Ships & Modules

One of the best threads on BS supremacy for some time. Thanks, OP!

Hmm, good point.

Curse on steroids.

I've read the entire thread. I've done a lot of thinking on it. I have the solution to this problem. All ships should be auto ballanced to equalize pilot skills in all circumstances.

If pilot A has better guns and more skills than pilot B, then pilot A's damage output should be throttled down so the mathematical damage of each ships guns is equivalent. Ibis vs Mega.... the ibis civilian blasters get an appropriate damage and range boost to auto balance them against the megathron opponent. Shields, armor, cap..... all get auto balanced to the ship you are engaged with. For multiple ships the various stats will be equalized across fleets. If all else fails and Pilot A is just better at eve than Pilot B then A's damage will be reduced further on the fly and B's tanking ability will get a boost on the fly. All fights will end in ties. There will be no losers.

Benefits:
1 - no losers
2 - no ouchy feelings
3 - no need to buy insurance
4 - no losing ships
5 - risk aversion removed from the game
6 - everyone can fly the best ships and implants
7 - super pilots can stop whining about docking
8 - you don't have to bother fitting a tank
9 - you only need to fit 1 gun (and it doesn't even matter which)
10 - Pheonix will become relevant

Downsides:
1 - won't be able to complete missions
2 - only income will be PI, mining, moon goo and scamming
3 - no more faction or meta module drops
4 - there may be some lag as the servers continuously rescale everything on the fly

Thought so, I'm starting to get the feeling that training for this Paladin is a waste of SP. If you to take it anywhere outside HS to try and do C4's, it just seems like local spikes waaaaay up all of a sudden. Even in WH that was pretty quiet (checked with scouting alt), it doesn't stay quiet for long. The marauders are nothing but gank magnets. Would love to try and do WH's in a couple of Baddons, but the cap recharge rate on those ships even with 5 cap mods/rigs is beyond pathetic.

You got me, I didn't see all the videos. And hell no, I don't fit my BSs nowhere near as pitiful as the OP's T1 abandoned junkyard fits. All of my fits are solid T2/faction fitted with excellent cap stability but heavy neut pressure are always brought to take down a Marauder, why?. Sigh, I just wished that CCP would include some kind of neut resistance while in Bastion Mode.

XLASBs work well against neut pressure. Course that only makes 2 marauders viable. Having an extra mid on the pal/kronos for dual cap boosters would help them not die to the first geddon that lands 20km away.

It's a weakness that should be remove for a 1.5 bill isk ship. Neuts, neuts and more neuts is all they bring in blobs making neuts overused and abused. There should be at least a few ships with some kind of nuet resistance and If there is a ship that needs some kind of neut resistance, it's definitely the Marauders. That way it would force cheap gangs to bring that 5k+ dps to take down a Marauder or stay home.

wot? you're killboard is blank

bs might still have a role in a few places, but i think the role of many ships were replaced by t3 ships long ago. they can be fast, gank, tank, multi-role ... just depends on how you fit them. t3 doesn't have a role, they just take the space of others because they can do x better than that class of ship and still do y... do the damage of a bs, but still be as fast as a cruiser, be as fast as a frigate, and do the damage of a bc. yes, more expensive, but isk doesn't matter anymore.