Corey Grim
FinFleet
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.11.13 12:44:00 -
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Okay, couple of questions for CCP:
1. What is your plan behind this speed nerf? becouse quite honestly the idea doesnt "open" to me for several reasons. One being the simple fact that Broadsword is gonna be faster than any dictor, Stabber, Vaga, and many others are gonna be faster too, it is caused by the number of low slots available to those said ships and their base speed compared to dictors.
2. You (CCP) have made several adjustments for speed (nano¦s, inertia stabs etc etc) And i can understand why. What i dont understand is that why Snakes havent been "penalized" or why after several speed module changes you brought polycarbons to game?
3. Lets take the example out of the Sabre as it is now and how "good" it really is in different situations.
-Solo: its good ship for killing small stuff up to AF¦s and it is capable to kill some poorly fitted cruisers in emerengency situation, BUT its one of the most [pilot]skill intensive solo ships out there atm, small miscalculation and you catch nothing or you end up dead.= not too usefull killing shuttles and AF¦s but fun.
-Small gang: in small gang it has crucial role of dropping bubble but the fun thing is that it can actually protect your heavier ships by staying close to them and daring the AF¦s and ceptors to come closer if they dare (not smart thing to do btw). It is indeed intimidating ship for other small ships but one hac can ruin the dictors day if its not carefull.= Usefull for the gang to get the fight and hard but fun.
-Medium roaming gang: drop a bubble and get out of the battle if you can. you are primary instantly anyway so no point staying= usefull but not fun.
-Fleets: get the bubble up and run like hell= usefull but not fun.
Okay after i look that and start thinking what the nerf will do for sabre in reality
i only come to this conclusion: Its gonna be usefull but expensive one bubble dropper in fleets and medium/large roaming gangs, and its not fun at all to fly that way. It will lose some of its solo ability especially against ceptors further narrowing the suitable solo targets (shuttles, t1 frigs, haulers and AF¦s for sabre anymore) . in small gangs its gonna simply die becouse it cant control the range to hostile heavier ships and due to its sig radius its just gonna pop if it stays and fights. so again its just gonna be one bubble and warp out.
Final Conclusion: If this dictor speed adjustment goes trough it removes the Fun part of dictor flying, affecting it¦s performance so that in fleets and big fights its gonna need warp in point for every bubble it hopes to drop, and its gonna die after that 1 bubble.
Final questinn: what do you (CCP) hope to achieve with this? Enlighten us and we might be able to suggest other ways of doing it?
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