Nafri
Caldari
The Illuminati.
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2008.07.27 09:49:00 -
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this situation is not really new...
speed was always the best choice in pvp since they introduced proper tracking.
We have seen the dual mwd ravens, tripple mwd thoraxes (my favourite tbh) and oversized AB times.
It is all around the problem that in Eve it is very hard to fight superior numbers with smaller numbers if your not able to break the fighter into a few smaller engagements.
if you consider how fighting a nano gang works, nothing has changed over the past few years.
Eve was always about creating superior numbers in an engagement. Nano gangs try to lure singe ships out of the blob to kill them, or to catch ships trying to melt into the blob. Same thing was with dual mwd and oversized ab setups.
Even fleetbattles were party about it, warping out and in trying to catch a part of the enemy fleet and slowly grinding through the enemy numbers.
I think one big issue is still that blobbing up has no real negative effect for the blobber, there is still nothing which makes it desirable to come with fewer numbers into a fight.
And the problem with fewer numbers is, especially in 0.0, when you choose not to nano, and the enemy notices that you cant really run away, he can just drop caps and stuff on you and your ****ed.
As long as you dont have to counter once specific shipclass with a special shipclass it wont work without speedtanking.
For example, the only thing that protects a frigate from a carrier is its speed and the time needed for the carrier to lock the frigate. Once the frigate is is locked, and didnt manage to get out of range, it gets ****d by the carrier. No matter what the frigate tries...
I think the only semi balanced shipclass in this game are dreads, they are truely only usable to kill caps and POSes, in which they really shine, but a single dread can never kill a smaller ship with its guns (yeah, the moros is cheating with drone pwnage).
Anyway, I think without a radical change in combat mechanics, people will always try to speedtank to avoid getting hotdropped and outblobb. There is just no other way, and there has never been another way. Remote repping wont work anymore if the enemy is bringing in the caps, and has at least 10 IQ points.
Public Noobism
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