Xelios
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Posted - 2004.05.21 18:55:00 -
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Edited by: Xelios on 21/05/2004 19:02:12
Here's how I see it.
Frigate vs BS:
Bships shouldn't be able to hit a frigate at all with L turrets, except maybe the lowest L turret in each set. And this WITH a web. Keeping that in mind, is it so hard for a bship to web a frigate? My claw currently does 4.2km/s with 1 MWD, with a single good web that speed goes down to 400m/s almost instantly. With 2 webs on me I'd be completely helpless. With these changes, getting single-webbed + having a mwd on = you're dead. Your sig radius will be huge, and you'll be moving at a horrible speed. Turn the mwd off and you're practically standing still. I don't know yet if this is a bad thing. If 10 frigates can't down a Bship before that bship can kill all of them with a web then it's definatly a bad thing.
Frigate vs Cruiser:
So I'm flying in at 4.2km/s with a couple buddies, my sig radius is huge. I get webbed and fired at by medium guns, I'm dead within 10 seconds. My buddy gets webbed and killed within 10 seconds, and the third guy gets pasted by some drones.
Frigate vs frigate:
Here's where the real imbalance shines through. Say I don't want a large sig radius, so I take an AB. Instead of moving at 4.2km/s I'm now flying at 1km/s. I run into another Claw, he's using a single MWD. His sig radius is big, sure, but he's also very fast. Lets say I get the upper hand and start winning against him, because of the sig radius increase. I'm all excited now, but suddenly I notice he's getting further away. Oh, that's right, he moves 3km/s faster than I do. Suddenly the sig radius increase doesn't mean squat as he gets out of my turret range in just a couple seconds, scrambler range in a few more, and warps out. Even if we're both webbed he'd still move 300m/s faster than me, once again allowing him to escape my weapons range (albeit a bit slower).
The very least CCP could do is make the sig radius proportional to the speed, not to whether or not you have a mwd fitted. Frigates use MWD's because the only advantage they have over other ships is speed, MWD's are not being abused any more than shield boosters are on bships. I don't think missiles are useless at all, in fact I think this is the way they should have been right up from launch (and I've been saying that for a year now), but the mwd should be rethought. Either that or give all the frigates 1 or 2 more med slots so they can fit enough AB's to get their advantage back.
BTW is that a dev I see posting in a General Forum topic? Who stole the guy's account and what have you done with the real Oveur?! =P And Oveur if you're still reading this thread I need to talk to one of you guys, do you have an email address or something? Let me know at [email protected] if you do.
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