R Dan
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Posted - 2004.05.21 22:41:00 -
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ok, I've just been on Chaos server.......these peoples rational posts dont seem to have gotten across, so I'm going to beg 
Please dont do this to the raven, you've taken my favourite ship and turned it upside down! at least before -when it was low on CPU- skills and Meta/"named" modules could solve some of the problems, with electronics 5 and weapon upgrades 5 (and any other CPU reducing skills) would help with alot more but now with the raven being PowerGrid starved it is 100* worse, as there is nothing to reduce PG cost, and rare modules dont make much difference either! and then! the best bit of it all! you go and increase siege launchers by a whooping 75% well, I'd have thought that this would hit all BS's equally, but no! many others get a powergrid increase to help them cope, does the raven? nope it loses 500, thus making it very close to the Scorp in powergrid stats.
*beg mode OFF*
So people say "oh but it was always unfair that a raven could fit 8 big BS weapons and tank well, its about time ravens were nerfed"
-firstly no, not really, my PvP setup involved a couple of siege launchers a bunch of heavies (all malkuths) and 2 heavy energy neuts/nos and then some tanking stuff and power cap relays. that setup now is pretty useless as cruise dont fit in heavies anymore, surely that would have been enough?
secondly, PvP is all caldari is good for, they dont mine well, and (now especially) they dont hunt rats very well either its pretty damn expensive using missiles, and the 425mms bearly do anydamage (I do more on a rupture with med proj guns)
thirdly with these boosts for the other BS most of them can now use 6/7 Large BS guns and tank well, so raven has been nerfed and others have been boosted.
fourthly cap power relays have had the -10% shield boost nerf implemented -which means the ravens shield tanking facilities are down as well as other shield tankers, with an XL c5-L and shield amp I get 460 (ish) boost with 3 cap power relays on ....instead of the 600+ i had before.
With the new PG requirement on the L armour repaiers you make it so the raven cant armour tank anymore, ok, thats fair caldari descriptions are full of "mighty shields" etc but this does all mean that the raven has very little choice any more -unlike the apoc for example- which will mean the ravens much easier to combat as one raven is much like another. and caldari shields arnt that much higher than others, perhaps if they had a shield boost bonus to help counter the cap power relay nerf?
I'll admit to not trying the mini siege launcher as i didnt have the time. So i can only hope that they make my raven a decent ship again...I agree that Apocs did need a boost, but not this much of one...before, Tempests ruled long range, Megas short and a well setup Raven took mid range combat..now, who knows? I'll be skilling up for megas i think (not because i think they are brilliant, but because I think they are decent, well balanced ships)
Maybe having some weapons/modules have meta/rare/"named" variants require less powergrid to fit will let the other ships revive? -and dont forget about Domi's! they need some "love" too.
/me cringes and awaits the flaming 
Bite me....for i taste good :)
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