dustwaffle
Xer Cloud Consortium
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Posted - 2013.12.16 07:49:00 -
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True Adamance wrote:Lorhak Gannarsein wrote:
I insist.
XD
I would love to see what you come up with.
(But seriously, I'm happy with these)
On a slightly different topic, I hear Caldari is the most popular race in EVE... Is that true?
Possibly but shield tanking is not the established Tanking type for PvP in EVE. PvE shield tanking is godly, ina fight though most players prefer Armour tanked ships, though PCers are a lot more involved in their games than the console rabble......
Errrr.....No. Shield tanking has always been viable in PVP, and has actually started seeing a lot more use in nullsec fleet warfare as well in the last few years. Before that, the uneducated masses used armor because of the perception that Shield tank = PVE. Started my PVP career in EVE using shield tanked ships, back before they were cool /hipster 
Secondly, the reason why Caldari is the most popular race in EVE, is because of legacy issues, where the race/bloodline you picked directly affected the distribution of attributes you started with, which in turn meant different skills would train faster. In that respect, the most picked race/bloodline combo for quite a while was Caldari/Achura, since it started you off with high perception (required to train spaceship skills and weapon skills faster) while giving you the lowest Charisma, which many players considered as the worst attribute, since only leadership and social skills (not 100% essential in PVP) used Charisma as the main attribute (i.e. training time modifier).
Prior to the introduction of the Achura bloodline (and other third bloodlines for all the races), Caldari was also one of the more common races, since it was one of the first races you pick in the character selection menu, plus the description sounded better than the others (Remember, flavour text does NOT mean anything in this game, it's just there for flavour).
In recent years, CCP made it so you can remap your attributes, getting a free remap a year, meaning the starting race and bloodline did not matter so much anymore, and the only thing they affect is how your character looks, so more characters from other races have been created. |