Cythrawl
Caldari Central Defiance
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Posted - 2007.10.22 14:32:00 -
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The problem isn't carriers. Carriers are fine. Its the fact that someone can get together 50 of them to field them at once and have them all launch fighters that's the problem. The lag is inherent from all the actions going on on the field of battle. That's the only reason they would need to nerf drone boats like this.
The problem I see here is apparently you've never allowed Zulupark to fly a carrier solo against a small gank gang. I've been in a gang that held a chimera for 10 mins before we accidentally lost point with one of our intercepter pilots when our main tackler, an arazu, had to warp out due to drone aggro. If not for that little bit of a break, the carrier pilot would have been held until we either got bored, or reinforcements could come 25 jumps to kill it.
Oh, and it launched fighters twice. Both times our small 7-man gang, with only 1 bs shot down fighters and forced it to rely on launching other drones. Still cost him over 100m in drones during that engagement.
So you can't say that a carrier pilot is too buff because he can launch all those drones. In fact, I've tanked a group of fighters in a kestrel once because I didn't move. They couldn't track due to their own movement and my size so I could just sit there and watch them miss. If you instead remove the ability for him to launch other drones en masse, you affectively make him absolutely pointless because a Dominix can do the job for about 1/100th of the price.
And for all those fighters that those carriers have, a titan can instantly remove them from the field of battle. Multiple titans could incinerate the entire cost of a fleet of BS over a matter of minutes should they time their application of doomsday devices correctly.
Nerf Titans so that their already one-trick pony ability is useless. Oh wait. Black ops. Right.
Go ahead devs, let this one happen. You might as well come right out and say its time for you to screw someone over hard enough that it costs you money in subscriptions rather than focus on truly affective ways to change the problem.
Sound judgment. Kinda like how its good to stab yourself in the leg with a knife.
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Originally by: Krazy Bitsch
Originally by: Virtuality In before the first troll.
i do believe you are too late for this.... |