Onesimus Tarsus
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Posted - 2014.01.20 19:43:00 -
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Teilka Darkmist wrote:They aren't MEANT to be equal. Each race has different strengths and weaknesses. The Amarr, for example, are aimed more towards heavies. Scouts are more in the Gallente style doctrine.
Also, please don't make the mistake that bonuses are equivalent to modules. Bonuses are there to help you see what the intended use of a suit is and to specialise it to that role. Just like they are with ships in eve.
The whole point is that you need a range of suits, fits and tactics to be most effective on the battlefield.
Wow, that was almost pure bunk!
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Onesimus Tarsus
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Posted - 2014.01.20 19:59:00 -
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Teilka Darkmist wrote:Onesimus Tarsus wrote:Teilka Darkmist wrote:They aren't MEANT to be equal. Each race has different strengths and weaknesses. The Amarr, for example, are aimed more towards heavies. Scouts are more in the Gallente style doctrine.
Also, please don't make the mistake that bonuses are equivalent to modules. Bonuses are there to help you see what the intended use of a suit is and to specialise it to that role. Just like they are with ships in eve.
The whole point is that you need a range of suits, fits and tactics to be most effective on the battlefield. Wow, that was almost pure bunk! Actually, that comes from seven years playing on and off in eve, you notice little things like certain hulls being given bonuses to certain systems to make it more effective in one role than it is in another. And that hulls from different races specialise in different types of modules.
Color me impressed. You cannot sensibly run a range of anything if it becomes glaringly obvious that one piece of gear is substantially better than all others of it's type. Frinstince, ask a modern G.I. Joe to trade his handgun for a flintlock pistol. You know, for variety's sake. Given that we all have the same choices to make, which all center on combat efficacy, foisting a fit that is easily moduled out by practically every suit in the game is in essence saying, "The Blarblar know and have access to the same tech as the Whoopsies, but they want to be different, even if that costs them battles, heck, even the war. Now, if all the suits are wobbling about the same axis of available power and certain role nuances creep in, that's understandable. But this is absurd. No race would develop inferior technology purposefully with superior technology literally lying about, yet that is what we are called upon to believe. That's why I have never understood for one second why racial variants of anything are even available, except for the Barbie collector vibe that seems to exist in this game, because we aren't locked into any racial choice in gear.
God loves you. And I'm sure He'll tell you so when I'm done with you.
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