EVE General Discussion

Pretty much sums it up. The only people who are against T3 rebalancing are people who care more about their own selfish concerns than the overall health of the game and the experience it offers to everyone.

FALSE.

The fact is that some people pay a premium for a machine that is better than everyone else's. Should Ferrari make slower cars because Honda can't build something just as fast? The answer is NO. And the reason for that answer is "That's why Ferraris cost 150,000 bones, and a Honda S2000 is only 38k, fully loaded."

And the lemmings continue to buy tengu alts on the bazaar for top dollar.

I personally can't wait for the tear storm when this rebalance hits. It will be glorious.

Should a Ferarri be put in a race against a Honda?

The last time something was this overpowered it got nerfed into irrelevance for multiple years, and most people were fine with that. I suspect the same thing will happen here.

There are only a few T3 setups that are overpowered, and the rest are generally pretty terrible with few exceptions.
Boosting T3s are overpowered as is well known, but that's a pretty easy fix and one that we already know about.
PVE T3s are fine and don't need to be changed.
Fleet Alpha Lokis and HAM Tengus are currently overpowered as they stand. Both could do with a nerf to tank, speed, or signature radius (or some combination of the three).
Tackling Proteus and Lokis are also vastly overpowered compared to their recon counterparts, mainly owing to their massive tanking ability.

then I expect my multi-trillion fully officer fitted rifter to kill at the very least 2 titans by itself by just sneezing at them.


since cost is a balancing factor and all that.

Can I have the link to the dev post explaining how they are nerfing T3's as I can't seem to find any.

To the op, yes T3's will get nerfed. Why? Because in some areas they outstrip the supposed specialised ships thus obsoleting them. To use one area as an example of where the legion and proteus are most likely to get nerfed is in their tank.

Why you ask, because when fitted for tank they outstrip BATTLESHIP level ehp and in some cases can approach unfitted carrier or dread levels of ehp. They should not be able to reach that level of effectiveness.

Now that is not to say that they will only get nerfed, what will most likely happen is that the under performing sub systems will get rebalanced to the point of where they are useful, ie. the legions cloaks sub.

TL:DR T3's will be nerfed but that doesn't mean that ccp won't buff the sub systems that need it.

Well it is a balancing factor in that ships that are more expensive tend to be better at their role than less expensive ships for the same role.

The Zealot and the Omen have pretty much exactly the same role, but the Zealot is more expensive because it's much better at its role.

If you have two ships or modules A and B, and A is more expensive than B, then A either has to do what B does but better, or A has to have an entirely different role than B. Otherwise nobody will buy or build A and it's pointless. Just look at storyline modules. Nobody uses them.

Well obviously, but if they performed exactly the same it wouldn't sell for more on the market at all. Nobody would build them, because nobody would buy them, because nobody would want to fly them, except maybe a few people who would want them just because they like the green skin or something.