theDisto
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Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2012.01.13 12:29:00 -
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Grath can correct me if I'm wrong, but the majority of Titan/Superkills kills due to Pandemic Legion in the last year has not been to straight up super fights, but catching them while moving, ratting or doing other dumb things.
You need to understand that when you are fighting anything, unless completely outnumbered that you are going to have casualties. Unfortunately the stakes are so high for supers it is always going to be really hard to know what you can handle and what will essentially destroy your alliance. The very presence of supers logging in will send most alliances running.
My alliance has been on the short end of the stick in the last few weeks, being blocked by the Raiden. Titan blob in their time zone. From a enemy with many times our numbers of Titans. (Grath probably has accurate numbers :psyduck:), which isn't really surprising. This is why Eve has diplomacy and a unironic tendency to gang up on giant empires. (the fall of the NC for example). However it would also be fair to say that just over a year ago, my Alliance was bumbling around in lowsec, with a membership who were literally little more then Rifters. Today we are essentially the Lords of Fountain which has been very good to us. We still have obligations to our allies, and need them so much but it hasn't prevented us having space. In fact most sov in Eve is owned by alliances like mine, and even if we don't suckle on tech like the super powers it hasn't exactly stopped us.
A Titan can withstand massive quantities of DDs, it's barely a scratch for them. It is a big problem for normal capitals however. But you should be fielding your own supers if you are trying to fight a field of supers. If you lose a bunch of dreads and carriers but kill a single Titan, you are still going to be ahead.
What I would like to see would be a lot more granularity to capitals. Currently you have DPS in Dreads, Logi in carriers and DPS in Supercaps and Titans. Which if you compare to subcaps, is pathetic. Eve at it's most basic mechanics simply encourages blobbing and large decisive battles. It essentially comes down to who has the correctly tanked fleet comp, with the correctly set up bonuses and the correct numbers. As well as enough logistics to keep them alive and enough support to keep them tackled and your own capitals clear. The NC lost one of these battles, losing 7 Titans and a couple of supercaps to manage to kill 2 Titans and a couple of supers. It'd be fair to say that super fits don't vary much outside of some very simply fitting decisions and the confidence of the alliance fielding them.
I would personally love to see things like Capital EWAR, Capital tackle and etc. Of course there aren't enough large fights for this to be a big issue in that while the mechanics for all of them are the same, they are insanely rare. Fielding a Titan is straight up too much risk unless you can be confident that noone will mess with you. |