gojwer
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Posted - 2007.10.18 05:35:00 -
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2km/s should be good enough for the max a ship can go in this game.
only small guns should be able to hit something going 2km/s, with identical skills and implants as a medium+ gun user.
webs and warp drive disrupters force these 4km/s ships outside your range which makes them a long range invincible ship. I think the point that they are invincible unless you have a ship that can catch them is the problem.
how is invincibility fair ever? isnt that the reason ECMs were nerfed before? even with ECMs theres still smartbombs and FoF missiles (though they should really be called heatseekers, FoF means friend or foe, and so should be able to judge which target to hit by the FoF emitter on ships, which means allies should NOT be getting hit by them, if you know anything about what FoF is and is based on. these missiles should be renamed sigseekers or heatseekers.)
now the changes will give even more bonuses to distance for webbing, which means that if they hit you first with web they can orbit you with impunity, even if you were designed to catch them.
its becoming a system of "it takes a ship A to beat ship A, anything else is useless". for all those saying its a complex rock paper scissor game, look at that, it takes rock to beat rock, woo 
I dont really like webs at all anyway, if they didnt exist frigates wouldnt need such speed, which means speed could be nerfed, at aleast as far as stackable bonuses go, and then it would be a matter of bringing missiles, frigates and destroyers to a fight instead of, "look they have intys at 5km/s out of our web range, we lose.".
truthfully I do have my own agenda, I really want frigates to be viable in close range combat so my desy can be viable with short range dps guns and we'll all be in the mix fighting for our lives instead of "they have invincible tactics set, we lose".
for the record, T2 was designed to be more specialized ships, not superior ships, see stealth bombers.
before intys, the unnerfed stackable bonuses were fine with frigates, but I somehow think it was some people's whining that got intys put in in the first place, which is just more bonuses to bonuses.
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