Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Double post

you remind me of my old CEO.He would only fly Caldari ships and if you were to ask him about what ships were the best he would say Caldari is and if your flying any other race your stupid.About 3 or 4 yours ago i get into i got into covert pvp i found a group of other pilots who were into the same thing.when we started out we were small about 6 to 8 of us but every night we all got a little better at it. we learned what works and what doesn't like making bookmarks around the gate to maneuver better to get easier kills and bringing in recons to protect the fleet and trap hard to kill ships.After three months of doing this every night he moved the corp to cva space and told me i had to stop pvping because you were not aloud too in cva, then he told me I was not a real pvper because i didn't get the final hit on the kill mails so half of them didn't count. then a little after he told me i knew nothing about covert pvp and all you had to do was lunch a bomb and that was it and having a torp launcher on a bomber was also for noobs. just lunch bombs nothing about setting up bookmarks to move around, off grids to warp through bubbles, always staying aligned for quick warp off, setting up bomb waves so you can hit and warp. He thought knew more then a guy who was flying recons and bombers 5-6 hours a night for three months, He thought because he lunched one bomb in his life he knew eveything about covert pvp. when i left his corp he had 20 kill and now 3-4 years later he has 30 kills. you got to play the game to learn you can't fake it to make it in this game cause people will see through that and just laugh at you.rather then say this is better then that try the other ships and you might form a opinion thats not one sided

That, sir, was easily the most entertaining frigate fight I've watched in a long, long time. Thanks for sharing, as I think I learned a thing or two as well, and kudos to you for sticking it out until the bitter end.

So lazors would have an would have a weapon that does damage in resists holes of both tank types? Also since Armor tanks tend to have high resists in EM, and shield tanks have high resists in Thermal. Wouldn't that just effectively cancel each other?

funny how not a single ship you mentioned use laser

Between all of my characters I can fly every sub-capital ship with near perfect stills. I rotate through activities, changing roles, ships and fits as it suits me. One thing about this game (among many great things about this game) is that every ship and fit has its own strengths and weaknesses. Some ships, hell even whole classes of ships, are outliers and could probably use changes. On the whole though, the balance between the races weapon systems and tanking styles is pretty well balanced. I agree that the cap bonus on some Amarr boats is pretty crappy, though.

Lasers are remarkable for their flexibility. Pulses can go in literally a single cycle from a brawler weapon to a sniper weapon. With clever manipulation of transversal you can have a very wide engagement envelope with a single weapon system. Blasters can do it to some degree with null but they can't do it as well as lasers.

The only negative thing I have to say about the Amarr lineup is that the variety of it can make it difficult to specialize. If you're a new player, you don't know weather to focus on gunnery, missiles, drones, e-war, kiting, or brutal face-tanking.

If you've read any of my posts before you'll see that I don't think battleships are very strong in the current iteration of the game, but the Amarr have one that stands out in the meta. The Armageddon, when fit correctly, is savagely powerful, even against kiting ships. Its one of the only battleship hulls that I would ever consider bringing to the field.

If CCP ever gets around to making brawler ships more viable again, or tries to bring CBCs and battleships back into the metagame I think you'll see a lot more Amarr boats flying around.

Personally,I love the Amarr lineup, just as I love the Gallante lineup. They're both very distinct and offer two completely different flavors of fun.

AH, okay. I don't use lasers so I am ignorant on the uses. At least with ammo type and such. And yeah I misremember shield resists so you got me there.

But with that change then lasers would be OP? They would have good damage against both tank types?

was a part of squids., figures....