was getting ready beforehand, your looking at 4 months for the start to finish of a brand new titan, cut 60B off the tag if you have the prints and you just want another.
Its not right. Titans were supposed to be the projects of entire races. D2 built 3, BoB built 2 so far, LV was to build 2, who knows who else has them in some maintence yard. And the power to DD and jump bridge a fleet in and be out again in 5 minutes is a power worthy of the title Titan. Mind you - I heard someone firmilliar with history once say the mighty Jove built 4 of these things. Official count stands at 7 for us.
Its too late to be retroactive to the current titans. For them the best we can hope for is a DD nerf, which is discussed in other forums.
I envisioned Titans as a year's project. Saving, planning, construction.
My idea for them? not tier 2 titans, A tier 2 titan. Imagine it taking thrice as long to build be thrice the price quadruple the HP actual power with its capital weapons and a DD that could cause serious hurt to capitals. Just a thought.
Moving on....
Motherships are, ironically, more or less ok. A price hike of 5Bn wouldn't hurt.
I think that carriers and dreads don't really have problems - the true problem with capital ships lies in the lack thereof.
There are 4 capitals for each race. Thats not enough. Different variations on the dreadnought are desperatly needed, dreads at the moment are one track and ineffective against ships much smaller than capitals. Carriers are a little on the small side as well. CCP needs to add flavour to the world of capitals or it will rapidly get more bland than it already is.
I'd write more but I'm bored and tired. Share ideas! Being positive and suggesting will probably get to CCP better than flat whining. Most of the time.
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They rebelled
They look...and feel...human
Some are programmed to think they are human
There are many alts.
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