Katarlia Simov
Minmatar
Cowboys From Hell
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Posted - 2008.12.22 05:55:00 -
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 Originally by: Noisrevbus
A Falcon is a good ship, but also an incredibly narrow and boring ship.
I fully support suggestions along the line of range-reduction to 50km, as long as that is coupled with the added advantages other Recons possess.
- Effective ECM with 2-3 modules, rather than 4-6 (scripted, no racials).
- A secondary EWar bonus (Burst-ECM range and cap cost?).
- ECM being on a separate slot-level than it's racial tank (high slot?).
- Being given a Drone bay, and with that the ability to switch in decent damage.
Having a Falcon that can find a good balance between jam and tanking cycle failures, while staying within effective weapon engagement-range sounds like alot more fun than sitting 200km away and do nothing but jam and cloak, or stay cloaked 75% of the fights while you slowboat out of range, and then have to go back, or go far enough to warp.
The largest problem most people don't get about ECM is that all those ships do is ECM. I can understand it frustrates people when it does it's ECM well, but without that the entire ship, or class of ships is completely useless (Rooks were hovering around 30m just a patch or two ago because of that). I welcome anyone who come up with an idea that can change ECM and keep the ships viable. Saying they make good throw-away ships because they force-multiply is not good enough for me.
I'd love to have a 'Curse that ECM' in the Rook - but it is noway near a Curse when fighting in the engagement-range of it's bonused weapon system. I'd love a ship like that for Caldari, and i'd love to see it fight at 50km, instead of 150km. But If you put an ECM ship at 50km today, it's most likely the worst Recon. Well, i've brought up this argument before and it hasn't really caught any attention - but i'm keeping my hopes up that enough people will notice one day, to actually get some proper comments on it.
I'd happily see falcons re-worked along these lines. I think that most of the pro-falcon guys would hate you forever.
The thing is that the falcon acutally does have the same level of tank as the other cloakers, even when fit with ECM. None of them have any ability to take damage post-nanonerf. Its a sad truth, but the falcon is on a knife edge. It either has to be near impossible to kill, or its not worth flying.
The sad truth of eve is that people will flock to the ships that give them the best chances of survival.
Remember back when nano-domis and phoons ruled the waves? They were far from the most dangerous ships out there, but they were next to impossible to kill. Same for nano-cruisers, and now the same for falcons. People don't want to die and will ***** and moan if their win-button gets kicked down to 'not AS good'
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