B Glorious
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Posted - 2007.09.29 21:07:00 -
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I think it's far from ideal that the best way to kill any ship at all is to use "meta-feature" like -A- and RA's trap, even if it was very clever and was beneficial to my side. It's still a good kill that took coordination, patience, and a capital ship sacrifice of their own, but I think everyone would agree that it's always more fun when ships die when both parties are more combat capable than after immediately logging on or off. That said, however, I don't think it's true at all that supercaps are too vulnerable or underpowered, with the exception that perhaps the Clone Vat Bay is a little lacking, and that the turrets and launchers on titans aren't terribly useful compared to other available fittings.
On the other hand, though, think about MC's titan setup. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a nano-fit with snake implants and a Gist X-type MWD? According to Eve Fitting Tool, that setup should be able to align in only 14.7 seconds (fast enough to practically warp out before the doomsday animation finished) and achieve a max speed of 659 m/s while completely unwebbable. When used offensively, the idea was to warp in, Doomsday a hostile fleet of subcapital ships, and warp out immediately, right? If it got bubbled, it could just burn out of the bubble on impulse, and while it might have difficulty if it got bumped by another ship, the fact that corpses and wrecks are now immaterial means that holding it down isn't an easy feat at all. You set up the ship to be incredibly difficult to kill, though with good reason. Titans are a major investment and you were making the best use of the doomsday within its new limitations, though some would call the tactic bordering on overpowered if not at least "a little bit lame".
The result is that in order to beat an overpowered or at least "a little bit lame" tactic is that you must use one of your own, and that is what happened. Though not totally the same, it also happened similarly but not at all exactly like CYVOK and WOTANKN's losses, and that was before supercaps were rebalanced.
So to finish up, I could agree to making it take a little bit longer to scan down supercapitals to put them more in proportion with smaller ships (but not harder than a subcapital on the basis of "it's supposed to be the best ship around"), but I would rather increase the sensor strength instead of decrease the signature radius. Sieged dreads need to be able to hit them when they move, and being immune to ewar, the higher sensor strength wouldn't change ECM's uses on titans.
On top of that, though, the nano-titan setup is hardly an enhancement to gameplay and leads to these unfortunately anticlimactic supercapital deaths that should have never happened in the first place. Perhaps it would be enough if, after doomsdaying, a titan would be immobilized for thirty or fourty-five seconds, which is enough to discourage nano-fits entirely. Being able to web a titan or mothership may or may not be necessary on top of that, but I would keep it in mind.
I don't expect you to agree that nano-titans doomsdaying with only an extremely narrow window of vulnerability is overpowered or at least "a bit lame", but you have to consider changing that a better alternative than disappointing kills like the Armageddon Dawn. |