Player Features and Ideas Discussion

even before bubble immunity I caught and subsequently had my fleet kill hundreds of ratters with ceptors

the ceptor bubble immunity is completely un-needed and all it does is reduce the actual skill required to play the game - and I say that as someone who has benefited from the change immensely

however the change to the malediction is completely unneeded when the crow is not being nerfed in the same way
if long range damage fleet tackle ceptors are a problem, none of them should have the damage. there is no reason for the crow to have 63km damage if 40km equivalent damage is "too strong" on the malediction. in fact even post change the crow has better slot layout for tackling (4 mids for fleet tackle is basically essential - the reason you saw 0 ares and infinite stilettos pre-ceptor first round changes). the malediction always had (and still has) its niche as a plated tackler but those are not common nor particularly desirable

i don't know what more i can say but i don't understand how anyone can look at the rocket restriction on the malediction and say "yep, that makes sense from a balance perspective" while considering the existence of the crow. it's just stupid, arbitrary change that will remove the malediction from the game in 90% of circumstances

The crow hasn't been able to achieve <2 second align without implants since the first post-rebalance tweaks

A bit sad when someone defends a 30mill warp disrupting drone.

Switch your MWD off for aligning. Should (hopefully) bring both of them under 3 sec.

And how will you prevent anything from using MJD or MWD when you don't have a scram? A nano cruiser can easily just keep the mwd running which makes it hard for your to keep transversal up and prevents your fleet from actually catching it.

The extra targeting range is so you can lock your targets before you actually get into pointrange. Without it the stiletto only has 36km lockrange which is the same range as heated point. So you will have to lock your target before you can actually apply your point while if you had extended lockrange you can lock it while you are burning in range. It can also help against damps.

But I would like to see your fits.

It is a BOOST. THey are increasign the mass but also speed in agility so that the base speed is the same. The result?

It suffers less from being plated and slow down less fast when webbed.

my points are already made

i am not here to explain tactics, nor to play with trolls

i am out o7

And your points are wrong and should be completely ignored. Anyone that thinks double tackle has no place, surely has no place in a balance discussion thread.

trolling



for my fits, they are so standard i shouldnt even have to mention them, but if you really want me "knowledge" on fitting, you could easilly have googled and found the following.

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Malediction
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Ares
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Stiletto

If you are that **** and dont know how you should fly a fleet inty, there are plenty of guides explaining what and why.
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Interceptors_Guide

Now if you will excuse me, i do not want to help polute a thread made for purposefull discussion by feeding trolls.

bye

and the 3 others he linked are single tackle.

I couldn't agree more, especially when you consider that only one other frigate hull has such a restrictive bonus, the Vengeance. Even then it has at least one other bonus that allows it to consider fitting LMLs, but it's profile is such that one rarely (if ever) encounters it outside of it's brawling-rocket configuration. Your proposed changes consign the Malediction to a similar fate.

Previous narrative around prior balance passes has emphasized facilitating player choice in making trade offs between fitting options. This proposed change is a restriction rather than a choice, and a senseless restriction when the option to fly a crow still exists.