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For CCP Fozzie/ other Devs - The Rep Cycle Unbalance between Armor and Shield
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progodlegend
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
#1 - 2013-01-22 06:04:19 UTC  |  Edited by: progodlegend
This is something I wrote in the armor tanking 2.0 thread, it is something that isn't discussed very often because TiDi fights haven't been occuring very often in the past 2 months, and even longer if you are looking for an actual brawl where the outcome wasn't already decided, but going foward, as the major coalitions of this game look to fighting each other, this is going to be the major issue that will determine how Coalition warfare is fought in heavy TiDi battles:

progodlegend wrote:
Fozzie, can we please get the armor rep to occur at the beginning of the cycle, or the shield rep to occur at the end of the cycle? One or the other, but right now, Armor tanking and shield tanking become further and further unequal the larger the fight gets, and once TiDi kicks in, shield tanking has a massive advantage with shield logi getting their reps in almost instantly.

If TiDi is here to stay, and I think its a great addition, than something needs to change with the armor reps and shield reps occuring at opposite ends of the cycle.

What is your opinion of this? I can show some pretty interesting evidence as to why shield tanking is just massively overpowered compared to armor tanking whats TiDi kicks in, especially at high TiDi levels.


With TiDi being the way it is, I think it makes fighting with anything other than alpha fleet almost non-sensical if you are going up against another shield fleet. TiDi isn't going to change, as it is a good feature, but being that it takes all of the human reaction time out of the equation (what once was 4 seconds of hesitation in game time becomes 0.4 seconds of hesitation in 10% tidi), I think the only solution is to match shield tanking with armor tanking, and move it to the end of the cycle. This will help nerf logi a little bit too, which are honestly in need of a good nerfing.

Anyway, hope this gets some more attention going forward before any real major wars break out.
progodlegend
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2013-01-22 22:47:00 UTC
bump.
progodlegend
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2013-01-22 23:10:54 UTC
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Kitt JT
True North.
#4 - 2013-01-22 23:30:13 UTC
These points are all excellent. Its something that has actually become an issue, and makes TiDi something that is/can be taken advantage of as a tactical decision, similar to crashing nodes of old.

However, these points are all moot, as this "pro" "god" "leg" "end" never logs in anyways.
progodlegend
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
#5 - 2013-01-22 23:33:03 UTC
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Yung Huma
Fried or Fertilized.
#6 - 2013-03-27 02:51:15 UTC
Kitt JT wrote:
These points are all excellent. Its something that has actually become an issue, and makes TiDi something that is/can be taken advantage of as a tactical decision, similar to crashing nodes of old.

However, these points are all moot, as this "pro" "god" "leg" "end" never logs in anyways.



Do you even log in?