Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I don't want to start a riot here but for the time period used to compile the numbers, there is probably a pretty good reason the Domi came out so far ahead compared to other ships.
When two large nulsec entities meet on a field of battle (in a system) there is a good chance they will be flying similar, Doctrines. Looking at the killboard for this period, would show Domis got a lot of kills, many of those could have in fact been other domis from opposing fleets.

The great and terrible thing about statistics is in the compilation and presentation. Without looking at how those domis got so many kills one could assume the Domi to be way over powered and decide it is in need of rebalancing ( a nerf). Thing is, that 19k of kills came from major fleet battles, ( like the old drake blobs and look what happened there) where two sides lined up with similar doctrines and punched it out till one was left standing. (look at Domi losses for the same period)

A spike of success for a ship or weapon system, is and never should be a reason to "balance" a weapon system or ship, without looking at the whole picture.


NB; Dr Sraggles; You want to use Battleships for smaller gang / fleet fights, Get over to lowsec around Kor Azor, Genesis. I can tell you from experience you will have no trouble finding fights ( with battleships)

As we know too well, CCP cares what Eve players DO, much less what they SAY (leaked email) therefore adapting whenever devs fix something that wasn't broken by switching over to FOTM sounds like an appropriate feedback to me.

The reload time is a horrible concept. Its not that HML and RLML overlapped. Its just that heavy missiles were destroyed by rise and friends almost 2 years ago. They reduced hm damage by 20%, nerfed explo radius and velocity. Which effectively killed the heavy missile launcher in pvp. The t2 varients are even worse as the damage dealing rage's suffere from massive explosive radius limiting you to only bc's and bs's. An utter insult considering these are cruiser sized weapons. Plop on an ab you wont take any damage from heavy missiles.

Light missile caracals have horrible dps, however they have a 1000-1200 volley which is used in alpha fleets. For reasons stated above there are no hml caracals. As for hams, only the t2 versions do any dps, ofcourse without any tp's that will be negated. All in all, only one missile cruiser and bc for caldari. Moa, ****. Ferox, ****. To be quite frank all missile ships have less dps and less applied damage than turret based ships. This being said, caldari have nothing but mission ships above frigs and dessies.

I give up... Switching over to guns and not looking back. Trying to get CCP to recognize and acknowledge that they've made some critical mistakes with respect to missiles is like trying to convince conspiracy theorists that we really did land on the moon. I'm not waiting around for the next update (let alone another year or more) for another set of half thought-out changes that seem to be introduced on a whim.

We've basically seen Drakes and now Caracals eliminated as viable PvP options. Tengus have been relegated to the sidelines by being banned from most FW and DED complexes since Odyssey, and with the recent RLML change in Rubicon they're more or less useless in PvP as well. Even the Cerberus - which was shaping up to be a decent PvP ship - has all but disappeared. It's only a matter of time before Tengus get nerfed to the point where they're no longer viable in PvE, either.

Ironically, I think the new Marauder actually influenced the changes to RLMLs because a few enterprising individuals were conceiving it as the ultimate frigate-gank platform.

Sentry V completed yesterday.

Hey, look at the bright side:

If you spend a month each training Large Hybrids V, Sentries V, Large Drones V and Gall BS V plus add a few level V support skills in a mere 6 short months (and $120 poorer) you will actually have a viable BS for pvp!

Instead of remaps they should let us reallocate our SP every year .

Sentry V completed yesterday.