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Princess Jodi
Vendetta Underground
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.08.27 16:57:00 -
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No, don't make Motherships succeptible by letting them get scrammmbed.
Look at it this way: You've got 35+ Billion isk worth of ship. For that price, you get only about double the damage of a 2.5 Billion isk carrier. The remaining 30 Billion in cost is basically the immunity to Electronic Warfare.
So: you wanna kill a Mothership in low sec? Take 35 Billion isk worth of ships and you'll alpha strike it. Or just kill off its fighters: A full wing of 20 or so fighters is a half a billion isk in cost.
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Princess Jodi
Vendetta Underground
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.08.28 14:35:00 -
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 Originally by: Karlemgne
Again, alright. So game mechanics should be changed so that my Navy Raven, which is 10x more expensive than a regular BS, can tank (again) 10 Battleships simultaneously.
-Karlemgne
Your Navy Raven is not 10x the price of a regular BS - you're just willing to pay 10x the normal price. If it pops, you don't get 10x the insurance money. That is a bad example because you are using a rare factional item.
To be fairer to your example, I can see reducing the estimated cost of the Mothership to about 20-25 billion, because the 35 billion figure does include Officer gear.
All I was saying is that you need to put up comparable amounts of isk to be able to claim anything about the Motherships being overpowered. For 20 billion, you can get about 200 T1 Battleships. That amount of firepower would melt a Mom in a single volley.
If you don't have 200 Battleships, how can you complain about the Mom being overpowered? That would be a fair fight Isk-wise, yet the Mom wouldn't stand a chance.
It seems the OP wants to be able to kill about 1000 times the ship value as he puts on the line. That's not realistic. People get hung up on the fact that its a single ship, so think its overpowered. Personally, I'd rather take 200 Battleships out on a rampage than a single Mothership.
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Princess Jodi
Vendetta Underground
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.08.31 13:54:00 -
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It probably took 200 people to raise the money to buy that single 'I-Win' button too. 
Seriously: I've been Mothership-Capable for over a year, and have tried to get the funds for one for almost 2 years. I'm nowhere close. But I bet any alliance could get 200 battleships in a weekend or two of Mining. Try doing that, take your 200 battleships on a romp around Eve, then compare your results to what a single mothership could accomplish.
I think the OP is just jelaous that they don't have a Mothership. I know I am.
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