Snodipous
Amarr
Blue Star Brotherhood
Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.05.28 22:25:00 -
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And as I replied in a previous thread:
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Originally by: Peanut SwshEdited by: Peanut Swsh on 28/05/2007 11:35:08
all the guys are just complaining that their solo-pwnmobiles will be nerfed... etc. etc.
Sorry, but you're displaying a really fundamental ignorance of what it's like to fly a recon ship. It's really a different game than any other type of combat, and it's not easy. Being able to fly the ship and fit the mods needed to make it effective takes a lot of skill training, and flying the ship well takes a lot of careful consideration, patience, and courage on the part of the player. Getting a kill in a recon ship means something... it's a very different thing to achieve a kill flying a solo recon than blowing somebody up in a gate camp. Recon kills come at the end of a long and careful hunt, during which every choice you make has to be weighed with the fragility and low damage output of your 150-mil cruiser in mind.
Since you have local chat broadcasting your presence as soon as you enter a system, a big part of the tactics of a covert-ops pilot is to simply wait a long time in-system before making your move, so the targets get sick of hiding in their station and get on with life. You can't just jump in and warp to zero towards the nearest asteroid belt without knowing what's there... any rogue rock will decloak you and despite what you may think, a Force Recon in a stand-up fight is going to get raped.
Is sitting AFK in a cloaked recon ship cheesy and lame? Is it any more cheesy and lame than knowing instantly when a cloaked, hidden stealth ship enters and leaves the system by using Local Chat as an intelligence tool?
If recons become probe-able, we won't be able to out-wait the enemy any more. Which means recon pilots will have to change their tactics to favour more straight-up attacks without the stalking and *RECONNAISANCE* element. And as I said, a Force Recon fighting a well-prepared enemy is an expensive fish in a barrel.
In short, the stalking/assassination game that's possible with recon ships is, for me, the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding way to fight in Eve. The fact that this skilled and strategically-rich way of taking the fight to your enemy is being chiselled away because of people who are too antisocial, weak, or lazy to deal with the threat burns me.
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