Chobham
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Posted - 2008.12.30 23:52:00 -
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Edited by: Chobham on 30/12/2008 23:54:53
Edited by: Chobham on 30/12/2008 23:53:16
The falcon would actually fare better than the other force recons without the ecm range bonus for the simple fact that it would be much easier to escape. The pilgrim has to get in close and commit, the rapier has a slight chance of escaping 1v1, same for the arazu, the falcon on the other hand has a very good chance of breaking anywhere between 1-3 ships' locks and cloaking (1vX the falcon is the only recon that would have a chance of escaping, regardless of range).
Change the range bonus to a heavy missile dmg bonus to keep it in line with the other recons, the long range lovers could fly the rook, the others could fit a small tank on their falcon or fly it better (i.e. no more alt tabbing and jamming then going to your other account, you'd have to be actually flying the falcon  ). If you falcon pilots think you are paper thin, that's because you're not fitting any tank at all, sometimes not even a DCU while all the other recons are forced to fit tanks.
I would bet that even though falcons don't fit any form of tank and are nearly always target #1 that they have a higher survivability ratio than any of the other 3 force recons that actually do fit tanks. Not only that but in any sort of pvp that actually matters, anything more than 1v1, they are by a huge margin the most effective ewar force recon. The pilgrim is the only one that even comes close in situations where targets have reppers (which is really rare in the current state of the game) but without the range bonus the pilgrim is a fairly easy kill.
Also @ the people who say just make your own BMs and warp to them, are you serious? Even if you did you would need 2-3 ships just to be able to lock the falcon, otherwise he will simply ecm you then cloak and warp to his other BM. Not only that but he is effectively taking 2-3 people out of the fight for, at the very least, about 60 seconds. Meanwhile the falcon's gang is now pounding your fleet that didn't chase the falcon. If you don't chase the falcon, he takes out 3 of your ships via jamming, if you do chase the falcon he takes out 3+ of your ships by distracting. Either way, the force multiplier effect from the falcon is insanely out of whack compared to any other ship, even more so when you compare it to the other 3 force recons.
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