EVE General Discussion

Why do you hate armor?

So your brilliant and top secret idea is to triple damage on ships you personally don't like.

Interesting.

Not.

You should sit down for a conversation with the Titanni; he too shares your.......over developed sence of selfworth.

Needs morecow bell

and then that car be hit by a train
that then goes off the rails on a bridge
and falls onto an oil tanker
that catches fire and sinks into a crevasse
that is between 2 continental plates crushing together
while an aseroid the size of Jupiter heads for the EXACT longitude and latitude of the original car
and then the universe kapoofs


now maybe the bad idea will go away, as not one miniscule of its existence could be left.

simple allow some shield and armor items to be used in both slots
armor repper in medium slow
shield rep or buffer in lows.


or heres another idea, make each item work on each slot, but its weaker in the med slot, and much weaker in the low.
what does this mean?

weapon in low slot will do **** poor damage, or have uber high cycle time, but this means you can have an uber tank, or more effective EW.

heat sinks in med slots? glass cannon FTW
nano's in every slot of a ship with a MWD in one of the highs.... dat speed.

even if you had unlimited hard points you would have to settle for lower tier guns of the ship, so like battleship with medium guns, but much more. no to mention less of everything else.
but i see your point, its a rough idea and of course would need much refining. i mean, it be broken i miners could fit more strips. i think it would open up a lot of new gameplay though the simple move would mean litterally billions of new viable ship setups would be created.

I can't say its fun to get past the death wishes, I didn't really expect them but they were fun. I really like the idea of module cross-dressing to herp different derps.

But my idea is offensive rather than defensive. We all like gank more than tank. There's a formula many of us have glanced at. It determines the probability to hit. Who would ever care? We have eft and can spout damage and tank figures but applying that damage is always elusive. We always seem to work inside the eft box rather than the CCP box. The problem becomes undeniable as larger scaled engagements such as incursions show the gap. Armor is consistently slower than shields in applying dps on consistent similar targets.

Webs and tracking links attempt to make up when room for tracking enhancers run out. But the shield group then employs the same tools and the imbalance remains. Target painters point the way to the few that can see the the applied dps bonus they give applies to turrets, the damage mod to missiles, and that applied dps outweighs pure damage mods.

Studying the way target painters work on turrets reveals that signature radius is a key to applying damage as is speed but these are all attributes of the target.

There is another variable, its well enough known, and it applies to the attacking ship rather than the target. This mystery variable works with signature radius so any alteration of this number affects applied dps as it relates to speed and signature radius.

Signature radii of shield ships with extenders are larger and the ships generally faster. Altering this one variable changes the balance between shield and armor ships.