Bischopt
Ice Fire Warriors
Late Night Alliance
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Posted - 2012.02.17 11:18:00 -
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As someone who flies and loses frigates almost exclusively (yes really, go check my killboard) , I would like to have T3 frigs in eve.
I imagine them being just like T3 cruisers, just frig sized. Customizable, unpredictable, able to travel deep into nullsec relatively safely.
Do I want to see a new dramiel, something so overpowered it's the only thing anyone's ever going to use? No, I do not. Losing a dramiel was simple because it was only a T1 frigate. With T3 frigates I assume there would be SP loss involved with the destruction of the ship. It's also quite safe to assume that T3 frigs would be expensive which should limit their use in pvp especially.
I live in a fairly busy part of lowsec and I must say that the only T3 cruisers I see are probing alts and mission runners. There aren't many of them around actually doing pvp so I think the same would go for T3 frigs as well.
The most important thing to remember is that they're just frigs after all. frigs cant withstand medium or heavy neuts (except maybe the cruor) and they cant survive great alpha or gate guns. Frigs are thin, have horrible cap and they die. Same would go for the T3 frigs.
So... Some nullsec peeps will get annoyed when they cant catch everything with a bubble? Even more reason to get some T3 frigs.
Personally even if the T3 frigs cannot fit interdiction nullifiers I would want one because of the customizability and flexibility. Right now the only question when fighting a frigate is whether they're short range or long range which you can usually see just by looking at their guns. Because frigs have very limited amounts of slots available they must be fit in a specific way. ofc there's usually a choice between kity and brawly fits but most of the time you dont get to choose if it's shield or armor fit, for example. You dont get to choose the ewar either because there's no room for it.
I'm hoping T3 frigs could change this and give more frigs the advantage of unpredictability.
Having said all that, I do hope that if CCP actually does T3 frigs they do it carefully. The risk of having one must be great enough considering the reward so every belt and planet in eve doesnt become dominated by overpowered frigates.
But that's just me.
TL;DR
T3 frigs are still only frigs and done right their only "downside" is that they would annoy people who are too lazy to catch stuff with an actual point. For frig pilots they would be very exciting. |