Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.21 20:28:00 -
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The fact that every major Capship owner in the game is in here complaining tells me that its probably a good move 
Seriously though, I don't buy the whole "I trained 6 months for it, I SHOULD be invincible!" argument. Capital ships take a long time to train and cost a fair amount, yes. But that doesn't necessarily mean they should simply be the next "better ship". Thats exactly the thing CCP have been trying to avoid with T2 BSs.
The trend at the moment seems to be that as more and more people become capital capable, more and more capital blobs are being used. And this makes it more and more useless bringing non-capitals to a fleet fight at all. Not that I'm saying non-capitals will ever be truly useless, since a large enough group of anything can beat a small enough group of anything else, and the laws of the game mean that 1 carrier < 1 carrier + 1 battleship. But still, a 50 strong fleet of carriers, dreads and supercaps is a pretty pointless target to any non-capital opponent.
And is that really the direction EVE wants to go? A place where only 1 year veterans can even think of competing in 0.0, and everyone else should stay in Empire until they've ground out the mandatory skill set? I thought the whole beauty of EVE was that every single ship, right down to the T1 frigates, had a legitimate role in serious competition. Carriers and Dreads and such need to have a purpose that is legitimately worth more than a billion iskies, but isn't a one-way trip to solopwntown.
The Blog's suggested change is that their DPS remains as high as it is now, it's tank remains the same, they stay the same speed, price, and keep all their bonuses, but that now you need to fly with some friends to use their full potential. And since everything in cap ship design to date (cyno as a means of travel, and siege/triage 10 minute immobility as examples) tries to make the ships reliant on support fleets for use, I'd say that this is at least a good opening suggestion.
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 Originally by: CCP Prism X
There's no such thing as playing too much EvE!
You all obviously need more accounts!
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