EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

Let's deal in facts: sentries are not good for watchability and it hurt both the ATXI and SCL4. You guys have a great tool to fix it and it's the same one you used to nerf the Maulus Age: point values.

Let's admit that the Vexor is better than every other cruiser, let's admit the Ishtar is better than every other HAC, and for future tourney's let's make them more points. Ishtars 13 or 14. Vexors 9. Currently the normal Domi is better than the faction version but costs less. That's crazygonuts. For SCL5 and future tourneys overall, let's reflect the fact that this isn't open world but instead a closed arena so "the blob of drones" is pretty damn effective and help control the meta with point tweaking.



Also bring back Zor's

>Also bring back Zor's

Yes I want to go fast as well

To be slightly more surgical about it, do the same thing to omnis that has been done with ASBs - one per ship.

There is always something that is better then other things. As everything comes in cycles, now its drones again, as they once were, tomorrow something else. Also, drones needed some love after years of hatred, so enjoy while you can. :)
VOC did :)

I would also say there are anti drone compositions, and/or ways to deal with them, its just you are not utilizing it, so rock-paper-scissors are present.

targeted mod that decreases drone control range. bam, done.

Or how about instead of all this crap that doesnt do anything to the mass sentry meta that helped win us the tournament and just adds random complexity, you just nerf drone assignment into oblivion?

Tracking sentries are annoying to deal with but are definitely not uncounterable, the real power of the sentry-centric (heh) teams is their basic immunity to all disruption based EW, as well as of course the instant target switching. What's the point of bringing damps or jams when the other guy can bring 38 sentry drones spread out on 9 different ships with mega-lock range frigates in support? There's no way you can EW down all of them, and even if you could all it takes is one missed cycle and you lose the fragile EW ships to sentry alpha.

Sentry assign on TQ is fairly broken too, and in my opinion a broken mechanic. Carriers are balanced around having big tanks and rep power in tradeoff for the difficulty of their use as anti-subcap weapons. Sentry assign no longer limits a ship around its targeting stats, which breaks this philosophy. Not to mention the drone assign fleets are exceedingly boring to play in and dont encourage interactive gameplay, something I think we all can agree is a good thing.