Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Congratulations, you have just graduated from the Amarr School of Optimal Mid Use .. now go out and use that mid for something useful and then join me in the call to nerf the Deimos capacitor so that it is no longer possible .. a free mid on top of performance = breakage

Besides, it has almost same capacitor performance as the Sacrilege which is just naff .. or has that 6.66 not been updated properly?

Beauty of the Plate+MAAR solution, beyond saving the mid, is that it gives you a much stronger alpha resistance and with some maneuvering allow you to more easily survive the MAAR reload .. plus with one less active mod in the rack the MAAR can be heated far longer.

On a related note: In the repair thread (or was it this one?) there was a suggestion to change the Gallente repair amount bonus to a cycle time bonus to first weaken the mad cap they all now possess and second to make it bursty which is more in line with the "step on his foot and headbutt him repeatedly" doctrine of blaster warfare.
Which brings me to: Minmatar and Caldari share the shield rep bonus, but Amarr does not share the armour ditto with Gallente .. why?
Would be a pretty nifty racial distinction if for instance Gallente had cycle time and the mid deficient Amarr an amount bonus (to maximize cap) .. obviously won't work with shields due to shorter cycles but should work for armour.

In short: Buffer tanking is so last decade give everyone active options!

More like trying to cure regular flue by simply cutting one kidney off rest of the buddy but forgetting to take it out before sewing.

Complaining about free stuff (like game balance tweaking and the updating of ships that previously didn't get use much but are now every popular like tech 1 cruisers) is base human nature. People just basically suck..

Certainly humans are naturally irrational in the main, and rationality needs to be trained.

So here it is: To be completely selfish about it, it's in our best interests if the devs like our company and enjoy listening to us. So let's make their day enjoyable, because then they'll be inclined to give us the things we need to enjoy our game.

How about that?

You do realize that the devs on the balancing team are highly experienced combat pilots, right?

Now there is truth that there is a cycle of "initial change, feed back, 2nd pass, feed back, released for wide spread use, feed back, iteration" going on.

This is exactly what the player base has been begging CCP to do for years.

You kind of sound like you are one of those folks that somehow think a nice boost to HAM range on a Sac is useless.

Now you do.

Pretty much this, AC kiting hasn't been amazing for a while, then Tier 3s turned up, then everything go buffed around it, and then they put the TE nerf in.

There are so many better platforms for this sort of thing now, they need to be tuned up or the Vaga will be nothing more than heavy tackle and the Cyna will be, well, a mediocre brawler/kiter with good disengagement options.

uhm yeah ... so when i kill someone and want to loot some stuff ill need to throw out stuff?
and why you asume youll only get 1 fight? stocking up in null isnt easy...

I just wanted to add a little to Ranger's comment.

Yes, the cerberus has the best range. Yes the deimos has the most brawling power, the vaga is the fastest and best at dictating range... and so on.

This is as it should be, because if all ships could compete in the same environment equally well, there'd be no need for a choice of ships - we'd all just fly a gnosis for everything (or god forbid, a pre-nerf uber-drake).

So I personally am glad that my blaster deimos cannot touch a cerberus, and can't catch a vaga. It's good that a vaga must avoid getting into scram range at all costs, and good that a cerberus will want to work hard at keeping his range advantage. It means I've got to use my head and make sure my fleet has enough fast ships, enough ranged dps and enough brawlers to meet whatever it finds. And when I don't have exactly what I need (i.e. always) I have to use my head again, bounce off planets, tactically retreat, feint and parry until I get my enemy where I want him.

This adds a tactical dimension to the game that is was probably lacking previously. It's a good thing.

Tactics will change. And again, that's a good thing. The previous tactics were based around a broken game. No doubt vagabond, hurricane and cynabal pilots have had things a little too easy for too long, and no doubt there was little challenge for them. Now we'll have to develop new tactics around a more balanced (but certainly not equal) game.

I'm very pleased by this. It makes me feel as if my subscription is being well spent and I am getting good value.

A final word on the Vaga, because I know that many people will feel the pain of it not being quite as OP as it was, just like the drake crowd did. I fought one on Sisi. I was was in a deimos. Eventually I was able to slingshot and catch it. I assumed that it would be an easy kill... but guess what? I was surprised to find that not only could it move fast, it could also tank, at least for a while.

So now I know when and if I scram a vaga, it's not over. He still has time to call in help. PVP is going to be more exciting, more likely to escalate, better.

I think we should all be happy about that.

yup we do , cause we are good at pvp not like you :)
go post some more whines why the vaga is weak and the cynabal needs buffs...