Fly stock Cobra to Shin and expect not to lose to any other ship...
That's why you have to engineer ship like everyone else did.
Is engineering the source of all evil? (long post)
- Thread starter CMDR Correa
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BuT eNgInEeRiNg Is OpTiOnAl
Well... it did happen in Shinrarta Dezhra - the home system of the Elites *()
So they did managed to reach Elite status, that should imply some basic knowledge ( or watching certain YT influencers
)*(I dont find Engineering and the huge gap it introduced as much as an issue as the fact that one can be ganked in the Pilots Federation home system, but... oh well!
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It's a lie.
Whoa geez relax.
BTW, I mostly fly a PvE Corvette. In Solo. That's what I enjoy. Sue me.
Engineering used to be worse than it is. There were some absolutely broken modules in the old system that took an awful lot of grinding and RNG to get. They still exist in the game (wrongly IMO).
I honestly wouldn't mind if engineering never existed except for certain non-combat modules like FSD. No weapon engineering, thrusters, shields, nothing like that.
I also don't mind that we DO have engineering though. Everyone has the potential to build their ships equally. It's not like the old system where RNG would favor certain people.
Never got any Elite rannk - you don't need to be to figure out how to evade, you learn that much earlier. And isn't that unlocked for the backers?
yes. you can fly unengineered as well and complain about other engineered ships.
I just mentioned it some other thread:
Basic ship design wasn't so hot. The internals just meant bigger = better and minmaxer's delight is to dial such stuff to 11.
Engineering power creep is ridiculous on its own, but coupled with the outfitting it broke the game. Should have been either of the two, not both.
But the issue with the old system is "they got to keep those engineered modules", there should have been a module reset after the major changes letting them keep them is just adding an even bigger imbalance.
yea, but well, if they're backers, they should already have the knowledge on how to evade pvp (easiest mean to do that is still to play in a pvp safe environment aka solo or a pg)
or survive in a pvp scenario
Yes, yes.
But I don't want to talk about pvp - I want to rant about engineering.
I totally agree. They should have been reset to the new max G5 (or whatever the module's max is). They made a mistake allowing them to remain.
FD effectively nerfed all the idiots like me who didn't duplicate rolls like our esteemed PvP community did, not sure why they didn't put the kibosh on the legacy crap.
It was this that caused even more issues with PvP than was present before, a complete reset was the only way forwards really but they wanted to "keep everyone sweet" and so we now have modules on some ships that others will never be able to get this creating an imbalance.
I will agree with the interdiction system being broken. When we are half anf half and I have that center reticle blue 70 % of the time hardly straying I shouldn't see the red bar climbing lol. I literally lose with my interdiction symbol blue dead center. I don't care what but if I'm doing that I should be able to affect the outcome somewhat
Edit: this was vs a player(fdl) in my engineered vulture that I low waked 3x times, he pulled me 3x times before I finally highwaked with 3% hull lol. Each time he pulled me I tried harder and it seemed there was nothing I could do. I was literally testing pvp interdiction and it seems like a free win for the attacker
Edit: this was vs a player(fdl) in my engineered vulture that I low waked 3x times, he pulled me 3x times before I finally highwaked with 3% hull lol. Each time he pulled me I tried harder and it seemed there was nothing I could do. I was literally testing pvp interdiction and it seems like a free win for the attacker
Desync and bugs are not unheard of in ED, and it actually seems to be easier to interdict someone than evading a player interdiction, but it's absolutely not impossible, you just need to be much better at the minigame than the interdictor. It's just not recommended to try to evade if you are in a weak ship because of the long FSD cooldown if you happen to lose. Sadly I don't have a video, but after a quick youtube search I found this funny one:
Salome would be still alive if she had been this good at it I guess.
It's not the only imbalance, maybe just the most ridiculous, but I doubt it would matter much - it'd be a token gesture that FD cares about it but I don't think they actually care one bit. Maybe how quick you can grind the power juice but not the amount of juice. When I asked Sandro about balance in some AMA round he did the answer with the different ships aren't balanced either yadayada - so basically they don't give it much thought. Unless some clan makes a ruckus and successfully blackmails them over social media maybe.