That and planetary scan missions, you can stack 3 at most with the nerf. They have said they will increase the payout to compensate but we have no idea how much they will increase.
About the shield nerf
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That and planetary scan missions, you can stack 3 at most with the nerf. They have said they will increase the payout to compensate but we have no idea how much they will increase.
Try fitting two 60% mrps and a auto field maintenance unit. The amount of protection is actually massive (dont remeber how exactly they stack but something over 80%). If one goes down you repair it. If your powerplant still goes down to a small ship, which does pathetic damage to you, then he must have been a godly pilot.
And just another point: The larger ship always has the advantage of beeing able to wake out with no penalties, so dont stay if you are worried about the outcome of a fihgt.
And just another point: The larger ship always has the advantage of beeing able to wake out with no penalties, so dont stay if you are worried about the outcome of a fihgt.
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I see your point but I would need to see proper statistics on say too top engineered Vultures vs one top engineered cutter/corvette when all pilots are highly skilled.
If that would indicate the vultures have the upper hand then do not nerf, otherwise do nerf.
Also gets more complex when you factor in multi-crew, so maybe that is why they are doing it ?
If you go into winged PvP fights you see Cutters and Corvettes low waking and coming back 5 secs later with aid of wing beacons all the time. They do this to avoid being interrupted while they fire up their SCBs. Just waking doesn't automatically mean you're bailing from the fight altogether, it's more like a one step backwards, two step forwards thing.
Also I was referring to shield resistances, and I really couldn't care less about hull resistances since I'd high wake the moment my shields are down, there's no arguing about that.
From my perspective, I've worked a long time towards having the big three with engineered shields, and I don't want Frontier messing with them. The drawback of flying a big, expensive ship is that if it dies, you get a giant rebuy bill. They also tend to be easy to hit and less maneuverable than their smaller counterparts, so they need those shields to stay alive. So, they were much harder to hurt, but when they died it cost you more. They are easier to hit, but have a lot more hitpoints. That is balanced. But by all means, let's make them useless in open because a bunch of pvp-ers want their fights to be shorter.
If the shields get nerfed as proposed, why would anyone fly a corvette or a cutter in Open? Shields will go down much quicker now, and before someone says "but tougher hulls", hull tanking isn't that great in this game and players have loads of options to get around the fact you have lots of armor once your shields are down. This nerf will make the expensive, end game ships useless in open. So, why do this? 99% of PvP-ers play FDL's already. So they've been complaining their fights last too long, and naturally in comes FD, charging to help the only part of the community to pay attention to, without considering how this will impact everyone else. This whole idea of "we want small ships to be competitive too" has been taken to ridiculous extremes - a 10 million build is not supposed to be competitive with a 900 million one. If that's not the case, congratulations, you just eliminated the primary driver a lot of people have for playing this game - getting the bigger, badder, more expensive ships. Why bother?
Also, this game is starting to suffer from the "too much tinkering" syndrome. I'm getting really, really tired of having to re-engineer my entire fleet because FDev "rebalanced" (read: acted entirely reactionary to whining of a few people on the boards) things yet again. To the point where I can't even be bothered anymore. Heat is good, heat is bad, let's reroll. Incindiary good, incindiary nerfed. Corrosive very effective, corrosive less effective. Cascade rails pretty much mandatory in pvp, cascade rails not that great anymore unless used with hammers. And now, shield booster stacking, guess what, you engineered all of those boosters for nothing and your cutter's rebuy bill of 45 mil will now preclude you from taking it out in open ever again. This is not a good way to do business.
If the shields get nerfed as proposed, why would anyone fly a corvette or a cutter in Open? Shields will go down much quicker now, and before someone says "but tougher hulls", hull tanking isn't that great in this game and players have loads of options to get around the fact you have lots of armor once your shields are down. This nerf will make the expensive, end game ships useless in open. So, why do this? 99% of PvP-ers play FDL's already. So they've been complaining their fights last too long, and naturally in comes FD, charging to help the only part of the community to pay attention to, without considering how this will impact everyone else. This whole idea of "we want small ships to be competitive too" has been taken to ridiculous extremes - a 10 million build is not supposed to be competitive with a 900 million one. If that's not the case, congratulations, you just eliminated the primary driver a lot of people have for playing this game - getting the bigger, badder, more expensive ships. Why bother?
Also, this game is starting to suffer from the "too much tinkering" syndrome. I'm getting really, really tired of having to re-engineer my entire fleet because FDev "rebalanced" (read: acted entirely reactionary to whining of a few people on the boards) things yet again. To the point where I can't even be bothered anymore. Heat is good, heat is bad, let's reroll. Incindiary good, incindiary nerfed. Corrosive very effective, corrosive less effective. Cascade rails pretty much mandatory in pvp, cascade rails not that great anymore unless used with hammers. And now, shield booster stacking, guess what, you engineered all of those boosters for nothing and your cutter's rebuy bill of 45 mil will now preclude you from taking it out in open ever again. This is not a good way to do business.
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As one who took a beluga on a 14k ly journey, yes please.
Totally disagree with this. Historical parallel is that the FDL is the equivalent of the torpedo boats; heavily armed and fast and able to take down the battleships and cruisers of the day - they were only countered by (torpedo boat) destroyers - specialist ships that were large, fast and had lots of rapid fire weapons.
Stop Nerfing and let us play the game. Too much re-balancing is done, some ships will be better than others - the FDL is a specialist ship, and its rubbish for anything but hunting large ships; thats is purpose.
I love the game, but seriously devs? stop screwing it up for everyone doing this like this. getting tired ever single update having to completely re configure ship parts, re engineer the ship and find a completely new play style. if this is because some players have rediculously strong shields, so what? you nerf them some players will STILL have stronger shields by comparison, but look what happens to everyone else? picked apart by cheeper ships. why not just remove all the large ships from the game. give us only 3 options. EAGLE, HAULER, or SIDEWINDER. no other options than that. or how about stop nerfing everything every update? Been playing sense before the game officially launched, it's been a roller coaster ride. it's gotten great, then it all starts going downhill, gets better, goes even further downhill, gets a little better. now it's hardly even worth playing anymore.