EVE General Discussion

Might want to check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4jQENEsbdk&feature=youtu.be

The Golem is by far my favorite death machine at the moment.

Ignoring the knee-jerk reactionary 'troll' comment, I'm getting the part where you think 106mm is a locking time instead of a scan resolution. I get that you're confused about the purpose of a battleship. What I don't get is why you would make this point if it was anything other than complaining. Why SHOULD a battleship be able to lock things faster? You say you're making a point, but you're not providing clarity on the follow through or destination of this point, or why this point matters.

So let's bottom line it, shall we? Because, quite frankly, you're talking to people here with far more battleship experience than you so, whatever your problem is, I'm sure we can clear it up.

Provided you're not just trolling, of course.

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Disregarding anything else.... I think it would be cool to have a Battleship hull with the concept of ye ole destroyers......

8 bonused frigate sized weapons, spewing Rockets like Flak batteries, with the rockets reaching out to 30k or somesuch

Mainly because rockets are bloody amazing to watch.

I'm correct. Marauders are not battleships they're marauders. They're simply based on a battleship hull. In the same way that T3's are not cruisers, they're strategic cruisers.

So you want it to be faster, capable of catching everything to make it viable as a solo ship. The problem with that is, you do that, and it becomes the ONLY ship viable for solo, because if you think of it, nothing is viable against everything solo, and that's the way it's supposed to be.

By your logic...

EVE is supposed to be a non-consensual pvp game.

Frigates are no good solo because they lack the dps to make non-consensual pvp against a supercap anything other than a suicidal proposition. Any engagement that a frigate enters into consensually is usually going to be against the odds, outmatched in firepower and unable to produce the dps necessary to present enough of a threat.

Obviously, my point is frigates just don't hit hard enough.

See where I'm going with this? You can't have a ship that does everything, sorry. It doesn't work like that. Battleships serve a purpose, and I don't know what your problem is but I've flown battleships and forced enough engagements with plenty of smaller ships. Look for the Omen vs my Nightmare on my KB, for example. It might not be a frigate, but if I was going after frigates, I wouldn't use a battleship. Just like if I'm going after supercaps, I don't use frigates.

Unless, of course, you're in a fleet. EVE isn't just a non-consensual pvp game (that's a misnomer, btw, all pvp is consensual because the moment you undock you give consent), it's also a multiplayer game. Battleships serve their purpose and they serve it well. The way I see it, the bigger the ship, the more support it's likely to need from smaller ones. This is good, because it keeps everyone from just flying the bigger ships and it provides the game not just with variety, but a good degree of balance.

What you're saying is you think battleships need faster locking times. Fine, your point is made, but you haven't justified why, not without giving good reason why a battleship should suddenly be the go-to vessel for everything in PVP.

OP asked for solo pvp among larger ship classes. I do believe, like your mom, marauders would be considered a larger ship class.

These kinds of responses are the spiritual text-based equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and yelling "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!"

And you use them often.

Yep, you're either trolling or you really think you know everything there is to know about EVE.