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Non-specialized Cruisers vs. non-specialized Battlecruisers
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Tor Gungnir
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-05-31 07:50:53 UTC
Is there any reason to get a Cruiser over a Battlecruiser, besides the obvious ISK difference? The medium class of ships are an odd bunch, where are are two groups; one inferior and the other superior. You don't have Battleships and then Super Battleships, for example. Now, when it comes to T2 the Cruisers obviously have a lot of specialized hulls, but when talking about the basic hulls it makes no sense, really.

If you have 50mil or so to spare, I see no reason to pick up a Cruiser over a Battlecruiser.

Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you.
Skorpynekomimi
#2 - 2012-05-31 08:11:56 UTC
Other than ISK?

Speed, specific cruiser bonuses, and sig radius.

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Lunkwill Khashour
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2012-05-31 08:28:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Lunkwill Khashour
After insurance the difference isn't even 50m isk. The answer is almost always no. Speed is the roughly the same. Sig radius does matter a little until you activate your MWD then it doesn't matter at all.

A shield cane outcruisers most cruisers by itself.
Mechael
Tribal Liberation Distribution and Retail
#4 - 2012-05-31 09:06:27 UTC
T1 battlecruisers are currently loltastic (technical term) compared to T1 cruisers.

It was originally intended to be that battlecruisers were an anti-cruiser platform, but big and slow enough to die easily to large weapons. Things haven't exactly turned out that way, however. So in today's EVE, there's really no reason to get a T1 cruiser.

Whether or not you win the game matters not.  It's if you bought it.
Meditril
Hoplite Brigade
Ushra'Khan
#5 - 2012-05-31 13:39:42 UTC
There are niches which creates reason to take a T1 Cruiser instead of a battle cruiser:

  1. If you want to stick with cruiser but you want speed, high speed, then for example the Stabber is the way to go. It is much faster than any BC.
  2. BC easily scares the enemy, sometimes you need to ship down to something less scary if you want to get a fight. A cruiser is one way to do this.
  3. Some cruisers give unique bonuses like ECM bonus, Tracking Disruption bonus, etc. If you wanna go EWar but do not want to go T2 then a plain cruisers is the way to go.
Mavnas
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-05-31 19:36:09 UTC
It's just like frigs and destroyers except that there the speed and sig radius differences actually matter more and that frigs have gotten a number of buffs lately.
Dark Pangolin
The Tuskers
The Tuskers Co.
#7 - 2012-05-31 22:12:28 UTC
+1 to OP's Avatar for looking awesome (Needs GOGGLES!)

As the folks above me have said, in general BC > C. Unfortunately the Nano-Cane/Nano-Drake outperform combat cruisers at all their "advantages". Speed, maneuverability (sig radius is worthless with MWD so only applies to armor AB tanks).

EWAR cruisers are still pretty pwn sauce, and handy. I find that combat cruisers are really only for fun once you can fly a properly fit BC.
Karak Bol
Low-Sec Survival Ltd.
#8 - 2012-06-01 07:19:54 UTC
A + point for Cruisers: They get aggressed more often, as verybody thinks "its only a cruiser". Including little tackler Frigs going for my 1600mm Vexor :D