Scrap or redesign shield cell modules, they are too overpowered and trivialize PvP.
- Thread starter KazumaKat
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Sometimes I feel like a lot of people haven't played previous Elites, where big expensive ships weren't the dominant gods of the battlefield. In Elite 2, the Python and Anacondas were heavy traders that could adequately defend themselves. Think of them like an East Indiaman ship, capable of defending themselves, but not some sort of super weapon. Meanwhile, heavy fighters such as the Asp, Courier, and Cobra MK III was what you fought with.
The point of the current big ships is to trade. The point of the Anaconda and Python is to trade while being able to defend themselves, and not pose an easy target like the Type-9. Or should the Type-9 also be able to be invincible and wreck everything that challenges it?
Do you want combat oriented big ships? Sure, so do I. But do it in an intelligent fashion such as giving them logical roles to fulfill, such as being a carrier, a battleship that excels at taking out big targets but is vulnerable to small ones, corvettes that small targets but are vulnerable to heavy hitters.
Not invincible god ships.
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Doesn't matter if a viper or a cobra out-turns them. Just like it doesn't matter if an Eagle out-turns a cobra with shield cells, which the eagle itself gains practically nothing from. They still turn well enough to dogfight and are currently just oversized fighters instead of heavy traders that can outlast any enemy thrown at them. Without shield cells, pythons and anacondas still accomplish their role of being a dangerous trader for pirates perfectly well.
It's a simple battle of attrition this way.
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Eagles outturn vipers too, do they win against vipers?
Not saying Pythons shouldn't win, but because of its insane shields/huge number of slots/huge power surplus this SCB nerf basically doesn't affect the Python at all while making smaller ships much more vulnerable - it's a hidden buff to the Python.
PS I fly a Python. I can drop (CMDR) Viper shields in less than 5 seconds.
Wanna try me? We can wait until after the Python nerf if you want.
So keep flying a Viper then?
Now imagine not getting hit yet with really great shields for the size of ship in case you do -then on top of that you have a bunch of extra lives for those times you get hit (even though you are hard to hit and have great shields).
That would be a bit like a rogue healing in stealth or while sprinting, right? Oh, wait a minute!
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Bigger ships have no reason to run from a viper and can leave whenever they want. All the viper can do is... run away. That's not balanced, lol.
Not every large ship pilot is going to stay in range and present full profile for your 4x dumbfires.