Daelin Blackleaf
Aliastra
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Posted - 2007.11.11 19:21:00 -
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 Originally by: Xeliya
Your comparing apples to oranges there as they are 2 VERY different things. One is used for a job (military, swat, etc) and the other for aesthetics.
You could say the same thing about the Archon and the Nyx. 
Originally by: Xeliya
A normal Chimera will always have dual sensor boosters
In MC it is law.
A "normal" Chimera requires 2x SB, and disruptor? Perhaps for the way that MC uses carriers, but certainly not the way they were intended for use. Carriers are supposed to be support ships, not solopwnmobiles or part of capital blobs.
Originally by: Xeliya
I have NEVER seen a group of carriers us remote boosters
Looks like you've been in carrier blobs so long you've forgotten that most standard fleet ships have a spare high. Again you also confuse popular use with success. Just because not many people do it doesn't make it a bad idea.
When your flying as part of a carrier only group, sure, twin SB and tackling kit. But if your actually flying the ship as part of a normal fleet it becomes downright foolish to waste modules on one of your few capitals when your support can do the job better.
Originally by: Xeliya
Theory != fact, hence why it is theory. You also seem to forget that 25% only equates to 5% resistance as it stacks unlike the damage bonus.
Your basing the facts of your entire argument on the very specific way that MC uses their capitals, it may come as news to you but not every corp out there has access to dozens of capital pilots so this is not how they tend to be used by us mere mortals.
Also a theory is an idea of how things work without proof. The issues we are discussing here are not theory but fact backed up by easily obtained mathematical evidence that is obvious to anyone who doesn't consider fitting half your tanking slots with non-essential kit a good idea.
I believe you've already been called out on your mistake regarding the resistance bonus. You should also consider that while the Thans bonus applies only to itself the Chimera's bonus applies to every ship firing at it this is one reason why resistance bonuses tend to fare much batter than tanking bonuses of equal value. It never quite works out to be a +25% bonus of course since a tank is made up of many factors, more than one of which is affected by the bonus, leading the real benefit to typically be much higher. Basically resistance bonuses are flawed and it becomes more apparent the larger the ship is.
Originally by: Xeliya
If you want a tanking bonus to the Thanny and Niddy why don't we just make 1 type of Carrier, while we are at it 1 type of Battleship, and every other ship in the game.
The problem is, that unlike battleships, carriers share the exact same role, range, and weapon system. Balancing them without making them similar to each other would be very difficult. I'd personally prefer to see the Archon and Chimera's bonuses lowered rather than the Than and Nid's made similar so that they provide a similar effect or alternatively have an increase to the bonuses on the Nid and Than to equal their superiors.
When the extra tanking potential of the Chimera can be countered by the extra damage on the Than then you have a pair of balanced carriers.
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