On 2009-02-10 03:16, Enterprise wrote:
I just find it continually hillarious that 80% of the game's ships become useless shortly after being 1/8th "through" the game prestige wise.

If you think in any way the Vice Admiral ships are 'sub-par' compared to higher ranked dreadnoughts, you'd be wrong. It's probably the only place in Darkspace now where more rank = more choices and not more power.

Instead, its more of a choice between which version of OP you want to use.


It's like getting to level 30 in WoW and then being on par with level 80's and everyone below this level range is completely and unavoidably screwed. I wonder what the new players think of this.

Oh wait. I forgot, most of them left.




-Ent


[ This Message was edited by: Enterprise on 2009-02-10 03:20 ]

On 2009-02-12 18:37, Sensitivity wrote:
the point of a strike ship is to be agile and do damage, cruisers arent fast or manevurable enough(especially UGTO), strike-destroyers would be intended to damage dreads at a level slightly lower than a cruiser would.

On 2009-02-14 17:02, BackSlash *Jack* wrote:

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On 2009-02-12 18:37, Sensitivity wrote: the point of a strike ship is to be agile and do damage, cruisers arent fast or manevurable enough(especially UGTO), strike-destroyers would be intended to damage dreads at a level slightly lower than a cruiser would.

Then why fly a cruiser? Does slightly below the damage of one, costs a lot less if you die, and is easier to survive in due to being more agile...

1. More prestige cost on a Dreadnought stopped making it a disadvantage when it started being able to kill anything.

2. Slightly less damage deal by a cruiser stopped making a sense when a Dreadnought kills a cruiser much faster than another cruiser could (and with more survivability).

3. Agility stopped being a factor when point jumping was discovered. Winning against a point jump vs. a Dread in a cruiser by jumping away from a point jump kind of isn't really a win. Retreating is not attacking in the opposite direction.


There is no point to flying cruisers except the fact they are slightly less destructable compared to destroyers on the rise to Vice Admiral.

If there were, you wouldn't log in and see 3/4ths of a faction in Dreadnoughts or higher. People don't just think Dreadnoughts are better. they are better, and they prove it repeatedly. Trying to insist cruisers have a role to play other than being filler on the way to dreadnoughts is like saying level 40 in WoW is just as good as level 60 because well, they make great distractions in PvP.

Oh wait, don't they serperate PvP in WoW based on your level? Gee, I wonder why they did that. It must have been because, they knew if they made one level inherently better than another, the only way it would be fair is if they had them only fight with their own level, relatively.

I guess they weren't complete idiots.




-Ent

On 2009-03-02 21:11, Linna Yamazaka {Vice Admiral} wrote:
I for one LIKE THIS IDEA, Reamber back in WWII where there was torpedo boat small and fast ships that would nearly have to go on a suicidal run to torp a much bigger battleship or cruiser? THIS IS what he is trying to say here.

I like the idea of a ship that lower rank people can fly that can WITHIN reason do MAJOR amounts of damage to a dreadnaught to force it to go wtf, or to retreat WHEN USED IN NUMBERS OF FOUR OR MORE. And alone it can casue a decent amount of damage but due to it being alone the dreads beam weapons and other will kill it much much faster than it can harm it.

So in a nutshell A dessie that can damage a dread alone, but in a wolfpack and take one down. I think this is not so hard to do at all.

OR IF such a ship is made make it so only Vice Admiral and above can use it.

Anyways my $0.02
Linna