Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Certainly there are some rock paper scissors engagements in which the kiter knows ahead of time that he'll win but that is the same with any ship type. The brawler on station at zero will only aggress on the kiter if he's already in scram range, otherwise he'll redock etc. But that doesn't making kiting inherently riskless, the classic example used to be pointing a bs with heavy neuts in bcs and cruisers with 24-28k point range. If you were bored and ambitious you'd absolutely try it but whether or not you could achieve it comes entirely down to the skill of the pilots involved. Last night I tried isolating smaller ships when they had a webbing loki on the field, had he been more on the ball or I been less attentive I'd have died.

Kiting gives you a wider engagement profile as a solo pilot, a small part of which is a rock paper scissors win, and a much larger part of which is dependent the skills of the pilots involved. This is a narrowing of that engagement profile and in order to restore it I would have to change my playstyle to include a gang of people and brawling, something I am not exactly eager to do and something which I believe will increase the degree to which whether or not I win or lose is entirely independent of pilot skill.

As a sidenote; the more I see people whine about this horrendous change the more I feel Fozzie was actually right; it IS the solution for BCs. the whining is glorious.

Is it actually, you fit a long point with nanofibers and MWD which ensures you won't die to slower targets while also fitting for projected dps at 20+ km. This is a choice you make in the fitting window, that's why you use kiting ships in the first place.

I see you're starting to nit pick, generally not a good sign. My statement stands, fights are won or lost before the fight even happens. That's why you fly and fit as you do. Now whining about how someone else's fitting choice might cramp your style is hilarious.

Maybe in your game, where you orbit an anchor and its either you have enough logi or you dont, but there are viable game play styles where manual piloting and fast decision making determine fights, rather than who has the most people

So you realize that a player witha BRAIN will click align to a place, overheat MWD while the MDJ spolls up? Movign basically as fast as your caracal? And that means your caracal will take more time to get within 9 km?

Stop witht he spreadsheet thinking. Battleships were easier to catch, but BC will be nearly impossible at a regional gate when you are alone and quite hard if you are unlucky at the gate jump positioning.

They are decently strong, but frustrating to roam in because of the reduced warp speed, and they are extremely vulnerable to the interceptor meta.

And now you're starting to change the subject, which generally is another bad sign of realising you're losing the argument. "who has the most people" has nothing to do with the MMJD, at all. In fact it's the other way round; it allows a BC to get away from a horde of [insert kiting ships but probably crows], surely you'd enjoy other ships than just yours being able to get away from trouble they don't want to handle?

Pretty sure I introduced the idea first. Thanks for reading my post.

The one of the main reason alot of 0.0 alliance stopped using battlecruisers in fleets is becuase of bombs particulary agaisnt the Attack Battlecrsuiers. How about addressing bombs before adding a new module. (yes mjd bc would help but it opens up more room for sillyness rather than game balance).

But if they probably going ot be in game anyway, the cool down should be greater than that of larger version, 5-6mins atleast.