Harpyja
Royal Uhlans
Amarr Empire
750
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Posted - 2013.11.09 22:39:00 -
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I just want to point out that turrets are not useless in the right hands. I've been able to take out many HAVs using blaster and railgun turret installations. And not all of them were militia either. And almost all of the turrets I used were nowhere near the redlines and gave the enemy HAV a fighting chance of killing me.
"By His light, and His will"
- The Scriptures, Gheinok the First, 12:32
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Harpyja
Royal Uhlans
Amarr Empire
754
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Posted - 2013.11.10 19:19:00 -
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Lorhak Gannarsein wrote:Okay, too tired to read the rest, only care about the last sentence. I think you misunderstand; most tankers run them cos it's fun. Not because it's a win button or whatever. I'd love to be in one all day long; it's my favourite thing to do in this game. I can't, cos it's super expensive and consequently nigh-impossible to run a profit. Or even break even. I would have been overjoyed at a buff to tank durability to bring it in line with cost (which is to say, possible to run a profit in) or alternatively, a series of nerfs and price drops that make it easy for AV to solo a tank, and cutting the price massively at the same time. Ain't no pay-to-win except what you're putting in people's mouths. But while I'm shelling out 700k just to play my preferred role (which translates to three matches or an hour, incidentally), I bloody well expect to be able to rip sh*t up.
I'm just the same way. I don't use vehicles because I want them to be I-win buttons. I use vehicles because they are fun.
I enjoy flying my Python because it's fun and I like flying in FPS games like Dust, even though I may get 10-15 kills max while assaults on the ground get more. But it isn't fun when people shoot me down, not because I am a larger threat than any infantryman, but because of "Hey look, WPs." I've lost very few Pythons because I'm a rather decent pilot, but it's still hard to run positive due to their cost of nearly 1mil ISK and being rewarded up to 250k ISK, if not much less.
I also enjoyed flying my Eryx, simply because I am a mobile spawn point. I enjoyed hovering over objectives and have people spawn and drop and capture objectives. But, the problems of getting very low ISK rewards and blueberries that don't jump out forced me to stop flying my Eryx.
I enjoy roaming around in my missile Gunnlogi. I like to install fear into my enemy when I round a corner and fire my missiles at them. I don't want it to be an I-win button. However, I don't want it to be destroyed by one person with proto AV before I can even pull out. I want people to fear me like they did in the old days of Chromosome, and smile when good teamwork brought me down. Now I'm just a pinata full of ISK and WPs, waiting to get popped by a couple of assault suits with ARs, a nanohive, and some Lai Dai AV 'nades. Yes, AV 'nades hurt shield tanks as well, because our shield regen is terrible.
I don't enjoy sitting on the hills with my railgun Gunnlogi. I don't enjoy sitting near the enemy's red line for an entire match, waiting for an RDV to get called in. But this is what I must do so I can stay positive and run any of my other vehicles for fun.
"By His light, and His will"
- The Scriptures, Gheinok the First, 12:32
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