Player Features and Ideas Discussion

OK, let me break it down so that you can understand. We'll call this The Evolution of Damage.

In the beginning man uses a rock to kill another man. When word spreads and another man thinks on how to protect himself against such a threat and comes up with a club. Then another man comes up with a knife, then a sword, shield, bow and arrow, armour and then guns. Then we take to the skies. Man develops spaceships with limited hull protection. Someone comes up with a way to enhance the hull with armour and then someone else invents a form a energy protection they call shields. Now each damage/protection has it's advantages and drawbacks.

Now skip a few years where energy is key to almost everything. Now as someone has already pointed out. Neuts and Nos' haven't changed much since first introduced. But someone has come up with a way to at least protect ships from them. Now a neut/nos is a form of damage, wouldn't someone find a way to inherently protect a portion of that needed energy in a similar way that armour and shield do from physical harm without having to use a module? I think so. It may not protect the ship from all energy being drain, but enough for a pilot to chose what modules he's able to active.

This is the nature of war, we find ways to protect ourselves until the next best weapon comes along. And then we start all over again.

This is most definitely not about the Enyo or Comet loss. This is about the balance of play.

Neuts haven't changed since 2003(small tweaks here and there maybe), yet people still user lasers/hybrids and don't fit cap boosters.

Neuts are fine, they are about the only way a non-drone BS has any hope of killing a frig outside of sniping it from 100km away.

If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

That's because they didn't need it.

Seriously, go try out something with a neut on it if you're having a hard time countering them, or at the very least stop flying stuff that gets hard countered by neuts (un cap boosted/nos-less blaster boats with active tanks)


It's also worth mentioning that some ships can beat down a neuting vessel with sheer DPS before it has a chance to turn their guns off.

Another trick, put your MWD offline if you're using one. All of that restricted cap is given back. Essentially a last ditch one-time use cap booster.

Wait I thought this was the "Nerf OP blasters" thread....

Blasters > dps than Autocannons.
Autocannons require no cap and can select damage type.

If you want dps against kin/therm go with blasters. If you want flexibility, go with autocannons.

That would actually probably make a really big difference. Neut ships tend to be relatively weak.

Not at all, you're saying that the current state of neuts is a fitting problem, where other considerations like kiting and such are tactical concerns. I disagree with you. If you fly a cap reliant ship like an enyo ( a ship I love btw, excellent choice ) then yeah, cap drains are going to suck for you. But that's an engagement risk and needs to be considered tactically. As such, imo, neuts are not a fitting problem, but a tactical problem, to be considered in the same way as one would consider brawlers vs. kiting etc.

I never thought of that, that's really clever.