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GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.02.13 14:43:00 -
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I was going to post to your reddit thread, but the topic is fairly slow moving and it didn't seem like the ideal place to continue the discussion.
In your thread you got asked about titans/supercaps and not only your part in the adjustments that made them into the basis for the 'supercaps online' situation nullsec is in, but you really didn't answer the questions posed. You keep pointing at your blog, where you generally give the same non-answers. What I wanted to ask about specifically was mentioned in another reddit thread by FMERCURY, here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/pktfz/state_of_eve_discussion_titans_as_the_new_fleet/
I'll quote it for reference:
Quote:Nothing new under the sun. In 2005 it was SUAS asking "'ow many battleships we got?", now it's shadoo or elise going "titans t up in SC legion"
It comes down to: should big engagements be decided by numbers, money, or strategy?
I think two of those are very boring and dumb, and one makes the game worth playing.
Introducing supercaps, and especially titans, was a fundamentally bad idea that forever soured the game. There is nothing you can do short of making them utterly useless that maintains the balance of the game, which pre-supercaps was:
Dreads kill structures and carriers, but are killed by subcaps
Carriers kill subcaps, but are killed by dreads and useless against structures
Subcaps kill dreads, but fairly useless against structures or carriers.
Titans kill all three with "pleasing alacrity". From a min/max perspective, there is no reason to be in any other ship than a titan. This is quite clearly ******* ********.
Remove supercaps from the game, focus on making a fun and dynamic subcap/cap and subcap/subcap interactions. Make it so that the groups who employ the best strategies are able to beat those who rely on brute force. Viola, the metagame of fleet pvp is fun once again.
The point I wanted to raise has been bolded. One guy's opinion is just that, but the underlined portion goes directly against your assertation that 'One titan is fine. Fifty are the problem."
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