Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Was a pleasant surprise on todays intyroam to deklein to find that atleast part of CFC has figured out ways to make our job more difficult. The 11 lost ceptors in 2 consecutive fights 3 jumps apart is currently the single largest batch of lost ceptors since the launch of Operation: GoonsFarm. Even if the end result in each fight tipped into our favor, in the first engagement thanks to a lucky coincidence in the form of a XdeathX nadogang that happened to jump into system shortly after 2 archons being tackled. And in the second fight due to the CFC responsegang surprisingly warping off the field even if they had the upper hand after rescuing a tackled thanatos and leaving us to even the score by killing stragglers.

This in my opinion goes to prove that with a bit of work, cunning and luck you can beat the <2s align ceptors even if it is not at the heavily bubbled instalocker gatecamped gate. Also in my (i guess unpopular) opinion as a frequent logistics pilot your successes are not measured in the heaps of kills on your killboard, but from the lack of kills on theirs. (Atleast in part :D) So instead of being upset over not getting kills you could just aswell be glad over the juicy kill you just denied us instead.

See you out there fellow pilots, wichever end of the gun it may be

The theory of buffing interceptors was to make them useful as an interceptor, not for 2 distinct ships to become the roaming ship of destiny because they engage and point outside of standard ranges of countermeasures.

First it was the insta-warping thing. Now its theres 30 of them thing. The common problem is the missile platform which gives them a 40km or 60km engagement range while doing ~100 dps each. The current iteration of crows reminds me of the drakes of old, and not in a good way. Maledictions being used as the blob ship of choice for nullsec roaming as nothing can catch / counter them unless they allow it, aside from maybe some crazy discoing on a gate, but that can be evaded by a staggered warpoff.

Light missiles compared to other small weapon systems are entirely out of line with range and damage, which is why these interceptors are overused compared to others.

Theorys of balance In order of preference
1) remove the missiles from these ships immediately, restore their inertia, and re-roll them to turreted inteceptors inline with other interceptors.

2) further nerf the hulls stats to attempt to balance them.

3) remove the interdiction nullification from the crow and malediction, this is a bit harsh and basically removes them from the interceptor class.

4) Nerf light missiles? a bit overharsh considering few other light missile platforms see overuse.

Everything in eve should be reasonably counterable. While its possible to counter these things is usually hard to kill them cause they know when they're being countered then they just run away, because they're engaging at 40km and good luck holding them.

Well, I must say we yesterday had a nice CFC ceptor fleet against our battle-shaken AHAC fleet and we moped the field with every ceptor that came within locking range. I call this a reasonable counter. What about you?

What's more; I took mischievous pleasure in murdering them. So my point is proven again: Ceptor fleets mean a lot of fun.

bookmarked for future reference when dealing with the special snowflakes like her.

At 3/4 the range, half the DPS, and without the ability to select damage types, yes the railgun ares fleet can do the same thing.

I agree entirely. AFs and EAFs should also be interdiction nullified.

You don't see them anymore because they are pointless against blobs. Too slow, too flimsy, easily nuked of the field. I'm sure, the Myrm pilot from the recent Aubenal fight can confirm that.

Well, you can still try. Some of my guys like to fly around in Cyclones, but as soon as you have done enough kills (1 or 2 ) in a "busier" area, you can be sure to have a big group on your toes. Too many people in EVE are just too desperate to get a least some kills, so that solo or small scale in bigger ships than Cruisers is hard (which is good to a certain extent) to near impossible.

Where's the video where you stop the inty gang with a bubble and bomb them to bits?

Oh wait, they're immune and will just go past the point.

it's a gang that's easily counted by a gang of the same make up of a larger size (as is the way of blob war) it's easily counted by any gang with recons and the whole lot dies to smart bombing i'm still not seeing the problem

oh and rlm cruiser gangs wipe the floor with them too can we stop this yet it's not like there is no counter people just don't like it because it lets people run around space quickly and makes fools of their cap ship blobs which are rendered useless