EVE General Discussion

Ok, so i'll start this off by saying im a huge battleship fanboi, I would love nothing more than to see huge battleship fleets burning paths through New Eden.
Now, we all know that isn't going to happen, because battleships are to slow and to vulnrable to bombing. So whats the point of bringing new battleships into the game? why not fix the ones that are in already?
Im not complaining, as ive said, the "moar battleships" the better, it just seems like a bit pointless from where im sitting. They will release these new hulls, there will be a bit of an uptick, then it will go back to Cruisers Online when people release "oh hey, we can get BS EHP from a T3 and roughly the same DPS in a HAC". As unless they give Battleships a jumpdrive and a point defense system against bombs, they will, sadly, be PvE boats (in my opinion).
I'd actaully like a dev response to this as to why they have elected to introduce new hulls rather than fix the existing ones, but any info would be appreciated. I could be entirely wrong and CCP are doing something completely out of the box to bring battleships back to big fleet fights, in which case bravo and encore!

equates to the same thing, really. although i would be more ameanable to a T3 nerf if im honest. Battleships do need some way to defned against bombs though.

and two races use use shields are defence, so its rather unbalanced to have half of the battleships unable to be used in PvP without being as vulnrable to bombs as the other half. They could change how the bombs work so its flat damage minus resists, and doesn't take sig into account.

EVE doesn't need new ships. It needs things to do with ships. Another OP blap-blap machine is not forward thinking.

Such as docking them and disembarking, then doing stuff in the station not involving walking in circles and sitting on a crappy space couch?


Wait, maybe this kind of reply was too early. Are we still considered dissident hipsters if we want alternative gameplay introduced? I'm not very social so its hard to read what the mob is thinking sometimes.

Not really interested then.

EVE combat is layered deeply enough for my taste. Making it "deeper" is fairly counter-productive and just leads to more uncontrollable variables and randomized outcomes rather than skill driven outcomes. More rock paper scissors, less thunder dome, and so on. Wasn't a fan of the building our own stargate ideas either. If space was smaller, maybe, but people are cowardly enough as it is with the current amount of space in the game. Giving them more places to run away to isn't going to increase interaction.

There are things they can still do, I'm sure, but at this point its iterating on the existing concepts. Existing concepts haven't been exciting for ten years, and iteration only makes it feel fresh for a small period of time. Fozzie Sov replaced pinata with whack-a-mole. Not a very compelling argument for someone like me to care about Sov suddenly. And if its only purpose was to satisfy the people who do already enjoy it, then that's also a problem because it leads to a 0% growth.

The current way signature works is that high-sig guns do lower damage against low-sig targets. This is utterly preposterous - larger guns should always do more damage against smaller ships. Smaller ships already have significant damage mitigation against larger vessels by dint of their superior speed and manouverability.

because the Amarrian Empress said it was the hull of a new navy battleship being laid down, of the abaddon class.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/navy-announce-imperial-keel-laying-ceremony-empress-confirmed-to-attend/

What do you see the reason for T3s being if not the tank?