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Posted - 2008.07.27 06:22:00 -
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Doc hits it on the head. What CCP is proposing is rediculous. There is absolutely nothing wrong with MWD mechnaics on non speed-fit ships. All the new changes are doing is reducing the speed of *all* ships across the board which isn't what is needed.
CCP needs to make changes that *specifically* target speed fit ships, and that's it. Basically this means nano-HACs. The Vaga is pretty much excluded from this group, as it's the only HAC in the game that is *supposed* to be fast.
If the proposed changes go through, the speed gap between speed fit and 'regular' ships will be even *larger* as naturally fast ships like the Vaga enjoy unpenalized high base speeds, while the slower ships are that much slower due to less performance increase through MWDs etc.
Nerfing Snake implants is stupid. A microscopic portion of the Eve population owns a set of HG Snake implants, and an even smaller group actually uses them to PVP. Crippling the HG Snakes because CCP is using them as a ceiling for balancing speed fit ships is just ridiculous. HG Snakes should be considered a special case scenario and not the 'norm' for balancing purposes.
The Web nerf is just ******ed. It won't hurt/nerf the Minni recons. What it WILL hurt are battleships, and in particular blaster BS due to the absolutely HORRIBLE tracking of BS sized guns, and blasters in particular. If a target isn't sitting absolutely still, you can't hit it with BS sized blasters. Anything less than 90% webbed is just unacceptable.
Additionally people are going to escape all the time when under attack at gates with only a 50-60% speed reduction. It's just not enough. And double webbing is almost impossible to do for solo ships. Now only ships with 5+ mids that can be dedicated to tackling are going to be worthwhile to solo in. It's stupid.
Speed fit ships won't suffer at all. If a Vaga pilot can maintain a 15-20km distance from a target to avoid faction/overheated webs, they can certianly keep away from a 7.5km scram, even if it has an effective range of 18+km.
Arazus/Lachesis won't be worth that much either, as a speed fit Arazu/Lach can't catch a Vaga or Ishtar now, much less after the patch.
Speaking of killer ships: Ishtar with a speed fit, with the extra 5th mid dedicated to a Domi 15km 2pt. scram? Sounds much more dangerous to me than a Lachesis or Arazu. Speed fit Myrmidon with 2pt. scram in 5th mid? Heaven forbid, a Tempest with a 2pt. scram in it's 5th mid, breaking all the MWD BS out there. Total crap.
Fitting an AB is not an option. If you have an AB and 2pt. scram to try and kill MWD ships, how do you propose getting into range in the first place? Of course you can't. You'd think CCP would understand that. The only thing this patch will accomplish is to make slower ships slower, slow tracking guns useless and short range guns irrelavent. All that was needed was for CCP to knock 2km/sec off the top speeds of the speed fit HACs. problem solved.
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