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Interceptor balance check-in

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Ream Lolstar
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#41 - 2014-04-30 12:46:03 UTC
I think the changes has more good points than bad points, but the fact that people now travel with travel ceptors which are impossible to tackle is a really bad point imho.

Ceptors shouldn't be travel ships, don't allow them to use warp cores and fix the warp time so an instalock ceptor should be able to tackle them, this will make people use cov ops againt to travel and will at least give campers some oportunity to decloak.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#42 - 2014-04-30 12:53:04 UTC
Smartbombs can be defended against with stabs now?

Curious

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SFM Hobb3s
Perkone
Caldari State
#43 - 2014-04-30 13:46:38 UTC
Consider this Murder of Crows to be the sprinkles on your blue donut that you are now being forced to eat.


Now excuse me while I get back to mah RoflChoppah.
Pubbie Spy
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#44 - 2014-04-30 19:14:46 UTC
SFM Hobb3s wrote:
Consider this Murder of Crows to be the sprinkles on your blue donut that you are now being forced to eat.


Now excuse me while I get back to mah RoflChoppah.


Waffles are tasty.
Voyager Arran
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#45 - 2014-04-30 19:33:38 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Smartbombs can be defended against with stabs now?

Curious


No, but the only way for an Interceptor to end up in smartbomb range is to put themselves there and it's not terribly hard to avoid doing so if you're actually worried about getting smartbombed.

Or just don't bother, because your ship costs 30 mil and you can fly a new one out from Jita in 15 minutes.
Shepard Wong Ogeko
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#46 - 2014-04-30 20:06:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Shepard Wong Ogeko
I do enjoy going from VFK to Jita in about 10 minutes, warping gate to gate and not having to care.


Over all, it didn't really change a whole lot of how life in nullsec goes on. The ratter hunters just switched from stealth bombers and T3's to interceptors. Both are fairly hard to catch on gates and they do the hit-n-run thing, so it is pretty much more of the same.
Little Dragon Khamez
Guardians of the Underworld
#47 - 2014-04-30 22:50:48 UTC
Petrus Blackshell wrote:
Now that it's been a little while, what does everyone think of bubble-immune interceptors, and buffed warp speeds?



I love them, best addition in a long time.

Dumbing down of Eve Online will result in it's destruction...

Cpt Swagg
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#48 - 2014-04-30 22:55:40 UTC
If anything they should buff interceptors dps
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#49 - 2014-04-30 23:04:12 UTC
Voyager Arran wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Smartbombs can be defended against with stabs now?

Curious


No, but the only way for an Interceptor to end up in smartbomb range is to put themselves there and it's not terribly hard to avoid doing so if you're actually worried about getting smartbombed.

Or just don't bother, because your ship costs 30 mil and you can fly a new one out from Jita in 15 minutes.



In fact a Claw is more like 15 mill unfitted.
Jarod Garamonde
Jolly Codgers
Get Off My Lawn
#50 - 2014-04-30 23:09:45 UTC
Petrus Blackshell wrote:
Now that it's been a little while, what does everyone think of bubble-immune interceptors, and buffed warp speeds?

Has it brought dynamic gameplay, rich PvP, and variety to the game?

Or has it killed the nullsec landscape, completely undermined any system domination/interdiction, encouraged more mindless blobbing, and overall "fixed broke what wasn't broke?"


Am I posting in a stealth "nerf bubble immunity" thread?

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Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#51 - 2014-04-30 23:40:12 UTC
Jarod Garamonde wrote:
Petrus Blackshell wrote:
Now that it's been a little while, what does everyone think of bubble-immune interceptors, and buffed warp speeds?

Has it brought dynamic gameplay, rich PvP, and variety to the game?

Or has it killed the nullsec landscape, completely undermined any system domination/interdiction, encouraged more mindless blobbing, and overall "fixed broke what wasn't broke?"


Am I posting in a stealth "nerf bubble immunity" thread?


Well its about as stealthy as a LA pimp in a Japanese Cosplay competition but yeah ... pretty much.
Myrkala
Royal Robot Ponies
#52 - 2014-05-01 02:20:45 UTC
It's annoyingly hard to catch stabbed interceptors.

Try catching an Ares with 4 stabs and agility rigs...


You need something like a 4 mid ceptor with scan res rigs and lows, 3 scrams and remote sebo booster... and even then it's still hard because most of the time the server ticks decide that the ships are in warp... What?

Don't get me started on the cloaky stabbed Asteros all over the place...
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#53 - 2014-05-01 04:26:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Hasikan Miallok
Myrkala wrote:
It's annoyingly hard to catch stabbed interceptors.

Try catching an Ares with 4 stabs and agility rigs...


You need something like a 4 mid ceptor with scan res rigs and lows, 3 scrams and remote sebo booster... and even then it's still hard because most of the time the server ticks decide that the ships are in warp... What?

Don't get me started on the cloaky stabbed Asteros all over the place...



lol ... my Astero all have just stabs in the lows. Great ship for low skill alts without covops ship skills.

I have a few 'ceptors with nano lows and hyper rigs for super fast travel, they seem to align fast enough to stay out of trouble most days and if you do lose one they are cheap to replace.
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#54 - 2014-05-01 06:01:44 UTC
Sure there might be a couple tweaks here and there. The Crow is arguably a tad more powerful than the rest of the interceptors, but to insinuate that the bubble immunity needs to be removed??

No way!
leich
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#55 - 2014-05-01 12:59:52 UTC
There is nothing wrong with cepters they make great cyno ships.

but have you tried to go on a BS roam recently???
TheButcherPete
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#56 - 2014-05-01 13:07:09 UTC
Honestly, during the Hellcamp of 0-W, even our outstandingly large fleet with R-SeBo'd and linked Ceptors couldn't catch a single hostile Ceptor that undocked. That's aggravating.

Also, unless you plan to waste someone else's time, the ceptor change has made nullsec mining pretty difficult.

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