Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Well spin it how you want, but CFC isn't using battleships to win fights.

Everyone just ignore the talking pile of rocks.

The point is that we use doctrines to win fights. A deployment isn't a trivial affair, even if it's something that designed to simply engender content, and players use the ships that win fights. It makes sense not to risk strategic assets like supercarriers to RF a random system, but the SRP and deployment headache to move battleships vs harpies or even ishtars isn't terrible as even a deployment to western curse is relatively easy to stage in to. It's not like the harpies and ishtars are coming from all the way up in dekein. A winning doctrine is a winning doctrine, and even if it's a hard one to move you'd never think twice about going through the trouble if it gives you a better chance.

Besides, good fights didn't stop the CFC from using them against BL, which never credibly threatened CFC sov in any way.

The harpies did come from Dek.

This deployment is indeed a trivial affair. Its a holiday to us, much like IRC space was (we called it the game reserve). We aren't using Domi fleet because frankly, we don't need a sledgehammer. We want to get fights, not to grind them into dust.

As said before, Baltec is well known and widely respected for his use of megathron's in particular in all kinds of ways. Who are you exactly?


As also said before, it comes down to tools for the job: Use the ishtar if you don't want to fight, use the T3 if you need to survive long enough to reduce incoming DPS or need to hit smaller stuff, use a battleship if you have a big slow target that just needs tons of DPS, use faction battleships and caps if you want to break morale, etc, etc.

The largest 'problem' with battleships is, and has been for quite some time, the sentry drone problem and T3's:

CCP Ytterbium:

Tech3 ships need to be put down, like a rabid dog drooling everywhere in the house, they are out of line. It doesn't necessarily means nerfing them to oblivion and beyond, but making sure that each subsystem configuration has a use and they don't overlap on other ships by making them different in role and purpose.


https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1889852#post1889852


Only after those two issues are resolved can you really see what needs or doesn't need done with BS.

Yes, I'd like to see their price tag come back down a bit, yes, I'd like to see their HP buffed slightly, but their biggest problems are not their problems, but other ships that overlap way too aggressively into their role. Those ships need fixed.

Gila