Seishi Maru
Infinity Enterprises
Odyssey.
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Posted - 2008.05.09 15:38:00 -
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 Originally by: Goumindong
Originally by: Seishi Maru
Originally by: Goumindong
large scale AoE's are not good.
large scale AOE's that fire from off grid are even worse. Didn't you folks learn anything from titans?
If their damage is only enough to kill small ships, like frigates etc they are far from problematic.
Titans with LOCAL AOE are far worse because they are instant wipe
I would say that there are enough things that wipe frigates for them to be "far from problematic".
Its just less problematic until enough of them are produced to be dangerous to other types of ships.
Its bad game design
Nope, its a great game design if well done. Non thought stuff like titans are bad game designs. Titans were created like "hey guys I got an uber cool idea, a ship that can wipe all ships in the grid in 1 shot, let make it jsut uber expensive. -- Hey wow that is soo coool man! Imagine we can make it huuuge 20 km long." They were made just focused on the "looks a cool idea" factor. The arti support idea is SPECIALLY good is its fired from other systems, because would be the first thing in EVE history to promote real UNBLOBING, in sense that would promote separation of conflict on several systems.
THAT is an anti blob weapon. Titans are not anti blob because they do not promote enemies to separate their fleets (since they get no benefits from doing so).
Making art support inaccurate enough and simply introducing a limit on how many shells can be fired per minute in an area, not to even start on the time the shot takes to arrive are more than enough to control it. This is the stuff that would solve the boredom of cyno jammed system siege. Since you would not be able to keep your fleet hours camping a POS or gate or it would be wiped by art support.
Commanders would have to move their forces, separate them, keep all system under arti support range under control etc..
that is a lot of extra GOOD things for the game, more real strategy and less blobing.
But for this to work would need to be FROM ANOTHER system. If done in system it would add NOTHING to the gameplay (unless CCP manages to get a system divided among several nodes ).
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