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Armada vi Vulnezia 188
Baroness Vulna Armada vi Vulnezia Likes received: 188	#21 - 2012-09-22 19:56:09 UTC Heavy Cruisers great idea! brought to you by -Barony of Vulnezia MMO micro nation- www.vulnezia.com Be a part of the world's first MMO Micro Nation

Alexylva Paradox 92
Shiroh Yatamii Alexylva Paradox Likes received: 92	#22 - 2012-09-22 19:59:49 UTC 1 Doc has a point. Training Heavy Girlfriend to V now.

Doomheim 2,010
Solhild Doomheim Likes received: 2,010	#23 - 2012-09-22 20:05:52 UTC Having thought about this for a while, I completely agree - Heavy Cruisers, great idea But this would mean there's only one Battlecruiser for each race - needz moar battalkroozaz!

Alexylva Paradox 7,896
Saede Riordan Alexylva Paradox Likes received: 7,896	#24 - 2012-09-22 20:07:49 UTC Its an arbitrary change, but its not a bad arbitrary change, and it would make it much easier to balance the heavy cruisers and the battlecruisers instead of trying to make them somehow balanced with each other. They're really just way too different imo. Fear and Loathing in Internet Spaceships

Cipher Jones

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#25 - 2012-09-22 21:31:56 UTC

Shiroh Yatamii wrote:

Mars Theran wrote:

They are what they are, and if you haven't figured it out, 'Battle' Cruiser is not a reference indicating they are 'part' Battle ship. Two totally different things.

Now, lets move on please; this topic is stupid.

Read this. He was referring to the real-life definition of what a battlecruiser is. And personally I agree with the OP. Tier 1 and 2 "battlecruisers" behave more like heavy cruisers, and the Tier 3s alone really fit the naval definition of what a battlecruiser is: "similar in size and cost to a battleship, and typically carry the same kind of heavy guns, but battlecruisers generally carry less armour and are faster."

Comparing **** that goes in water to **** that goes in space is a clear cut case of apples:oranges.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it

Native Freshfood Minmatar Republic 2,837
Sarah Schneider Native Freshfood Minmatar Republic Likes received: 2,837	#26 - 2012-09-22 21:38:43 UTC Heavy Cruiser is a bit misdirecting tbh. Sounds a lot like HACs. How about Light Battleship or something? "I'd rather have other players get shot by other players than not interacting with others" -CCP Soundwave

Saede Riordan

Alexylva Paradox

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#27 - 2012-09-22 21:46:29 UTC

It doesn't really matter what you call them, the important thing is just to split the battlecruiser class into two classes, called whatever you want. The reason for that is to make it easier to balance them with each other.

Look at it this way: Tiericide wants to level off all the ships in a given class and make them all useful and balanced and relation to each other. You can easily do this with the Tier one and two battlecruisers since they fit into a specific area. The tier three's are different, if you tried to balance them out for resources for instance, you'd either make the Tier 1 & 2 overpriced, or the tier 3 too cheap. There needs to be a significant price difference between the two because of the difference in the way they operate.

Therefore, to tiericide them, you either have to change the ships to be similar to the other vessels in its class, or, split the class into two, and let them be different from each other.

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