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[Odyssey] Attack Battlecruiser balance pass

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Dez Affinity
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#221 - 2013-03-31 05:21:35 UTC
Liang Nuren wrote:


Pandemic Legion... Pandemic Legion. Oh yeah, the guys that lost a Titan in Amamake to FW noobs. Oh yeah, the guys that can't seem to score a kill because the only thing they know how to do is drop supers in Ama top belt. Dez Affinity, oh yeah the guy that seems to fly in "small gangs" of 40-120. Cool story, I'm glad you think you know something about how to fly ships.

-Liang


Yeah what would I know about PvP I'm just in Pandemic Legion. I should join someone elite to prove my personal pvp prowess.

Liang Nuren wrote:


Ed: Can we discuss ships now or would you prefer to continue on with the idiotic name calling?


Sure, but let's stop being so pretentious with things like : "There's a lot of people that think that fit's just the best fit in the world, but I've found it's just outright inferior for my purposes"

and thinking we should balance around your very specific fit rather than what people are flying regularly.

Garviel Tarrant wrote:


Its called being Pro pvpers


You flatter me Sir, I am but a talented amateur.


Diesel47
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#222 - 2013-03-31 05:22:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Diesel47
@CCP Rise/kil2.

Are you going to do anything to fix the fact that they make solo\small gang nano ships completely worthless for fighting larger numbers?
Liang Nuren
No Salvation
Divine Damnation
#223 - 2013-03-31 05:37:53 UTC
Dez Affinity wrote:
Yeah what would I know about PvP I'm just in Pandemic Legion. I should join someone elite to prove my personal pvp prowess.


I dunno man. The idiot 3 month old noobs and veteran blobbers that only barely know how to press F1 are everywhere in the game (including in your alliance). Just because someone's in (or not in) null sec doesn't really mean a whole lot about their general ability to PVP. My general dismissal of your POV hinges entirely on your insistence on speaking about something you don't know anything about.

IMO: learn what the **** you're talking about and then come talk to me about how my ships fly, k?

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Liang Nuren wrote:


Ed: Can we discuss ships now or would you prefer to continue on with the idiotic name calling?


Sure, but let's stop being so pretentious with things like : "There's a lot of people that think that fit's just the best fit in the world, but I've found it's just outright inferior for my purposes"

and thinking we should balance around your very specific fit rather than what people are flying regularly.


This is where you're being really stupid. I never said they shouldn't go forward with the nerf. I said they should, though I admitted that it'd make the Talos (and Tier 3s as a whole) immensely less useful to me. Grath insisted that I was being chicken little and dared me to ~poast numbers~ that showed why I hold the opinion I do.

Which I did. Which you tried to "correct" and "massage" and "forum warrior". So, kindly learn to read m8?

-Liang

I'm an idiot, don't mind me.

PavlikX
Scan Stakan
HOLD MY PROBS
#224 - 2013-03-31 08:22:51 UTC
CCP, please, remove one (or two) turrets from that ships. Because 7-8 large turrtes must have battleships only
Grath Telkin
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
#225 - 2013-03-31 08:54:19 UTC
Liang Nuren wrote:
Grath insisted that I was being chicken little and dared me to ~poast numbers~ that showed why I hold the opinion I do.



Yea, you'll need to either A) stop trying to fight at 50km with a short raned weapon system (shortest range weapons system actually) or B) change your fit.

Malcanis - Without drone assign, the slowcat doctrine will wither and die.

Naomi Knight
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#226 - 2013-03-31 09:15:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Naomi Knight
PavlikX wrote:
CCP, please, remove one (or two) turrets from that ships. Because 7-8 large turrtes must have battleships only

why battleships only? where the hell did you read it is battleships only to have that many guns?

personally , i would lower their tracking than dps, oh and remove the drones from the talos, these bc-s should be rly hard to fight small ships , then why give one of them drones to be able to do it easily? it is already fast and have the best tracking

oh and ignote this pathetic legion vs lowsec noobs , one is worse than the other , blob fight or run style pvp is their area of expertise
Lili Lu
#227 - 2013-03-31 15:17:50 UTC
Yeah Naomi, those drones mean so much.Roll I sense some drone envy. Oh look the ships are being used in roughly equal numbers and in fact it is the Talos that is behind the others in the usage numbers. Your Naga is doing fine, you Amarr posting alt of a Caldari chauvinist.Straight

I see very little wrong with these proposed adjustments to tier 3s (Attack BCs). Afterall, I have no idea what they are going to do to make HACs worthwhile without making them OP if they don't nerf these BCs. And these nerfs one could view as even timid. But it is refreshing to see some moderate touch to nerfing instead of the old battle axe or sledge hammer approach.Lol
Naomi Knight
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#228 - 2013-03-31 15:50:26 UTC
Lili Lu wrote:
Yeah Naomi, those drones mean so much.Roll I sense some drone envy. Oh look the ships are being used in roughly equal numbers and in fact it is the Talos that is behind the others in the usage numbers. Your Naga is doing fine, you Amarr posting alt of a Caldari chauvinist.Straight

I see very little wrong with these proposed adjustments to tier 3s (Attack BCs). Afterall, I have no idea what they are going to do to make HACs worthwhile without making them OP if they don't nerf these BCs. And these nerfs one could view as even timid. But it is refreshing to see some moderate touch to nerfing instead of the old battle axe or sledge hammer approach.Lol


:O still drones are odd for an attack bc
oh i always wonder how didnt ccp manage to make the naga useless , it is a good ship compared to the other attack bc-s completly out of line from caldari doctrine
Lili Lu
#229 - 2013-03-31 15:58:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Lili Lu
Thanks Naomi, for not getting upset with my tweak of you.P But to address your wonderment, the Naga is getting good usage because to be frank 10% optimal bonuses on Caldari ships is a very good bonus. I think it is really overdone. 7.5% would be sufficient.

But realistically I don't think they will tone them down. The most egregious example is the Cormorant. If any destroyer and small turret should be hitting at 100km it should be a beam laser. But this is EVE where "hypersonic speeds" are faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.What? Or maybe because all those particles in space are diffusing the beam of concentrated photons over the relatively short distance of 100km What?

I'm not a physicist but intuitively it just seems that a beam of light should have the most range because its speed would be the fastest. So the only limiting factor to range would be the abilities of the computers and turning mechanisms of the turrets themselves. These things presumably would be difficult to keep secret with all the ships that are freely sold, flown, get stolen, or assploded into salvageable wrecks, in eve. But maybe the Amarr spies are so fail due to being easily ferreted out with religious tests that they cannot/will not evade as most spies should.P

Eve, can't live with its oddities, can't live without them.Lol
Major Killz
inglorious bastards.
#230 - 2013-03-31 16:09:13 UTC
You 2 lesbians should make out. I really wonder what that would look like Roll


- killz

[u]Ich bin ein Pirat ![/u]

Lili Lu
#231 - 2013-03-31 16:13:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Lili Lu
Major Killz wrote:
You 2 lesbians should make out. I really wonder what that would look like Roll


- killz

You'll have to wait for WiS. You roll your eyes? On that day I know I could be looking for Naomi. 100mil per view, tickets on sale. Fap fap fap P

editited - to raise the ticket price because we are both that hot, reallySmile
Liang Nuren
No Salvation
Divine Damnation
#232 - 2013-03-31 17:43:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Liang Nuren
Grath Telkin wrote:
Liang Nuren wrote:
Grath insisted that I was being chicken little and dared me to ~poast numbers~ that showed why I hold the opinion I do.



Yea, you'll need to either A) stop trying to fight at 50km with a short raned weapon system (shortest range weapons system actually) or B) change your fit.


So, I guess that's you agreeing that for my purposes the Talos is getting brutalized? You can say I need to pull my range in, but again - I didn't have the range to give up. You can say that I need to change my fit, in which case the ship has other critical weaknesses. You can say I need to stop flying the ship... in which case (holy ****!) you're agreeing with me.

-Liang

I'm an idiot, don't mind me.

Mind Rape
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#233 - 2013-03-31 20:56:40 UTC
-20km locking range on all tier 3...

well done CCP for sending another ship class into unusable-****-category
LakeEnd
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#234 - 2013-03-31 21:26:37 UTC  |  Edited by: LakeEnd
Mind **** wrote:
-20km locking range on all tier 3...

well done CCP for sending another ship class into unusable-****-category

Numbers are hard. Roll

CCP Rise: I think this is a good start, but does not go far enough. Dropping a turret would make 6-7 turretBS again viable and adding some mass would make tier3's less invulnerable in large fleets. At the moment is near impossible to catch meaningful part of well flown tier3 fleet, they can MWD out of the bubbles in few secs, long pointing few of them nets you couple kills, but others escape, scrambling enough of them with, say, AF fleet is also very hard due to relatively small speed difference.
Chris Winter
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#235 - 2013-03-31 23:15:14 UTC
Mind **** wrote:
-20km locking range on all tier 3...

well done CCP for sending another ship class into unusable-****-category

Er...what?

Yeah, try reading it again.

Locking range didn't change.
Hakan MacTrew
Konrakas Forged
Solyaris Chtonium
#236 - 2013-04-01 00:15:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Hakan MacTrew
PavlikX wrote:
CCP, please, remove one (or two) turrets from that ships. Because 7-8 large turrtes must have battleships only

I agree. 7 turrets is still formidable. Its a total of 12.5% reduction in DPS but it would mean that there is actually a reason to use BS's as snipers on the field.

LakeEnd wrote:
Numbers are hard. Roll

Chris Winter wrote:
Er...what?

Yeah, try reading it again.

Locking range didn't change.

I thought the same. Then I looked again to make sure. He's right. It has changed. -20km across the board.

That said, the lock range is still over 200km, so with long range targeting, you still hit 250km. So i hardly see it as a problem.
Lunaleil Fournier
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#237 - 2013-04-01 00:59:23 UTC
The proposed changes won't be felt at all, and attack BCs will still be the primary choice of FCs. Plus I agree that these still far overshadow the combat BCs.

You need to put more separation between BS and BC damage...I think taking away a weapon slot is the way to go.
Lugia3
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#238 - 2013-04-01 01:11:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Lugia3
There is a reason we fly the Talos, which is less tanky than the Naga, and is only marginally faster... It has a flight of light drones.

Please don't take away our drones. Also, 8 guns are good, leave them.

"CCP Dolan is full of shit." - CCP Bettik

Dez Affinity
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#239 - 2013-04-01 01:17:43 UTC
Lugia3 wrote:
There is a reason we fly the Talos, which is less tanky than the Naga, and is only marginally faster... It has a flight of light drones.

Please don't take away our drones. Also, 8 guns are good, leave them.



These people post in threads about balancing.

Hahaha.
NEONOVUS
Mindstar Technology
Goonswarm Federation
#240 - 2013-04-01 01:55:32 UTC
Im with the remove one turret hardpoint crowd.
This would make it so moving to the t3 battleship gives an actual improvement on effective fighting capability, where as currently attack battlecruisers deal the same damage and can purchase 3 hulls and fittings for the price of 1 t3 bs.
This would also make the t1 & t2 bs be more interesting with their bonuses instead of feeling like they are underpowered.