Ships & Modules

This is also a lie, as you well know that even the best fleet comp can be swamped through sheer numbers, even when perfectly flown, especially with the state of Artillery alpha.

So again, what beats 1200 dudes (and to the guy that said 600, you can get 600 dudes on a tuesday night with no effort, lets be realistic and think about your saturday 'timer' fleets).

Try again, I can name at least 2 times since then that you've brought more than that (and thats from memory alone, not even digging up BR's), 2 weeks ago you had 750 drakes alone, but please, please carry on.

Just because you're not participating with the rest of your alliance doesn't mean they aren't carrying on without them.

The scan res nerf is rather ridiculous. If you don't want titans locking subcaps, then simply implement a function where titans can't lock subcaps, that is really rather simple. As people know I like to throw my titan around and DD people who rep poses or aggro on stations. For that sort of warfare this is now completely useless. It will take 20+ seconds to lock a carrier with 3 sensor boosters. Stacking penalty makes it useless to fit any more than 3 really. So honestly any carebear who is not completely asleep at the wheel will be able to make it into the shields 10 times over in his carrier by the time he is even locked.

Another note is that a bs with mwd turned on has the same sig radius as a carrier, so honestly you can lock a bs just as fast if you want to. Lets actually look at some numbers here to further prove this nerf is fairly stupid.

Taking a titan with base scan res 5, putting in 3 federation navy sensor boosters (and yes i'd put officer if it actually mattered a damn).
Perfect skill bonus gives u 1.25 multiplier, fleet 1.1 and sebos further 4.34. Put all these together and you get 5.97...lets call it 6/
This means your scan res is 30.
It will take 17.7s to lock a carrier, approximately as long as it will take to lock a bs with mwd on. Going down one step further bc with mwd on (much more likely scenario) will have a sig radius of around 1400-2000 (assuming no bonuses). This puts the lock time between 19 and 21s. So loking at it the difference in lock time of a mwding bc and a carrier is at most 4 seconds. Putting sig radius a lot lower at 400 for non-mwd bc such as drake lock time goes up to only 30s.

So in essence a titan will be able to lock any ship that it can actually hit in between 17 and 30s. Granted this is much slower than before but at the end of the day it should be able to lock capitals SIGNIFICANTLY faster than subcaps and this nerf does not fix it in any shape way or form. All it does it make shield hugging carriers nearly immune to DD while bss and bcs on grid will still go pop...maybe not bcs so much, but bs still stand no chance against titans, they will be locked and hit rather will.

20s lock time...7s cycle time on guns, that means even with 3 locked targets any titan will have 3 bs perma-locked.

gg ccp...you didn't fix anything...you just made titans more useless against other caps as far as i'm concerned.

There is no "counter" to 1200 dudes in a single engagement

You mean when we lose half a fleet and they reship?

Pardon my ignorance as I know next to nothing of null, but does GSF not have a sizable cap/supercap fleet? How is this inherently beneficial to them?

We aren't entirely reliant on our massive blob

A fleet comprised of one size up ships should be able to handle a larger fleet of smaller ships. Shoot frigates with cruisers. Shoot cruisers with BCs. Shoot BCs with BSs. Shoot BSs with carriers. Shoot carriers with dreads or supers. Drop a few ship sizes, and throw more numbers, and you should again be able to beat them. aHACs against BSs, etc.